The New York herald., 1878-09-30

expensive and are made in a handsome imitation Of
tortoise shell and js varously osna%en.ea !,
fans. IL wrought In II delicate open ike tho
Chinese ivory fans and the most expensive have tue
fans OF lace mely beautiful wrought IN round
point with medallion IN the centre, exquisitoly
painted in water colors; tho sticks are opalsscent
pearl carved ivory Black chantly lace fans have
variegated tortoise shell sticks, with applied gold
sometimes the monogram In the centre In gold or
silver.
ADVOCATES OF TEMPERANCE.
CHARLES s. MILLS ADDRESS BEFORE THE
AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
The American Temperance Union met yesterday
afternoon in Tam many Hail. Fourteenth street, to
hear Mr. Charles 3. Mills, Of this city, speak Oh the
subject Of temperance. After the opening anthem,
''Eevate the temperance Banner" reading from the
Scriptures and prayer by Rev. John Keller the Vice
President, Mr. j. G. Burnett, in a few opening re-
| marks. introduced Charles S. Mills, who has lately
returned from the Western States. Mr.. Mills had
been sitting IN the rear with his wife, member oil
lecturer SAID stalks boldly through the land It's best
definition is given BY well known bishop, VINO
SAID, 'ln,emperanoe Is ne voluntary extinction ext,
that the free ot liquors is most disastrous 10 our
hopes aud our business. The temperance cause has
| more friends than before. In the West large
| numbers came forward and Joined the societies.
| Everybody Is tho sidc OF the temperance
Next Tuesday evening, October the annual elec-
tion society takes place at the Seventh street
Methodist Church.
AMERICAN BLUE RIBBON.
The American Blue Ribbon temperance Union held
| their regular sunday meeting at Irving Hail. Tho
singing of hymns, reading portion OF Scripture,
and prayer marked. as usual the opening ex-
ercises OF the meeting. Mr.. Sawyer, who conducts
the Park Theatre temperance meetings every Sunday
t>ta
length the evils Of intemperance. he told the
story OF his sad experience and the degradation
to which he was reduced the many pledges he had
signed and broken, and how, at length, he threw
himself at the feet OF the Lord invoked His assist
ance, and saved. He maintained that there is
other way by which poor, uniortunats man can
| He introduced three four oi his disciples 10 the
meeting, and each told his story In language not
strong as Sawyer's, but marked by the same evi.
| dence OF repentance aud sorrow for the past and
| thankiulness to God fer the great blessings which
they now enjoy in their conversion to tenn
pu.a'' man lola W pathetic pashesiv story oi bis Career
10 the old country and in America He SAID he spent
and hnaly rescued by attending the PARK Theatre
temperance meetings, where he beard Brother Saw
lion an was now a sober aud happy man.
Mrs. Conkling stated that tho amount collected at
psnses Of the hall, ana wished the audience TO sond
| up their contributions to make up the deficiency.
| MIR. sawyer, Htentoriap voice, lnvNou the young
men to como forward ana sign the pledge, but few
| responded TO the invitation.
| young man who stood In the M ,ddle OF the hail
asked the privilege oi speaking a few words but hts
| remarks were SO irrelevant that Mrs. Conkiing
| stopped him and wound up the proceedings OF the
| meeting and the wouldbe speaker nj the same time
INEBRIETY by INHERITANCE.
| Rev. Mr. Conway, superintendent of tho New Jer-
ssy Asylum for Inebrates, spoke IN the Shiloh Pres
bytoran Church, Sixth avenue. last evoning, Tho
Hereditary Elects Of Drunkenness" The text was
Exodus, XXX, 5:-"I the Lord, thy God, am jealous
God, visiting the inquity OF the fathers upon the
children, unto tho third and fourth genera
tion OF them that hate me-" However
our human nature may revolt at this law,
II stands upon Cod's statute book, not a
dead letter. but be executed with unvarying faith
fuiness The fact is undeniable that the sins OF
parents are visited upon their children. The Scrip
teach this, and they corroborated by his
tory, and both those by the experience OF US all
Drunkenness OF all sins, Is nost clearly observable
in posterity. Tnat II will appear in ono form
other Is certain. 1t may be in lunacy, diocy, deaf
ness, dumbness. blindness, insanity, melancholy or
some other mental or physical obiiquity Men who
are drunkards and fathers, women VINO are, at the
same tine, inebriatcs and mothers, incur respon-
stbiy too appalling TO contemplate. They seom not
| to care whether their seiindui igeneo entails indc-
scriba5le woo upon their children. They act
very mucn II their SIN, instead Of
beng visited upon thor offspring, died when
they died and was buried IN Their graves.
But how sadly, awfully mistaken they are! How
many man to-day beholds hts child manned, por.
haps In both body and min 4, by his own oilyi The
great number OF lots IN our tho bio list
oi the victims OF melancholy aud tue mighty host Of
insbriaes show that our ce Is cursed with oncmy
more distt uctive and Dreadful than famine,
because morc enduring
SKELETON
There Is, said the lecturer hardly family In
country that has not some sort ni whiskey skeleton
In us cosot Every house In our fir land Is cursed
WIN the CONSEQUENCES oi orunkenoess. either those
resulting from actual Indulgence or those whicn
come down from our ancestry by the law OF inherit
Rnce. The ancIents seemed to Understand this sub.
jsct. Aristotle said that drunken mother would
produce children like herself Dogenes, In rcbukng
half witted youth told him his lsther must have be-
young men OF his time not to become fathers when
drunk, "for they usually become wine Dibbers and
druDkards whoss fathers begot tnem when they
drunk" TIE lecturer made eloquent appeal Ia be-
hall Of the cnaren, ana begged MS hearers to avoid
an indulgence which was 30 certain TO loave most
serious consequences TO posterity
Mr.. Conway throughout ms lecture avoided violent
anguagc against tho dealers In strong dr
tue victims he urged the broadcst and tsDdorcst
charity. The duty OF the hour he said To quicken
tho public conscience, inform the mind conv the
judgment, and, above all, TO win mems hearts to
God. THIS H. never done by rasbpess and abuse.
LIS great lever is lovo--love OF God and love
OF men. Sei-induIaence IN the parents biigbts,
withers aud Mains poster,ty, and have tho
OF he dst,ng ushod Darwin that diseases arising
IRON ipebricty are iiabo 10 become hereditary even
to the fourth generation sometimes resulting In the
extraction o the fanny Sir Henry Thompson and
the United States Medical Association were also
brought forward as authorities by tho lecturer in sup
port OF his theory.