W. C. T. U.

Edited by Mra A. E. Van V.dkunburi;. Press Superintendent. THF COUXTY FAIR. At the last meeting of the Woman's Christian Tempei-ance Union of Ann Arbor a committee was appointed to protest in the name of the organization against t.he sale of intoxieating liquors on the Fair Grounds during the coming fair. The program seems to have been arranged with care, and is evidcntly a good one, but surcly every thoughtfnl father and mother would prefer that tUeir boys and girls should be within the protecting walls of the school-houses of the county and that their sons and daughters who are grown should be elsewhere, than to have them witness such disgraoeful scènes as were enaeted last year through the sale of intoxicants on the Pair Grounds. Then, too, are we positive that our own dear boys, although so carefully taught and shielded, may not have inherited a taste, whieh will, if the curse is within such easy reach, and the air is heavy with its poisonous fumes, add them to the long list which sends 60,000 Vlctinu of this demon of intern, perance every year into drunkards' graves, in our own fair land. LET US HAVE A CLEAN FAIR. The last numoor of the Union Signal, the national organ of the W. C. T. U. la the "Fair Nutaber." It says, "We believe in fairs, and we believe in farmers. We believe that county fairs. when rightly eonducted are the most helpful and educative agencies which this generation has produced. But we long ago saw the (langer whifh this benefecent inatitution often permitted - the licensed bar, the lottery wheel, and the distribution of corrupt literatura, and we determined to counteract this baneful influence with a clean, pure paper, prepared especially for farmers and their famnishes. Ths ladies of tbe local W. C. T. U. have arrangedat considerable üx pense to distribute a large number of these papers, and other temperance iterature, at tbs coming fair. TURN ON THE LIGHT. The man whosays: "Ican carry more liquor than any other man in town, and yct keep a lvel heacV' gives by that claim an inventory of goods already badly damaged. For since alcohol is prc-ominently a brain poison, men of the most brain grow dizzy lirst, and Hottentols stand steady longest, while genius shrivelsunder drink like a snowwreath in the sun. The more complete a civil i.ation is doveloped, the more tal will it be that those who handle its fine meehanisra shall havo all their ovvn powera keyed up to concert piteh. The brain must think with lightning speed: the hand must be steadfast as stool; the pulse must beat strong, yet true, if a great commercial nation is to hold its own with the forees of chemistry, electrioity and invention now in the fioid. Miss Willard says : A while ago I visited the Atlantic Cable C'ompany's office at 'Sydney, Cape Breton Island, wherc many thousand of telegTaphie messages pass ovet the wires and under the sea each day. Mr. Wllliam Edward Earle, who was in charge, a tclegraph mon of thirty years experience Bhowed us about the place. "Thafs Berlin" he said, listening to one of the operators; that's London; that 's New York," in the midst of a metallic jargon that would havo set a norvous person wild. "Here is Wheatstones' automatic transmitter; thoroare the Western Union Standard quadruples (Edison'e); we send four messages now upon onc wiro at the same time. Here is tho automatie repeator : here the new method oí inculation; here aro eleven hnndred eells. constitutingour battery ; here are the ends of tho cable that start f rom Heart 's Content." "Mr. Karl, " we said, looking around upon the army of young men who were keeping up this fusilado by which distanee is demolished ; "how is it about the use of alcoholios'? Do you omploy moderate drinkers, as they are called? Swift and staccato carne the answrr: "Not at all: wc must have the brain at its clearest, the hand at its best. We can't afford to havo young men that drink." He wont on to say that he believed the temporáneo workers could hardly overestimate the value to the total abstinonco cause of the muitiplying modern inventions that put such a splendid premium upon testotalism. And he was rlgbt; the sure slow lift of tion's tidal wave is ivith us. lt is always better further on. Let us. then, rejoice and take cour age; the electrio lijfht iights against the Sisera of rum ; every witty invention, every intricate machine, every swift-moving engine hastens the Cominance of Him upon whose shoulder shall yet be a government, "into which shall enter nothing that deliloth, neithor whatsoever loveth and maketh a lie."