style. Well, when you hear of some of these methods they seem hardly "sane and reasonable." It was re- ported that the passage of the prohibition law in Ala- bama was secured by a swarm of women taking pos- session of the capitol on the day the final vote was taken, entering the floor of the chamber, surrounding each legislator who was not in favor of the measure, 151 The Rule of "Not Too Much/' and cajoling, praying, crying, kneeling, wringing their hands, etc., until the men were coerced to vote for the bill. In the Delaware campaign, women marched bands of children through the streets, broke up open air meet- ings of the anti-local optionists with their noise, and finally, when the respectable voters went into halls, those bands went in there and by noise, cat-calls, etc., broke up those meetings also. If it is "sane and reasonable" thus to make rowdies of the children, I must confess that is a system of pedagogics with which I am not familiar. Centennial of the Beginning of the Organized Tem- perance Movement. (January I, 1908.) The present turn of the year bears more than or- dinary significance for the American brewer, and in