Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-01-26

BY strange coincidence, after an article on
Intcmpcranee in Congress, printed on the last
Page, last week, had been put in type, the
following clipping from an American paper
evidently Washington Correspondence.
sent in. II is rather "feJ contra"
There has been a very great and very notice.
able change here within few years in another
respect. and it may be partially due to the in.
crease Of business representation here or to the
demands that business makes. This change is in
the use seofalcoholicliquors As,tiking illustration
Of it was 10 be noticed during the cnvass for the
spcakership. Not a single glass " liquor was
set out by any OF the candidates. did not sec
single member of congress under the influence
of liquor during that canvass, nor have since.
The bar keepers and the hotel p,oprietors say
that the decrease in bar-tippling is soglea as
seriously to cmtail receipts. The three leading
candidates ior speaker uscd 10 use slimulants
sometimes to excess. Two Of them are now
total ab,taiue,s and have been for some years,
while the third only uses wine in a moderate
quantity at his dinner. | can count dozen
senators who used TO tpple who have not drunk
a drop in two years and there Is not a a senator,
with perhaps an exception or two, who is not
prudent and most temperate inthe use Of liquor.
Nearly all Of them do not touch anything
eScpect q light wine at dinner 1t is so IN the
house. 1t is SO with most Of the public men,
There has grown up sentiment that man
is fool who uses liquor immediately. and that
he is better oft without any III. Three years
ago saw one Of the most brilliant members
OF the senate staggering drunk in front Of vii
lard's hotel. The other dry saw that he left
his champagne untouched at dinner. said
he: al haven't touched alcohol in any form
for three years. | woke up one morning realiz
ing that pretty much all the Temperance lecturers
have said was true and simply said to myself
that have had enough. And have. have
never seen the time from that day to this that
have not felt a repugnance for liquor Gar.
land. the learned lawyer from Atkanass, IS a
teetOtaler. Said he; :" was passing by the
cemetery near my home one day and saw the
graves o( dozen brilliant men who began life
with me, every one ofihem hascned 10 his end
by whisky | made up my mind that had
drunk my share, and stopped. - In the social
entertainments here, less and less wine is used,
and the number of guests who refuse il is con.
stantly increasing In the old days man used
to FIRE up with rum before he started OFF in A
speech, and politics and rum used to mis- we'll
But nowadays men who used to disdain business
are finding enjoyment in it, and they seem to
have learned tha, it requires cool head and
that there is iar more enjoyment in developing
successfully enterprise than there is in getting
drunk, OF in picking in whisky.
The New York Tdbunc's London cores.
pondent says that the work of disposing Of
the sewage of the lower Thames valley
has already passed beyond the stage of
experiment. May of the visitors to Chiswck
during the last university boatrace thought
that the sewage pumps there were the Thames
water-works, so innocent of odor has the place
become under intelligent management The
daily flow Of the sewage is about $50, 900
gallons. 1t is pumped into tanks containing
crude sulphate of alumina, chalk lime and vel.
low clay. Within three hours the water is dis
charged into the Thames, being described as
''clear, bright and inodorous' The refuse, OF
"sludge," is mixed with earth and given to
market. gardeners. One man this summer
raised SIso worth Of potatoes from an acre
lot manured with this "sludge." The running
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