Far Away New Jersey.  Camden, N. J.—­“Mrs. Carry Nation:  Dear sister:—­When our New Jersey Prohibition Conference was held at Trenton February 14, we sent a telegram to you endorsing your work in Kansas, a prohibition State.  It was signed by our former candidate for governor, Rev. Thomas Landon, Rev. James Parker, a former state chairman, and myself, who offered the resolution.  Not having received an acknowledgement, I do not know that you received it; if so, will you kindly let me have a word from you to give to our State Convention that will be held May 7?  I wish New Jersey had either statutory or constitutional prohibition, there would be some smashing done here, too.  Yours for the extermination of the liquor traffic, D. W. GARRIGUES.”

What St. John thinks of my work in Kansas:  John P. St. John, who was governor of Kansas twice and once headed the National Prohibition ticket as candidate for President of the United States, warmly indorses the acts of Mrs. Nation in her crusade against the liquor traffic.  In a letter written to Judge W. J. Groo from Olathe, Kans., he likens her crusade to that of John Brown against slavery.  The letter was not written for publication, but Judge Groo secured permission to give it to the World.  It says:  “My dear Judge:  It was almost like grasping the hand of an old friend to receive your letter of the 31st ult.  Mrs. Nation is all right.  She is engaged in the very laudable business of abating what our statute declares to be a common nuisance.  She is not crazy, nor is she a crank, but she is, a sensible Christian woman and has the respect of our best people.  Her crusade is much like that of John Brown’s, and I hope and pray that it may terminate as disastrously to the liquor traffic as John Brown’s did to human slavery.  How much more in accord to Christianity it would be if our government would use its soldiers to protect our own homes in our own country, instead of sending them 8,000 miles away to destroy the homes of a people who wanted to be our friends and whose only offense is their love of human liberty, the same that actuated our Revolutionary fathers four generations ago.  Yes, the Leavenworth mob was an awful affair and a burning shame and disgrace to Kansas.  But it seems that under the reign of William of Canton the burning of negroes at the stake and the killing of Filippinos has become a very popular source of amusement.  Very truly your friend, John P. St. John.”

 Some of the results of the Mrs. Nation temperance crusade in Kansas. 
          (By Rev. H. A. Ott, in Lutheran Observer.)