The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-21

TEMPERANCE IN IRELAND.-In Mrs. Hale'5
Book on Ireland occurs the following passage,
which person will hardly read without emo
ton:
owe entered one day cottage in the su-
burbs of Cork; woman was knitting stockings
at the door. 1t was as neat and comfortable as
any in the most prosperous district OF Eng
land. We tell her brief story In her own words
as nearly as we can recall them:
envy husband is a wheelright, and always
earned his guinea week; he was good work
man. and neither bad man nor bad husband,
but the love for the drink was strong in him,
and it wasn't often he brought me home more
then five shillings out of his own pound on
a Saturday night, and it broke my heart to see
the poor children too ragged to send TO school,
to say nothing of the starved look they had out
| of the little could give them.
Well, God be praised, he took the pledge,
and the next Saturday he laid twenty-one shil-
Iings upon the chair you sit upon. Q! didn't L
give thanks upon my Bonded knees that night?
Still was fearful it wouldn't last, and spent
no more than the FIVE shillings was used to,
saying 10 myself maybe the money will be
more wanted than it is now. Well, the next
week he brought me the SAME, and the next,
and the next, until eight weeks passed; and
! glory be to God. there was no change for the
asked me why there was nothing better for
him out of his hard earnings; so felt there
was no fear of him, and the ninth week when
| he came home to me, had this table bought
and these six chairs, one for myself, four for
| the children, and one for himself; and | was
dressed in new gown, and the children all
had new clothes and shoes and stockings, and
upon his own chair | put bran new suit, and
upon his plate put the bill and resate for them
adjust the eight sixteen shillings they cost
that I'D saved out of his wages, not knowing
what might happen, and that always before
went for drink. And he cried, good lady and
good gentleman, he cried like baby; but twas
with thanks to God; and now where's the
healthier man than my husband IN the county
of Cork, or happier wife than myself, or da-
center or better fed children than our own"
| PEPPER AND MUsTARD.-A druggist in London
has written and published a letter to member
| of Parliament stating that almost every drug
and necessary of life is adulterated to enor-
NOUS extent before offered forsale in the market
As to the drugs let them pass; but the culinary
preparations we cannot so easily excuse. The
| re1ati1le West India cayenne pepper IS now
made in London, and lit contained nothing but
| the ground berry of the piper i1dicd, selected
| of a gold color, the writer says he could desire
no better But colered saw dust, salt, vermIilion
and other ingredients are added. Ginger is often
adulterated with flower and meal, favored with
capsicums to give it the requisite warmth.
Mustard seed to the amount of one-sixth only,
and in many kinds not nearly so npch as that,
enters into the composition Of the best Durham
mustard. which is Durham only in name, the
| rest being composition of some kind, colored
with turmeric, and spiced with capsicums.
Black pepper is mixed with starch powder and
| English arrowroot, TO make white pepper. Cof-
fee Is mixed with the burnt root of the dande-
( lion, known as chielsory, which, from being
ground at the drug mills, is itself liable to adult
teration But we are civilly told this is the
French mode, and of course the coffee is much
| improved by its mixture. Chocolate and cocoa
are mixed with ground sage, often itself unfit
for sale in any other state.