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done,
A truth to be uttered, cause to be won:
Come forth in your myriads! Come forth
every one!
Come, youths, in your vigor; come, men, in
Come, age, with experience fresh gatherd
from time:
Come, workers! you're welcome; come,
thinkers, you must;
Come thick as the clouds in the midsummer
dust,
Or the waves Of the sea cleaning bright in
the sun!
There's a truth to be told and cause to be
Come forth in your myriads! come forth
every one!
Charles Mackoy.
SALOONS THE RALLYING POINT FOR CRIME
The criminal connection Of the saloon with
almost every detail Of the Cronin tragedy Is
shown by multitude Of incidents. AS the
Chicago NeUs well puts it: From the time
to take drink after his fiery speech denounc.
ing Dr. Cronin, to the time Coughlin, OSul-
liyan and Burke went into Niemann's saloon
to refresh themselves after the brutal muir
der, almost every circumstance adduced IT
evidence radiates from or points to a saloon,
so close did the conspirators keep to the
fountain of diabolical inspiration"
AN UNFUDDLED NATION.
The mental vigor Of the Japanese nation is
largely due to the curious fact that almost,
alone Of Oriental races the natives Of the
Japan archipelago have never been enslaved
by the stimulant habit in any of its degrad-
ing forms They drink tea, little coffee
here and there in the larger cities, and in the
seaport towns freouented by Chinese traders,
small percentage of the population havt
learned to smoke opium; but neither tobacco
nor alcohol have ever managed to get foot
hold on the soil of this sea-girt country. A
large plurality of the rural population stick
to water, and use tea only as holiday bever-
age-a degree of teetotaism equaled only
among few hill-tribes Of opium-fuddled
China, Siam and Hindostan. The natives OF
Kamschatka get drunk on toad-stool extract,
the Tartars on fermented mares milk, and
even the starving Druses, in the highland
Businesses Of Mount Lebanon, waste their
ton of fox-glove.
WORK OF THE W. c. T. U.
Mary Henry, National Press Superinten-
dent of the W. G. T. u, in letter concern
ing the doings of the recent convention of
that body at Chicago, closes as follows: $50
far as the convention itself was concerned the
reports Of department work were of the
greatest interest and Importance and re-
ceived the closest attention. Permit me in
closing to mention a few points, merely,
from these reports, to give an idea of what
the W. G. T. q. is doing anyhow beside
discuss political questions More than s110O
have been spent in work among foreigners,
nearly 100 different kinds Of tracts in four
teen different languages having been pub
lished; nineteen States have taken up the
work for peace and arbitration: capital
stock Of S242, 900 has been secured for the
temperance temple: 100000 children have
been gathered into Loyal Temperance Le-
gions. The Police Gazette and similar publ.
cations have been suppressed in many places.
The Legislatures of twenty-seven States and
the National Congress have made the science
Of temperance required study in all schools
under their control: the gain Of pledged Sun
day-school scholars in ten States alone Is
more than 10000; the Woman's Temperance
Publication Association has sent out more
than 125, 900, 900 pages of temperance and re-
ligious literature. These items do not sum-
marize, but simply suggest the vast work al,
ready accomplished by the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union under the inspiration
no sectionalism in politics, no sex in citizen.
ship; but each and all of us for God and
home and native land.'"
" ALCOHOL RUINS TEE BRAIN.
1t is one Of the curious errors that alcohol
stimulates the imagination, and gives O
clearer, mora practical insight into the rela
ton of events of life. The whirl of thought
reused up by the increased circulation of tho
blood in the brain is not Imagination; it /:
not superior insight or conception OF the re
lation Of events, but is rapid reproduction
of previous thoughts, soon merging into CON
fusion.
The inebriate never creates any new idea:
or new views; all his fancies are tumultuous
blurred and barren. The apparent brill
fancy is only the flash Of mania, quickly fol-
lowed by dementia. Alcohol always lower:
discriminating the relation of ideas and
events. After a few periods Of intoxicatlor
the mind under the influence of spirits IS g
blank, blurred page.
The poets and orators who are popularity
supposed to make great efforts under the III
fiuellce of alcohol only repeated what hao
baen said before in tangled delirium OF ex
preston. The physicians who are supposed
to have greater skill when using spirits have
paralyzed their higher brain centres ano
have lost all sense of fear or appreciation Of
the consequences of their acts, and hence act
more automatically, simply doing what they
have done before without any clear appre
citation or discrimination of the results.
The inebriate is the best Of all imaginative
persons, and the one in whom the highe,
brain forces of Judgment, reason and concep
tion are the first to give way. The man who
uses spirits to give mental force and clearnes'
is doing the very worst thing possible to de
stroy this effect.
Alcohol is ever and always paralyZant,
according to T. D. Crothers, NJ. D. 1t never
creates anything: it never gives strength oi
force that did not exist before; it never give:
a clearer conception and power Of execution
but always lowers destroys and break:
down.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Won Moltke says: beer is far more dan
gerous enemy to Germany than all the arm
les of France"
The Leeds School Board, England, has de-
cided to allow temperance teaching IN III
schools by means of occasional lectures.
T. B. Butler, of Fresno, California, ma!
this year dried 100000 boxes OF raisins. Ihl:
is better than wine and brandy making.
A Chicago physician has opened private
hospital for the treatment OF professiona
and business men addicted to the drlni
habit.
From the United States Monthly: ''Tt
wreck a train is crime, but to wreck &
human soul is privilege that the state
sells"
Beer in handbag" is one Of the latest
devices in New York city for evading the e3'
else restriction in the matter OF Sunday Deer
selling.
The London Telegraph says the people o.
London in year drink 200, ,0OO, ,OOO quarts ool OF
beer O,OOO, 600 quarts of rum, and 9o'ooo'oN
quarts Of wine.
1t is estimated that in ninety per cent OF
all cases coming before the police Justices q o.
NeM York city the fault may be traced 10 tne