Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-05-17
w. G. 7. U.
For God and Home and Native Land.
Edited 5y a COMMITTEES Of Ladies.

Edtteu ~ q IOHofttttes OF L0dtcS.
The regular business meetings Of the Laneas-
ter W. c. T. U. are held the frs: and third Fri
days OF each month, az three O'Clock P. NJ
Officers -
Mrs. 5. d. Pulford.
VICE-PRESIDENTS. q. Mrs. Jas. F. Rhodes,
Mrs. W. P. stone,
Mrs. II. "A. W McNar.
SEC'Y.. ............ :. Mrs. e n. Jones.
~. Mrs. c. L. Harper.
The next regular meeting of the w.
G. I. U. will be held at the residence of
Mrs II. A. w. McNair. Friday after
noon at three o'clock May Is.
Some two weeks ago MissF. E, Willard
was called hurredly homo from New
York on account of severe illness of her
mother, who is now steadily improving
but is not expected to regain her former
vigor. Mrs. Willard has been so vigor-
Gus and effective that Miss Willard has
always felt free to come and go as if
her mother was in the middle of life
1t seems decided between the two that
this can never again be the case and
we hope all our women will manifest
their usual constituencies by making it
as easy as possible for our President to
do her work from headquarters instead
of going so constantly out into the field.
The statement that she was on her way
back to the General conference, was a
mistake as she has hardly left her
mother for an hour at time since her
retdrn.
The Governor of Kansas, in recent
letter addressed to the general manager
of the Associated Press, says: The
cities of Kansas, with hardly an cxcep-
ton, have kept pace in growth and
prosperity with this marvellous develop
ment of the state. Many of them have
doubled their population during the past
year, and it is remarkable fact that
several cities and towns languished or
stood still until they abolished their
saloons, and from that date to the pres
ent their growth and prosperity have
equaled and in some instances surpassed
that of other places with equal natural
Advantages
''The summing up of the facts of a
census confute and confound those who
assert that the material prosperity of
any community is promoted by the
presence of saloons. So far as Kansas
and all her cities and towns are concerned
the reverse of this assertion is true"
1.-The most wonderful era of prosper
ity and of material, moral and intellect
ual development and growth in the
country, cities and towns, ever wit
messed on the American continent has
been illustrated in Kansas during the
past two years. the period of its most
energetic and complete enforcement, "
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Harry Wilson had just got a new
arithmetic and was delighted with its
figures and study He had been in
mental arithmetic for some time, but
now that he had book and slate of his
own, everything for him seemed to turn
into sums and calculations. He was
sitting by the table working at sum
in division when he heard his father
speaking to his mother, say: "Johns-
ton got beastly drunk at the club last
night, and disgraced himself abominably.
He drank ten glasses Ct wine and it
went to his head, and he acted so we
were all disguised with him and finally
he was so drunk that he had to be taken
home in a carriage" Harry, full of
his arithmetic, caught the sound of the
word ''ten, ~ and looking up said: Ten
and how many did you drink father?''
"Only one, my son." said the father.
looking down with smile to his little
boy of whom he was very fond, Then
father, you was one-tenth drunk" said
Harry reflectively, thinking, perhaps,
more of his figures just then than of
anything else.
Harry" said his mother sternly,
''What do you mean?" But Harry.
who was thoroughly absorbed in his
calculations went on talking to himself.
"Why yes if ten glasses will make a
man all drunk, then one glass will make
him one-tenth drunk; and if one is
beastly drunk, then the other must be
one-tenth beastly drunk, and"
There, there said his father, biting
his lips to hide the smile that would
come, 81 guess that is enough arith.
metic for tonight
But as Harry went on with his sums,
his remarks started a train of thought
fulness in the mind Of the father and he
said to himself: IF Johnston had not
taken the first glass, he could not have
gone on to the ten, and on the whole,
it is safe for myself. and best as an ex-
ample to my sons, that l never again
take the first glass lest |, or they should
go on to the ten," and from that day
the father became total abstainer from
all intoxicating drinks.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, contrib
utes vigorous article on prohibition
to the New Princeton Review in which
he says: ut matters not though
CLOSING sophistry, backed by millions
of money, may contest the field; though
phrenetic appetite may plead and demur
and though morbid Impotence of all
restraints may declaim about human
liberty; all will be of no avail, for pro
hibition has reason, religion, refinement,
good order and peace for its advocate
and champion.
Fennim0re.
Died, at Fennimore, Wednesday, the
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