Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-03-21

"The true thought Of life will not
make one oombatlve toward others.
Feelings towards them will be
sweetened, but there will be a settled
against evil. n--Ohrlstian
Endeayor World.
Our State president, Mrs. Emma E.
Caulk, has been busily engaged In
visiting union since these notes APP
peared. On the 18th OF February she
went to Milford, where parlor meet
ing was held in the evening at the |
homo of Mrs. Lizzie Davis, and on
Sunday evening, February 18th, gave
Miss Willard, held In the M. u. |
Church. Monday afternoon, the 18th,
Mrs. Caulk read q PAT or before the |
New Century Club Of the town.
The week after her visit 10 Milford |
our president organized W. q. I. U. |
at Delmar with 20 active and one |
honorary members.
Another bit of cheering news is that
a Young Woman's Branch has been
organized at Pennington with II MEM
beers and the prospect Of as many mors.
AT the W. q. Il. U. State executive
MEETING, recently hold In Wilmington,
plans for the State convention to be
held In Dover some time during Octo-
Der wero discussed, one of which was
the pleasant possibility of the presence
OF our national president, Mrs. Lillian
NJ. N. Stevens and vice pres dent,
Miss Anna A. Gordon.
Mrs. Caulk visited Hookessin March
9th, and was much pleased with the
W. y. 4. Y. boardinghouse there, 10
which meeting was held to greet her.
In the evening parlor meeting WINS
held In Marshallton, at the hone OF
tho president of the union, Mrs A. j.
Guest, Tbs attendance OF number OF
gentlemen at this meeting was quite
encouraging. Mrs. Caulk made an
address, as Is her custom at each
meeting.
The ouunty conventions will he held
the third week OF April, and Mrs. Ella
A. Boole of New York will probably be
the speaker at each evening meeting.
The annual reception Of the Smyrna
W. O. 4. u, which was held Monday
evening, March 18th, was regarded as
a decided social success. Miss Eba
Foster, daughter of Bishop FOSTER
one OF the number in whose honor the
reception was held, is personal
friend OF Miss Anna A. Gordon.
The Smyrna Union has sent 80 COM
fort bags to our soldiers in Manila. An
effort will, 1t liz thought, BIZ made to
have work for soldiers and sailors
adopted as w. O. T.. u. department
Of work by the State convention.
The Rev. Charles A. Hill, the
severance of whose pastorate Of the
Asbury NJ. e. Church of Smyrna Is
much regretted, recently preached
SERIES of three strong temperance
sermons to his congregation there.
The Union Signal appeared last week
in "a new spring. dress.
March Goth, the anniversary of the
birth of Gen Neal Dow, will be OBJ
served as Prohibition Day. by many
temperance organizations throughout
the world.
We quote the following from an
editorial IN the Union Signal OF March
| 7th, entitled What of the Night?n
Judged by the seed aown and the
harvest reaped, the last year compares
favorably with any snat have preceded.
| 1t has seen an increase in our own
membership of nearly 80, 600 women, and
the work OF all our departments has
been steadily and successfully pushed.
Through the public schools, the Sunday
schools, Loyal Temperance Legions and
by medal contests, more children, not
to mention grown people, were in
structed in the doctrines of total
| abstinence and prohit ition than ever
before. Decided advance 10 the senti-
ment of physicians against the use of
! alcohol in medicine is manifested.
prof. Atwater's attempt to prove
that alcohol is food, has but sci yed
to call forth most emphatic statements
from other scientists, all of them his
equals and some Of them his aclxnowl-
edged superiors, controreIting his
statements and denying his con-
illusions.
but the most brilliant victories
which the temperance hosts have scored
the last year have been the Legislative
victories Among these was the defeat
by instant and insistent petitions OF
one project before 1t was fairly Matched,
to repeal the prohibitory law of Indian
territory. An effort to repeal Vermont
prohicitory law was likewise defeated
Il by reams Of petitions, and last but by
no means least public opinion wrested
from Congress another anti .canteen
bill which no juggler with words will
presume to twist into meaning the
exact opposite Of what its authors in.
tended it to mean.
Nor is il the victories themselves,
great as they are, which give the
greatest cause for rejoicing. 1t is the
proof they give of an aroused public
opinion. It was avowedly in deleienct
TO an iinperious public sentiment thai
both House and Senate carried The
Bowersock bill. The rising temper
anoe tide is also manifested in the
i crusade now being waged by Mrs
Nation.
S'The W. @. t. U. is a law.abidin,
body. 1t believes that more harm thai
, good must always result from lawles
J methods. 1t cannot, therefore, endors,
/ Mrs. Nations methods much as j
: Hympathize9 with her objeat. But we
i do rejoice at the evidence her crusade
3 affords that temperance sentiment il
: growing. The daily press, which ha
' never ventuTed to antagonize the liquo
traffic, does not wholly condemn Mrs
{ Nation, but acknowledges that she h,
: severe provocation both from the ruiz
g wrought. by the saloons and from tn
: fact that they themselves are alway
Q law detiers. LII looks moreover a
9 though Kansas temperance sontimen
was being aroused to the point wher
it will not only pass, but enforce pro
bibitory laws.
.'po make nuhlio sentinant n aaorr