Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-15

can't get them.
Or as we said before raise this issue
pure and simple at the next election.
Turn out the magistrates if you can for
voting what they believed, (and as We
are sure truly enoughl to be the will of
the people. Our opinion is that if that
be the issue, and no arts used to put the
people upon wrong scent the present
bench may die in Office fit be SO minded.
"Why then has not drunkenness been
banished under the new rule?" What
jim one year-that which under the
old rule had so years to grow ini
There are two answers to that ques-
ton.
!. We were thwarted Gas we thought
it likely we might be at frst) in that
which we contemplated as necessary to
the execution of the law. But we shall
not be thwarted always Herein is the
next step in educa ton to be taken; but
we do not care to say more of this now.
2. Evil is more active principle than
good, and 'Falsehood travels twenty
miles while Truth Is putting on it boots"
Good is home staying (alas too much
so) evil is at the corners of the streets.
But give us time. Surely the court
cannot with any show Of reason or fair
ness, shut US up to one years expert
ment for good, when our opponents
have had hundred years for evil. And
don't point us to northern examples,
though there is one there which has
demonstrated the principle we are con-
tending for beyond all further gainsay
ing, and many more which look steadily
in the right direction. But We are sat
isfied that this reformation will be far
more easily and speedily completed in
the South than in the North. Not that
we are better than they, but from the
circumstances of the two sections, and
the whole tenor of recent Southern leg
islation looks in this direction. If the
South has any lovers now is the time
and here the way in which to show
themselves. Let only the truth be told
and it will create a soul beneath the
ribs of death. Let it only be told as
we have heard il told when all from tea
derest woman to the hardened attorney
broke down beneath its POWER, and
rising assemblies and subscribing multi
tudes were found to say we cannot and
will not longer endure such undeserved
and intolerable evils, the trembling
hand of intemperance being first to take
the pen.
Our hearts desire and prayer to God
for Jefferson County is that it may be
saved the affection of reop"ned saloons.
READ THESE ITEMS.
The Government prohibits the i'm
portation of liquor into Alaska.
There are seven Grand Lodges of the
Order in Australia. -..
The National Temperance Conven-
ton will meet in Chicago on the lst OF
June. ,i.r
The Temperance feeling is SO strong
at Manistee, Mich, that lawyers will
not defend liquor sellers. .
A temperance convention will be
held in Harrisburg, Pa. on the 10th OF
June to nominate State Friday.
Last Friday was observed as day
of fasting and prayer by the temper
anoe people in many sections of the
country. 'N
Stanley writes, that no drunkard can
live in Africa, on account of the pene-
trating power of the sun, to which he
is so susceptible.
In Rockport, N. Y, the Crusaders
have instituted twenty-two suits against
liqnor sellers in that town for selling
without license. 49,
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America numbers over l00, 900 mem-
beers, and it is the most numerous organ
ization of the kind, among Catholics,
in the world. Its official organ clrcu-
lates in 10000 Catholic families.
b. have had twenty thousand prison
ers pass through my hands, said the
keeper of Canterbury lEngland) Jail,
"since have been keeper OF this Jail,
but, though have inquired, have not
discovered one teetotaler among them"
-Cincinnoi Enquirer.
Local Option has already done marked
good here. This once noisy haunt of
drunkenness, is to-day the quiet, happy
home of sober men, and we eau lie
down in safety and enjoy. the society of
men who were once disguslingly OBJ
noxious liens in True
Keniuckian.
A ToorHLEss PEoPLE.-Terrible
times in Warrenton, Va, are depicted
by the Sentinel. 1t appears that a few
weeks ago a dentist come to that town
and advertised that he would remove
all of a persons teeth for 50 and insert
a new set for $40, besides giving six
months credit. The Warenton peo-
pie are very fond of bargains, SO there
was a rush for the dentists at once,
He was busy for two months pulling
teeth, and at the end of thai; time half
the people had empty gnms, and
bone dust factory in the Reighborbood
doubled its workmen so sai;t0.grnd up
a.. <o1.I, Moon.,h,lo thx, nao,,la u,or.,