The Portland daily press., 1895-06-20

| and the church in Honolulu will be a
great improvement upon the Sunday clos
in laws: Prohibition is out of the ques-
tion in Hawaii yet.
The following lines of work have been
taken up in Tasmania: Scientific in
struction, which has not met with much
encouragement; hygiene and heredity,
and press work. The press has been
very liberal, reporting meetings WELL
Two petitions are in circulation, one
against further and indiscriminate license
being glveT. and one with view to dis
allow barmaids in the hundreds of drink
ing dens. Imagine California in it's early
days and Australia in it's mining centres
and an idea will be gained of the situa-
tion in the Transvaal
All the chief divisions and principal
cities of India, with a few exceptions,
have been visited from the extreme west
to Madras. There are 26 European and
seven native unions, with probable to-
tai membership of 1000.
The Dominion of Canada reports 442
| local societies with a membership of 9310
Thirty five young women's unions and
III loyal temperance legions have been
organized. Thirty-tw depal tments of
work are carried on, thus covering all the
different lines of work Of the W. C. 7. q.
There is at present a stronger public
opinion in favor of total prohibition than
ever before. The plebiscite has been tried
and carried with large majorities in four
of the provinces, the majority votes in
favor of prohibition being as follows:
Manitoba 12 5ss
| Ontario 81, 769
Prince Edward Island 1926
| Nova Scotia 81, 401
The total of votes polled is: For prohi-
bition, 266, 49S; against 1873, $50; majority
for prohibition, 132, 91S
The W. c. T U. at Philipporolis is the
only one in Bulgaria at present affiliated
with the worlds W. G.. T. T.. as the other
societies have united with the mems tenn
Eerance organization, feeling that more
effective work can thus be accomplished.
Those who are interested in the temper
ance work and care mostly for its ad-
vancement are the Protestant Christians
The Bulgarians spend more than 100, 600,
900 francs for drink. and only 1000, 900
for education. In Philippopolis there
are more than 400 saloons, the inhabitants
numbering 80. 900.
Princesses Clementina and Marie Lou
isa are very much interested in this
work and gave some help last yesr.
JUVENILE WORK.
Miss Anna A. Gordon Of Boston pre-
sented the report of the department. of
juvenile work, stating that in Canada and
the United States the Loyal Temperance
Legion work has made great gains in in
fuence and members since the last bien-
NAL convention.
Meetings are held weekly by thousands
OF Il. Il. Il. companies where instruction
is given in a series of graded manuals,
beginning with volume one, published in
four numbers and treating of alcohol and
the body, alcohol and the mind, alcohol
and the pocketbook, alcohol and the
nation
Many hundreds of young people have
received the graduates diploma after
passing satisfactory examination in an
entire volume of the manuals, and these
graduates who belong to the senior grade
of the L. T. L., have in three states in
America met in state convention. where
the day sessions devoted to reports of
work presided over by the young people
and diplomas were presented in the even
ing by a national J.. L. L. worker at the
close of interesting exercises by the mem
bers of the legion.
The National Temperance hospital in
Chicago has a most attractive children's
room, which has been fitted up by the
L. Il. L. By recent provision in the
national constitution any state where the
L. T. l.. contributes SIS to the national
society can be represented in annual con-
vention by an L. Z. L. delegate, but the
delegate must be an adult white ribboner
actively engaged in L. T. L. work The
children have also been most helpful in
raising money for the women's temple in
Chicago.
Mrs. HELEN G. Rice of Boston is the
indefatigable leader of the juvenile socie-
ties in America, and Mrs. Emma R.
Atkinson of Moncton, n B., is at the
head of the work in Canada.
The superintendent of Juvenile work
for Australasia, Miss George of Adelaide
reported that the principles of the Loyal
Temperance Legion department. are stead
lily advancing. in Australasia The sys-
teaching, and the enthusiasm created
among the children are all helping to
win for the L. T. l.. a foremost place
among children's societies.
France has commenced temperance
work among the children under white
ribbon auspices.
In 1884 the Loyal Temperance Legion
for the foreign children in Honolulu was
organized, and the society has prospered
through all these years.
A very cosmopolitan gathering it is
Americans, English, Germans, Portuguese
and Scandinayians.
Three l.. L. LIS. among native children
in India have already been formed, and
seven among Europeans Three sets of
kindergarten lessons are soon to be trans
lated and published in the White Ribbon
the organ of the India W. G. T.. U.
EVANGELISTIC WORK.
The recommendations of Miss Green
wood, national superintendent of the
evangelistic work in the United States
for 1894 and 1895 were as follows:
"Let US inaugurate this year a system
of cooperative evangeljStic work Let
each union take the district in its own
vicinity and send its eyangelistic workers
from house to house with wisely selected
gospel and temperance literature, invita-
tions to the temperance meetings. and that
personal contact which the church has so
sadly lost, and which alone can bridge
the chasm between the church and the
masses.
Let our W. c. 7. U. women syste-
matically and repeatedly visit their
homes, studying spiritual and temporal
needs and carrying an atmosphere of
health and hope. for spirit, mind and
body. This two-fold effort in the church.
es on the one hand, and by house to house
visitation on the other, will give mighty
impulse to the work. The Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union, like the Saliva
tion army, is called to this hand-to-hand