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'Rum and Rjrin Social Function of Anti-Saloon League. The Anti-Saloon League recently organized in West Point, Ga., has given a delightful social function. An excellent program was rendered, worthy of reproduction here, but lack of space pre vents giving such as we should like to do. We must, however, give the response of Miss Suejette Lanier to the toast: “Our Young Men,” as pub lished in the current issue of the West Point News. It is as follows: “Our Young Men.” “I am glad that I may ‘toast’ the young men, the hope and stay of the future. I say ‘the future’ for as yet you are passing through the moulding process, and I feel greatly privileged to be allowed to express just here and at this most opportune time, not only my wish but my hope and expecta tion concerning you. “This is the time, young men, as both consider ing your years and the epoch of your city’s stand, to look with diligence as to the pattern of your mould and to see that the forming of your lives, which are poured into the mould, are making for the things that are best. “You wish to be strong, that’s good! To be come strong, the soul must needs fight something, overcome something. “It cannot gain muscle on a bed of eider-down. “Reality is only realized by tests. What do you know of a ship on a still day? Os a soldier on dress parade? Os a surgeon at his dinner table? But give the ship a whirlwind, the soldier a forlorn hope, the surgeon a swift opportunity, when friends are breathless and then what they are worth comes out. “There are times when, to prove themselves, the ship must wait for a whirl-wind, the soldier for his forlorn hope, the surgeon for his swift oppor tunity when friends are breathless. “But you, young men, I am persuaded have your opportunity waiting for you. Grasp it now and prove yourselves that you and we may realize what you are worth. For your building of the future you are using the present as a foundation. Let this foundation be soberness and temperance in all things. “Your lives that are in the mould now, are the lives that will very shortly be directing the affairs of state. Do you not then owe to those whom you are to direct, to all who look to you for the shap ing of these affairs, that your lives should be form ed after a most upright and perfect model? “I have just spoken of your municipal opportuni ties and obligations. “There comes to each of you personally test af ter test. I cannot tell you what these tests are, but I can say to you fight and overcome them and thereby become strong. Solomon, who asked wis dom of God and who was given the greatest wis dom of the age, stands ready to counsel you con cerning this question which agitates us now and in whose interest we are here tonight. He gives ad vice as to the only wise attitude toward wine, say ing: ‘Look not thou upon the wine cup.’ This is to tal abstinence with a vengeance. Not only ‘don’t taste,’ but ‘don’t look.’ This is good advice, in spired advice. If a thing ought to be left alone, leave it alone utterly. “If this advice will be followed by all our young men, at no far distant time the Anti-Saloon League will cease to be, having accomplished its great and good work. “Young men,, will you not take this stand? “You are the great hope of a great future. “I believe in you and for this reason I ‘toast’ you this evening.” M. Ronsseliere, the premier opera singer of Paris, will soon start on a tour of the United States at a guaranteed salary of $1,500 a night. It is but a few years ago this singer now commanding princely sums, was working in a factory at 60 cents a day, as a blacksmith in Algiers. The Golden Age for April 12, 1906. A Touching Incident. I have read of a town meeting in Pennsylvania where the question of license was to be decided, writes a correspondent of the Herald and Presby ter. As the question was about to be put, there arose from one corner of the room a miserable fe male, wrinkled and gaunt, and stretching out her arms, in a shrill voice she cried: “Look upon me. You all know me, or once did. You all know I was once the mistress of the best farm in the township. You all know, too, I had one of the best—the most devoted of husbands. You all know how I had five noble-hearted industrious boys. Where are they now? Doctor, where are they now? You all know. You all know they lie in a row side by side, in yon der churchyard; all—everyone of them filling a drunkard’s grave! They were all taught to be lieve that temperate drinking was safe—excess alone ought to be avoided; and they never acknowl edged excess. But I saw the gradual change com ing over my family and prospects with dismay and horror, I felt we were all to be overwhelmed in one common ruin. I tried to ward off the blow. I tried to break the spell—the delusive spell—in which the idea of the benefits of temperate drinking had involved husband and sons. I begged, I prayed; but the odds were against me.” And with her arms flung high and her tall form stretched to its ut most, and her voice raised to an unearthly pitch, she exclaimed: “I shall soon stand before the judgment seat of God—l shall meet you there, you false guides, and be a witness against you all!” She spoke and finished. But when the chairman put the question, “shall any license be granted for the sale of spirituous liquors?” the response was unanimous—“No! ’ ’ —The Messenger. The American Boycott. *S*. C. Todd, Macao, China. Something new has happened in old China. None would have thought her heterogeneous, discordant, unpatriotic people could have moved as one man. Japan could do so, but China—never! And yet the seemingly impossible has happened, and the nations of the world have been brought aface an other power to be reckoned with in the future. China galling under indignities heaped upon her gentry and