The Press., 1894-12-06
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
A New Madonna.
BY KATHARINE LENTE STEVENSON.

It was just at county convention,
 And she stood with her face like prayer, By the side of the fower-decked pulpit, To report her department there. She was pleading for those who are Christ For those who are sinsick and lone, That the followers of Jesus should seek
 them,
 And bring back in love all Christ's own. We felt the glad thrill of her message: Our hearts gave swift, joyous assent, When, out from the midst of her hearers, With slow step, her little girl went; A wee slip of four-y -year-old maiden,
 With eyes which had caught heavens
 own blue,
 And hair like the sheen of the morning When sunbeams are fiickering through. As they stood there,-the mother and
 daughter,-
 In the grace of a love undeflled, Twas as if new spirit touched Raphael Had limned Madonna and child. The same innocent look of child-wonder, The same clinging touch of the hand Which, forever, must open like magic
 The gates of the hearts glory land. The same sweep of brow, consecrated To highest and holiest good; The same charm of a life which had tasted The bliss of glad motherhood. The same glow of a holy devotion
 Which spares not its best,-its most
 dear
 The same word of a quickened obedience: Behold, Lord, thy handmaid is here" Twas a scene which must glow OF the
 canvas
 Of memory all through the years; Twas glimpse of life's deep inner mean Which we read through glad answering
 tears.
 For it told us that each artist-master
 Who had painted the group undefiled, Must have caught his first blest inspira-
 tion
 From some human mother and child. So we learned once again the great lesson Which the Father heart taught through
 the Son,
 That our each life is 'also His offspring;"
 That heaven love and cal love are one.
 What Is termed the social order is re- sultant of the high ideals of society on the part of the wise and the low ideals cherished and defended by the foolish.
 The w. c. T. U. of the District of Co., lumbia have passed resolutions highly commenting Mrs. Cleveland for her firm stand against drinking.
 The New York Tribune says: "The liquor traffic is to-day the heaviest clog upon the progress, and the deepest dis grace of the nineteenth century.
 A. Huntsinger: Indiana's liquor bill is $40, 100000 year. In silver dollars placed fiat edge to edge it would cover the entire boundary line of the state, in- cluding it's tortuous river lines.
 Several ministerial associations of Pitts burgh and .Alleghany, Pennsylvania, have united in an appeal to the police officers of those two cities for the suppression of vice-b breeding literature.
 It is proposed to introduce bill in the next legislature of Indiana limiting the number of saloons in the state to one for each one thousand inhabitants. Saloon keepers are organizing to prevent it's pass age.
 The Wine and Spirit Gazette estimates that there are 19s, 1S6 voters in the state of New York directly dependent upon the liquor traffic, and says 'a little rl-atualls -.- among this vast army would enable them to absolutely control any election in the state.
 The Constitution: According to the report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller for the year 1899, the patrons of saloons in the United States paid $609,- 900, ,000 for whiskey and $617, ,259, AGO for whiskey and $617 ,259, ,460 for beer, to- tai of $1,226, ,259, AGO; the interest of which for one minute at 6 per cent. per annum is $s,515.6s.
 The devil has great many subjects who are simply too lazy to rebel.
 Illinois Watchman: At largely att tended meeting of the Catholic clergymen and laymen of one of the leading parishes most earnest of those demanding reform, made an address in which he gave some startling figures. He said that the total cost of the worlds exposition was $25,- 100000, the gate receipts $10,000, 900, and the appropriation of the city of Chi cago $5,000, ,000. And yet, stupendous as these figures are, the money annually paid to the Chicago saloon-keepers is nearly twice the combined construction and general expenses of the worlds fair, about five times the total gate receipts, and nearly ten times the city's appropria- tion. During the six months of the fair the saloons of the city received not less than three times the gate receipts, 5000 going to them for every $1 ,000 paid the fair. He made terrible arraignment of the saloon and appealed for help to save the perishing thousands whose degrada- tion is due to drink. Joseph Cook A church silent on the question of temperance discredits itself as much as church silent on the ques- !, tion of dishonesty. Ex-Vice-President Wilson: have lit- tie hope for the triumph of the temper ance cause until a large proportion of the the clergymen and of the protesting > christians of this land rise up to the du- ties of the occasion and speak words that shall touch the hearts of the people, and