The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1882-01-07

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rections. He soon mastered the common
coolie lingo, used about the dairy. His
business brought him in contract with the
merchant and farmer classes, who each use
different dialect, and these, BY great dill
gence and application, he learned to speak.
He purchased books and boldly attacked
the language OF the upper classes, including
that used by the Emperor aid his Court;
and, by indomitable perseverance,. he nc.
complished, in less than three years, what
no other man had ever dome before In 10
short time-namely, learning to speak |
the Japanese language with ease and Auen.
cy, and to converse intelligently with all
classes. from the Emperor to the common
coolte UPTON was soon engaged as inter. |
prefer, at high wages, and his knowledge |
Of this difficult language insures him a
good position during life. 1t is needless 10
add, that Frank Upton is strictly temper.
ate, moral young man, for no man Of bad.
or loose habits need ever attempt what he
has accomplished; yet there are thousands
Of young men that can do the same, and
be sure Of situations in Japan, Europe, or
America, either as teachers or interpreters.
The Wine Question in Society.
1t is universally admitted among sensi.
BILE and candid people that drunkenness
Is the great curse Of our social and nation.
al life. 1t Is not Enthusiastically Ameri.
can, for the same may be said wi h greater
emphasis OF the social and national life Of
Great Britain; but it is one Of those things
about which there Is no doubt. Cholera
and smallpox bring small fatality, and al.
mos: infinitely smaller sorrow. There are
fathers and mothers, and sisters and wives,
and innocent and wondering children,
within every circle that embraces hun.
dred lives, grieve to-day over some hope
less victim OF the seductive destroyer. In
the city ana in the country-North, East,
South and West-therc are men and wom-
en- who cannot be trusted with wine in
their hand-men and women who are con.
scions, too, that they are going to destruc.
ton, and who have ceased to fight an ap.
petite that has the power to transform
every soul and every home 1t occupies in
to hell. Oh, the wild prayers for helr
that go up from hundred thousand de-
spairing slaves Of strong drink to-day! Oh
the shame, the disappointment, the fear
the disgust, the awful pity, the mad pro
tests that rise from hundred thousane
homes! And still the smoke Of the ever
lasting torment rises, and still We discuss
the swine question:" and the 'grape cul
turc," and live on as IL We had no share il
the responsibility for SO much sin an.
and suffering.
Society bids us furnish wine at our feas.
and we furnish it just rs II we did not know
that certain persentage Of all the the mel
who drink It will die miserable drunkards
and inhict lives Of pitiful suffering uro
those who are closely associated with them
There are literally hundreds Of thousand
# people in polite lite in America VIII
would not dare to give dinner, or part
without wine, Notwithstanding the fact tn:
in many instances they can select the yer
guests who will drink too much on ever
occasion that gives them an oppor'unit,
There are old men and women who invit
young men to their feasts, whom thu.
know cannot drink the wine they rroros
to furnish without danger to themselvt
!. and disgrace to their companions an
friends. They do this sadly, often, but III
. der the compulsions Of social usage. No
! we understand the power Of this infincnc
y and every sensitive man must feel It keel
T. ". Wine has stood SO long as an emble'
r and representative ri goxi cheer and ge'
d erous hospitality, that It seems stiney
" shut it away from our festivities, and de-,
# it to our guests, Then again II is so &c
* erally offered at the tables Of our friend
u and it is so difficult, apparently, for tho
7" who are accustomed to It to make dim
n without II, that we hesitate to Offer wat
n 10 them. 1t has a niggardly-a'mo>t
a notwithstanding; vet what shall! ms
r. do who wishes to throw what inf1uenc
It has on the side Of temperance:
&c The question is not new. 1t has be-
n up for an answer every year and every m
s. ment since men thought or talked abo
TT temperance at all. We know Of but I"
r. answer to make to it. \ man cann'
without stul,ilying and morally debas''
A. himself fight in public that which he toll
al a,es in private. We have heard OF s"
!" things as writing temperance address
"r with a demijohn under the table; ana
al ciety has learned BY heart the old ia
I'd against drinking too ruch-"thc excess
n the thing, you know"-hy those who ha
er the power Of drinking little, but W
ac .,o,,ld sooner mart with their right eve tn