The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-02-21

49,. MRS. JENNIE WooDCoCK, Secretary,
MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer. -,
Lord Justice Denman of Eng
land, has recently given this levi-
dence against the drink: 'ssIntem-
perance is the greatest curse and
the most potent cause of misery
from which this nation suffers,
Twenty years of judicial life, and
forty-six of constant attendance in
the criminal courts as advocate or
judge, are enough to enable any
man to form an opinion as to the
extent of the mischief caused by
drunkenness. I am sure I speak
we'll within the mark when | say
that more than one-half were d.
rectly connected with excessive
drinking."
Only 81 abstainers were con-
victed by court martial last year in
India, as againit seventeen times
that number of non-abstainers, who
Co. were convicted, and yet the alb
stainers were a third of the whole
Indian army.
The good condition and good be-
havior of the troops in South At
RIGA is recognized as largely due to
the fact that they have had no
strong drink. General Kelly, G..
A. G. said lately to newsDaper
correspondent: ''This campaign
has been run entirely on teetotal
principles, and the experiment has
proved wonderfully successful
Union Signal.
When the police in Denmark
find a man helplessly drunk in the
streets they drive the patient
in cab to a station, where he So
bers off. Then they take him
home. The cabman makes his
charge, the police doctor makes
his, the agents make their claim
for special duty, and this bill is
presented to the landlord of the es-
tablishment where the drunkard
took the last of the drinks that
caused his intoxication. THE
RA77a's Horn.
Portland, Me-, Feb. Con Jan
uary first there were 149 prisoners
in the Cumberland county jail; this
morning there are 81, decrease
of So on one month Of Prohibition
in the hands of it's friends.
One of the speakers at the re-
cent Christian Endeavor conven-
ton here said that a man who had
been searching in vain for saloon
followed the Endeavors not know
ing who they were, and so drifted
into the church. Seeing the let
ters G. E. prominently displayed
behind the pulpit, he exclaimed:
That's right! Closed everywhere.
We do not know what is Mrs.
Nations favorite text, but this one
seems to fix her militant moods
exactly: and even now is the ak
laid unto the root of the trees;
every tree therefore that bringeth
not forth good fruit IS hewn down
and cast into the fire. She be-
lieves in taking up the AK with
her associates in reform, to hew
down, or ''smash'' the outlawed
sale of Intoxicating liquors in Kan
sas. 1t is upas tree of evil, and
even its advocates cannot show
that it brings forth good fruit.
1t is with great regret and some
surprise that we note the action of
the war department refusing the
offer Of Sergeant Buzzacott to do
nate a $4,000 canteen plant free,
to the government, provided they
would run it as respectable can
teen and not turn it into beer-hole
or boozing-pen. Notwithstanding
the department has made Il prac-
>tice Of accepting presents of cheap
fixtures from brewers and dive
keepers it officially announces that
it will not accept Sergeat Buzza-
colts offer of a system which &C
cording to Lord Roberts has
proven to have greatly benefited
tho soldiers Of tho R,;t;cb o,,,,,1-