Temperance And The Home

Ours is the great and sacred cause of the home versus the saloon. Should a saloon keeper in an honest liour, be called to testify to the real character of his work, he would doubtless say : "I do not deliberately desire to do harm, but I must keep my patronage recruited, because if I do this I ara sure to become a rich man after awhile. That is the reason why I am in the business. I must pay my tax out of soniebody's fireside, or somebody's eradle, or somebody's dearest and best friend. In order to succeed I must take away the little fellow from his motlier's side, bait for him with cigarettes and eider, ■ music, cards and young company, , ing him away gradually, until after a while I will change that boy 's ideas so greatly that he who loved the songs of home and sanctuary shall far better love that bacchanalian ditty of the saloon; he who used to breath God's name in prayer. shall liiss out that name in curses, and I will so change his face that his mother would not know him, and his soul that God would never recognize it." It is because of these things that womanhood has been aroused at last; to protect her children is the dearest and most sacred instinct of a woman'a heart. Do you recall the spleudid conduct of Conductor Bradley, whose lieoric story Whittier has made immortal? Rounding a curve, Conductor Bradley saw another train hearing down upon bis own wth awful speed. Bending to the brakes with might and main "he did his duty as a brave man should," but in the terrible colusión he was cru8hed and inangled with those whom he had tried to save. Taken from the wreek a short time after, the hero spoke no word about himself or friends, but murmured, brokenly, in dying anguish : "Put out the signáis for the other train." There is another century speeding toward us along the track of time? Don't you almost hear the rumble of the train? Can't you catch the distant whistle of that twentieth century Express coming along behind us at a more than lightning speed? We of the nineteenth have suffered pain and loss and almost ruin by the collision of our best oved with the grinding engine of the iquor trame. God grant that with deoted loyalty we may "put out the sigïals for the other train." LATB8T NEWS AND NOTICES. The annual meeting of the local anión occurs March 26. A class of fifteen seniora was organized in the Loyal Temperance I-egion last Saturday. Mrs. E. Pardon and Miss Anna Richards gave addresses at the Monroe oounty convention last week. The next national convention of the W. C. T. U. will be held in San Francisco, in October, 1896. Miss Willard and Miss Anna Gordon have been making a most successïul lecturing and organizing tour through the southern states. Lady Henry Somorset. president oí Great Britain's W. C. T. D. has vrritten an urgent letter to Miss Willard to return to England this spring t aid in the work tnere. Tlie Ioiva legi.slature adopted heavy penalties for the Bale of cigarettes and for maintaining opium dens. At Decatur, 111., the local Liquor Eealer's Association has boycotted the Wabash R'y Co., beca use its employés are kept out bf saloons. Miss Clara Barton is now in Turkey bravely earrying out the work planned by the Eed Croes Society. The twentieth annual convention of the "W. C. T. U. of th 2d district of Michigan, wlil meet in Ann Arbor, April 14, 15 and 16. Th eelection of senators by popular vote -tt-ill place the senate on a par with the house, amd will really créate two bodies tbat are exactly alike. The stable and Bedate senate, whlch lias herebofore been slow to bow to every craze that has ewept over the land, wül, under the new order of things, be inclined to act in conjunetion with the house on all public questioas. Instead of ■walting (or the sober, second thought. which always is the toast and safest, they will be amendable to popular waves, or fads. The fathers who builded this government of oure had great foresight and wisdom. They built welL They created the U. S. tenate for two purposes : One to Rive each state a eommon and equal interest in all legislation; another to provide against any sudden or foollsh clianges of sentiment. This last was secured in the marnier prescribed for the electian of its members, by the leglslatures of the various státes, and not by the people direct. The proposition now likely to pass congress and becomo a law, destroys a vferj' mportant safeguard. It is a dangerous thing to do. If the senate passes the Wil to make this change , it will be a step backward. By extraordinary exertions 118 new members have been added to the Y. W. C. A. of Ypsilanti within a few weeks. The 1ill pending in congress for the payrnent of all pensions wlth checks sent to the homes of pensioners, looks to be all light. The present system of compelling the pensioners to go or eend to some agency for it, discommodes a great niany and causes unneeessary expense. Besides, many who are addictedto drink oiten epend their pensione le!"ore they reach home and as a consequenee some saloon keeper gets the money thiit óhould go to the man's iamily. The ehange is desirable. Caspar AVhitney, tlu editor of the athletic department of llarper's Weekiy, is now giving the readers of that paper the impressions of liis visit west. He was In Ann Arbor atout two hours one day, and he had his brain with him, which is of such a eensitlve natore tiiat without the aid of an X ray, or even the light trom any of the members of the athletic association, thv entire athletic situation here was perfectly photographed upon it. From these "negatives" he is now printing the picture in the Weekiy. .Modern progress is wonderful. Heretoíore, in order to write undorstandingly about any inatter, it has been necessaiy to glve the subject some investlgation and researdi. Now, all that is required i.s to give a glance and the thing is done. J'iess the button, take a snap shot, and tlien teil the world all about it.