Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-13

Tho spirit of self-sacrifce is one Of the
great beauties of holiness. Husband
yieloing to wife, wife 70 husband;
brother to brother; sister to sister;
friend to friend; In great things, but In
small, especially Fist and formost
see that the spirit is with you at home;
then carry It abroad into the world. It
isa spirit that will sweeten happiness
and brighten troubles; and when the
soul 10 ready TO wing it's fight to ito
eternal home, it will have tho unspesk-
able consolation of knowing that it has
not lived to itself; that it has left the
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 eh
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 tho
times. But ! wish they appreciated more
than is yet apperent tho necessity Of pre-
serving the fruits Of their labors. For, say
what you will, temperance reforms havo
been spasmodic. Reformed men arouse
q community aud, for awhile, it is a
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 SUBJ
sides, and he can come forth again
A few days ago petition was filed in
Texas court, in which the plaintiff was
an old Mexican woman. The Court, as
usual, wanted security for cost.
Said the lawyer, "She is not required
to give cost-bond. She is q pauper, and
will make an affidavit to that effect"
Why, she used to own real estate"
observed the clerk.
81 know she has got nothing now,"
retsrted the lawyer.
Have you collected your fee in
advanced"
You bet did,
It's all right, then; am satisfied she
is pauper now," sight the clerk.
A horrible case of wholesale poisoning
recently occurred in Russell County, Va.
Mrs. Martha Micalitor Keeps dairy estab.
lishment al Elk Garden and had been much
annoyed by thieves stealing butter. To
stop it, she put strycbnine in all the rolls
! of certain firkin, 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. Mr.. jackson, q prominent
planter, purchased some of it and it
was at once placed on the supper-table
and was partaken of by all present, four
of whom Andrew, Joseph and jones
ackson, brothers, and Miss Alice Gate,
rood-died in few hours. Three others
vere taken dangerously i'll, but were
alive at latest accounts.
When does the sin commence.-To
drink dceply--to be drunk, is a sin; this
is not denied. At what point does the
taking of strong drink become q SIM
The state in which the body is when not
excited by intoxicating drink is its prop
er and natural state; drunkness is the
furtherest removed from it. The state of
drunkenness is state of sin: at what
stage does it become SIM 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 far destroys
it; another glass excites him still more,
third fires his eye, loosens his tongue,
inflames his passions; a fourth increases
all this; fifth makes him foolish and
partially insane; sixth makes him saw
age; a seventh or eighth will make him
stupid, a senseless, degraded mass; his
reason is quenched, faculties are for
the time destroyed. Every noble and
generous aud holy principle within him
withers, and the image of God is polluted
and defiled. This is sin; awful sin; for
| "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 eighth9 Is not every step from
the natural state of the system towards
the state OF stupid intoxicatien an ad-
vance in sin, and a yielding to the I'M
wearied tempter OF the soul2-John
Bright.