The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-26
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE Swedish Government has ap-
propriated 900 year for the pro-
motion of Temperance.
In Chicago, says a leading brewer
in that city, eighty-six per cent of
the saloons are controlled by the
breweries.
THE Duchess OF Rutland is pledged
total abstainer. and she takes every
suitable opportunity of extolling the
benefits received from her freely chosen
course.
A New York brewer places tho
average number of glasses of beer con-
sumcd by his employees during one day
at seventy-fve apiece, each glass
holding half pint.
THE State school teachers of Vic
toria, Australia, by a large majority.
resolved recently that it was desirable
to introduce systematic Temperance
teaching into State Schools.
THERE is a sermon in the following
from Puck which many a man may
listen to with profit: Fortune knocks
once at every mans door; but she
doesn't go hunting through beer
saloons for him ii he happens to be
out"
In speaking of 'Goliah as a type OF
drink j. Vinson Stephens, of En-
gland, remarks: And one bearing
a shield went before him. Drink has IA
fr - &, shi iol1 hao in ha
able Christian professor who counte-
nances it in any shape or form"
A LETTER from Fargo, ID. T., says:
THE most wonderful revolution of
sentiment has taken place in the
Black Hills. There are now as many
Temperance unions there as in the
whole State of Montana-thirteen. 4
grand work has been done. The w.
G. L. U. convention at Rapid City was
an eye-opener, and really marvel in
excellence.
AN eleven-year-old Brooklyn boy
died recently in the City Hospital
from alcoholism" The child of
drinking parents. he had been en-
ployed to carry cans Of beer to work
men, and on his frequent return trips
from the saloon drank some of the
beer himself. Finally he drank to in
sensibility, and the empty beer can
was found beside his dead body.
A TEMPERANCE society of more
than one hundred and fifty members
was recently organized among the men
in the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, by Mrs. Julia A. Chase,
an active worker among soldiers and
sailors, who on this occasion deliv-
cred an address of such power that
seventy five men who had never signed
the pledge before unhesitatingly gave
their names and affirmed their pur-
pose to lead sober lives.
The Chicago Daily News, in de-
scribing scenes of interest connected
with the great naval battle during the
recent G.. A. r. encampment at Mil
waukee, published the following:
The scenes in and about the hun
dreds of downtown saloons were such
as would have been calculated to give
Temperance agitator the horrors.
Men fought and struggled with each
other to get to the bars and impro-
vised tables where beer was constant
ly flowing in three-inch streams. The
breweries were stormed by as many
different armies as there were
breweries."
L HE fruits of intemperance are pow
erty, vice, Incidence and crime. The
fruits of temperance, happiness, con-
tentment, industry and peace. Let us
choose between them and be wise in
our choice. Strong drink is the curse
of the country, the great murderer of
the ages; fifty thousand men every
year lie down in the grave of the
drunkard. Then again, drinking costs
money. 1t makes people poor, robs
little children of homes, food, cloth
ing and every comfort of life; it pro-
duces thousands of orphans and
widows annually, it has no soul. no
pity for the poor and oppressed. Re
ligious Herald.