Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-13
The spirit of self-sacritice is one Of the

The spirit OF self-sacritice is one Of the
great beauties of holiness. Husband
yieloing to wife. wife to husband;
brother to brother; sister to sister;
friend to friend; in great things, but in
small, especially. First and formost
see that the spirit is with You At home;
then carry it abroad into the world. 1t
is a spirit that will sweeten happiness
and brighten troubles; and when the
soul is ready to wing its flight to its
eternal home, it will have the unspeak-
able consolation of knowing that it has
world happier and better in some de-
gree than it found it; that it has been
aithful to its cart hly mission.
"Woman can make man better, but sh
has no special power over brutes; hence
she must first destroy whatever brutalizes
her companion, or she can have over him
little influence for good. Intoxicating
liquors are, in all countries, her deadliest
foe, destroying her home and loved ones,
and the susceptibilities of the race Of i'm
provement The present activity of women
in the temperance reform is, without
exception, the most hopeful! sign OF the
than is yet apperent tie necessity Of pre-
serving the fruits Of their labors. For, say
what you will, temperance reforms have
been spasmodic. Reformed men arouse
community and, for awhile, it is Il
cauldron of repentance and reform. So far
so good. But, during that time the liquor
| seller retires to his den and shuts the door
only waiting till the excitement sub
sides, and he can come forth again
A few days ago petition was filed in
! a Texas court, III which the plaintiff was
AL old Mexican woman. The Court, as
usual, wanted security for cost.
Said the lawyer, "She is not required
to give cost bond. She is a pauper, and
will make an affidavit to that effect"
why, she used to own real estate
observed the clerk.
6 know she has got nothing now
retsrted the lawyer.
:" Have you collected your fec in
advance2'
You bet l did,
Its all right, then; l am satisfied she
is rauper now," sight the clerk.
\ horrible case of wholesale poisoning
recently occurred in Russell County, Va
Mrs. Martha Micalitor Keeps dairy estab
annoyed by thieves stealing butter. Tt
stop it, she put strychnine in all the rolls
of certain tirkin, placed it in a con
!enient place and the thieves took it
Instead Of thieves eating the butter, as
Mrs. Micalitor believed they would, they
sold it and it went broadcast through
the county. MIR. Jackson, a prominent
planter, purchased some of it and il
was at once placed on the supper table
and was partaken of by all present, fou,
of whom-Andrew, Joseph and james
ackson, brothers, and Miss Alice Gate
<ood-died in few hours. Three other:
gere taken dangerously Ill, but were
alive at latest accounts.
When does the sin commence.-To
drink dceply--to be drunk, is sin; this
is not denied. At what point does the
taking Of strong drink become a SIM
The state in which the body is when not
excited by intoxicating drink is its prop
er and natural state; drunkness is the
furthercst removed from it. The state OF
drunkenness is state of sin: at what
stage does it become sin2 We suppose a
man perfectly sober, who has not tasted
anything which can intoxicate; one glass
excites him, and to some extent disturbs
the state OF sobriety, and SO tar destroys
it; another glass excites him still more,
a third fires his eye, loosens his tongue,
inhames his passions; fourth increases
all this; fifth makes him foolish and
partially insane; sixth makes him saw
age; a seventh or eighth will make him
stupid, senseless, degraded mass; his
reason is quenched, faculties arc for
the time destroyed. Every noble and
generous aud holy principle within him
withers, and the image of God is polluted
and detiled. This is sin; awful sin; fo1
drunkards shall not inherit the king
dom of God.' But where does the sin
begin? At the first glass, at the FIRST step
towards complete intoxication, or at q
seveth, or eighth' Is not every step from
the natural state of the system towards
the state OF stupid intoxication an adj
vance in sin, and yielding to the un-
wearied tempter OF the soul? John
Bright.