W. C. T. U.

Edlted by Mis A. E. Van Vdlken)jrg. Press Superintendent, This af tetnoon" at three o'clock the local V. C. T. U. meet in tl of the Presbyterian church. Sumlay evening, Aují. JS; Dr. Mary Wood-Alleu. national superintendent of "Social Purity," will lecture in this city under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. on some phase of her work. This leeture will be followed by a series of "Talks to Mothers," the time and place to be announced later. Mra. Jennie Vorohies, W. C. T. ü. state treasurer, whohas been attending the Hackley Park Assembly, and assisting in eonducting the W. C. T. U. School Methode, writes: "We are having good meetings. This is a eharming spot and sometime tbe crowds will turn this way.'' The Muskegon Daily Chronical say s : ' 'The western Chautauqua that is now in full sway at Hackly Park is becoming a Mecca towards which inany look for recreation and instrnction. Both of these blessings can be obtained there in abundance for""a' pittanca. Nature furnishes pure air, beautiful scenery, water and food and men and woman stand ready to instruct all corners. This wonderful place is becoming more popular each year. The preseDt attendence is larger than any previous season, and the program is full of splendid things." TOBACCO. Ohio Wesleyan Univeislty has declared against the use of tobacoo. Bezinning with the fall term all students will be asked to discontinue the use of tobáceo, or, as President Bashford states it, "We will have tod issolve partnership necessarily.'' The following is the result of an analysis of a cigarette, made recently by a physici&a. -'The tobaeeu was found to be strongly impreg-nated with opium, while the wrapper, which wa; warrented to be rice paper, was proved to be the most ordinary quality of paper whitened with arssenic. The two poisions combined rere pn in Bufflcient quanties to créate in the smoker a h a bit of using opium withou hia being aware of it, his oraviag for which 'can only be satisfied by an incessant cosumptkn of oigarett3." These facts would be enough to stop the manufacture of anything lees insiduous in its intiuence. THE DRUNKARD DIÜS HJS OWN ORAVE. 'neral Scott was in eommand at Rock Island when the cholera broke out there, and, after various injunstions in his order as to soberity and cleanliness, he added this curious paragraph, which was recently printed in the ".Magazine of American HiStory. " In addition to the foregoing, the senior surgeon 'present recommends the use of flannel underclothing, and woolen stockings; but the commandin;: general, who has seen much of disease, knows that it is intemperence which, in the present state of the atmosphere generates and spreads the calamity, and that when once spread, good and temerate men are likely to take infection. He therefore, peremptorily commands that every soldier or ranger who shall be found draak, or sensibly intoxicaed after the publication of this order be compelled, as. soon as his strenjrth will permit. to dig a grave ,at a suitablc burying place, large enough for his own reeeption, as such grave cannot fail ion to be wanted for the tfrunken man himself. This order is given as well to serve for the punishment of drunkenness as to spare good and températe men the labor of digging graves for thfiir worthless companions.