According to Judge Guthrie's findings, the school rises upon the ashes of the saloon. Last week in charging the grand jury impaneled at Topeka to make special inquiry as to the enforcement of the prohibitory law, he said: "For nearly five years there has not been a saloon or any place where intoxicating liquors were openly sold or given away in this country. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested here in this city by strangers, on the conviction that public sentiment favored an honest, fair enforcement of the law prohibiting the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, and it is believed that these conditions have induced thousands of families to change their homes from sister States to this city and State, so that they might, with their children, escape the evil effects of the saloon. And these conditions and environments are inducing the friends and patrons of learning to establish, with magnificent endowments, colleges and schools in this and other cities of the State, and parents are sending their children from distant States to these colleges to be educated, with the expectation and hope that their children may enjoy the benefits of society, unpolluted with the baneful saloon."—Union Signal. Official reports of teachers in the Minneapolis schools show an alarming state of facts concerning cigarette smoking by children. In the North High School 200 out of the 300 boys smoke the cigarette, and 75 are confirmed in the habit. In the Winthrop School 20 per cent. of the boys smoke the paper poison roll, and some of the confirmed smokers are but six years of age. The Tribune of that city declares that the same conditions obtain in the remaining schools, and names one, the Webster, in which the official proof is that from 50 to 75 per cent. of the scholars use cigarettes, and the fact is that many female children have also acquired the habit. The parents in Minneapolis are seriously alarmed over this showing, and renewed efforts are to be made to enforce the law forbidding the sale of the article to minors. Minneapolis is probably no worse than Sacramento or any other California town or city. What, then, do parents imagine would be the result of a cigarette census among the children of this city?—Sacramento Union.