The Forrest City times., 1892-10-21
.ren,narance Notos.

Eighty-hye towns in ihe province of Manitoba have local option.
 There are S6S.935 public school teachers and 20l.9l3 liquor dealers in the Cnlted States.
 The probibitionists of Arkansas mere than doubled their vote at the recent election in this state.
 Hartman. Tenn. founded upon the basis of prohibition ti;le-deeds,h ,has now population of upwards of 4O00.
 Kansas has four cities in which the vote of the women is larger than that of the men. One entire set of council men are women.
 One of the rules of Homestead mills. rule No. :. is as follows: The use of intoxicating liquor by any emnloye. while on duty. is absolutely forbidden under penalty of immediate discharge.
 More than five thousand persons signed the total abstinence pledge during four weeks mission of a band of Pauist fathers in St. Patrick $ church in Montreal recently.
 The facts relating to the liquor traf. fic in Kansas have recently been inves- tigated by representative of the New York Daily Times He gives as his belief. resulting from this investlga- ton. first, that prohibition is a fixture in Kansas; second. 1t is reasonably en- forced, for there is not an open saloon in the state outside of four of the large cities. In Topeka the law IS absolute ly enforced.
 A committee of senators has been in- vestigating cigarette smoking. As 8 result they make a report to the United States senate that they deem cigarettes of any kind injurious, particularly to youths. They urge that congress should prohibit tho importation of cig- aretles and forbid their sale or manu- fracture i'll the District fl Columbia and the territories. This should be taken as a suggestion by those states that do not already prohibit the sale of cigarettes to boys.
 The eminent clergyman, Phillips Brooks, says: "The liquor business is the source of nine-tenths of the misery and crime in the world today Take away the liquor traffic and there WOnld be hardly poverty enough left to give a healthy stimulus to charity" The same idea is forced by Mrs. Maud BalingIon Booth. in her publication entitled "Under Two Flags" She says: While %, GOO ministers in the churches are preaching away for three CT four hours week, 100000 saloonkeepers work six days Il week, seventeen hours a day, at least, to say nothing of what they do on Sundays, dealing out death and destruction to men, women and chldren-physieal, mental and moral The Pail Mall Gazette (London) says: q A correspondent of the Pail Mall Ga zette paid visit to Miss Frances Will lard, president If the Women Chris tian Temperance union of America who is at present for a short stay in England. He found both her and Miss Anna Gordon. presiie of it's juvenile branch. at Lady Henry Somerset's cot tage at Reigate, whither they had been carried by their hostess on their ar rival from New York on Saturday. The sad circumstances Of Miss Will lard's visit will unfortunately prevent her speaking here before her return in October, for three weeks watching and nursing at her octogenarian mothers deathhed have greatly broken her health. Madame Willard had lived to nearly ninety years with every faculty Of mind and spirit nndimmed, and her death has been mourHed by countless thousands in the states. Just as American patriotism clings to the memory of Mrs. Washington as the mother of the nations father, so, too, will it treasure the heroic figure of Madame Willard, the mother of one of its most remarkable women"