The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-29
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

OUT of nine hundred and fifty-tive
samples of French wines recently
analysed. but ninety-fve were found
to be genuine, the remainder be-
ing more or less adulterated with I'M
wholesome drugs.
A TEMPERANCE guild was organized
in a barber-shop among young men
waiting to be shaved, in Troy, N. Y,
by Rev. Father Dolan. He induced
twenty-five to sign the pledge, and the
organization was formed immediately.
MAINE has passed law preventing
persons from soliciting trade for liquors
in the State. Drunkards will be iIl-
prisoned from five to thirty days for
first offense, and from ten to ninety for
second offense. The Legislature has
passed law prohibiting newspapers
fl ON advertising liquors.
The BAR-RooM AS A BANK.-You
deposit your money and lose it, Your
time-and lose it. Your character
and lose it. Your manly independence
and lose it. Your self-control-and
lose It, Your home comfort-and lose
it Your children's happinesS-and
lose it. Your soul-and lose it.
A LONDON Temperance manifesto to
workmen contains the following: In
manufacturing one hundred dollars
worth of liquor two dollars goes to
labor. In manufacturing one hundred
dollars worth of boots aud shoes,
twenty-five dollars goes to labor. Tho
money turned over by one distillery en-
plOying one hundred and fifty men
would, if employed in more useful
ways give work To fifteen thousand men,
INTOxICATION seems to be q specially
expensive luxury in Madagascar. An
English newspaper states that the
Madagascar Government imposes on
any person found drunk in the district
of lmerina fine of seven oxen and
seven dollars; and the introduction of
any quantity of run: into the district is
punishable with fine of i've oxen and
live dollars sums, of course, made
much larger relatively through the
poverty of the people.
IT is an apparent mistake TO suppose
that the liquor business ever pays for
itself, so far as society at large is con-
cerne1. Boston, for instance, receives
annually half million dollars in IL
cense fees from liquor-deaIers; but it
pays out for police, criminal court,
almshouse and hospital expenditures,
81, 324, 866 which last sum is, of course,
in large, very large part, expended for
the restraint of criminals and support of
paupers, rendered such by the liquor
habit In every ely where licenses are
issued, the proportion i: simlar.-S. S.
Times.
IL connection with the international
Exhibition to be held in Antwerp, Bel
GUM, this year. arrangements are being
made for the holding Of an Information
nj Temperance Convention there. The
National Tenn GRANGE Adfocate OF New
York expresses the hope that as many
American travellers abroad as can will
attend this Temperance gathering,
which will assemble some time in Sep
tembe1-the exact date being not yet
fixed. The 4!duocGte adds: "Temper-
an,e counsel and testimony from Amer
leans is most welcome and helpful to
the struggling friends of Temperance on
the Continent.
/ HATE the rum traffic. 1t burned
my father to death after squandering
his property as a rumseller Trouble
then came through sickness and power
ty, and we children were thrust into
the poor-house, and father and mother
into the asylum. Who ever knew the
Rum Devil to stop until it had finished
a man and landed him in hell, unless
he came in contact with some of Gods
agents and was saved? My father was
burned with his last bottle, the candle
falling againss his clothing while full
of this accursed poison; and he was
burned until the flesh dropped from the
bones while he was yet alive; and
mother was full of the same rum at the
time. All, what scene there was in
the morning. The only hope
l now have of my mother is to send
her to brother in Kansas, where rum
is not so free.-The Foice.
KNOW Of no more arrant despoiler
of all good, rayager of the public veal
and disturber of the public peace-de-
serving of execration-than he who
devils, Introducing discord into every
household where it is used as a bever-
age, clothing the children of its victims
in rags, throwing a dark veil of sorrow
and disgrace over the brow of the wife
and mother. unnerving the arm of in
dustry, robbing the artisan of his skill.
the scholar of his genius. the physician
of his discrimination, the lawyer of his
clients, the Clergyman of his wisdom
and grace, the victim of his manhood.
the home of its comforts and joys, the
young of their rights to educat on. eff
fectuaily closing the doors of the school.
house and church against the poor.
while the gates Of the prison, jail, peni,
Tertiary and mad-house are thrown
wide open. DIR. j. II. Hanqfcrd, in
Health Monthly.