St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14
TEMPERANCE ITEMS

Felix L. Oswald, in tie North 4A1neyicnn
Re0iew, pre.icts that prohibition viii! first
establish itself fully in the South
At South Omaha Neh., w, G. n r
tent meeting was attacked with rotten eggs
The guilty parties were fined 500
The Duke of Connargbt says that if the
liquor traffic were abolished in India 40 00O
soldiers would take the place OF 81, 900 now
employed.
Miss Mary Morelaad, Of Wyanet W. G.
T. u, organizer of the Seventh District
has just been ordained pastor cf Congra-
gational church.
Within the next six w. Is 3 large mum
Der of W G. T. l conventions viii be held
IN Illinois, To these VIII 90 ont from,
State headquarters about $4,000 pages of
literature.
The Farmers A)l&nne oF Dakota. At
late session, received ira'ernaI DELEGATES
from the w. G. t. L. The Dakota WHITE
ribhOnefs speak of the Alliance as that
grand organization, which in Dalora il the
strongest ally of the W. c T. L."
At the Lake bluff iemperance convocation
committee was chosen to write to the
various manufacturers Of sleeping ears re-
questing the banishmant of tEt SMOKING
compartment. Among the committee are
Miss f. E. willard, Mrs. j. &. Hobbs and
the Rev, c G. darIah.
All history has ana'hernatized Judas
lscarioo for selling bis Lord for thirty
pieces Of silver, yet there are liopor noliti-
clans alike in Texas and Penrsy Ivania.
who, if they bad lived in the time of
he, 4
the money.-Dr j. B. CaantU
More lives are lost every month in this
country, and more property DESTROYED
every week by drink than in the
Johnstown disaster What would be
thought of a Chfistisn man voting for
such flood to be turned loose every month
in the year2 How much worse for him to
do so on the ground that it benefited the
coffin maker ?-Baptjst Chr'nicle
Mrs j K Barney, Worlds superinten-
dent of Prison Work, is going about busi]y
in Enrope. visiting various Prisons and
houses Of detention in he lire Of her work.
She was greatly interested ia the Christian
Police Association. and hopes to see some
thing of that kiud in America She will
visit Austria, lraly Switzerland, snd Ger
many, returning hone by way of Paris and
London this fall before the National Con
vention.
In speaking Of the effects Of alcohol, al
eloquent speaker said 1T strikes George
D. Prentice, and Lis palsied hand falls
limp and nervel@ss at his side 1t encloses
in It's meshes a Tom Marshall, and his
untimely death sets al the world to mourn
ing. 1t entices fair woman and degrades
her till at last she becomes blacker than
the dust that blows about the street. To
prince and peasant, patrcan and plebian,
to the proud and the humble it is the
worm that dieth not, and the fire that is
not quenched.
It is desired that on Miss Frances E.
Wizards ffGieth birthday gift shall be
presented her which shall be the Joint
offering Of all the unions Of the United
States The Slan is that each union which
desires to do 30 shall send 81, this to be
accompanied Sy a written sentiment in such
shape that they can be bound in books,
each State by itself. Miss Willard receives
nothing for her autobiography, she having
given to The National W. c. T. T. all re-
ceipts above expenses.
Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt has now
reached London. She intends to remain in
England for time, and then travel on the
continent in prosecution of her round-the-
world work. She says: at is my life
work, this pioneer business" The British
Woman's Temperance Association gave
her welcome at which Margaret Lucas
presided. H-Dspeech ON the occasion
MIS- Leavitt said: Il can tell you that if
the women of America had the ballot in
their hands they would soon legislate the
drink curse out of existence"
DR.. Jas. I. Fellows says that from
actual knowledge, based upon observation
through life, he has found that those who
indulge in alcoholic stimulants to be the
principal consumers of medicine and.
from the fact that alcohol will prevent the
decomposition of food, even if taken in
very small quantities, it cannot be other
wise than serious impeachment to diges-.
ton; and although it may, by its direct
action on the lungs, cause the blood to be
oxidized during It's presence there, the
succeeding effects are Inflammation and in
digestion, so that, even in phthisis, the
injury far outweighs its good effects.