The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-09 00:00:00

GOOD TEMPLAR3 EXPIIRIZNCL

An annual public meeting was held at the lodge room
of the Good Templar' in Perk-stree!: in order that some
of the buthren might recite their experienee." The
Chair was taken by Bro. Weeber, and on the platform
were old Templets and new ',Averts.
The Caarsw&g delivered • rather long speeoh, &tall-
ied the snoomosoo of the Order, nod speaking of the
ff del' and partial allOOest of tk• lodge at the lent Uses-
sing meeting, he remarked that • gentlemen then said
the I.elge as a body bed "cattier •sonl to be saved, nor
body to be kicked." Bat be would tad they bad •
holy that oeold kink, and that to "owe effort
Bro. Hews, an old teetotaller of 40 geese' staniiiag,
Spoke at some length, and his addroms seemed to be
Intoresting to those on and near the platform, though
inaudible at our end of the room.
Bro. Matzo defended the Good Template from
"huge' of staying out late, end being fond of the
ladles. Drunkards who could not take ears of them.
.dees were allowed out tlll 11, and- though Goof
Templets could takeout, of illumine they closed their
lodge meetings at half-past nine or ten. is to the ladles
they were food (them, and showed It by making thel;
homes somfortible. Drunkards dad not de that, for he
went into a drunkard' bome, and wu "Meg to sit in
chair ; bet he nearly broke his tusk. Ho used to be
thougwhuly
t ao:joallyntsockrDimi
sort of •
~ a
fallow" drank ; bet
that ln
unolusion he Itkened those who were only "very as.,
tototallen "to the Irishman who enlisted in the 42.4
regiinoot to Le near his brother, who was In the 41s1,
and the 41. e got unt to Dubli., and the nod to lean
—(laeghter).
Era. Swims ws,readved kaawase
Mbar Sip. sald •
very= ist=ta mon aim ped-kabisi Ist at

people Ism jiSt going to iii•• • littl -Mt of capsul-
es:tea I have be n no km thaa 43 Woes before the
motriellstes for being 4. uok, cad I density I have risid
£4O nr L'lso-lipar). This thee trsieoaor,W, I ens in
I),reitseter, sad, to tell the trolls, I wee to the irpirrel
owe- (burette!) Now, gentlemeo, If el wired' cur-
rounded by friends ; I hove ecly j 'Med shalt tan
week.; but I ought to have joined it about ten years.
They gay, gentlem•a, don't you understand me? It Is
• long lane that hss no turning, and I have Woe
down thot lane long so-oigh, and now I hove
token the turnips to U. ri,ht-lopolausa Why,
I must li,ve heels eelo,p for !he last ten years, but
her• I am t..night, jolly, geetlensen I 1 ete eettiesc
'toot and fat over it, the • is no mistake shout it, for
lawny 1 con hardly pet Into my clothe., and 111 go on
In the way I have b CD, I shal, resemble Nir Roue,
Tichborne-(lsughter) And the old perm becino to
get heavier, too-(spolanse). I used to walk about •
few weeks ago with • lot of common ha'peesee, and
now there Is a lot of white ones, sad I hope wee they
will turn Into a lot of yellow onee-(applanse). I have
been not able to take ewe of smelt wone than •
beast of the field, and mos I was eery slay drowsed,
and the triter was not above a foot, for I fell in on my
face. I can remember going out of the Bothwell
1 Tavern to go to my barrow, but Instead of going
forward I went beek-(laughtior); the (kick had each
en sleet on my poor knew, that I could not keep
uprieht. and to draw myself op, I bed to go up against
the) watl. and at last I had to crawl on my bands and
knots ull I got to my sort, wit my old horse, being
need to me, walled for ma While I had mosey I had
pleat, In regard to drink ; but why did I drink I The
other day • man celled me on one elde, and I thought
he ow going to tell me a wont. Be says "George,
lend me three ha'penee." "What I" mid I, "to get
boor? You aro making • mistake In the perms-
(laughter). luw not the sante person now ; but I will
treat you with • cup of coffee at Mr. Hodder's and 111
give you something good hr your Inaide:' I weed
have Own him • plow of roast beef or • Woe of breed
and boa, and that would base gone (lows his dear
old throat better then a drop of drink. I haw drunk
no less than 40 hall-plate of common ale Is • day, and
my inolde used to go wadi, wash, jest like an empty
berrol-(laugliter). And I have told my wife "It is
no
use for you to keep meadlas my stocking*, because
the drink will go right down through"-(laughtar) My
wifo and I ham taken the opportunity, in walking down
the laze, of tenting to the right-doe t you understand
me, gentlemen? -of turning Good Tampion. When I
me trots Good Templar, my mimes mama arroesble ;
but my old loakot had begun to grew heavy, and when
1 three the money down on the toble, th• money told
It. own tale, and she jolsed, and, thank God, my *Us
I. madeg just as stout as myself --(Walla of laughter,
and cries of "Go on." Smarm however, said he
wanted to reserve • tittle for next Woe, and sat down
amidst imasease laughter and applause).
Bro. Twirls*, D.0.W.C.T., raid that Bro. @inures
had been a living example for peers on the other side,
but now he had worked well on this, and with such an
exam* they seed not say more to indices other, to
j .in their order. This NU what they Intended to do;
he proposed at the ledge meetiag to-night three
dritukards--(applame). Teetotalism had been Is the
militarily for years • they hod been looked upon with
worn and contempt, and dared MA STOW before Where
that they abstained from lateskatiag drinks bemuse
of the customs of the esentry. But they were new
plug up, rising in lodinates, ailoesess and poser; In
Weymouth, eeteblialted ly &boat 10 mouths, they
had a lodge with upwards al 103 members an whom
they really mold rely. If any were absent three nights,
they sew the visitor, sad if they had broken their obit
they were not mooted De • Massa but on
re▪
pestame were welcomed bask. He told of a poor
maa who had been • teetotaller for twelve mottle, who
wee employed by a man who pawed beet tato him to
make him work faster, sad at night he woe like •
manias, raviag mad. If a person gam another poles.,
V he gore his anything to mobs him ill, he m 414 he
eanteneed to meal servitude ; but be weld supply
what would make mother a orimisal, might make him
murder his wife and ohiklres, and yet get off tree.
Bee. Bon told bow he had Lk** the pledge niaay
times, and broken It. One Sunday he was drunk on
the Isplanade, and asked some me to have a glees of
beer. 'Mot geotiemea kept by him and took owe of
all his mosey weep% a shilling. Otb:te frisedistood by
and he *sod the pledge on Sunday night DA Mr.
Brown'. -a Wee thing for • drunken maa to do-loge
Into the midst of a family of teetotallers on Sunday
lie continued by telling of the Dawdle be had resolved,
and inviting ethers
_ .. . _ .

Bro. Tijyis, in ommindloj. urged tethers and
mothers to mod their thildree to the JuveaU• Tete*,
for whatever Litigate be said about intoxicating drink,
no one scald pretend they wen nemesary for obildren.
He also explained that powl• were boned, when Good
Temp Lars, to kelp the olgsllo. foe life to sign the
laws end elostitatam, to try to save otlers, for the
more his mind was tilled with the Idea that he must
an. others, Um safer be would he himself.

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spombn, sad Ma mooting mimed with the Wm.:notion.