He brought it home in triumph, and in less than three months there was not an open dram shop or distillery in Portland! He invited me to visit him, and drove me over the city, whose pure air was not polluted with the faintest smell of alcohol.

It seemed like the first whiff of a temperance millennium.

An invitation was extended to him to a magnificent public meeting in Tripler Hall, New York.

At that meeting a large array of distinguished speakers, including General Houston, of Texas; the Hon.

Horace Mann, of Massachusetts; Henry Ward Beecher, Dr.
Chapin and several other celebrities, appeared.