The Press., 1897-05-06

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 At my request he signed the answer, and have preserved the precious tenn perance memorial. Your friend,
 JOHN P. NEWMAN.
 Mrs. Mary A. Ltvermore recently de- livered an address on "The Use of Trou- ble." It was simple but careful eluci- dation of a practical subject, founded on Paul's words, 'tThe whole creation groan- eth and travaileth in pain until now"
 She said that men and women come into the world preordained to battle. The world is vast encampment. There are no substitutes, and none of us can choose our positions, nor can we procure dis charge until death. We are not mere clay, and, if we would last forever we need heroic treatment, and so God has ordained it.
 Yet, not all conflicts are of Gods sordt- nance. It is not Gods intention to have ten thousand liquor saloons That is mans diabolism
 What different world this would be if
  that man had outgrown his pugnacity, and that all had united and promised to obey one great arbitration treaty! Anglo Saxons excel in drunkenness-in stimula- tion. Think what it would take out of life If that should cease to be. The day when we begin to get along without alco- holic liquors we shall begin to get to- ward ''the good time coming"
 Nine-tenths of the people in the world do not know where they will get the next meal. But this will not always be so. We are right on the threshold of the change. The sorest battle of life is in our own souls. God meant life to be battle to bring out the good within us. But the diabolism of men and women is, however, responsible for much of the hardest of the fight of life.
 Mrs. Livermore said she had never found anyone who had not some good in him. She pittied poor Cuba, and called the dealings of the allied powers with Greece, internal, but said that in neither case was it the will of the people.
 Mrs. Livermore's grasp of great ques- tions is as strong, and her insight as clear, as in days of yore. Her incisive, masterly handling of subjects pertaining 10 the welfare of the race, has often carried con- viction and conversion to the hearts and heads of her hearers. The great cause of reform has no more powerful ally to-day than Mary A. Livermore.
 The testimony of the famous Arctic ex- plorer, Dr. Nansen, concerning alcoholic liquors, should be given wide circulation He says: ''It is often supposed that even though spirits are not intended for daily use, they ought to be taken upon an ex- petition, for medical purposes. I would readily acknowledge this if anyone could show me single case in which such a remedy is necessary; but till this Is done l shall maintain that this ptetext is not sufficient, and that the best course is to banish alcoholic drinks from the list of necessaries for an Arctic expedition"
 As result of the recent agitation in the French Academy of Medicine, on the question of alcohol, and its effects upon the people, French National League Against Alcoholism has been formed in Paris. M. Laborde, learned French man, is one of the prime movers.
 Ireland spends about sixty million dol lars per year for liquors, and, as usual, they have the annual famine on their hands, and are out in an appeal for help.
 The'crusade against candy containing intoxicants, by New York women, has stirred up the National Confectioners' As sociation, which declares its determina- tion to prosecute any offender found to be guilty, and offers reward of $4OO for the detection of any such person, chasing this introduction of alcohol into candy as an "adulterati The association is composed of all the leading wholesalers in the country,
 "The liquor question is the most inn portant question to be settled, and the only way to settle it is by ballot. As far as am concerned do not propose to let any other issue intervene until this is set tied, and snttled right. ."-Rev. Dr. Robert Mcintyre, Chicago.
 Of the 10000 carloads of oranges that will be mark eted in California next sea- oov, 4,,llxz 2 OnO mill I,o nox,olo