The morning times., 1896-10-26
". c. T. u. NOTES.

The First Congregational held its an
nual meeting in the sunday school room Of
the church, ON Friday, October 10. Very
interesting reports Were given by the su-
perintent!ents OF the various departm ents
An entertaining program was followed
by refreshments and II social hour. Mrs.
Belle S. Luckett, the Y secretary; Mrs.
Platt, District president; airs. Clinton
Smith, president OF West End Union; MIR.
Jesse Suter, of the Anti-Saloon League,
and Miss opal johnson. corresponding sec
retary Of the Y's, were introduced and
made brief speeches
The refresnm cnt table was decorated
with autumn leaves, the white cloth form
ing line background for the richly tint
ed leaves Which Were arranged to form
the letters 'Y. W. C. T. u"
Mrs. Wood, the president of this flour
ishing Y, is to he congratulated upon the
success of her endeavors. Congregational
Y promises to give the headquarters n
hard race for the prize banner during
the coming year, but the latter is deter
mined that no union snail take its hand
some prize from It's keeping
Miss Willard in DO Everything" says:
Alone we can do little. Separated we are
the units of weakness; but aggregated we
become batteries of power. "A Agitatc.' cdu-
cate organize these are the deathlesS
watchwords of success. The fingers of the
hand can dolittle alone but correlated intoa
fist they become formidable. The plank
borne here and there bythc sport of the wave
is IN image of inibecility: bui frame thou
sand plaukS of heart oak into Il hull put
In your engine with its heart of fire. fit
out Your snip and ii shall cross at right
aRgle those same waves TO the port il has
purpused to attain.
We want all those like minded with us
who would putdown | lie dram shop ,eNait the
home. redeem manhood and upliit woman
hood To join hands with us for organized
work according to a plan 1t took the
allied armies to win at Waterloo, and the
ticohoi Napoleon VIII Capitulate to u no less
mighty army.
1t is the WAY commerce has marched
across the continents ant. captured them
for civilization one by one: I is the way an
army is reCruited-une by one; il is the
way ChriSt's Church is built up into power
and heaven adds 10 its souls redeemed Just
one by one. Women OF The church. the
home. the school. VIII YOU not rally to the
holy call oil Individual responsibility and
Systematically united effort"
THE editor Of the Hustler, Kentucky, Of
fcred To let a whisky ad. 20 in free il he
We're allowed to write il himself. He sub
nittcd the following, which was not aC-
cepted:
..Hcll and damnation put III bottles from
a.
on receipt of price Our stuff is the best,
at lcast the devil says so, and he knows
II Will make Il man Steal from the blind,
wreck his home, lie, cheat. burn: in i word.
if there is anything mean it can't make
him do, just name it.
In Victoria the Frances Willard Club is
prospcring and has now eco members. The
tome for working girls was recently opened
aud is called the isabel Somerset House.
| THIS home means much for the busy toiisrs,
| and Will save many from drifting down
| ward. The W. e. T. U. has interviewed
| the minister of agric culture to protest
| against the proposal of the government to
! give "A bonus To Wine manufactures.
| In reply to the question. is it necessary
| for any one Ia 20 cold or hungry Or TN
| clothed in England" Miss Slack said. No.
| In reply to the question. why do the
| poor hate the workhouse?'' she said:
Because the people i'll it are not class
| flied, and the self respecting poor do not
| like To sit beside the iailhird and the
| drunkdri And then there is the deadly
| monotony, and that the husband and wife
| are separated unless sixty years Old; the
| official routine. the herding of numbers
! IN one place for meals. the fact that not
| nfrequentiy the dining room and the chapel
! are the same place. and perhaps above all.
| The stigma attached to such an institution
| as a workhouse.''
Miss Slack told OF AN incident two win
! terS ago III very cold weather when q lg! eel
| hungry men stood at street corner, and
| poor law guardian said Il will employ
| yon to open the roads" And but iNyo out
| OF the eighteen accepted, the others I,re-
ferring TO get their keep as they could.