The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-15
Temperance Items.

HARRY COURTAINE, not long AGO a
popular American actor, is a ragged
beggar in London. Rum ruined him.
IF all the church property in the
United States were sold at the best
market prices, it is estimated that the
entire cash proceeds would be only one
third of the sum spent by the people of
this country for Intoxicating drinks in a
single year
IT is said that the passengers of the
steamer Amsterdam, wrecked of Sable
Island some time since had to face the
combined perils of whisky and water.
Certain of tie crew and passengers, and
even of the people on shore, obtained
access to the liquor in the ship-stores,
and confusion, misconduct, inhumaui-
ty, were the result, ocCasioning much
suffering among the survivors who
were landed on the island.
The following card was printed in a
recent number of the NacogdOeches
(IeX.) Star:
Look here, boys for nine years have
been making perfect beast OF myself; but
right here / stop. There is no use trying to
drink all the whisky that Bud Houston, Sam
Sapp aud others can bring here; we cant do
it, Let's quit right here now, and see If we
can't have more friends, more money and
more comfort at home, My friends I'm future
will do me a favor by not asking me TO drink,
as ] can not honestly take one drink without
making beast of myself Yours truly,
IN, ]. MAYATT."
IT is gratifying to see how well the
Temperance agitation is being kept up
in England. Ii is stated that there We're
G,l26 petitions with more than half
million signatures sent up to Parla-
ment this year in favor of the Sunday
Closing Bill, and there was not a single
petition against the bill 1t viii be re-
membered that Scotland secured a Sum
day closing law many years AGO, so
that, if the English bill is passed, Sun
day drinking will be largely put q stop
TO, throughout Great Britain.
WE have two systems of education in
this country. One hundred and sixty
/ four thousand public schools educating
for God, and one hundred and seventy
/ five thousands schools educating for the
devil For education of our children,
through the public schools to an honest,
sober Christian manhood and woman
hood, we pay annually about $50, OOO,-
900. For education through the saloon,
the hOt-bed of misery. crime and shame,
nN NAAAAA AAAlNN tAhIAAN .||f N"|N |iNaA
aunum. In other words, for every dol
lar that we eNpend to baiia Up through
our public schools, we invest Sl7 TO
tear dOl0a through the saloons. -G GOU.
S. John.
IF life in Russia seems to many a
Russian hardly worth living, saws a
London paper, it is not because the
( curse of drink presses so heavily upon
the people as a whole, as is frequently
supposed. Indeed, in the middle and
/ upper classes, tHu use of LIQUOR is less
/ general than in Western nations The
/ drunkenness is principally among the
/ ignorant and degraded city and country
laborers and among them it is 80 unil
/ versal that it brings the sum total of
drink consumed very high, despite tho
( examples of abstinence already referred
TO, Something like ten quarts of brandy
. Is the rate of consumption O that liquor
/ for every man, woman and child 60 the
/ empire. The proportion, in the larger
cities, of drinking TO the pOpu-
latiOn is about the same as I'm New York
or Philadelphia one saloon TO every
! 1876 inhabitants.