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Show Temperance iNbtesa PROSPERITY FOLLOWS. Thnt little business, no less thnn big business, Is bettered by prohibition Is shown by tho following story told by Dr. Uurvcy W Wiley: "It was Saturday afternoon In ono of the Interior counties of Arkansas. Hundreds of vehicles of all Hortu drawn by mules, most of which vero In good condition, were picketed around the public square. The great department Btorc, which my guide-owned, guide-owned, wns filled with colored people. , They were buying most liberally and jk wero extremely well-dressed nnd well- behaved. I was struck with their np-peuranco np-peuranco and prosperity and happiness, happi-ness, nnd I wns curious to know why It was that these people seemed bo much better of? than those I had seen In other localities. I asked the proprietor, pro-prietor, who wns freely giving credit to his customers, If he did not lose on ninny accounts. He replied: 'Never one.' 'How do you nccount for their prosperity? I usked. 'Strictly enforced en-forced prohibition,' wns his nnswer. 'If we were to permit the suloon to come Into this county again, It would wreck our prosperity; It would ruin my business and send this town buck 50 years.' " HE DOESN'T WANT DRINK. "Sober, rellablo and honest bartender bartend-er nooda work badly; can open oya-tors, oya-tors, make sandwiches, etc.; clean worker; don't drink; good roforoncs; small saloon preferred. K. 832 States." Tho abovo want nd appeared in a daily paper. Another paper thus comments: com-ments: "Don't drink!" Had that man boon advertising for a plnco in a fruit Btorc would ho have Bald, "don't eat fruit?" Had ho boen desirous of a place In a clothing Btoro would ho havo boasted, "don't wear clothes?" What a strango recommendation for a man to ofTor in his own behalf: "I'm Just tho man for tho place, for I don't uso the stuff you'll expect mc to recommend recom-mend to others." FIRST TO BE LAID OFF. Big business has taken n stand against tho mun. who drinks. This not because of nny particular Interest In the effects of alcohol on mind and body, scientifically considered, but because be-cause It finds thu nondrlnker the more trustworthy employee. Returns from employers of 750,000 men show thnt they forbid alcoholic liquors In their industrial plants. A largo corporation cor-poration recently discharged 30 employees em-ployees who signed an application for a liquor license. Another concern discharged dis-charged 08 men, and accompanying each dismissal notice was a kodak picture showing the employee entering a saloon. What about "personal liberty"? lib-erty"? ROOMS TO RENT. "FOU ItDNT Several rooms, largo nnd small; centrally located; plainly but durably furnished; elllclent attendance; at-tendance; meals free. Apply to Sheriff Sher-iff Pfost, Ada county Jail." In this fashion the Ilolso (Idaho) Statesmun announces that the county Jull Is without tenunts. For the first time In the history of tho county tho Jnll is empty, and over tho sheriffs of-lice of-lice rests nn oppressive hush. The rea-Bon rea-Bon : Lnst Jnnuury tho prohibition law went into effect In Idaho and almost simultaneously the criminal class began be-gan to decrease. CZAR'S WISE MANEUVER. This story Is told by tho Paris con respondent of tho Standard: A German general, takon prisoner, repeated at Potrograd tho following remarks of the kaiser: "I was cortaln of crushing the Russians when they wero freely given to drink, but now that thoy aro sober tho task Is much moro difficult! " And ho added In a melancholy tono, "Who on earth could havo foreseon tho nntU alcoholic coup d'etat perpetrated by Nicholas II?" WHEN IS A MAN DRUNK? Tho law against drunkenness la moro rigidly enforced in dry citiea thau In wot. In a wot town a mun Is not recorded ns intoxicated unless he is found clinging to n lump post or holding to tho grass to keep from falling fall-ing off tho earth, whereas In dry territory terri-tory inability to walk a straight lino or to seo a policeman a block awav la likely to land tho victim in Jail. r- UNION PACIFIC DRY. Throughout Its entlro length the Union Pacific railroad has barred tha boIo of liquor. No alcoholc bevcr-agos bevcr-agos will bo Bold in ita dlnora oven In wet territory. Tho systom comprise tho Union Pacific, tho O. W. It. & N. and tho Oregon Short lino. Tho states travorsed by theso linos aro Oregon, WaBhington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Wyo-ming and Nobraskn. " " ALWAYS BEEN DRY. A good many men who havo heretofore hereto-fore been neutral on tho saloon" ques-,(, Hon, are now going nhout saying',- '' "Why, I'vo always been dry." Soino f j i of theso diys, It will bo ns hard' to ' ?" find a man who will acknowledge that ' ho was over for the saloon us It In to find a man who will admit that ho wns a copperhead during the (Jlvll jg war. Kxclmnge. .. 1 SOMETHING PROHIBITED. 1 Kvory law In tho statute- bookw pro dibits something. n |