The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-14
Temperance Items.


A GOOD THING TO ''NOn- An invita-
ton to drink liquor.-N o. Picayune.
The LAST LEGISLATURE of Tennes-
see repealed the charters of thirty-five
towns in the State to enable them to
abolish whisky selling within their
limits.
Mr.. BLAINE say that "there is no
people in the Anglo-Saxon world
among whom so small an amount OF
intoxicating liquor is consumed as
among the $4,000 inhabitants OF
Maine" He attributes this to the eff.
feet of the Prohibition law.
STRONG DRINK has tendency to ban.
ish reason, destroy health and blight
the prospects of men. 1t will give an
unsteady gait, trembling hand, red
nose and bloated face The wine
bibber has his eyes full of rheum, his
head full of confusion, his strength
impaired, and his thirst perpetual.
A YOUNG GIRL who has recently be-
come deeply interested in our w. C.
L. u, Washington, d. c., work, was
called to spend several days in the
home of one of our citizens, where, on
the table, a wine glass was placed at
every plate, even the children's. With
an earnest prayer to God, and gentle
girlish tact, she spoke of the evil in
tiuence of strong drink, the ruined
homes, and how the beginning of all
this lay in the lighter drinks. The re-
suit: Before she left every wine glass
was removed from the table and the
father only took his wine, and that
very slyly.-Union Signal.
In A RECENT LETTER to an Oregon
editor Mr.. Beecher says: at is time
we gave every man to understand that
when he impoverishes body and soul he
is a criminal. | have seen whole fami-
lies raked with this internal chain-shot
of alcohol, and 1 have learned to hate
it. 1t is good sometimes to hate things
and let the Indignation out. But your
people will have to be alive and work
ing if they would succeed. 1 am
ashamed to say that while enthusiasm
is never wanting on the part of the sa-
loon-keepers for the work of the devil,
we can never get up enthusiasm for the
work of Christian Temperance.
The sCHooL-HoUsE may be expected
w UuC odlOOu uutoIlOu
down in Tennessee. No groggery can
be allowed to do its bad work anywhere
in the neighborhood of school-build-
ing. All that is necessary now is to
multiply the little shrines of learning,
and the pestilent gin-shops must go.
And in the progress of enlightenment,
what other result can be expected? We
shall trust Tennessee to do better than
Boston, however, for it is said that a
similar law there has resulted strangely
and shamefully enough in the cessation
of two schools. In this case the beer
drove out the book Chicago Standard.
A GOOD EXAMPLE TO FoLLow.-A
firm of total abstainers, Buchanan
Brothers, confectionerS. of Glasgow.
Scotland, recently gave their employees
a sumptuous feast without any wines or
liquors, and the senior partner i'm
proved the occasion" to bring before
the servants of the firm the benefits OF
total abstinence, and had some good
temperance speeches on hand to follow
up this brave beginning. Music and
song contributed to the pleasure of the
occasion. 1t is by such line on line and
precept on precept, savored with the
spice OF courtesy, and the honey OF
social enjoyment, that the grand army
is recruited. Let employers take no.
tice.
REV. DIR. CUYLER recalls that when
the late William f. Dodge, of New
York, entertained the delegates to the
Evangelical Alliance in his Madison
avenue mansion, certain famous Ger
man theologians wandered over the
house. as through a dry and thirsty
land, in vain quest for glass of beer"
At a banquet given to foreign railway
king, and where Croton water was the
only scarce beverage, Mr.. Dodge said
to his waiter: 'Set pitcher of ice
water by my plate, and don't you
bring wine-bottle near me-" When
General Dix honored him with COM
plimentary dinner at Fortress Monroe,
during the war, every wine-glass was
reversed, "as silent tribute to the con-
science of the guest"