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Temperance Column

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Day
6
Month
December
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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The local unión hold tlieir next regular meeting' Thursday Dec, 12, at three o'clock, in the rooms over the postoffice. LOYAL TBHPEBA HCE I.KGIOX. Tomorrow at two o'cloclc, the Loyal Temperance Legión will meet in the hall over Calkins' drugstore, on State Street. Miss Anna Richards is the leader of tho Legión, and under her efficiënt direction, an hour every Satur day will be made both inturesting nnd instructive to the children. Over sixty have joined this organizatiou, which is most encouraging-, but we hope to welcome man y more tomorrow. In view of the f act that many local unions neglect to tale np this very important branch of W. T. U. work - work among the chüdren, the National Convontion passed a resolution making the organizatiou of Loyal Temperance Legión the special work of the coming year. A prize is offered to that state showing at the next animal meet ing the smallest proportion of unions having no active Legión. We rejoice over every step by influential bodies which tends to render drunkard making odious. The Supreme Council of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has made saloonkeepers, bartenders and professional gamblers ineligible to membership in their order. Mach has been said in regard to the nude in art and the imlecent display on bill boards and in other advertisemeats. The question is submitted as to whether it is not time to say somethini and do something about the illustrations in our best magazines and papers wherein the nude is unrestrained, or only a hint of raodesty suggested? The following resolution, soon to be presented in the New Zaaland house of representation by one of its young Maori membor8, Hone Hoke, indicates a elear view on the part of the savage(?) women who lmve urged its introduction: That no intoxicating liquor be sold or given to any man of the race. and that no license be renewed or fresh license be granted n-ithin ten miles of Maori land. A recent statement made by Mayor Strong to the effect, that the tiumber of saloons in New York city ought to be cut down one half led to Dvestigations by the New York World which developed the fact that New York has more of these industrial (?) institutions in proportion to population than any other city in the United States - 7,300 saloons, one to every 234 persons. Chicago's 7,000 saloons is a ratio of one to every 242, Hoston has, one to 50!) or 1080 saloons, while Phila delphia luis 1,355 saloons, or one to every S41 pei-sons. A patiënt was arguing with his doctor on the necessiiy of his taking a stirau lant; he urged that he was weak and needed it; Said he: "Hut, doctor, 1 must have some stimulant; I nu cold and it viarms me." "Precisely carne tbe doetor's crusty answer, "see here; this stick is cold," taking up a stick of wood f rom the box beside the lieartb, and tossing it into the fire. "Now t is warm, but is the stick beneflted?" The siele man watched the wood lirst sena out little bluffs of smoke and tlien burst into aflame and replied." "O course not: it is burning itself. " "And so are you when you warm yoursel with alcohol; you are literally bnrnlnp up the delicate tissues of your stomach and brain. " The proportion of Bbsta'nert, amon;8t tl. e (freatest intellects of th earth is much greater than the pro portion of abstainers in the eommunitj generally. Amongst thetn inst;ince .Sidney Stnitb, Cardinal Manning, Professor Kolleston, Naman and Groen oí Oxford, Archdeacon Farrer, Dr. Lightfoot late Bishop of Durliam, Dr. Temple, Bishop of London, Jolin Bright, Dr. F. It. Lees, Dr. B. W. Bichardson, l'resiclents Lincoln and Garfleld, Lloyd Garrison, W'endell Phillips, Harrlet Martineau, M. Chevrenl, the great Frencb. ohemist, wlio lived to over one hundred years, iiinl of hom it is written, "He drinlcs no wine and has never drank any." Charles Waterton, tho naturalist, who said, "I am now four score and one years, 1 do not even know the taste of wlne, nor of any spirituous liquors, and sixty-sevcn years havo now passed since I drank a glass of beer."

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