The Press., 1884-11-20
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
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 "A man who had abandoned hotel l-keep. ing, seeming to feel sad when the matter was referred to friend, asked him the cause of it. He replied: "Here in this book are the names of forty-four men who were all of them my customers, most of them for years Thirty-two of them, to my certain knowledge, now lie in drunk ards graves. Ten of the remaining twelve are now living confirmed sots.
 Said landlord: "For twenty-tw years have sold that stuff, and during that time have never touched it myself. I have always found that it produced mis- cry, poverty, disease and death." ''Well," said toper, standing by, you're a nice chap to be landlord, and, so saying, the man went away, signed the pledge, and never touched another drop.
 The total abstinence pledge was first adopted in England in 1883. The people there heard of the American temperance societies, and they organized societies of their own, but they soon found that men
 
 fermented liquors; so they made total abstinence pledge which excluded them all. In this country for some time after that people who were very much in earn- est when signing this common pledge would add ''T. A." after their names. which meant total abstinence
 "A man of ability, though drunkard, was asked what he thought of the Maine law for Maryland. "I think we'll of it." was his reply. "Give me that, and shall have hope. I have signed your pledges over and over again, but only to break them. Shut up those houses with your prohibitory law, take away from my eyes canters, remove the fumes of their con- tents, and then, and not till then, shall I hope to be 8 man again."
 The beer Sentinel at Washington says. Prohibition is now fixed fact in Maine for all time to come."
 At recent children's meeting in Maine ex-Governor Perham asked "How many children have ever seen drunken man p and not hand was lifted.
 Burlington Hawkeye: When you are asked to drink, my son, and have half mind to accept the invitation, remember this If you had whole mind you wouldn't.
 The National Distillers' Association con- fesses that the effort to evade the payment of government tax, by shipping spirits to Canada and more foreign parts has cost them immensely and succeeded very poor ly. Over S60, ,0O0 were spent in an effort to induce the Canadian government to yield to the distillers' terms, but with no avail.
 It is gratifying to see how well the tem- perance agitation Is being kept up in Ene- land. It is stated that there were 6, 126 petitions with more than half million signatures sent up to parliament this year in favor of the Sunday closing bill, and there was not single petition against the bill. It will be remembered that Scotland secured Sunday closing law many years ago, SO that, if the English bill is passed, Sunday drinking will be largely put stop to, throughout Great Britain.
 The eleventh annual report of the Lon don Temperance Hospital is just issued, and though the management are not bound by any rigid rule to reject alcohol, yet the second instance only of its administration since the establishment in 1874, occurred this year, followed, as was the first, with death of the patient. A confirmed iudg-
 
 in practice, is very rapidly extending thro' Great Britain, opposed by few physicians who are not addicted to it's personal use as beverage.
 Advocate and Guardian A man of large experience in sanitary matters as well as in good work, said in my hearing, "I look with more apprehension upon the growing use of tobacco than upon any oth- CT evil that touches this nation, not even excepting rum itself" The two go SO much together they may be said to "hunt in couples" Parton knew it, when, tho man of the world, he wrote his sensible book on Smoking and Drinking" Look at the tobacco habit abstractly-the taking daily and constantly, as habit, poison, at which nature so revolts at the begin ming that the symptoms seem only one re- move from death, and the thing carried @ little further at the time, would end in death. Children have been poisoned in the cradle by smoke in the room. A to- bacco leaf laid on child's chest will, if left on too long, produce death. do not suppose the women of the land can help it, if man who may not smoke at home, will go elsewhere, and many a woman submits to the nuisance because she can't help it or, as some say, because it keeps man 'good-natured." That means a great deal.