The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-26
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
"MOrIey's'' Letters from New York.
NEW York, April, % 1879.

NEW York, April, % 1879.
"ooME, GENTLE sPRING."
Spring, gentle Spring, with all its diphther-
ial mildness, has come. The grass is green
and velvety in the Parks; Spring overcoats
and Easter suits flourish one day, and porous
plastcrs and cough drops the next. Fresh
Florida asparagus is in the market at dol
lar bunch and as tough as pawnbrokers
conscience, while last years growth, tender
and luscious, is offered in cans q. thirty cents.
Strawberries, warranted to give the collie at
ninety rods, bring fry cents a basket and
y,ur youngest runs her slender fingers
through your grizzled locks and archly asks
(which you think would be most beco ming to
her, a blue silk or a garnet " If these are
not symptoms of the rapid approach of Spring.
then what on earth do they mean?
4 NEW CRUSADE AGAINST INTEMPERANcE.
A fresh army is being levied in New York
for the war against King Alcohol. 1t carries
on Its banners the pOnder1us monogram "B.
NJ. 5. i. NJ" which, being interpreted, is
Business Mems Society for the Encourage
ment Of Moderation" 1t provides no less
than four different pledges, and invites its
members to choose whichever is best suited to
their individual eases. The pledge cards are
red, white, blue, and tri-cOlOr respectively.
The red Is a complete total abstinence pledge;
the whl,e is a pledge against drinking IN bust
ness hou:s the blue pledges against treating
and being treated; and the tri-color is Il
promise to abs.an from "any intoxicating
liquor stronger Than wine or ale, and these
only at meals" All these pledges are Tor II
The founders Of the Society are business men
Of the very first Standing In the Presidents
chair is Mr. F. b. Thurber, and among the
Eice-Presidents and origiuators are such
men as Peter Cooper, Thurlow Weed, Judge
Noah Davis, EX-GOyeraor HartMnft, Rev
U. B. Frothingham, and EIwood L. Thorne
Though containing some interested in the
wholesale liquor traffic, and many moderate
drinkers, 1t does not recommend any abstain
CT TO begin course CT drinking, however
moderate. Realizing that moderate drink
ing may and oiGen does lead to drunkenness,
It says: "It is better to let Rum alone; but
because the majority OF men will not do this,
It ads; "If you will drink, do It moderately
keep your head clear in business hours con
fine your potations to light wines and beers
anu hpoNe All cthhe ihe ubsuiH "hN luAhoui
habit OF treating" and beiag ''trcated.' Il
acknowledges drunkenness, Ia the words o
hlT. rockingham, as "the fundamental vie'
VI civilized nations" and realize i,s obligation
10 do something towards stemming the fer
sui current OF American intemperanee. i
hopes TO recruit thousands in It's ranks, who
would be deaf to moro radical pleas, anC
claims to have the same end in view as The
more extreme wing Of tho Temperance army
The plan embraces the formation ofauxiliar!
societies throughout the land the promotion
Of knowledge In the science and statistics o
liquor, the establishment OF places OF recrea
tion where no intoNieants are allowed. an,
nrst, last, and all the time, the abolition d
"treating" A fuller exposition OF is puI
poses and methods can be had By writing IN
Secretary. Mr.. Henry II. Hadley, Box l5s.
New York.
Whslbsr Hush good will BE- aceompllshe