Our Messenger from Le Loup, Kansas • 6

6 OUR MESSENGER. by death of a sister, Mrs. D. D. Akin.

H. E. Akcrs, husband of the local presidenl at Elmdale, was promoted recently. lie wai postmaster and will be missed in both church and temperance work. Our hearts go out in sorrow to our bereaved sister.

gaining one hundred new members? Certainly we want to be "in it" at State Convention Benefit Night. Are you planning to send delegates to district and state conventions? Mrs. Carrie Hill. Hutchinson, still has state minutes to sell. You ought to send for one at once if you have not already done so, ycu need It.

Of course we will win two or three of the banners; that is, if we work for them, and I feel sure you are going to. Yours Trulj', LILLIAN MITCIINER. The Newton L. T. L.

celebrated Prohibition 'Day with an entertainment, a splendid program consisting of a short address, reading, drills, recitations and music. A good collection was received. The South Side W. C. T.

U. had it in charge and are doing a grand work for God SIXTH DISTRICT. By request of the Cawker Union the churches united for the celebration of Prohibition ray. Special music was prepared 'by tin choir and an appropriate recitation given Miss Crystal Kerns. The address of the even ing was given to Rev.

Darley, pastor Presby-terian Church. Theme "The Young Man anc Woman Broken to Pieces." The theme wa ably well rendered and well received. Lincoln county is preparing for an Institute, i i. i Several liquor cases are to be tried and the Sylvan Grove W. C.

T. U. propose to encourago the officers by their presence. (Mrs. Tracy reports the work in Philip? county in better shape than ever before.

The committee on reward for evidence met May 2nd to get ready for business. A very noticeable Within the last month two subscribers who wished their Messenger changed to another postoffice have written as follows: one to the W. T. P. at Chicago, one to Our Messenger at Nickerson.

Would it not be as easy to write to Le Loup? The sisters seem to have perfect confidence in the wisdom of the committee on banners, at least no suggestions yet received. So if they are the size of a postal card no one will have cause to complain. If we had not desired your assistance it would not have been requested. We call attention to advertisements of Prohibition buttons and Major's cement which appear for the first time this month. Mr.

Major is an earnest temperance worker and author of an interesting leaflet, "Are You Opposed to it?" In the leaflet we find this statement: The revenue derived from liquor traffic is only $1.00 to every $9.00 of the cost to the people. A good fact to remember. We want many more subscribers this month. If our paper makes a good showing at the end of the year it be by continuous work. Watch, every expired subscription and secure a renewal.

We will gladty give in-formiation at any time about the list in your town. Who will send in the longest list from each district this month. Some distiicts have no reason to be proud of the May list. All details as to the decorations, hymns sung, who prayed and the incidentals that are a part of every W. C.

T. U. meeting are always omitted if there is enough material left to make a xnd home and native land. Newton is rejoicing in a great victory; four jcintists in count jail, one a very prominent druggist who has been defying the temperance people for years. Newton is a "dry' own and the people mean to keep it so.

Huntsville celebrated Prohibition Day May feature of the spring convention was the presence and activity of the honorary members. A handsome subscription was started to prosecute violators of the law. 3. A fine program was given, attendance good, five new members secured. They are making preparation for a county convention and expect to have a good Itime.

Mrs. Carrie Nation, president of Barber county, is pushing the work -with success. They hold their County Institute June 12-13, in Medicine Lodge, talso expect to hold an Institute in Kiowa fore August. This is good news. May 1st Sharon celebrated the "anniver sary of prohibition Kansas.

An invitation was sent to the different unions of the county. Notwithstanding the prospect of rain, a goodly number gathered (at the church for moraine exercises. A number from Crystal Springs and ttica and twenty-five from Medicine Lodge were present. Kiowa friends were detained on account of the weather. Devotions, conducted by ministers; address of.

welcome, by Mrs. Sherk of Sharon; response, by Mrs. Nation of Medicine Lodge. The program consisted of short addresses, readings and music; the JUr. A.

