The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-17

New Jersey has invited the largest
lumber OF young women speakers !neo
ner borders and the Y's had an ac1ive
part Ia winning the Scient1hc temper
ance law. Illinois shows great variety
ol work done, and stands only loulcn ~
% Roin. Oh membership and money i Isin
Inc young women of little Rhode lsland
deserve gold medal for having raised
ana expended for temperance WORK ,6ne
round sum of 81 300 which places them
nrst IN the financial list.
Mrs. Helen G. Rice, of Boston, reported
the work of the temperance legion,
which, she said, is applied sclentlnc tenn, ,
perance truth. Through the Wonoeriui
accomplishment of the department. or
Scientific Temperance Instruction the
truth IN regard to the effects OF aleohoi,
tobacco and other brain polsons upon
the human system has ben maze avalla-
bic to millions of children in the pulblc
schools. The most that we have right
to expect OF the busy teachers OF tnese
schools IS that they will lmpart Jnls
scientific truth earnestly and faithfully.
Doing this they accomplish great
work. But here comes in the need OF
applying tbs truth in way that most
public school teachers have little OPP
portunlty of doing, even should they nave
the inclination. This the Loyal Legion
claims to accomplish, Experience mas
been teaching us the best methods by
which to make OF our boys and girls not
only intelligent total abstainers, ready
to meet temptations and fld1cule. with
scientific reasons for their principles and
practice, but also to SO imbnew them
with the conviction that the truth they
learn is not something to be stored away
Tor their own use alone, but that 1t IS an
instrument to be used for the benefit OF
others, that they shall become trained
tGmn6rAnCR w0rlxprc IN this end
emphasize In our regular Il. I'll. meet
ings, through the brightest songs and the
most interesting lessons, with black
board and object teaching and expert
ments, the same truths that have been
learned in the public schools. We cllnch
this teaching with the safeguard Of the
pledge, given very carefully, and to
those only who can sign it as the ex-
preston Of an intelligent conviction. We
train restless hands and feet and fresh
young voices to assist in no license and
prohlbitory campaigns, to gather and
distribute literature, to make comfort
bags and scrap books, to do flower
mission and charita bic work, to sing and
recite in hospital, prison and almshouse
services, and to numerous other forms
of helpfulness. The very fact that they
are banded together in an organization
with common purpose, strengthens
and inspires the boys and girls, and their
annual county conventions awaken an
enthusiasm for temperance that could
come to chem in no other way.
Finding that our older boys and girls
are inclined to drift away at that period
in their lives when they most need the
restraints of the triple pledge, we insti-
tute the senior grade, IN which, through
debates on current topics, our young
people learn the relation of the drink
traffic to our government, to society and
to- to mr. xnh So l,rtck fr,x y sota
through parliamentary drills. they ac-
quire not only excellent training, but a
thorough respect for the Legion. We set
before these seniors a special optional
course of study and examinations. Han
dreds take this course, receive diplomas.
and become our graduate. Wisconsin
IN 1891 gathered It's graduates into State
Legion; New York followed in 1898, and
Massachusetts in 1894. Massachusetts,
welcomed to it's annual Wet. U. con-
yention five delegates on payment of
dues, ana other States do likewise.
Pennsylvania Legions have their own
delegate in this national convention.
The report of the department. work
among Foreigners was made by Mrs.
Sophie f. Grobb, the superintendent
She said: ie
The objective, point of work during
the year has been to again secure prohi-
bition of the sale Of liquor at Ellis Is
land. This was secured five years ago
through petitions presented to Congress
by the Department, but was rescinded
by Secretary Carlisle in 1892, greatly to
the detriment to our work.
Our missionar at this point, Miss
Anna Lindahl has been kept at her post
and her salary paid by private contribu-
tions alone this year. Our literature is
still sent out in small quantities to
many points in every State. We pu blish
in seventeen different languages upon
every phase of the temperance question
and also upon the duties of citizenship.
We are the only organization that is
meeting the immigrant and putting in
to his hand instructions as to his duty
and responsibilities in this new home,
warning him of the dangers of the
saloon and giving him arguments in his
own tongue, whereby he can meet the
specious vagaries of Anarchists. These
tracts, together with those on social
purity, Sabbath observances. the adj
vantages of Industrious and sober living,
etc., are handed to him as he lands at
our port. They are given with kindly
word and loaf of bread, or clothing, if
needed. This, under the eyes of the
officials seems to the in.comer to be
a part of the new life, and is warmly
appreciated. The tracts are frequently
put into the bosom, and taken out to be
shown and commended when the desti-
nation OF the owner is reached. These
little white messengers in foreign lam
guages are now being scattered all over
the land, and that they are bearing fruit
and doing good we have evidence every
day.
have four national assjstants-Mrs.
Van blinds, of Michigan. in the
Dutch; Mrs. Hargood of New Mexico, in
the Spanish, Mrs. Carey of California in
the Chinese, and Miss Lindal, missionary
at Ellis Island.
publish about fifty editions year of
ten thousand each in German, Swedish,
Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian,
Hungarian, Polish, Bohemian, Dutch,
Welsh, French, italian, Portuguese,
Spanish, Chinese and English. They are
in two page or four page leaflets, or
sometimes in booklet form. They are
always welcomed by the foreign-speak-
ing people. to whom they appeal.far more
strongly than do English tracts, even
when the recipient can read the latter
tongue.
A CHASTITY Discovery.
Boston, Mass, Novemb Der 16-Sophie
Haverlin, living alto South Margin street,
west End, was this forenoon found dead
m.