Notwithstanding the efforts of people on the one hand to decrease the consumption of alcoholic liquors, efforts on the other hand, seem to increase. A speaker at a recent convention detailed his efforts to induce the inhabitants of the village of Cordelia in California, to abandon the use of tea, coffee, and other beverages, and substitute wine. He had been so successful that of the sixty heads of families composing the village the use of these items had been abandoned, and that he had sold to these people for use in their families the enormous amount of three hundred gallons of wine per month. The monthly profit on this transaction, to the wine company which the speaker represented was $90.