ess and enjoy his
friends and the sweets of home life.

"But we cannot doubt that he would be a great leader in the struggle
for right against wrong in every form. From his childhood, he loved
truth and honesty. He was a deep and careful student. He worked hard
at his duties as a surveyor of the wilderness and then came the call
from Governor Dinwiddie to carry a message to the French over hundreds
of miles of unknown land, in the dead of winter. It was the most
perilous undertaking ever entrusted to any man in the new land of
America up to that time, but he met the task manfully. It was such
victories as these in his youth that made him the Father of His
Country. It is the meeting of our own problems in the same spirit that
means our own success in life.

"If Washington lived today, his career would be vastly different from
what it was, yet he would have made his place, and the world would
have been eminently better for his work. Let us study to apply to our
own lives the principles which made Washington truly great."

[In closing, restore the outer sheet to its first position, thus
presenting the original portrait. It may be necessary to fasten it
down with a thumb-tack.]

EVOLUTION OF THE JUG
--Temperance Day
--Slavery

While Strong Drink Makes "Poverty and Rags," the Pure Life Brings
Earthly Prosperity.

THE LESSON--That intemperance is the chief cause of the world's
poverty and misery.

This talk deals especially with the point that the use of strong drink
consumes the income of the wage earner, unfits him for his work, and
brings suffering and want to himself and those dependent upon him.

~~The Talk.~~

[Illustration: Fig. 47]

"It is a common belief that slavery was wiped out of America by the
Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, sustained by the
victory of the union armies in the war of the rebellion. And so it was
as far as the negro is concerned; but there is in America today
another form of slavery which no clash of arms can eradicate, and this
is the picture of the slaveholder: [Draw Fig. 47 complete.] The
'little brown jug,' which we use as a type of the saloon power, holds
millions of men and boys in its grasp, consuming their brains, their
bodies, and their money, and bringing misery and hopelessness to them
and to those who love them. From Europe comes many a cry of anguish,
showing that the same powerful slaveholder holds sway across the
ocean. Listen to the wor