Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

W. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

"For God, and home and native land.” —Francis E. , Willard. I % I [Contributed by Mary E. Raich, Bupt. Pres I Department C. TD , Frankfort. Ind.J |U [mi, ,'i. 1 1 ' I" »J.<l 0'.'.l Temperance barbecues are the order of the day in Tennessee. There are now 628 drinking fountains | atd 665 drinking troughs in London. A majority, and not a two thirds vote, is to carry the prohibition t amendment in -Tennessee. The W. C. T. U. of East London, Eugr land; employsa lady to visit those who sign the pledge, and to attend the police | courts. The testimonies of a number of distinguislied physicians of England are, that in cases of fever they lost twentythree per cent, when alcohol was used, | .and only five per cent, where it, is not I Hr„ Itls rather a startling fact that the poorest country in the world should ‘ epend annually $53,240,000 upon an ab- | solutely unproductive luxury. Yet that is the amount of the annual drink P bill of Ireland. I it* The New Hampshire Legislature, to I their discredit be it stated, decline to raise the age of protection for girlb from t ten years to twelve. The judiciary com- ' mittee, however, has reported favorably t on woman suffrage. The health department of? the Vermont \V. C. T. U. intends to issue a calendar for 1888,giving a bill of fare for each day in the year, with recipes for preparing the food, sanitary rules and appropriate proverbs. “It is‘stated,” so says the Glascow R Reformer, “that the Count of Flanders, I heir to the Belgium throne, is interest- |\ ing himself in the temperance movement, I the condition of things in that country, | through drink, being very deplorable.” I Three or four young men who preI: sented themselves before the Board of : Examiners at Westfield, Mass., as applij| cants for the vacant cadetship at West |jt Point, lost all chances of success, even if ft> their examination had been otherwise ; satisfactory, by reason of cigarette or K, cigar smoking. Some of these had what £ is called “tobacco hearts.” i, There were 1,000 aDstainers in the y Highland Brigade in Egypt, -and when B- the Highland Light Infantry left Cairo [ there was not a single drunken man in If the ranks —a state of matters that rarely K occurs pn the departure of a British i regiment. R Ventura, California, sends cordial inli dorsement of Col. Woodford, who reI cently held a series of meetings under |l the auspices es the W. C. T. TJ. The I ladies were so pleased with the good L work accomplished that they have enI gaged him again for this fall. ■ Probably the largest temperance gath- | ering ever held convened in Crystal 1 Palace, London, in July, the occasion ■ being the. National Temperance Fete, E arranged by the order of Good Templars. P There were 32,353 persons in attendance, I and the great meeting was in every R particular a marked success. K : Cardinel Manning says that when a ■ ' public house is set a court or I street in Loxulon, the character of the 1/ street is changed. The workingmen’s n wives often times cannot go outside II their own doors without witnessing u sights at which they must be horrified, If and yet the rate-pavers are helpless. ■ The Swiss Government, having ac- ■ quired, by popular vote, a monopoly of 1 i the spirit traded the federal authorities H have completed the purchase of alcohol I sufficient to cover the consumption of ■ the country for twelve months. It re- ■ mains to be seen whether this experi- ■ ment of the Swiss Government reduces ■ drunkeness. B. The claim that the use of beer will ■ diminish drunkeness and largely take I the place of spirits is not borne out by B Parliamentary report in Belgium. This ■ '.report says intemperance is spreading ■ vfearfully in the kingdom. Next to Bar. K varia, Belgium has the reputation of beE ing the country where mo3t beer is K consumed, the amount per year being B 240 liters, or over fifty-two gallons per ■ head. It also comes next to Russia and B Denmark in the consumption of spirits; B the amount consumed of the latter be- ■ ing thirteen liteis per head a year. 1 B In Sweden and Norway no intoxicant B can he sold except at a place where good B food, coffee % and other non-alcoholic B drinks are also kept constantly on band. B The dealer is allowed to make a profit Bon these,but be is stringently prohibited B from selling any Honor except at cost. ■»The idea is that dealers will thus proR mote the sale of edibles and non-intoxi- ■ . K : B eating drinks, upon which he does make B a profit, and discourage buyers from B drinking liquors upon which he makes B none. It is called the “Gothemburg ■ System.” from the town iu which it was B first put into operation. B Gov. Bodwe'il has forwarded a letter B of advice and instruction to the county B attorneys and sheriffs of Maine, in whicli ■ he states that the “people of Maine are B fully committetHo a rigid and impartial

enforcement of the law, the suppression of tippling Bhops and drinking houses,” etc., and invites their attention to Section 61, Chapter 27, of the Revised Statutes, touching thhir duties ifi these Cases. Gov. Bod well asks them to observe that the provisions of this law are explicit and-mandatory. He also expresses the hope that there shall be no just cause of complaint in this respect in the county of each county attorney addressed.