The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-03
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT,
Temperance Boy.


I'm temperance boy Of the cold-water
| army:
drink neither spirits nor wine;
You may laugh if you please, but it never
can harm me
While water, pure water, is mine.
The cold-water boys arc not easily daunted
We know very well what we've done.
We've enlisted for life, and our Standard is
planted;
We're not to be dashed by your fun.
The pledge that we've taken will spoil your
| vocation;
"No license no license p we cry;
| Well ring it aloud throughout every nation,
Determined to conquer or die.
Youths Temperance Banner.
salvation Army and Temperance.
In a very interesting article upon
"The Salvation Army" which is COM
mented upon as one of the most remark
able movements of the nineteenth CEN
tury," the Irish Temperance League Jour-
nal says:
1T has. scattered all over the world,
in the United Kingdom, in our Indian
Empire, in Canada, Australia, and South
Africa, In the United States Of America,
in France, Switzerland and Sweden,
1922 army corps, with s,6O2 effective
officers. It holds over 2s, 1000 meetings
weekly, and during the past year its
officers addressed about million and q
half of their fellow creatures on themes
commanding human interest"
OF its relations to temperance the ar
ticle says:
'sVicwcd from the temperance stand
point alone, this is remarkably sue
cessful movement. Every officer and
every member of the army has abandoned
both alcohol and tobacco. From the
General to his humblest soldier all are
apstainers. Every meeting, therefore,
of the army is temperance gathering,
and every convert added to the society
is another vote, so to speak, in favor OF
sober nation. When we remember
how few Christian churches have alb
solutely broken away from the alcohol
conspiracy, and how many noble Chris
tian men and women there are in the
land who think an abstinence pledge
something beyond the ordinary amount
of self denial demanded-a sort of 'coun-
sci of perfection indeed-we begin to
realize how much moral force there must
be behind this movement. Hero we find
thousands of men and women who have,
many of them, lived lives of intense self
ishness and of both physical and moral
degradation, willing and able, at the bid
ding of this moral impulse, to give up
their smoking, drinking, swearing, gam
bling and immoral lives, and to live
soberly and righteously. Surely this is
result we'll worthy of the attention of
all Christians, of all political economists,
and Of all social rcformers."
Drinking in the Eighteenth Century
The passion for gin drinking appears
to have infected the masses of the popu-
lation. and it has spread with the rapid
ity and violence of epidemic. Small as
is the place which this fact occupies in
English history, it was probably, if we
consider all the consequences that have
flowed from it, the most momentous in
that of the eighteenth ceutlry-incom-
parably more 80 than any event in the
purely political or military annals of the
country. The fatal passion for drink
was at once and irrevocably in the na-
tiorl. The grand jury of Middlescx, in
powerful presentnent, declared that
much the greater part of the poverty,
the murders, the robberies of London
might be traced to this sing'e cause. Re-
tailers of gin were accustomed to hang
out painted boards announcing that their
customers could be made drunk for
penny, and dead drunk for two pence,
and should have straw for nothing, and
cellars strewn with straw were accord
ingly provided, into which those who
had become insensible were dragged,
and where tney remained until they had
sufficiently recovered to renew their
orgies. The evil acquired such fright
full dimen sions that even the unreform-
ing parliament of-Walpole perceived the
necessity of taking strong measures to
arrest it.-North american Es0iew.
Driving Boys From Home.
Mothers who are disturbed by the
noise and untidiness of boys at home
must be careful lest by their reproaches
they drive children from it in search OF
pleasure elsewhere. "The-e are those
banistcrs all fngcr-marks again" said
Mrs. Curry, as she made haste with
soft linen cloth to polish down the
shining oak again. "Georgc," "she said,
with flushed face, as she gave the
cloth decided wrench out of the basin
of suds, elf you 60 up those stairs
again before bedtime, you shall be pun
ishcd." II ehould like to know where
am TO 60" said George; II cannot
s+ou IN Tho L;tchen am so much in tho