Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-23
Temperance Items.

RED used on n railroad signifies dan
ger, and means " stop SO it does on
Il mans nus".
ABorT three hundred employees ut
the New York Post Office are members
of the Temperance societies OF that
city.
FOREST GROVE, one of the oldcs.
towns in Oregon. has never hal Il st
loon, and there are none within three
miles.
II is q mean man who will contrib'Ite
to the purchase o. Il scalskin SacGuc for
the -aloon-kceper's wife, and allow his
wife to wear thin calico and Il faded
shawl.
PRISONER in the Maine State
Prison, who was offered n drink on the
night OF 4 fire in the prison, prca he'd 4
good Temperance lecture when he said:
No, s;r, that is what brought me
here. and | have had enough -
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t"I'aY nnt 81 r we t;;,, com,h sweep in:cmperancc
almost all of the poverty in the land.
There would hardly be enough left to
give healthy exercise to the charitable
impulses,
TIE ADVERTISEMENT of the WOman'S
Temperance Home in New York CITY
ladies of rcsprctabiIity who have be
come addicted to the use of alcoholic
liquors or narcGticS.' This will give
some idea of the alarming growth of
drunkenness among the women OF the
United States.
TIE religious press of the country is
practically unit in its attitude toward
drunkenness and drunkard making.
Ba k of these irelig Gus newspapers are
millions OF Notin.c men and praying
women. Back of them is the God of
Justice and mercy. 1'his means that
the great curse will be abolished. -
NaShrHjc CHRISTIAN 1GrOcaiC.
II DEINKING is respectable why do
men always deny or apologi izc for drink
ing and why do Young men 50 try to
conceal it from their friends. and es
pc iallv their swcethearis? If it is
respectable. why do saloon keepers set
up : reen> to hide their customers from
those passing their door? Ii it is re-
Specialize, why not have the drinking
stands on the corner, like fruit stands?
No on" iS ashamed to stop at a fruit
stand and buv an orange, an apple or
banana. but when a man who iS not too
far gone III loss of sclf-rcSpc't ia pass
ING the saloon and wants to stop in. he
w IL first halt and look around to see if
any one is watching, and then dart in
rs if shot from Il gun. Then see him
as he Sncaks off. splitting cotton as he
goes. Does lie not look rs ii he had
been in the wrong pen and was
ashamed of it?-St9 FruVciSco RScatc.
\ SYSTEMATIC educational campaign.
whose main features is the distribution
OF Temperance literature, has been in
auguratcd by the Boston w. {. L. L.
It's plan is worthy of consideration in
other large cities. Determining to
reach every voter in the city with good
Temperance literature during the com
ing year, the plan is to have u commit
toe of iivc-gcntlemen and ladies-aS-
signed to every precinct in the city, the
chairman of which shall be member
OF the w. &. L. L. This committee is
provided with a list of the voters of its
+ precinct. and these names are divided
among the committee: so that each
member is responsible for reaching,
either by mail or personally. about one
! hundred individuals. The committees
are then furnished with full supply of
a wide range of Temperance literature.
! No better plan has. to our knowledge,
! been adopted.- Ini0u Siqnu.