Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-20
W. Q. 7. i. NOTES.

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1t may not he ours to utter con
vincing arguments, hut ii may he ours
TO live holy lives. 1t may not be ours
10 be subtle and learned anu logical.
hut il may be ours 10 be noble and
sweet and pure. "-tarrar,
The following special dispatch from
Miss Willard appears in The Voice of
January lath.
Lady Henry Somerset has for many
years been subject to difficulty OF tie
heart which developed last summer to
such degree that the ahlest physicians
wers consulted, and declared that her
only safety lay in giving up her work.
| This she was most reluctant to do, and
continued TO hope that she might BIO
able TO come TO tho conventions in
| Toronto and Buffalo. and TO exercise
a central supervision of the society in
/ England. But prolonged i'll health con
| WINGED her that it was hast TO resign
the presidency of the British Woman
Temperance Association, Lady Henry
| is under careful treatment at Eastnur
Castle. and although she will probably
not lie abe to resume active work, n
| is hoped that her invaluable services 10
| the temperance reform will not his
wholly discontinued. Lady Henry
Somerset will have tho appreciative
sympathy Of all gnod people at this
time, when, by reason of her devoten
laburs she is temporarily at least I'M
able to continue them.
We have selected the three suhioined
notes from the excellent home paper
Christian Work:
In an article on this liquor traffic in
Africa in The Nineteenth Century for
November, Mayor lugand quotes testi
monies TO the effect that thousands OF
natives havo haen reduced 10 the lnwest
depths Of poverty and 10 an early death
by tho drink traffic. The liquor i'm
ported ia of the vieHt description. and
IL commonly known aB niger killer. :"
The London. Times, which is not nd.
dicted to sentiment, says, that tune
night OF hnrd drinking will, We are in
formed, kill the atoniesi Xulus. Every
one Ut these natives who is nauperized.
ur poisoned by drink, might have been
an industrious producer Of something
which he could exchange for European
goods, Great Britain won immortal
honor by suppresEing the slave trades
hut Sir Richard Burton is auotod aR
iuB bAhb tut ttnib MtlF
revived, and Africa could got rid of
the white man. with the gnnpowder
ami rum, Africa would be gamer by
tho exchange. = lhe wissst OF the
native chiefs pleRds piteously for de.
lirerance from rum.
King khama said; "It would be
better for me thst | should losa my
country than that it should be fooled
with drink" Another chief sail that
imported liquors had destroyed whole
tribes, and the Times declared that in
ljHustoland. where there ia absolute
prohibition, the natives buy crockery,
J cotton fabrics and agricultural imple-
ments
An exchange notes that the people Of
J Maine have in the savings banks On
average of $50. " apiece; while those
Of Ohio have hut 50. ~ and those OF
Illinois but sc. II. Granting that in
Maine the foreign element is smaller,
the question is yet asked Has pro-
hibition anything to do with this? In
} answering this question Tho Christian
, Register Of Boston says: 1t is beyond
, question that the general exclusion Of
thu liquor traffic for more than 40 yeare
, from the rural districts of Maine, and
its partial exclusion from its cities and
town, have operated powerfully in favor
of material welfare and of savings.
Tho same result is notsd in Mas
aachusetts communities, where, as in
} Cambridge and Quincy, the people
} have for term Of years voted for nc
! license.
Miss e. Theodore Crosby, a mis-.
sionary of the American Board, thus
writes of ChristiEns in Micronesia
Zone popularity is their attitude
t toward the tobacco question. They
! will not admit u man or woman wht
: uses the weed to church membership
! they argue that smoking and chewing
r are the outward symbols of an inward
degeneracy and their one rule ia thai
: those who bear the name OF Chris
shall neither touch. taste nor handle
: the unclean thing. and from thia ruiz
| there ia no appeal And thus also witt
: intoxicants. In all the years have
been IN Micronesia, l have never seer
y an intoxicated native while have seeI
; many white man in that condition
{ Tho German Rumissar has made it
o rule in tho Marshall Islands that nj
trader shall sell liquor in any form to
b native. For tho first offence he il
reprimandea. for the aecond he il
heavily fined, and for tho third he il
ezpe lied from the islands. "
Tho meeting held in the Newpor
W. Z. 4. u. reading roam, Wednesday
: evening, January 18th. was, we iudg,
: from IN interview with Mrs. Kate h.
! Smithers, decided SUCCESS. TIL
9 opening devotional services was con
!. ducted by Mrs r. Fl. Matlauk of Viii
! mington.
Q Good music was furnished by tho i
Y L. e. in addition to several we'll rem
9 dered solos by others of Newport.
:. Of Mrs. Smithers' description of TIL
: two great conventions having heard /
. myself-the opinion ia readily givel
u that it was much enjoyed by the appre
ciatiye Newport audience.