Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-02-01
that physical decline in stature which is FILL
| ing those nations with alarm for their future.

that physical decline in stature which is fill
ing those nations with alarm for their future.
We haven't a very high opinion of the
average concert exercise. It is made to or
and the Home" is one which we take. pleas
ure in recommending. Both words and
music are good. With this obtainable, no
community need be without a first-class pro-
hibition meeting. Price, cents so cents per
dozen, post paid. Fillmore Bros. 119 West
Sixth street, Cincinnati.
Mayor P. C. Hesser, who has been twice
elected mayor of Fort Scott, Kan, largely by
the women's vote, on the theory that he was
a prohibtionist, has just been compelled to
withdraw from the Grace Methodist Episcopal
church. The officers of the church called for
his withdrawal for the reason that he failed
to compel the police to close the numerous
saloons now running wide open in violation of
the state prohibtory liquor law.
No license obtains in 102 counties of
Georgia. In the remaining thirty-fve coun-
ties the grogshop remains by the aid of the
ignorant, vicious and purchasable negro vote
Race conflicts are largely due to drink. The
one specially atrocious crime that has been
the cause of the larger part of the trouble be-
| tween the races in the South was never heard
of before the black man gained access to the
barroom.
With $4,000 inhabitants, Iceland has only
one policeman. And the reason is a SIM
pie one. No liquor is allowed to be sold, ex-
cept in the capital, Reykjavik, where, against
the protest OF the people or Iceland, ana by
the express order of the king of Denmark,
there are two places where liquor is sold.
The sole duty of this policeman is to arrest
such drunken sailors or visitors as threaten
the public peace; and then, as Iceland has
no Jail, prison or lookup, he has to take such
unru]y persons to their respective ships, in
letters 1t necessary.
Rev. c. L. Organ, of Preston, Iowa, and
another citizen, prosecuted rumsellers for
rious indignites and finally demanded that
the merchants should discharge all clerks
who did not drink. They threatened to boy
colt and destroy their business if they didn't.
The merchants had backbone enough to say
they would run their own business. Then
the local paper, which had been neutral,
gave. the saloonkeepers hot shot and came out
against them. The saloons closed for few
days, and recently two of them have opened
again. The fight is still on, with the churches
Miss Eva Shontz, of Chicago, begins at
Hennepin Avenue NJ E. church, Minneapolis,
on the 21st inst a months work in Mime
sofa in the interest of the Young Peoples
Christian Temperance Union. On the commit
tee of arrangements are A. L. He11iwe11, presi
dent of the Minneapolis City G. E. Union
G. j. Miller, president Minneapolis Baptist
Young Peoples Union; George S. Bean, presi-
Leagues; DR.. G.. A. Donaldson Minneapolis
chairman Good Citizenship Department Of the
G. 3. Society; H. w. Seager, ex-state presi-
dent Epworth Leagues, and many other
prominent young people. Their intention is
to organize for the enforcement of law, and
the securing of pledges for the Million Vote
movement.