KANSAS, with prohibition and 100,000 more people than Texas, has but one penitentiary and 996 prisoners. Texas, with saloons and 100,000 less people than Kansas, has two penitentiaries and 3,000 convicts. The bank managers of Maine have just reported that, of the 661,000 people of that State, 146,666 have $59,278,452 deposited in the savings banks, so that prohibition cannot have ruined business. A glance at local option in operation in Illinois shows that the prohibition town of Pullman, with a population of 11,000, gets along admirably with a police force of but two constables in all. The Dakota Farmer says: “Notwithstanding the effort of the liquor dealers to the contrary, drunkenness has been almost wiped out; many a former moderate drinker has quit the habit, and, above all, a host of young men have started on a sober and industrious career, under three years’ influence of prohibition. The drink bill of the two Dakotas dropped off 70 per cent. the very first year, and has been growing materially less ever since, and no one has been made the poorer thereby but the saloon keepers, brewers, and distillers.”—Montreal Witness.