The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

ALCOHOL IS no savings bank for
muscular strength, as, in Gmo it utter
ly destroys it--Dr. Baer.
WINE bringeth forth three grapes,
the first of pleasure. tho second of
drunkenness, and the third of sorrow.
-Anacharsis the Scythian.
REpoRTs show that during the past
year London city missionaries re-
years thoy have reclaimed 2G. 329.
this is capital ale," said an old
topper; ''see how long 1t keeps it's
head" "Ay," said q by-stander, .'but
consider how soon It takes away
yours. ~ ellspring.
UNADULTERATED alcohol Is scarce
ly known article. But lot Us remem.
ber that without alcohol there would
be no authorizations, while without the
authorizations there would still be the
alcohol.
My experience goes to prove that the
effect of wine, taken as o preliminary
to imaginative work. is to blind the
writer to the quality of what he pro-
duces rather than to raise its quality
Thomas Hardy.
AN International agreement has been
effected which totally prohibits the
sale of liquor on the tishing-grounds
Of the North Sea, where twelve fleets
are regularly at work and several
thousand people are employed.
The doctors in New York can't agree
as to whether lager beer causes kidney
diseases or not but they are unani-
nous In saying that such ailments
have increased one hundred per cent.
since beer became a popular beverage.
WHAT fearful contrast is shown in
tho charge Of Archbishop Jeffres. who.
after spending thirty-0ne years in
British India, says: ''F0r one really
converted Christian as the fruit of mis-
sionary labor. the drinking practices of
the English have made one thousand
drunkards."
Could the youth, to whom the favor
OF his first wine Is delicious, look into
my desolation, and be made to under
stand what dreary thing it Is when a
man feels himself going down o preci-
pee with open eyes and passive will
to see his destruction and to have no
power to stop it, and yet to feel it. all
the way emanating from himself; to
perceive all goodness cmptied out of
him, and vet not be able to forget a
time when 1t was otherwise--to bear
about the piteous spectacle of self.ruin.
Charles Lamb.
The Fall Brook Coal Company.
which employR over one thousand men
in Its mines end ON its railroads ON the
semi-bituminOus coal region, in Tioga
County, Pa, conducts its business on
the strictest Temperance principles.
In December, 1882, the COMPANY
adopted a rule that any cmploye who
was known to use Intoxicating drinks
would be dismissed from the cOmpany's
service. Since this rule was adopted
by the coal company the list of Its fatal
tiles In Its minos and its railroads has
decreased fifty per cent. and Its en-
ployes all have money ahead
ONE of the reasons given by Canon
(now Archdeacon) Fsrrar for his
pledging himself to total abstinence,
was that '.in England 10000 inhabit-
ants of our prisons. accustomed to It
all their lives, and the majority of them
brought into prison directly or indi-
roctly by tho use of II. could be, and
were. from the moment Of their inn
prisonment, absolutely deprived Of 1t.
not only without loss, bus with entire
gain to their personal health. Men
enter prison sickly and blighted. are
deprived Of drink, and leave prison
strong and hale; and women who,
whom inoarcerated. are hideous to look
upon. after being made uompulsorily
sober by aot Of Parliament recover
the blcom Of health and almost Of