The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-18
Temperance Items.

A MAN offered $4,000 for a licehso to
sell liquors at wholesale in WestEeld,
Mass, for five years, but the authorities
refused.
A LIQUOR DEALER in Massachusetts
town received a postal-card rea ling:
"Please attend the funeral of a man you
have been ten years in killing
A TEMPERANCE SERMON comes from a
pawnbroker's shop in Pittsburgh. The
pawnbroker has found that ninety-nine
per cent. of the money he lends is spent
for strong drink.
ATAvERN-KEEPERi in Schuylkill Com
ty, Pa, is said to have died Of grief be-
cause of a failure to secure license to
sell liquor. Many men have died he-
| cause licenses were granted, and it is
time the rule should work the other
way.-I11dtGnGr0Lis Journal.
DICK SAVAGE, the rough who was ia
tally shot by an Adams (Mass.) saloon
keeper, called his son to his bedside be-
fore his death yesterday and gave this
parting advice: Never go into ga
loon, and if you do go in never get
drunk. You can see what a saloon has
done for me. Troy On. ~ Times.
w. S. HOLLAND, NJ. D., of the IRE
preSsible Confic., proposes that pre-
MUM be offered for the best job turned
out by the liquor traffickers, at the county
fairs of Missouri the coming autumn, in
order that justice may be done this
Legitimate business. He proposes a
fifty dollar prize for the most complete
drunkard in any county, thirty dollars to
be given for the best five years job, and
ten dollars for the best work of one
year. A sadder spectacle could hardly
be presented.-ErchGnge.
WHAT WILL you DO with the BOYS
while the saloons are still openp Have
the boys live with their parents not
their parents with the boys. Fathers,
as well AS mothers, become acquainted
with your boys-be their most intimate
friend. Mr.. Balm says: make home
the most attractive place for our boys.
The devil shan't beat me in setting up
attractions for my boys. Make it your
business to form character in your boys.
Give them to God honestly, and let
them know they are thus giyen.-0ar
Wona n.
The MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE mas
passed the Scientific Temperance In
struction bill petitioned for by the w.
c. T. U. and the Temperance people
generally. The vote was 68 to II in the
Hcus', and % to in the Senate. This
is progress, and the General Assembly
of Michigan has gone far to redeem the
reputation of this years Legislatures.
Tie w. C. 7. .. of the State sent each
member voting for the bill card of
thanks accompanying q beautiful bou-
quet Which spoke even more cloquently
the gratitude of the mothers of Michi-
gan boys and girls.-Jaaion sigma.
A GOOD STORY was told the other day
at the Victoria Hall. London, by DIR.
Ridge. who mentioned the case of a tee
total Baptist minister who was suffer-
ing from overwork. His wife, who was
not an abstainer, got at the doctor be-
forehand, and the result was that the
patient was advised to take brandy and
water. After time the patient, feel
ing no better, went to the doctor
again. The medical man had forgotten
the case, and asked the patient what he
drank. Brandy and water was the
reply. ''The very worst thing in the
world for you'' said the doctor, who
had formerly prescribed it. This will
be worth bearing in mind when rene
dies of this class are ordered.
JOSEPH B. LOOMS, young man who
was hanged at Springfield, Mass, con-
cluded his confession of guilt with the
following earnest words: Rum lies at
the foundation of my sorrows. Itfound
me motherless boy. with no one to in
fuence me to discard its use. fol-
lowed on, and before | was aware OF it
it held me as slave. / could not
maintain moderate use Of it. The
more used, the tighter were the chains
riveted about me, until now | find my
self about to be hanged on account Of
what it has done for me- | hereby
warn everybody, those xho sell it or in
anywise uphold its use. Let my fate
be warning to the young and old that
the safest way is to touch not nor taste
the cup that has robbed me of home,
friends and liberty of life''