W. C. T. U. Notes

The talk given by Miss Richards last Tnursday, was full of suggestion as to the work there is for young women to do. Many times it is found that the sentiment is strong against the saloon but the practice of using liquor ia a very comnioii oue, and thought to be nothing hannful. The habit acquired by drink is just a.s hannful, whetlier the act be performed iu your own house, or at the bar - it poisons the body and weakens the rnind in either case, and if taken at home, places temptation before the family, who having inlierited the weakness of the parent, are still less able to withstand or conquer the appetite, also nherited, they may have for liquor. There is uot even the trouble of going for it to perhaps de ter hini. What right has any man to bring sufferiug and nnhapiness upon those around him, simply to gratify his own foolish taste ? Begin to think of this selfishness before the habit has such a hold uon yon that you are too weak to control it. There will be a meeting of the W. C. T. ü. Thursday at 3 P. M., July 29th, at which a light refreshment program is prouiised. If the tariff bill had passed four weeks ago it would have been worth over a tliousand dollars to the berry interests of Ann Arbor. Several cars a day have been shipped to Detroit, to find a market glutted with Canadian berries, rpicked by cheaper labor and grown on land worth less than ours by one-half. That ruined the market and later pickings after payiug freight and commissions left nothing to the grower. A duty of one cent a quart is now imposed, which will go a good ways towards making up the advantage Canadian growers had in the Michigan markets. This is only one little product, yet it shows in how many ways Michigan gets hit by free trade, and what advantage protection will give. The gold deinocracy is flnding its ranks greatly streugthened now that it has entered upon active cainpaigns in all the States where there are to be elections this f all. Large numbers of men who unwillingly supported the Bryan ticket and platform last year are now falling in line with the gold democrats in an attenipt to secure true democracy and control of the body hearing that name.