W. C. T. U.

Edlted by Mrs. A. E. Van Valkenburg. Press Superintendent. W. C. T. U. meeting this afternoon in the parlors of the Presbyterian church. The saloons were very strietly watch ed in New Vork, August 25th, and thoro was but little violation of the Sunday lavv. The whiskey trust has been reorganized under the name of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company, with capital stock of thirty-tive million dollars. Air. Berry, an ex-hangman of London, England, is now locturing on his former gruesome craft. He says that he has condueted over flve hundred executions, but has never hanged a tetotaler. The Denver hotel explosión in which twenty or more persons met a horrible death is another calamity for which the liquor traffic is directly responsible. The drunken engineer, the drunkard maker and the man who makes drunkards- making a legitímate business, must be held equally responsible for the Gumry hotel holocaust. Truly, the drink evil never Iets anybody alone. Tadzn Sugiye is a Japanese young woman, for three years a student at Wellesley college, who is now teaching at Osaka, in a Christian school for girls. She has three classes in Chinese literature, two in English, one in the history of Japanese literature, and one in botany, besides correcting Japanese composition of all the classes, and giving a lecture each week on Japanese rhetorie. In addition to all this she is president of a florishing W. C. T. U. and gives lessons in "Yankee Cookery." Dr. N. S. Davis, at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, held in Baltimore, read a paper on "Does Alcohol ever Act as Food, as a Generator of any Natural Forcé in the Living Body?" in which he stated, that while men had been kept alive forty or tifty days on water, he had found no casei although he had sought diligently whcre men had been kept alive half that time on diluted alcohol. "Vital forcé, heat forcé, motor forcé, nerve forcé and muscular forces are all iinpaired," said he, "by the influenco of doses of alcohol." WHAT IT COSTS. During the past two years a great deal das boon said about "hard times." Last winter the poor of our cities vvero in want and suffering while the sympathies and purses alike of the more fortúnate ones were taxed to the utmost to relieve oven in asmall degreethe great needs. The financial depression reached to village and hamlet; and it seemed that tfaere was litorally no money in the United State3. Under these circumstances it was startling to read the follovving offioial statement: "The drink bill of the United States in one year is nine hundred million dollars!" Think of that: nine hundred millions. Not the dollars of the wealthy classes alone, but of the "poor working man"' - many of whom are and have been for monthsoutof employment. It is enough money to have kept all the idle factorios running - enough tosupply allof the dcstituto men, women and children with the necessities and many of the luxuries of life. It is more than is paid for bread, shoes and stockinsrs. public schools, sugar and molasses. olergymcn's salaries, homos and foreign missions eombined ! If you should lay these standard silver doliera on the ground, edgo down, you would have three rowa reaehing from Buftalo to Chicago. Or if pilod one above another, they would make a column which would reach ltiOO miles into the air; more than two hundred and lifty timos higher than the highest mountain peak of the world. Twenty-cight thousand, two hundred and ninety-three tiines higher than the dizzy heights to whieh the Ferris wheel oarried its many pasaengers. What el se besidcs 'this terrible waste does this $900,000,000 spent for liquor moan? Just this, that evory year it setids 60,000 people to drunkard's graves, and 200,000 more to the poorJOUSf!. What a waste of Ufe! What a squandering of manhood, too, these figures epresent. It is said it requiros two nillion boys from eaeh goneration to ceep the saloons running or one boy rom every thre i families. In the face of sueh Btafcistiea aad faets talmost seems as thougli thore were no emedy for the ovü. Yet the subject of temporáneo is galaing ground, surely if slowly. Public sentimjnt is jeing aroused, children aro being educated to workand liglit agaiast it, and to win the ohildren to the cause of temperance is to save the world from inremperance. Are you doing all you can to help?