The Press., 1894-04-19
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.


 ations in active operation.
 Even if prohibition does not prohibit in Kansas, the penitentiary population has fallen off sixty per cent since 1880.
 No wonder Professor McCook declares the tariff question to be "mere baby compared with the economic aspects oi the drink question.
 great pork butcher of Cambridge, Mass, employing eight hundred men af- firms that he would not have. the saloons licensed again in that city for ten thous- and dollars year.
 What relief there would be in the pinching of these ''hard times"i if we could stop that involuntary contribution by the whole productive force of the United States of one days labor in every nine to keep the gin mills going.
 Mrs. A. B. Bolles, president of the Hartford, Conn, w. c. T. U., sends a check for $7O, which completes a $1OO gift from this union. Mrs. Bolles writes "l wish every union in Connecticut could have its name in the temple"
 A new Minnesota statute punishes a drunkard by a fine of ten to forty dollars for first offence, a larger amount for the second, and ninety days in the workhouse for the third, but the man who made him drunk is left free to make others so,
 Every brazen drunkard=maker, every bloated brewer, every bum, sot and physi- cal wreck produced by rum, every drunk ards starving family must be supported by somebody. Their support at the last is the honest worker who pays his debts.
 The money invested in the manufacture of poisonous alcoholic beverages, If in. vested in the six leading useful manufac. turing industries of the United States, would, according to the census figures give employment to thirteen times as many men as it now does.
 President Thomas w. Palmer of the worlds fair commission says he will de- vote the rest of his life to assisting wo- man in her battle for equal justice with man, the enlargement of the work of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and the securing of better coun- try roads. May he live long and prosper
 A committee in Worcester, Mass. has been Investigating the eighty saloons in that city from financial point of view. They estimated that the saloons pay out yearly for salaries, license, etc., about one hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred dollars, but they receive fully one million two hundred thousand dollars.
 A temperance society has been orga- nized in St. Petersburg, which includes many high dignitaries as members, The leading Russian newspaper in comment. ing on it said: "Only the cooperation oi the government departments with the ef. forts of the society can deliver the people frora She thralldom of drunkenness. Tc abolish such is the province and the pow. CT of the government"
 Nevada stands nearly alone in licensed saloons and gambling houses, houses o1 vice in public places to demoralize and degrade the young with it's inmates plying their vocation on the principal streets day and night. Tho only institutions Nevada has at present are, state prison where the most vicious are incarcerated, and the less vicious let go for the want of a prop CT home for them; an insane asylum and an orphans home, very much crowded. HOMEMADE BERR.- upor some of the so called misunderstanding beers sold in England, or made at home from herbs with the addition of sugar anG yeast, the Medical Pioneer of London says: Many people do not seem to un derstand that the putrefaction of sugar by means of yeast at home produces jus1 as much alcohol as if done by a brewer It gives a timely warning against the use such homemade beer, as tending at lengtf to the use of stronger alcoholic beverages A placard placed by the order of ths government in the Belgian schools, states that of 125,000 deaths, one fifth of thu number, or 25, ,00O, are attributed to alec hol. In one period, during which tht population increased fourteen per cent. the use of alcohol grew thirty-seven pe cent. The cases of insanity pcreaset forty-five per cent, the criminals forty seven, and suicides eighty per cent. Fi nally, might be mentioned that in thu same period, the number of beggars ant rowing, unoecupied persons increased on hundred and fifty y-six per cent
 Country primroses fresh and sweet!
 Violets! only penny bunch!" A young girl cries whose weary feet
 Tread many a muddy city street. While rich folks idly dine or lunch. Repletion theirs starvation hers! ! How long will those pale flowers kee | fresh,
 If no heart -yearning pity stirs How long, ere she no more demurs r To sink the spirit in the flesh? Ay; sheer and pass the other side! I But when Christ comes, of this be sure l 'Tis not her shame He will deride,
 The shame is yours who have not tried To keep His blossoms fresh and pure,
 Hiawatha, Kan, temperance worker are deeply interested in the results of recent case in which four prominent loca druggists were fined to the full extent 0 | ez. AL