The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-12-25
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

A wHISKY-DRrNKER will commit
murder only under the direct excite
ment of liquor; beer-drinker is capa-
BILE of doing it in cold blood. - Pacific
Medical Journal.
WE have no hesitation in saying that
every teacher should be total abstain
er, and that to place any other over q
school is to do the scholars q wrong
Montreal Witness.
THERE has not been saloon for the
sale of intoXicants in Hancock COun-
ty, w. Va, for over forty years, and
it is also true that during the year 1885
the grand jury did not find single
indictment, and there was not a single
prisoner in the county Jail during the
year.
Much of the strength for reform lies
with the mothers and sisters of our
lard. Unto them is the Temperance
movement looking for it's strongest al
lies. Unto them, also, is good health
making its strongest plea; the destinies
of millions are in their hands, and their
position is indeed responsible, but the
American woman must prevail. and
consequently hasten on the millen-.
mum. -HouSeh0id.
A FRIEND writes that among the pio-
neers in Temperance in public schools,
we must rank General John Eaton, for
sixteen years Commissioner Of Educa-
ton, and DR.. Bowditch. In evidence
she cites DR.. Eaton's lecture on 'Edu-
cation and Sanitation" delivered.
throughout New England many years
ago, and afterwards-eight or ten
years ACCOMPLISHED in leading edu-
cational journals. AS early as 1860
DIR. Bowditch agitated this subject in
connection with efforts to secure the
general introduction of physiology and
hygiene in public schools. Union Sig
nal,
A REPRESENTATIVE of one of the big
gest breweries in the city gives the fol-
lowing figures: The quantity of beer
sold annually in the city of Chicago is,
on an average, 100000 barrels, of
which $4,000 are sold by the Milwau-
kee brewers represented here. This
quantity yields GA, coo, 900 glasses OF
beer. Taking the population of the
city at 700, 0O0, the average would be
800 glasses of beer a year for each in
dividual, man, woman and chill /; the
saloon-keepers pay to the brewers about
SO, 800. 600 Il year. Placing the num-
Der of saloons at 1870, VIII ch pay
lie ense of Sl,7S5,000 year, the license
for each barrel would come to 81. II
Chicago Tribune.
THE great empires of antiquity might
still have been hourishing but for GER
tain destructive elements cherished
within their own bosoms Baby on
was conquered, by drunkenness and
revelry. Persia fell, by the drunken
ness OF her Kings and people. Had it
not been for this that wonderful peo-
pie might still have been power in
the world. Greece in her turn, fell not
so much by the prowess of the Roman
arms. as by her own discord and eff
feminacy. Save for this, Athens, in
art. science and manners, might still
/ have been the world wonder and ex-
ample. Rome fell. not 50 much by the
hordes of Cloths, Huns and Vandals
descending upon her plans and as
saulting her cities, as by the careless
ease and scottish Indifference of her peo-
pie. Wine and spoil took away the
heart of that great nation and
unnerved its mighty arm hut for
| this, Rome, from her seven Mills, might
still have been controlling the destinieS
of the world, or at least leading In the
van Of nations Irish World