The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-03-30
TEMPERANCE,
Melrose Mass ". G. T. U. conducts

~ Spluhpla was Killed in the senate
committee.
One result OF Dakota's local option law
is the closing of $50 saloons in Fargo.
A total abstinence revival under the
Leadership of Bishop Ireland is in pro
gross at ST. Paul.
The w. C. T. U of Carthage, H., re-
Gently received a hcluest of 81. 900 to car.
ry on their work "a Hancock county.
Mrs. Jennie McClurkin is workingmost
efficiently as state organizer of w. G. T.
Z. in Vest Virginia,
A Young Wonan's Christian Temper
ancc union has been formed in Yoke.
hama, japan, by Mrs. Colhuuer, formerly
of West Virginia, bmt now a missionary
in that city.
Mrs, Masgurct Bei;cme, of New York,
has jus, closed All interesting series of
Bible readings in Rev. DR.. Hamlin's
church, Washington. Miss Kate Willard
sang each day.
Representative Thomas. of Illinois, has
introduced a bin in the house making il,
a misdcmcanor to display the portrait of
any American woman as an advertisement
without her consent.
Judge Bllison, one OF the leading Judges
in the Philadelphia courts, has decided
that property holders can be held re-
sponsible as a party in the business, If
they rent their houses for immoral II
poses,
The Christians Secret of o Happy
Life written by Mrs. Hannah Wbitall
smith, has been translated into the
Swedish language by Mrs. Princell, the
The Ratchet Party" a temperance
entertainment, the programme for which
was prepared by Miss Mary Mather, of
Wilmington, Delaware, especially fol-
Washington's birthday, was given by no,
less than 500 w. c. T. unions and me,
with great favor everywhere.
The colored Baptists of Tennessee n
their state convention, adopted the fol
lowing: Resolved. That no minister h,
allowed to prcac,n the pospel who fnnrn
prohibition during thclate canvass The,
consaEtion." VIZ
Count Leo Tolstoi, the famous Russia,
literateur, has organized and placed him
self at the head of a temperance associa
ton at Mockar called .he Society n
the Temperate" The members ar
pledged not to drink intoxicating liouor
OF any sort nor to sell or offer them +,
anyone, but to labor to convince e,a,ess
especially children, of the dassers of in
temperance.
There is not a distiliery in New Yea
land. The Republican party are trvinp +,
v dlstil'cries established in order /,
use up The surplus corn aud benefit tn,
farmers, and are circulating a r%etitiont,
that end. To counteract this the w. G
7. U. is distributing Prof. W. s. r
Matthews article, What shall we d,
with our surplus corn which appcarc,
IL the Union Signal August 4th, 1851
A company of young men, students il
the University of Berlin, 9es.inanv,IAay
formed themselves into an Internationa
Total Abstinence society. j. Ware,
robes of New mexico is president, j. =
Gardner, soon to sail for Bombay, vic
president. The new society number
already sixteen members, some of whom
are English, some Scotch, some Ameri
can rroi. Bunge's pamphlet, Di
hleohoi fragc (the alcohol question: i
ulelr hand BOOK of temperance doctrine
ID. Lothrop & Co., of Boston, will 500,
bring out a new book by Frances +. vii
Lard, entitled Woman in the PULPIT.
me cNegeticat argument is given, obiec
uohs answered, testimony of men an,
women ministers stated at length. DR.
.simage and Joseph Cook both taking
s.ong position in favor Of Women a
preachers. DR.. Van Dykes criticism q
Miss Wiiiara's position is given in full
n replied to by a distinguished bih|ir,
scholar. The book Will be unique i,
plan and will box the compass of oninio,
~ iaeor OF this new departure,
The Annual Minutes of The Nation,
W, G. t. u, just issued, make the mos
ample showing eyef yet attained bv In,
society. Pennsylvania alone has los
iocai unions. The annual ~leailet of g.
pages tsulted to enclose in ~le;ters) enum
crates iorty-two separate department,
VI work, each one of these beip,
uhder The care of Il special national super
lhiehdeht with An associate in every stat,
am she With an associate in each loca
"h'on. The general lines of work undc
"Iich all these are grouped are organi
eaton, preventive, educational evnnmnI
ssal; socia! and legal. The special orga,
OF the society il the Union Signal, NH
lished in Chicago, and having 40 90,
weekly Subscribers. The publication
named may be obtained from tl,,
Neman's Temperance Publication Asso
citation, l6l la Sale street. Chicago,
Treating of the subjecto of Science an,
Drink" the Medical Record aliIms tina
the nerves suffer indirectly through tb,
action of alcohol on the blood. Harle,
has found that, ever in the small pronor
'on OF 3 Der cent, alcohol ''exerts +,
powerful chemical effect on blood. Sc
powerful as to entirely dcrange one of its
most important functions, namely. tn,
junction of respiration. The alcoho
seems TO act like an asphyxlant, inasmucl
as 1t no; alone diminishcs the power al
ihe red corpuscles to absorb oxygen. bu,
to eNhale carbonic acid, and that, too. in
The same way {though to a somewhat less
eNtentl as morphia does. This pcculia,
cttcinlca! action of the alcohol on tbe
"iooo nerve pabuium may be thought to
give a reasonable explanation of the par.
alysing action of alcohol upon the merry,
Gus system, seeing that oxidation is the
motor power of all vital action, andin di-
rect proportion to its activity are the man
hesitation of life accelerated or retarded.
Every breath we draw. every movement
we perform, every thought we think is
eut the outcome Of the transformation of
matter under the influence of oxygen,
II. then, it be true, as above shown. tina,
alcohol possesses the power of preventing
the constituents of the blood from bcinS
properly oxidizcd, and thereby fitted for
the purposes of nutrition. it is easy to
account for its producing a chain O
netrotic symptoms terminating in com
and DEATH
Got 1t Anyhow.