Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-03-31

1oeaOSS earn bnelT own living.
! The National W. T. U. week of self
denial begins on Easter Sunday.
Thirty-three States and the District
of Columbia have passed laws relating
to the sale of tobacco to minors.
Miss Mary Allen West, editor of the
Union Signal, is to visit Japan soon in
the interest of w. c. T. U. Schools OF
Methods, of which work she is the Ma
tional Superintendent.
The French Chamber of Deputies
has refused to make women members
of the Councils of Prud'homme, but
has conferred the right upon women to
vote in elections for members of this
Council.
The Worlds w. G. T. U. last week
sent a memorial to the directors of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, re-
questing that the sale of liquors on the
grounds may not be licensed or in any
wise permitted.
The "Dram-shop" bill has passed
the Mississippi legislature. This is
rightly named ''dram-shop" bill and
has little sympathy from the w. G. t.
U. and the majority of Prohibitionists
in the State who looked for statutory
Prohibition.
The Michigan w. C. T. U. makes a
vigorous protest in circular address
to each congressman, against the sale
of liquor on the Columbian Fair
Grounds, and the opening of its gates
ON Sunday. At the recent State Con-
vention in Grand Rapids it declined
union with the Peoples Party.
The Mississippi w. G. 7. U. petition
ed the Legislature of that State not to
make an appropriation for the Column
bian Exposition if the gates we're to be
opened on the Sabbath. The Legisla-
ture has memorialized Congress,
United States Senator J. u.
George, that the Exposition be closed
on Sunday.
Miss Helen M. Hood, Cor. Sec'y of
the Illinois w. G. T. u, will sail for
on April 10th, where she will
organize w. G. L. U. unions for the
British Woman's Temperance Associa-
ton, by invitation of Lady Henry Som
erset. She will be much missed in H.
linois and her host of friends will wait
for her return.
Miss Jean Loughborough, an assist
ant secretary of the Board of Lady
Managers in Mrs Palmers' Office, and a
of the Board for Arkansas has
had her plans accepted for the Arkan-
sas State Building at the Columbian
The many colored crys-
tails found at Hot Springs will be used
in the construction of fountain on
the first floor and the architecture will
be- of the Rocco style of the seven
teenth century.
Miss Frances E. Willard and Lady
Henry Somerset are filling engage
ments in the east. Lady Henry lost
satchel in her transit from Jersey
City to New York, containing fifty BIZ
Die Readings and a number of valuable
original manuscripts, and offered $500
reward for it's recovery. The next of
her sketches in the Union Signal, ''Per-
sonal Recollections of Noted Men and
Women" will be 'The Warehouses of
her well known relative
who died in 1891-known as the finest
artist in England.
Mrs. Matilda B. Carse moved her Of
fee into the beautiful new Temple, the
National Headquarters of the w. G. t.
u, on March 18th. 1t was fitting she
should be it's first occupant, and the
first, except the workmen, who ascend
ed its temporary stairs and took the
first bird's-eye view of the city from
the top Of its thirteen stories. Mrs.
Carse is the originator of the Temple
and to her indomitable energy it is due
that the Temple has risen, the most
beautiful building in Chicago. The
editorial and business offices of the w.
c. L. U. will remove to the Temple in
April.
Darkness and Daylight, the new
book published jointly by Helen Camp
bell, Col. Thos. w. Knox and Chief In
spector Byrnes, of New York, is one of
the strongest collateral supports the
W. c. T. U. has yet had for its posi-
lions. The testimony of the slums I'M
der the unsentimental scrutiny of
these experts in the dark-side work, in
directly places the responsibility for
and crime where it belongs
on the head of the liquor traffic. DR..
e. V. Cushman in an able review of
this remarkable book says: There is
not a note of despair in this book. Like
the gospel, it lays bare the need, but it
also tells of hope and help, of love and
light"
HARRIET B. KELLs.
State Alliance Executive Committee.
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