Correspondence of the Columbian Fountain.
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,la,e ALEXANDRIA, Nov. IL, 1916.


The progress of Temperance here is en-
couraging. On Friday evening last the
Sons and United Brothers Of Temperance,
(the former with banner and music,) attend
ed a public meeting in the Lyceum Hall,
where together with large auditory Of la
dies and gentlcmen) they were delighted,
amused and instructed, by the brilliant ora
tory Of DIR. Thomas Schneibly, of Hagers-
town, and the powerful argumentative reas-
oning of brother Howard Meeks, of Balti-
more. Such was the interest excited by
DR.. SIS thrilling narrative, and so marked
was the attention of the audience during his
correct description Of the drunkards career,
from the first advance towards crime, at a
fashionable dinner party, TO the last awful
scene Of murder and suicide, that the very
falling Of pin might have been heard
throughout the spacious hall l


DR.. s., Mr.. NJ, and the Rev. Mr.. Match
p. YsF III +. .


EFT, Of your city, will address the members
of Harmony division at the same place, to-
morrow evening. r 0
On Sunday afternoons, at 2 O'Clock, the
members Of the District Assembly of the
United Brothers Of Temperance, accom-
panied by delegation from Associations l,
2 and 3, arrived from Washington in the
steamer Phoenix, and were escorted by As
sociation No. q, and by number Of the
Sons of Temperance, without regalia, to
tho Market Square, where, after fine song
from the Washington choir, brother Robert
M. ,Larmour, president of No. a, introduced
to the audience brother Joseph Whipple, of
No. /, who entertained them for about half
an hour in an humorous and entertaining
description Of the private proceedings Of the
order at the conclusion of which another
ode was sung, and brother Jas. B. B. Will
son, Of No. 3, 3,although entirely unprepared,
delivered a most fervid and soul-stirrng ad-
dress. ) af3 aA a 4n@ gt


The pledge having been circulated, BROTH
er Joseph Walsh, Of No 3, was introduced,
and during the recital Of his experience,
which occupied nearly an hour, the audi
|ence were alternately made to shudder at
the prccipice of ruin from which he had