The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-01-16

| MRS. LOUISA ANTHoINE, Secretary,
| t MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer.
The Bishop of London Church
OF England) is a total abstainer.
Count Leo Tolstoi, Jr., is an
enthusiastic teetotaler and blue rib
boner.
Prince Edwards Island came
under total prohibition control on
June 5.
1t is said that in Switzerland
every tenth death is caused by ex-
cessive drinking. -.
An official report says there are
now $50 lincensed saloons in Ma
nilla. Shame on US!
Pomona College, CAL, offered
two cash prizes this year for the
best temperance orations.
Over 200 Dallas (Texas) saloons
were raided on a recent Sunday for
violation of the Sunday law.
Forty-two persons have been
killed at the Quarter House saloon
IN marlborough, KY, in the last
ten years.
The Loyal Temperance Legion
has $50, 900 members; the Womans'
Christian Temperance Union, 3OO,-
600; the Y's 100000.
Of thirty-nine cases of wife-beat-
ing before the October grand jury
in Philadelphia, every one was due
to the husbands drinking.
In one month the prisoners in
the Portland (Me.) jail, under the
Prohibition party Sheriff Pearson,
decreased from 149 to- So.
The Union Traction Co., which
controls all the street railways of
Philadelphia, and has capital of
$50, 900, 900 prevents the issuance
OF licenses to saloons near it's barns.
Atchison, Kan, points with
pride to the fact that a local saloon
keeper closed his place the other
day because he could not make any
money, and returned to his home
IN Missouri.
In Germany $4,000 persons are
annually treated for delirium tre-
mems, and one-fourth of the entire
number Of cases Of lunacy in Ger
many are directly traceable to
alcoholic liquor.
What enlightened America for
well nigh thirty years has persist
emily refused to do, autocrafic Rus
sla has done, viz, appointed a
commission to inquire into the
effects of alcoholic liquors.
Leavenworth, Kan, has multi
fed her State law and licensed 12O
saloons. Notwithstanding the reve-
nue. from this source, she is in a
financially bankrupt condition.
Treason is never profitable.
Bishop Hartzell of the Metho-
dist church, thinks seventy-fve per
cent. of the decentralization of native
Africans comes from drunkenness.
Morris, who has travelled largely
in Africa, estimates that 2,OOO,-
600 of the savages 60 forth to die
every year as result of the
traffic.
There was no canteen in connec-
ton with the annual encampment
of the State militia of West Vir-
ginia this year. the owner of the
camp site refusing to lease it except
upon that condition.
The Chicago City Council has
passed law abolishing the private
wine-rooms attached to saloons and
restaurants. 1t does away with a
vast amount of deviltry, and the
liquor men are CORRESPONDENCE
mad.
The managers of the South Caro-
lima Dlspensary will establish eli ght
dispensaries on the grounds of the
Charleston Exposition next year.
This is the system which was to
restrict liquor selling and lessen
the temptations to drink!
At the recent w. G. T. U. Con-
vention, when the original Crusa-
ders were asked to stand, thirty
six arose, showing that there still
remains large part of the divine
leaven which first leavened the
whole lump of Christian temper.
ance.
Iowa gave 9 5S3 votes for Mr..
Woolly, prohibition candidate for
president last November. In the
recent election, because of the I'M
satisfactory character of the Repub-
lican nominee for governor, she