L. Rankin has just visited severa towns in this vicinity Stockton, Downs, Cawker, Glen Elder and Beloit and has given new 'dfe to the work. At Beloit he added forty-five aames to the W. C. T.

U. and appointed committees to canvas town and country for more. Mr. Rankin is undoubtedly one of the strongest men that has ever been in the state, is both witty and eloquent and charms his hearers, while he drives home convincing truths. He Inspires the men from patriotic grounds to sustain the prohibitory law, and builds up the Unions wherever it is possible.

A reward of $50 has been offered in Cawker for evidence leading to the conviction of any one selling intoxicating liquors, or owning or renting a building where it is illegally sold or given away; also $100 for conviction of lamy witness who commits perjury; $100 for any one who by briberj menace or any other means attempts to induce a witness to commit perjury or absent himself or avoid subpoena, or to withhold evidence; $100 for any one who shall in 'any way tamper with a jury. Mrs. Goldsmith, president of' Smith county, has sent in (thirty-one subscriptions to Our Messenger and fourteen for the Union Signal. VVho will excel this? Beloit Union has adopted the plan of systematic giving, and Mrs-. tee re is collector.

She is also doing good work for the Messenger, M. E. IIEWETT. Mrs. Ilewett is also sending in many subscriptions.

Editor. decent showing. It is the meat of the nut we want, land not the color of the shell or a description of the tree it grew on. All manuscript from editorials to the most unimportant item is subject to the blue pencil. That is an unwritten law of the editorial office from time immemorilal.

An author has no control whatever over his manuscript after it has been accepted for publication. Of what use would editors be otherwise? We are all in school you know, and some daj's the lessons are wearisome, but if the work is well done at the close we must needs be content. The above is from a letter written by one music was especially fine. They adopted strong-resolutions. We wish we had room to print ihem, also a longer report of their splendid meeting.

The W. C. T. U. of Hutchinson held a rousing Memorial service Sunday evening, April 29, at First M.

E. Church, all the churches in the city uniting in the union meeting. The ministers had charge of the devotions. Short addresses, music and recitations were the order the meeting. The church is the largest in the city, and many who came could not get inside.

The meeting was a success in every way. Mrs. Hannah Williams, ai charter member pi the Pratt W. 0. T.

passed into the be-U-as a tireless worker in the M. E. Church, a ond April 16, 1900, at her home in Pratt. She jower in the W. C.

T. which cause she loved to well. Her three sons are ministers. She is dead, yet speaketh. Miss Rose Yeager 'died at the home of her sister, at Argonia, April 1, 1900.

She had been a faithful member of the Union for sixteen years and will be sorely missed. Her white ribbon was buried with her at her request. May Messenger waited until late for our usual grade of paper, then rather, than wait longer was printed on newspaper. We regretted the necessity. of the editors of the Union Signal.

It helped us, we share it with you. f- LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE. BY IDA C. CLOTHIER. I have been studying some of the causes for the following statement that we hear so often: "Our W.

C. T. U. does not have a place here in the public interest that it ought to have, and we find it a very difficult matter to 'awaken people to a sense of their responsibility or the feeling that the work of temperance reform rests upon their shoulders." I want to give you the result of my observation along one line, "seeing ourselves 'ithers see Can it be our own fault? Have we "lifted up a standard for the people?" Sometimes, in fact, we keep our standard rolled carefully up in paper and laid in a dark closet on the top shelf; and then fall to wondering why people do not admire the said standard SEVENTH DISTRICT. Dear Sisters: I am writing with that "fountain pen" and as my boy says, it is a "daisy!" I am so proud of it, and glad to have it for more reasons than one.

I thank you heartily for your loyalty to your state paper and your district president, and now let us push the work until the end of the year. Do you realize we have only three months left to finish this year's work? Have you done your share towards.