The Press., 1894-07-26

of the features of the day.
 Miss Willard will spend several weeks this summer at the Eagles Nest" cot tage in the Catskills, presented her by the New York white ribboners.
 Lord Roseberry has assured deputa- tion of English temperance women that the government will use it's best endeavors to pass the veto bill this session.
 At the public meeting held at Sydney, Australia, to say farewell to Miss Acker- man, Mrs. Nichols, the newly elected president of the w. c. T. U., who occu- pied the chair, said that she had been asked by a gentleman and his wife to pre- sent Miss Ackerma,. with a sum of one thousand pounds as personal gift. The money had been deposited to Miss Acker- mans credit, and the deposit receipt was in her (Mrs. Nicholls) hands for presenta- tion. Miss Alderman, while expressing her gratitude for the generous offer, ask ed that the donors should apply the mon- ey to providing an Australasian head quarters for the w. c. T. U., so that the work of the organization might be more efficiently carried on. The meeting unan- imously passed resolution requesting that Miss Alderman should reconsider her determination and accept the gift. Miss Alderman has invested seven years of work in Australia without fee or re- ward except as it came in collections from the people.
 Do not forget August 10th. Mark it on your calendar.
 Union Signal: We are greatly encour- aged by the pronounced action on temper ance taken by all the great church orga- nizations through their representative councils. We have already noticed the favorable position of the two Presbyterian assemblies and the Southern Methodist now comes the good news of advanced position on the part of the Cumberland Presbyterian assembly, which convened last week in Eugene City, Ore. A sent ence in the preamble of the temperance resolutions is so strong and pointed that we give it just as it reads: "While em- phasizing total abstinence as the obvious duty of all, we believe that intemperance finds it's chief encouragement and strength in the sanctions of law. The policy of legalizing and protecting sin and receiving revenue therefrom is so clearly opposed to the plain teaching of Gods work, and so repugnant to the enlightened christian conscience of this age, as to merit the unqualified condemnation of every fol- lower of Christ" The three strong reso- lutions which were earnestly discussed and almost unanimously adopted, pro- tested against the federal tax of liquors, thereby making not only the government, but every citizen a partner in the iniqui- tous tlaffic; they also urged the greater dissemination of temperance literature, and commended the W. c. T. U.
 We are indebted to our good friend, Jo- l siah w. Leeds, for information concern ing very important judicial condemna- tion in Philadelphia a month ago. This was nothing less than the punishment of the atrocious Police Gazette and other immoral sheets from the news-stands and all public places of the city. MT. Leeds was the prosecutor ill the case, which has
 been before the courts year. He says l "A good deal of care seems to have been taken to avoid spreading the information of this result. Only the Ledger, of the Philadelphia dailies, gave fair report !; the other papers generally ignoring it, or making very inconspicuous mention of it. The knowledge of the formal outlawry of l those sheets in a city of over million in- habitants, if sent out by the Associated Press, as it should have been, would, believe, have helped the cause of good morals in a hundred towns and cities.' | MT. Leeds truly adds "It is such pa- pers as the Polize Gazette that are the | favorite reading in the houses of ill-fame, and this reading does great deal to keep | up the supply of inmates and patrons. l Would that every city had a Josiah Leeds to sweep away this crime-breeding and mind polluting literature from the news stands and free reading rooms! It is fit. ting that the city of brotherly love should lead off in this crusade for clean reading matter, which we hope is the initia
 movement of a universal purifioation. l An imperative call of duty necessitates ! a change in the plans of Dr. Kate 0