The Portland daily press., 1895-10-21
The W. c. T. u.
Some interesting Reports From the Balti.
more Con venton.

Some Interesting nopor1s rom the Balti-
more Con venton
Baltimore. October 19.-The report
Of Mrs M. 7. W. Merrill. superin-
tendent of the department. for So
onr,no homes for homeless children says
there new state unions have been added
to the department work. In the first of
three the State President has assumed
charge Of the department.. In another
Stare where for twelve years systematic
efforts after the latest and best methods,
haze baen sustained for the welfare Of its
dependent children, an efficient superin
tendent has been secured 20 Cooperate
with existing Interstate ohild-saving as
sociations. whose work will be reported.
Chances apparently impeding depart
ment nropress, but incident to all our
work. have taken place. Removal of
officials from one State to another, the
merginr of the department. into another
cooperating with other organizations,
whereby the distinctive efforts Of our
white ritboners fail OF recognition.
Mrs. Mary f. Lowell, of Bryn Mawr,
Pa, presented to the Union the annual
report Of the Department. OF Mercy. She
explained that the number of States hav
ing this Department. is eighteen and the
number reporting is fourteen. The larg-
est membership reported Is from Connec-
ticut. The largest number of counties
organized for this work is in New York,
the number Icing twenty-one. The larg-
est number of local superintendent is
in Pennsylvania which has over 100. Kan
sas reports the best work done IN publish
and having it posted New York reports
the largest numb of pages OF literature
distribution 492. Indiana reports the
prevention of disgustingly cruel snter-
tainment known as "goose pull, gotten
IN by some men at harvest jubilee at
Ashley. The women of the W. G. I. y.
by most determined efforts prevented this
disgraceful exhibition.
Indiana. Kansas and New York report
children of offenders against the law gath
cred into Bands Of Mercy. Oregon ra-
norts the largest number of public adj
fresses-9S- all of which were made by
the State Superintendent.
The District Of Columbia reports the
largest number of physicians influenced
anti-vivisection literature-23.
New York has Influenced the largest
number of ministers-74. Indiana reports
the largest number of sermons preached
in response to enorts mace Wlnn MINIS
tiers, rs to 80.
The ssAppeal to Women MOTTO Wear
Birds'' had not met with a very enoour
aging response, but she hoped the interest
Of the workers in preventing this folly and
cruelty will not lessen. One drummer,
for millinery house, had de-
clared in Wisconsin that 1T was no use
trying to sell birds or wings there.
Though there is perhaps more cruelty
of certain kinds in the western part OF
our country than in the eastern, there
also appears to be more rapidly growing
interest in this department. among menu
hers in the former. Prizes had been
offered and paid for the best essays
against cruelty. This she heartily favored,
nS we'll as the erection of free drinking
fountains for the thirsty as measure
against intemperanoe. The latter she
would have done for animals too, be-
cause, as she puts it, when man can
water his horse at a trough which Is not
in front of saloon, means OF teDlpta-
ton is removed, and double act OF
mercy ia done.
She was sorry to have Co announce that
a bull fight actually took place recently
on Sunday afternoon at Millett, Color
ado, and also that bull fights are featf
ure entertainment ia Southern CALI
fornia.
temperance and mercy everywhere
"Unfermented Sacramento Wine" was
the subject Of report presented by Miss
Mary Moore, of New York. During the
Epast year, she said, there has been an en-
couraging progress in the work of secur-
ing unfermented wine at the sacran 1t
Of Our Lords Supper. The action OF
this body in May was followed in August
by the Presbytery of Chicago recommends
ing the use Of pure grape juice at the
Lords supper. Resolutions are also re-
ported to have been passed in favor Of the
use of unfermented wine at communion
by ecclesiastical bodies in California,
East Washington, North Carolina, Florida
nation lead sin the adoption of the re.
form. The Lutheran and Episcopal
churches are beginning to yield Their
preiudices and the Roman Catholic church
in several instances has become interest
ed. Sixty thousand gallons OF alcoholic
wines are annually dispensed in the
churches in this country. Or the fifty
five State and Territorial unions, forty lone
have superintendents for the department
unl6Ilu6u U6tA boOA VsheS' AhtA
teen have been appointed this year. She
was sure this was not the time to cease
efforts. The work of this department
would be unfinished until everywhere
in all denominations at our Lords table
the occasion for stumbling is removed.
Pitiful instances of returning to dehauch-
ery have come to the committee fromState
Superintendents as the result OF partak-
ing of alcoholic wine at communion.
Miss Clara Parish, of Paris, Maine,
National organizer. gave some interesting
Flashlights from Abroad, as she char.
acterized her address. She paid the high
est tribute to Lady Henry Somerset,
who, though she belonged to the nobility
of England, demonstrated that she be
longed to the aristoolacy ofsscharacter al
we'll. She said we had learned much
from our English sisters worth copying
When it comes to organizing great meet
ings, she said, we cannot hold candle
to them, and the way they despatch bust.
ness is marvellous. For an instance, the
night of the great meeting at the Roya
Albert Hall the immense audience Of
nearly fifteen thousand people stood fol
one whole hour and yelled and yelled
the music of the great organ and orohes
ira sounding like distant thunder in
the din Of so many human voices.
Another thing, she said. that impressed
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