The Press., 1894-01-25
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

The educational exhibits at the Worlds fair were so extended that the judges have only recently had time to report upon the largest group, Group 149: No single ex- hibit in that group nor in all the educa- tional display at the White City attracted more attention or excited more interest than that of scientific temperance instruc- tion in the public school The exhibitor, Mrs. Mary H. Hunt of Boston, has just been informed that this exhibit has been assigned five highest awards.
 1. For legislation requiring physiolog- ical temperance instruction in public schools in A states and territories in the United States and in Canada and in Swed- eny~
 3. For graded series of textbooks on this subject in the English language.
 3. For translations of these books, new in use, in five different languages.
 4. For methods pupil or school room study in this sci"nce.
 5. For exhibit of pupil-work in this branch, from various states in the United States
 There is great hope for the temperance cause in the extmple of the Christian En- deavorers of Illinois, in adopting unan- mously the following declaration:
 That we recognize in the liquor traffic the greatest enemy of Christ and the | church and the foe of humanity To en- | courage it ill any way is a sin, to license it is crime. We therefore recommend the following pledge contained in Secre- | Gary Baer'S letter in the Golden Rule of Sept 28 "Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength, 1 promise him that will drink no intoxicating liquor, that I will pray each day that the saloon may be banshed from our land, and just so far as 1 know how I will work for what I pray, and 1 will also vote as I pray and do all in my power to help kill King AL | cohOl." That we recommend a temper | ance committee in every society and a To- cal temperance union in every town and | city according 10 the plan suggested by the state superintendent of temperance work, who has already been of inestima- ble service in this department of our work.
 Those who question the power of wo- men to achieve should ponder the record of Lady Henry Somerset, who has just returned to England from twenty-four days trip to America, during which she travelled eight thousand miles, presided | over the worlds convention of temperance women, and attended sixteen meetings, besides 'doing" the worlds fair, The closing meeting of the w. c. T. U., which she addressed, convened the largest au- dience gathered to hear single speaker | during the entire series of congresses numbering one hundred and forty-five, | A Kansas woman has found the solu- ton of the tramp question. She is police 1 justice of her city, and a western paper tells this story of her: "The first tramp who was brought before her for judgment was sentenced to two baths day for ten days, and to hard labor on the stone pile, with the order that he be fed if he worke and starved if he shirked. The prisoner survived the ordeal, but now the first question tramp asks on approaching a Kansas town is whether the police judge is 8 man or a woman."
 Illinois has 300 active loyal temperance legions, with a membership of 5000. A foreign mother complains that whereas the "beer wagon vas used to stop at their door and beer vas all the time drunk, and no foos about it, now she nefeF dare to put cidare in von mince pie, because of the schillen (chidren) and it vos de L. T. l.. what-do it'
 The W. c. T. U. of California, assisted by the ministers, are carrying on a cru sade against the "Police Gazette" feat ures of the daily press of that state. They demand that,less space be given to records cf crime and immortality and more to en- nobling topics,
 Bishop Taylor tells of a. distillery i1 Africa called Bon Jesus"-G Good Jesus so associated are rum and Christianity in the minds of the natives.
 The last legislature of Mississippi pass ed law giving fhe ballot to all house holders without distinction of sex.
 Edward Everett Hale read Miss Will lards annual address at a recent meeting of his church.
 One fifth of the annual increase of the wealth of the nation is devoured by tho saloon.