Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-01-06
Temperance.
Temperance Notes.

At the Paris Worlds Fair the
Grand Prize and the three gold med
ais were awarded to American brew
ers.
Mr.. Gladstone, in recent letter,
writes: j regard the principle of To-
cal option with much favor and wish
to see it promptly tried"
There are ten police matrons in
Chicago, selected By the w. c. L. I.
More than 1900 women passed
through the stations last year, and to
each one The way was offered to a
better life.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is an
ardent temperance reformer, has Civ
en- notice that as the leases of her
public house property 10 Reigate fall
in, the premises will not be let again
for similar purposes.
Joseph Cook says: "Alcohol is
not only poison with special local
affinity for the brain, but it is a poi
son with fish-hOok barb-it can only
go in, it cannot be pulled out without
tearing the flesh"
Canon WiIberforce, accompanied
by Mrs. and Miss Wilherforce, sailed
for India November 8th, the object
of his journey being mainly the study
of the opium question and the licensed
liquor traffic in that country.
Ex-Gov. Rusk, Secretary of Agri-
culture in President Harrison's Cabi-
net, says: Il have been farmer,
stage-driver, a soldier, and politi-
clan without learning to chew or
smoke, and | want all the credit that
is due me for my abstemiousness.
Says Alice Stone Blackwell: '1ou
may make a church member believe
that the majority of mothers would
vote for dramshops, but you can new
er make the liquor-dealers believe it.
The children Of darkness are wiser
in their generation than the children
of light p"
One of the Chicago city judges re-
marked recently that "Of all the boys
in the Reform school at Pontiac, Ill.,,
and in the various reformatories IN
the city, ninety-five per cent. are the
children of parents who died through
drink, or became criminals through
the same cause"
Archdeacon Farrar, in the sermon
he preached at Birmingham before
the members of the Temperance Con-
gress, said: Gin one single year
100000 persons were arrested In
Great Britain for drunkenness, the
arrests reached the appalling total of
1881 ,389.
One of the prohibition laws in Iowa
forbids the sale of liquor even as a
medicine upon prescription to any
person known to use liquor as bev-
age. This makes it impossible for
anyone to obtain alcohol, except those
who never use it. Even a rattlesnake
bite can't get over the law.-Sdn
Francisco AltG.
The Duchess of Rutland, speaking
on temperance lately at the confer
ence of Young Women's Christian
Associations in Perth, Scotland, said
that for herself she had long thought
that total abstinence was the safest
path. If one occupying the high So
cial position of her Grace may with
out difficulty carry out her principles,
why may not anyone else Glasgow
Reformer.
The native races in Bechuanaland
have through a committee made an
address to their chief, Khama, eX-
pressive of their admiration for his
noble efforts, ''successfully carried
on for many years, to prevent the
introduction of Intoxicating drinks
into his country, and adding an ex-
preston of their hope that ''Her Maj
esty's Government, being now in the
occupation of the country at the
chiefs invitation, will cordially coop
crate with him in his efforts to pre-
vent the introduction, sale, or barter
of strong drink in the land"
Great things have hinged on trifes. The
first family difficulty record was caused by an