Temperance And The Home

The Loyal Temperance Legión meets exery Saturday at 2 o'clock, in the hall over Calkin's store, on State st. Every boy and girl in the city is invited to the meetings. The annual meeting of the W. C. T. U. occurs tomorrow, at 2:30 p. m., in ths Y. W. C. A. rooms in the P. O. block. The exercises will consist of brief addresses and annual reporta of officers and superintendents, to be followed by a social hour. Light reireshments will be served. The 20th annual convention of the W, C. T. U. of the 2d congressional district, will be held in this city, April 14-16, in the Baptist church. Miss Willard was expected to address the meeting, but the cali for help from Lady Henry Somerset was so imperative that she will soon go to England. Miss Bessie Ackerman, one of the most successful of the "Round the World Missionaries " of tha W. C. T. U., will take Miss Willard's place. She is a charming speaker, and will doabtless ialk of her travels. She recently gave the follewing statistics in a report of her two trips around the world : ' Years traveled 7, miles traveled 259,000, cities visited 610, day schools visited 200, Loval Temperance Legions visited 183, entertained in homes 1,886, addresses 560, lectures 976, meetings held 1,717, pulpits filled 210, saloons visited 1,910, new members for the W. C. T. U. 9,986, pledges-men 21,840, Unions formed-iocal 260, national 2, colonial 2, Sunday schools visited 225, money spent in the work $11,876, postage $1.260, interviewed by leading papers 67, photographed 84, slept in beds, in homes, tents, steamers. hammocks 2,003, sent out newspaper articles on the work 480, sent out tracts 100,000, sent out mBnuels 3,000, sent out circular letters 2,000, traveled on steamers 69, written letters 6,040, spoken on steamers and vessels 41, interpreters 175, languages 37, presented to 2 kings, 10 Asiatic princes, 2 sultans, 3 premiers, 2 rajahs, 2 ïnaharajahs, 1 emperor and empresa, 2 queens 2 governors, and was a member of 10 deputationa to different parliaments, traveled by mule, horse, camel, elephant, canoe, steamer, sailing vessel. skiff, junk, cable car, electric car, horse car, stage, carriage, ekka, tonga, jenirickshaw, buffalo, bullock, camel cart, sedan chair, wheelbarrow." A GLASS OF GIN. Robert J. Burdette says : " My homeless friend with the chromatic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash down with it. You may say you have longed for years for the free, independent life of a farmer, but you have never been able to get money enough to buy a farm. But there is where you are mistaken. For some years you have been drinking a good, improved farm at the rate of 100 square feet at a gulp. If you donbt the statement figure it for yourself . An acre of land contains 42,560 feet. Estimating for convenience, the land at $43.56 an acre, you will see that ït brings the land to just one mili per square foot. Now pour down the firey dose and imagine you are swallowing a strawberry patch. Uall in five of your friends and have them help you gulp down that 500 foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day and see how long it will take to swallow a pasture. Put down that glass ofgin; there is dirt in it - 100 feet of good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 per acre."