Dr.Wilder is very popular and figures largely in the social life of the community, but Dr.Wilder is a staunch opponent of alcohol, and through his influence wines at public dinners are always treated as extras.

So long as the liquor traffic is so extensively and profitably carried on in Europe and America, and so long as the consumption of alcohol is so enormous, so long will there be a difference of opinion as to its ill effects, but in this matter, by means of its State Prohibition Laws, America is setting an example to the world.

In no other country are there such extensive tracts without alcohol as the "Dry States" of America.

China, who is waging war on opium, recognizes in this fact a kindred, active moral force which is absent elsewhere, and, shaking hands with her sister republic across the seas, hopes that she will some day be as free of alcoholic poisons as China herself hopes to be of opium.

Every vice, however, has its defense.