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W. C. T. U. Column

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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[ SUtTED BT MRS. ALI.IE LÜSÏ DICK, A. M. 1 A blue-eyed boy with golden hair, A lithesome form, a Dounding fctep, A rad ant face and wondrous fair, Pride of the man who voted wet. A blue eyed yonth with matted hatr. A rum marked face a reding step, A dungeon dark, and buried there. Hope of the man who voted wet. A forgotten mound wherethenightowlslau-jh, A sud unpressed by a Ungering step, A widow's curse for an eaitaph - End of the man who yoted wet. - K. J. Morgan. We leirn, throujjii the Union Signal, tbat„ "The committee appointed by the national conventi' n, Mrs. L. C. Hughes, of Arizona, chairman.called upon President Harrison and the secretary of war last week, to urge them to issue an order forbidding Ihe sale of beer and wines at military garrisons. They said tb at the government was not only licensing and encouraging beer and wine drinking, but was even corapelling commissioned officers of the army to be ' overseers of military saloons called canteen ;,' and thus giving a serablance of respectability. to beer drinking. 'They stated that under the present canteen tystem the consumption of beer had more than doubled, and declared that the military garrisona in the west were rapidly drifting into agencies for breweries, and the soldiers were acquiring intemperate habita which unfitted them for either military or civil pursuit.-.' " The Christian Advocate says of Miss Willard's address at the national W.C T. U. convention, recently held in Atlanta, Ga.: "The president's annual address, by Miss Willard, was an able and comprehensivo document, covering every department of the work. Portions of it were so tersely and eloquently expressed as to move the vast audience to prolonged cheers. After a tribute to the South and to her representative men and women, the various departments of the work were reviewed, showing her grasp of the many-sided work of this great organization. Commencing with the kindergarten department of their work, Miss Willard said : " Begin farther back, is the lesson of the hour. Beat not your knuckles against the granite of mature character, when you can mould the clay of the t reeyear-old's habit i.nd intention." The Grand Jury of Doddridge County (W. Virginia) has indicted the United States Express Company for bringing liquor, C. O. D. into that county. The company has notified its agents in the interior not to receive .any more packages of liquors C. O. D. The result is a bad blow to the "jug trains. " - The Voice. The next cnnvcntion of the National W. C. T. U. will Ns held inB)Ston, in November, 1891. " No political party can be permanently preserved in whisky." - Joseph Cook.

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