The Forrest City times., 1892-10-28
Temperance Notes.


 
 Temperance Notes.
 Along stretch of 400 miles of one railroad in Texas, not drop Of intox- icatin liquor can be obtained.
 Of Ia total of 2G6 patients admitted to the London Dslrympls home for inebrintes, 23a also used tobacco.
 Miss Frances E. Willard and Miss Gordon, accompanied by Lady henfy Somerset, arrived in New 1ork Ciy on October l5, on the steamship Etru- ria.
 Miss Frances Willard says: ''I re- ioice that the Woman's Christian Tenn perance union cuts the cake of society from the frosty top to the under crust and takes Sll that lies between"
 The Catholic Total Abstinence Socie- ty of America is reported in the Catho- lis Review as having 52.Oe0 members. This society is one of our allies in the demand for the exclusion of liquor sell ing from the worlds fair.
 The Hudson Bay company has issued q circular instruc!ing it's agents to take more stringent measures for the suppression of the illicit traffic, by which smugglers continue to supply the Indians with intoxicating drink.
 Mississippi, under its revised local option law, has recently called cleo lions in number of counties, which have resulted in prohibition sometimes carrying county that had always largely favored license, 80 that within a few months it is probable that three fourths of the state will be under pro- hibition.
 At the last biennial convention of the Sigma Nu fraternity, which met al St. Louis in August, wine was not served at the banquet. This is some thing new in Greek letter fraternity circles, being the first instance OH record of such \ banquet without wine This was also the first convention held west of the Mississippi.
 A sharp and probably salutary shock has been given to the high society cir cles of London by the startling rx- posture in regard to the prevalence of drunkenness among aristocratic la dies, made by the duchess of Bedford. . sister of Lsdy Henry Somerset, and Lady Frederick CaveDdish at the re- cent church congress. The whole topic is deeply stirring the social elite.
 The National Temperance hospital, located in Chicago, and one of the most important departments of work in the Women Christian Temperance union. Is in most promising condition. It has outgrown it's former quarters where it was located for six years and has removed to 1919 Diversey avenue only three blocks from Lincoln park The present building has forty three rooms, is delightfully."- and heathfully situated, and is not only attractive in appearance but admirably adapted to the requirements of a hospital. Non alcoholic treatment of disease Is meet ing with great success, only two and a quarter per cent of the patients having died the past year. Its principles are being more generally approved and its influence extended.
 Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale says: s'I like to put myself on record as say ing that all the poverty, all the crime and all the vice which attract public attention in Boston among what we call the poorer classes, may be ascribed to the free use of intoxicating liquors. have said hundred times, and am willing to say it again, that if anybody will take charge of all the poverty and crime which result from drunkenness, the South Congregational church, of which have the honor to be the min ister, will alone take charge of all the rest uf the poverty which needs out door relief in the city of Boston. If that church could satisfy it's conscience with as small work as that, 1t would cer. tainly relieve it's visiting forces and its treasury of q very considerable part ol the demands now made upon them"
 In the newly elected house of com. mons there are five good templars, and it is believed that the nnmber of mem bers who are total abstainers is about sixty. The views of few member. are doubtful, but as far as can be esti mated at present, there are over SOC supporters of the direct popular veto Scotland and Wales will, through g large majority of their represe ntatives demand the veto for themselves; ant it is probable that there is a majority in it's favor from Ireland. England, d! hitherto. in it's demands for temper ance legislation will bring up the rear The true policy will, therefore, be te concentrate effort on what is clearl, attainable, the permanency of the Irish Sunday act closing Including tn five cities how excepted), the direc veto for Wales and the direct veto fo Scotland. Further advance will thei be comparatively easy.