The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-05

as we should be. There are too many
instances similar To the one l now re-
call. There was a glorious New Years
eve service: the church was beautiful
in it's appropriate decorations, the
choir tried TO excel all previous efforts
and every one seemed to feel that he
was on the threshold of a brighter day.
There was one poor young man in the
audience. The clock chimed the hour
of II. Hand met hand in hearty con-
gratulations. The audience arose and
greeting passed from lip to lip. 1t was
a season Of handshaking. After all
was over, the young man, tears In his
eyes. turned towards the door. sadly
exclaiming: i. who surely need the
sympathies and good wishes OF those
people. am Stunned. Not one of them
offered me his han or spoke an en-
c~ouraging word to Ell one word"
Mrs. Conklin spoke of the splendid
record the Y. NJ. G. A. has MADE in
the United States in the past few
years. There are to-day l.4O0 associa-
tons. with a membership of 5000.
owning property valued at SIS, 900, 900.
Butte should have such an organ
iZation. I see here. and I've been with
you but a few hours. the doors OF the
evil one wide open. but on the other
hand I see but a few places where the
young man may go to find moral re-
creation.
why don't you give the young men
OF Butte an opportunity to choose be-
tween the saloon n the y. NJ. c. A.
rooms?"
The speaker said that many Ameri-
can homes were criminally guilty for
much of the trouble arising from the
use of alcohol. She pointed with en-
phasls TO the use OF Mrs. Winslow's
soothing syrup by mothers of this
country. This syrup said the speak
or. contained a large quantity of alco-
2 Ill IL haa haan nrOvad TINT M Strch
person ever existed as Mrs. Wins
low" and that all OF the so-called tes-
timonials to its value as a medicine
were written by employees Of the firm
that manufactures IL.
She also stated that these advertised
Endorsements OF certain patent medi-
cines by the w. e. I. u. were frauds"
Mrs. Conklin stated in the course of a
talk on IN proper methods to be used
in rearing young boys that IL Is not well
to make the boys pathway in life too
smooth. for II you do he is liable to slip
and fall. Then she decried the spread
of vulgar literature. which she charac-
terized as nothing more than printed
poison. Young women could. IL they
would. exert a powerful influence over
men, but they say: oh. I'll lose my
popularity with the genteel band IL i
make myself too conspicuous among the
common herd" In this fault the mother
Is 10 bldTne 10 "a idfkc VSttht' "
duty to Impress her daughter with the
necessity OF helping the poor young
men.
The ecturer also denounced the army
canteen and the liquor trafic In gen
eral. A staggering drunken man does
not tempt his fellow to drink. His ap-
p%earance does not create a desire In the
heart OF his sympathizer to touch liquor.
II Il the hand of influence holding out
the liauid OF damnation that drives men
down to the depths Of misery.
But" concluded the speaker. Il have
travelled I'm many countries. j have seen
the darkest side OF life. and In all my
work and In all my experiences. l never
saw a man beyond redemption"