sons of wealth by American immigra tion officials, has arisen and said to the Republic of the West: “Respect us or keep your goods!” Newspapers at first passed it lightly with a smile, but as the months have passed a mighty tremor has been felt up and down the Empire. In the most systematic way a thorough campaign has been con ducted against things “American,” and the “American Boycott” is now a well established phrase in the language of the people. It is said the movement was launched in Shang hai, but active propagandists have carried it from Manchuria to Siam, and instilled it into the Chin ese far and wide. Canton, Macao and Honkong, with their contiguous territories, have for months been centers of the excitement. A Canton commit tee with boycott headquarters has touched the Ce lestials in all parts of the earth. Chinese residing in America, Australia, the Philippine Islands, Ja pan and the Malay Straits have sent contributions by the thousands. In Canton and other large centers store rooms have been fitted up with samples of American wares so that the people might be educated and made able to distinguish things American. Daily news papers have been especially launched to forward the movement. Pictures of American atrocities on the Chinese have been scattered far and wide, in flaming the people. Bad women have heralded in formation concerning it by their songs on the streets at night. The stage has loaned its help and actors have woven it into the play. Troupes have been employed to go into the interior and make the movement the prominent part of their perform ance. In Canton a special caste has been gotten up and characters have personified leading griev ances speaking in the common language of the peo ple, that all may understand. There has also been the funny side. Here is a barber who refuses to shave Americans; a beggar throws away a coat that has just been given him, as an accursed thing, because some one says it is American. At the Honkong Navy Yards a man is put to work repairing a diving suit, and when the tube of cement is handed to him he passes it back saying, “No can, b’long Amlican.” A Canton con tractor quits a piece of work entailing a loss of sev eral thousand dollars to himself because he finds the contract is financed by American money, and his co-patriots promptly make good his loss. “Flow er Boats,” which are the houses of ill-fame in Can ton, throw all their “Florida Water” into the river, which others might do to the improvement of the odor from that dirty and busy stream. During 'September the Chinese annually worship the moon, a special night being set apart for this. At this festival large quantities of cakes, known as “Moon Cakes,” are used. These are manufac tured months ahead and many shipped to other lands to the Chinese residing there. This year these shipments were returned, because American flour was used in their manufacture, while the de votees here used substitutes, all to the loss of the Moon Cake bakers. Had Solomon lived in China he might have said, as truly as he did of books, “of the making of idols there is no end.” A wealthy Shanghai merchant became so wrought up over the indignities heaped upon his country men that he was driven to suicide. This constitu ted him a hero, and being deceased he came within the circle of deity, and now his worship has been established in Macao, Canton, Wuchow and other places. Thus the American Boycott is responsible for another idol, which will be handed down to fu ture generations, as well as worshipped by the present. What have these highly wrought feelings accom plished? Ask the American dealer. Recently the manager of a leading firm; who has branches in a number of interior and coast cities; said to me: “Business is practically nothing.” Before the movement began their trade had reached a highly profitable condition. Similar testimonials could be given by many. American trade had reached a splendid growth, but now it is threatened with such a back-set that years will he required to win it back, German and British firms meanwhile reaping the benefit. But the more serious feature is the grave risk that attaches to the foreigner’s life. It is an easy step from foreign goods to inflicting bodily harm on foreign persons. The American Consul in Can ton, realizing the danger, has called all the mission aries who are laboring in the interior to come into the treaty ports.. We feel perfectly safe here in Macao, as this city is governed by the Portuguese, while Honkong being a British Colony, there is equal safety there. But in the interior in many places things are far from being in a peaceful state. If the American Senate does not remove all. hnrriers in the immigration regulations which have hitherto been so objectionable to the better class of Chinese, which have put them on a par with the coolie class, there will he serious trouble ahead. Tt is time for God’s reorfle to pray earnestly to Him who can guide the affairs of individuals and nations alike, and who can bring order out of this chaos, to make this lead to an even wider door for the gospel of Mercy and Peace. Tots Win Suit. “Tots Win a Liquor Suit.” Under this heading the Chicago Record-Herald publishes in detail a re markable verdict rendered in Judge Tuthill’s court against several saloon keepers charged with having made a father and wage earner into a drunkard. The facts, briefly stated, are these: The children of John Hedlund came under the nurview of the juvenile court about three years ago because of a drunken father and a mother unable to children too young to help themselves. When the case in question was brought before the court the jury, consisting of wage earners, more than half of whom were apparently of foreign de scent, promptly returned a verdict of “guilty,” the damages being fixed at $17,500. 13