Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-11-11
9Misesllanp.
From the Rutland Herald.
Nermont's Great Waste.
A CATECHIsM FOR THE PEOPLE.
BY L. MILLS.


/ Question How much money was
expended in Vermont last year on intox-
icating drink?
Answer: There was expended on IL
quors, wines, tobacco, and candy, the
enormous sums of s6,786,065.
2 Question; What proportion Of this
vast sum was expended in wines and
liquors?
Answer: Atleast nehalf, or-s3 1888
o32.
8 Question How much of this lat
ter sum was probably spent in liquors
for mechanical and medicinal purposes?
Answer F: s393,000 would be liberal
amount for all such purposes.
| 4 Question: Can you give some idea
of the vast amount of liquor which this
great sum of money would purchase?
Answer: AT one dollar per quart, it
would fill reservoir in which could free
ly float full rugged ship of war; or if
gathered in one body on Main street,
and then suddenly let loose, it would
flood our entire village, carrying death
and destruction in It's course.
5 Question: Do these vast quantities
of Intoxicating drinks and tobacco do
any commensurate amount of good
Answer: As medicine, or in mechanics
or chemics, they are allowed to be use
ful, but as beverage they are neither
essential nor benifcial, but are produc-
tive of immeasurable evil.
6 Question : After deducting $685.
900 for liquors used in medicine and sci
ence, and s393,065 for candy, what
could be purchased for the good of our
people, with the, s6,000,O00 expended
in wines, liquors and tobacco in this
State last year?
Answer: s6,000,000 would purchase
100000 suits of boys clothes at $40 per
suit, 100000 suits of girls clothes at
$40 per suits 100000 gentlemen's hats
at SIS per hat; 100000 ladies bonnets at
So per bonnet and 100000 barrels OF
-four at $40 per barrel, or it would pur-
chase more houses than are now built in
Rutland, Burlington and Brattleboro
put together each house to cost $4,000.
Z Question: What would this vast
sum of money do towards meeting the
intellectual wants of our State and peo.
pie?
Answer: 1t would procure library
of 5000 volumes, for each of three hun
dred towns; 100 High Schools at a cost
of $4,000 each; and support 2,150
teachers with the average salary Of
$1,000 each.
| Question What would S6,000,00C
do towards meeting the religious wants
of State and nation?
Answer: 1t would build 100 churches
at $4,000 each support $500 minister;
on an average salary of $1,000 each :
and purchase 100000 copies of the
scriptures Tor distribution among the
destitute.
8 Question In view of this vas
waste of money, what is our duty?
Answer: Totally TO abstain from th,
use Of intoxicating drinks.
/
TERRIFYING THF TURcos.-The fol
lowing story is from forwarded iettel
of German soldier to his parents a
Stuttgard
81 must tell you nice joke we had
We had been patrolling, four Of us, th'
whole day in the neighborhood of Bar
le-Duc, and we're wet to the skin. Th
rain was just commencing with new Wig
or when we saw farm house in the dis
tanee, where we resolved TO stand up
The house was deserted by the inhabit
ants, who had carried away with then
all eatables We therefore, took som
bread out of our knapsacks, which
with a jug of fresh water, we con
sidered splendid meal. All at ono
we heard great noise and clashing G
ar ms, and about one hundred yards fror
the house we saw some twelve Turco
approaching. What was to oe done ?
Surrender mol Run away? Neither
We were resolved to defend ourselves t
the last. Suddenly l caught sight of
double bass which was standing in tn
corner. 1 called to my comrades to FIR
at the Turcos and then to attack ther
with the bayonet. myself took hol
of the big fiddle and began to play wit
might and main, making the most feal
full noise. The moment the Tureos hear
it, they turned, threw away their rifle
aud commenced TO run, my comrades a
ter them, and took the whole lot of ther
prisoners. The black devils went dow
on their knees, pointing with all signs
horror to the house in which the big fic
die was still being played. | only undel
stood from their talking the word ''lion
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