Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-12-01

rooms IN SdlOOuS
The Illinois state committee has this year
raised nearly $4,000.
South Carolina Prohibitionists will hold
a state conference Jan. Z.
The South Dakota w. c. T.. U. now
numbers 1904 members. Five hundred new
ones were added this year.
Rev. ], w. Masters, a Christian minis
ter, has taken the field in Kentucky as a
Prohibition party organizer.
National Chairman Stewart addressed
big Christian citizenship rally at the Mary
land Christian Endeavor convention.
The Georgia Free Masons will expel
members who engage in the manufacture
or sale of liquors after joining lodge.
It was through the courtesy of the Mid
land Christian Advocate, Minneapolis tnat
we published Gen. Miles portrait last
month.
Those who have the American Prohibition
Year Book for 1901 will be glad to learn
that 1902 edition is promised early IN
January.
Miss Elizabeth Preston, president OF the
North Dakota w. C. T. u, was married
Dec. II to Rev. James Anderson, M. u.
nastor at Drayton, N. D. Much JOY!
"The Saloon Must Go" Pencil, advertised
in our columns, is made of good stun' ap-
peals to the love of the beautl1ui ana Deais
a stirring sentiment. Push II along
John G. Woolley, having reached Eng
land in his round the world tour, mas Deeh
sneaking there in aid Of the pending ma
+ional movement against intemperance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woolley sail for home Dec.
10.
Dr. Swallow announces in the Pennsyl-
vania Methodist that should he cease TO
edit that paper after April 1, 1902, he Will
edit q paper to be known either as the
American Methodist or Interdenominatlon-
al Reform.
Rev. II. II. Allen, with his steropticon'
,s reaching many points that have hereto
fore been neglected, and Is making many
friends for himself and the cause through
Faribault and Martin counties. He ex-
poets to cover the entire Second dlstr'c''
The brewers will ask congress for an
other tax reduction Of sixty cents a par
rel. The distillers want the tax on WHISKY
reduced from $1.1O to seventy cents gai-
lon. These reductions would save the beer
and whisky barons 100000 and S6O,oOO'-
600, respectively.
Rev. J, ]. Craig has been stirring the
towns and rural districts along the line OF
the Breckenridge division OF the Great
Northern road, most successfully. MI.
Craig is a born orator and adds to that
the culture Of a university and theological
training. He is a young man of much prom
Use.
John G. Woolley, who is now In Lon
don. will deliver his new lecture, my Own
Country" for the first time in Minneapo-
lis on Friday, January 10th. He will speak
in Duluth on the 18th, Fergus Falls on
Sunday, the 18th, Fairmont on Monday the
18th, and Vernon Center on Tuesday, the
18th.
N J. Johnson, veteran lecturer, Is en-
gagged by the State Committee for several
months to deliver illustrated prohibition lee
lures Mr.. johnson speaks either the Eng
lish or Norwegian language with equal hu-
ency, and has a fund Of information and a
readiness of diction which have given him
many return engagements at points he has
covered during the past twelve months.
The Privy Council of England, the high
est tribunal in the British Empire, has de-
eided that the law passed by the local leg
islature a year and a half ago prohibiting
the sale or manufacture of liquor within the
bounds of the province Of Manitoba is good
law and that the province has power to
enforce 1t. This is a bombshell to the liz
uor men, as this sort Of a decision was not
expected. The act will probably come In
force June 1. The people are strongly In
favor of 1t.
We have never seen a more beautiful
thing artistically than the cover Of the
1902 almanac of the Young Woman's Chris