Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-11-07
W. C. T. L. COLUMN.


/, people in general are all bad, who
0 have been taught that all criminals
], are heroes. In such hearts there is
j, a reservoir of rage and vice, invisible
/ save when some flame, hotter than
, usual, bursts momentarily forth.
s And if our national life is growing
, worse, if society is growing more
I corrupt, tits because our young men
and women, who are entering into
manhood and womanhood, have,
in childhood, fed their minds on
perniciOus literature. Childhood is
the time when theideals are formed.
In the dreams Of childhood are
found the germs of many a mans
career. The seeds sown in the
mind of the childTwill germinate
into the character of the man and
ripen into the pleasant fruit Of good
deeds or the Dead-Sea-apples of SIN.
And so, five would have citizens
capable, by voice and vote, of wisely
governing and directing the affairs
of the nation, we must see to it
that the children of the land are
early taught to be emanly and honest,
pure and true.
But, apart from these considera-
tions of the worldly power and pros
perity of the nation, there is II
higher duty which we are called
upon to fulfill a duty whose per-
fOrmance or omission must be
accounted for when the great Judge
ofall men puts to us the question,
"Where is thy brotherY' Think
you that the old, old answer with
which humanity has 50 long stifed
its conscience will suffice then ? |
Shall we be absolved from blame |
if we give the answer of Cain, cam
L my brothers. keeper?" When
eyeballs glaze and ears grow dull
when the golden cord that binds
the soul together is frayed and |
breaking, and life is ebbing away
what will it matter to us then that |
we have been clad daintily, that
science has been our guide, or that
art has surrounded our lives with
all that is fair and pleasant? Better
far, if out of the darkness of the
Valley of the Shadow of Death we
hear voice speaking to us words
like these: "Well done, thou good
and faithful servant, enter thou in
to the joy of thyl%Lord. Arthur
Dudley Vinton, in North American
Review for March.
Oh, it is grand to see a man con-
fronting the crowd for their own
good ---- selling a truth, standing
by it, and, if need be, dying for it
becoming pioneer of humanity in
some new rough path.-John b.
Cough.
Aphysician of Jacksonville, Fla,
states publicly that those who drink
liquor are less liable to recover from
yellow fever, and Mayor Archibald Of
the same city, in speaking of the
ravages of this terrible scourge,
says at strikes persons ofalcoholic
habits fats lly. The fever is of a
very mild form. The mortality is
only about fifteen per cent, and
taking out the deaths of men
addicted to the use of alcoholic
beverages, the mortality would not
exceed five per cent. Two-thirds
Of the fatality is due to the fact that
persons have been accustomed to
the use of strong drink before they
are attacked by the fever, and in
every such case the patient invaria- {
bly, dies, and without reaction. 1t
Is frequent remark on the Jack
sOnville streets that yellow fever is
he best temperance lecture the
,ity ever had"
OF the fate of the famous "com- :
clauses" brought forward {
n the House of Commons by the t
a writer in the London
christian World says: "The Ii
clauses have not been {
killed by the speeches of eloquent =
tatesman, or by the votes of Houses /
# Parliament. They have been \
,illed by plain, simple men and {
met together in Sunday i
chools and chapel vestries or in
lodges and courts and temples '
nd kindred conclaves, who have :
lgned their petitions and voted /
heir resolutions, and before the
lrce Of whose outraged sense of
Ight, the government with its e
iajorlty of a hundred, has now TO =
end the head p 4