The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-11-20
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. Il

TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. "A
EDITED BY THE WOMEN IS CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANcE UNION.
The drink bill in Philadelphia amounts
to 81, 100000 more than the entire rental
of the city, and the retail is s23. 900, 900.
1.-TWO thousand English physicians have
signed a declaration that alcoholic drinks
are inimical to the health, prosperity, NOR
ality and happiness Of mankind. '-Foy-
auard
There are II, 900 saloons in Berlin. The
result of this important industry in
Germany according to the Cologne Gazette
is, that 10000 persons die annually of de-
lirium tremens.
1t is said that every member OF the III
inois bar both drank and gambled when
Judge David Davis first joined it. He
having made up his mind to do neither,
has outliyed them all.
Economy, Pa, has had no saloon or
liquor sold during the past fifteen years,
and in all that time there has not been a
single arrest for any cause. Verify, pro-
hibition prohibits crime. -
In the window of Cincinnati saloon is
stuffed rattlesnake coiled upon a whiskey
jug and wreathed in flowers. The pro-
prietor evidently has a correct view OF the
FITNESS of things. y Uniou Signal.
Says Canon Farrar The liberty to do
wrong is the mother of bondage. No man
is free, aid no nation is free, which is free
from righteousness, and a slave to vice.
The impulse of appitite is slavery, and the
obedience to salutary restraint is the only
liberty
1.-The Manchester, Eng, Band of Hope
Union recently sent memorial to the
Board of Education, asking the adoption
Of system of temperance school readers
in the city schools. 1t was found on in
vestigation, that with one exception. all
the books were at present in use in the
board schools.
The English are evidently turning their
dinner glasses upside down. The decrease
in sherry drinking is very remarkable.
Statistics show that the difference in this
respect, between 1888 and ten years ago is
not less than 2,776,144 gals. And as to
spirits, decrease in all kinds amounting
to over two million gallons appears.
A boy murderer suffered the extreme
penalty Of the law, in Ohio not long since.
AS he stood upon the scaffold his pitiful
appeal to the men of Ohio was this 'sThat
rope means first glass of poisoned lemon
AIDE, at last a bottle Of rum, and over in
that saloon now filled with boys and men,
my ruin was wrought. Oh let me inn
plore you with my dying breath, close the
saloons as you love your boys; close them
fol, your protection -
The Lond on Lancet the highest medica
authority on the Globe, and an exceedingly
conservative journal says Alcohol, as a
general therapeutic agent, is being sub
jected everywhere to most suspicious
treatment by physicians and by boards OF
guardians alike. It has still friends who
think it indispensable either to preserve
health OF to cure disease but the wisest
physicians show themselves chary on TAX
ing or recommending much of it.
| The Constitutional Prohi bitory Com
mittee, Of Mass, says the Congregational
| ist, has lately received from the jails in
Pittsfield and Springfield, petitions fol-
prohibitions signed by eighty persons in
each case. Similar petitions have also
been received from the jails at Northamp-
| ton, Greenfield, Fitchburg and Worcester,
many of the men saying, Rum ruined us.
saloons in going to my work. If they are
not closed when | get out, how can
stand ~ Can there be more pitiful APP
| peal
But, doctorI must have some kind of a
stimulant, cried the invalid, earnestly
II am cold, and it warns me. Pre-
cisely,' came the DOCTORS crusty answer.
''See here this stick is cold''-beside the
hearth, and tossing it into the fire; NOW
it is warm ; but is the stick benefited r.
The sick man watched the wood first sent
out little puffs of smoke, and then burs
into flame, and replied ''Of course not
it is burning itself ?" And so you when
you warm yourself with alcohol you are
literally burning up the delicate tissues OF
your stomach and brain. Home Protector.
The Chronicle says King Quaco Duah
of Ashantee" is dead, and in honor OF his
funeral 300 of his subjects have been killed
We do things differently in this country. i
To keep our president in power (aliye} we
employ a whisky guild to kill 100 900 of his
subjects every year if he dies, we have
a grand congressional $50, 900 drunk at his
funeral procession. Ashantee is only about
twice as large as San Bernardino county,
and in Strengthening 800 people now and
then, it copies our mixed Christian and
whiskey civilization. as well as can be ex-
pected.
One of the commonest arguments in
favor of the system of licensing dram
shops, is the large revenue derived from
it, which the state can then turn around
and expend in supporting it's paupers, its
Insane, it's criminals, and other objects, Of
pity, mainly made such in consequence Of
the omnipresent temptation of the open
grog shop. To this reasoning. st. John
says Granting this to be true, insist