The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-02
TEMPERANCE ITEMS

THE Swedish Government has APP.
propriated fl,OO0 year for the pro-
motion Of Temperance.
In Chicago, says 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 the
average number of glasses OF beer con-
sumed by his employees during one day
at seventy-tive apiece, each glass
holding half pint.
The State school teachers of Vic
toria, Australia, by large majority,
resolved recently that it was desirable
to introduce systematic Temperance
teaching into State Schools.
THERE is sermon in the following
from Puck which many a man Inay
listen to with profit: Fortune knocks
once at every mans door; but she
doesn't go hunting through beer
saloons for him if he happens tr be
OUT
In speaking Of "Goliah as type OF
drink" j. Vinson Stephens, of En-
gland, remarks: "'And one bearing
a shield went before him. Drink HIS
ia ithful shield bearer in the resp' ct.
able Christian professor who coul te-
nances it in any shape or form"
A LETTER from Fargo, DIT, says:
1.-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. A
grand work has been done. The w.
G. T. 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:
1.-THE scenes in and about the hun.
. dreds OF downtown saloons werc such
as would have been calculated to give
a 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. Tho
, breweries were stormed by us many
different armies as there were
, breweries.
, 7 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 peog,e poor, robs
little children of hom@s, food, cloth
ing and every comfort O life; it pro-
duces thousands Of orphans and
, widows annually. it has no soul. no
, pity for the poor and oppressed. --Re-