The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE.


THE entire convict population of Kan
sas is now only 255.
THE race question is largely the
whisky question. Atlanta Constitution.
IT is stated that forty-one per cent. of
the crimes in Germany last year were
committed by intoxicated persons.
THE most dangerous saloon-keeper is
the one who most successfully conceals
the fact that the devil is his partner
RAMS Horn.
NINETY-EIvE men at Kelseyville, Lake
County, Cal, signed the pledge in one
day recently, and the only saloon in the
town went into retirement
IT is estimated that in ninety per
cent. of all cases coming before the po-
lice justices of New York City the fault
may be traced to the use of intoxicants.
The young man who will not take
drink under any circumstances can not
become drunkard, but the one who
sometimes takes glass may die in the
ditch.-Ram's Horn.
A TEMPERANCE editor, of Lincoln,
Mob, recently found coffin on his
doorstep, placed there by the liquor
men to indicate his fate if he continued
to ''persecute' them, whereupon the
editor sold the coffin for seven dollars
and presented the money to the w. C.
T. U.
CYRUS HAMLIN writes, concerning
journey through Maine: 'Many of the
jails have been empty. l visited one
where the jailer said he had not had a
prisoner for some time. He opened the
Jail occasionally to keep the locks in
running order, but he added: Where
there is no drunkenness there is no
falling"
NINE. PATTI was interviewed few
days ago as to the dress, exercise, diet,
ETC., most advisable for girls who wish
to becom singers. Being asked: what
| wines may young singer allow her
self?" Nine. Patti answered: 'If she
| really means to succeed, no wines at all
l don't believe in wine; it hurts the
| throat almost invariably. Some young
singers, l know, are not strong, and
! doctors prescribe claret for them, but it
| is bad practice to drink it. For myself,
never touch wine" ....---..---.....
The natives of Africa call New En-
gland rum, shame-water. The Dark
Continent has a keen discernment. For
it is burning shame to civilization and
| Christianity that the African barbarian
should be destroyed by Boston rum. The
pitiful slavery and cannibalism prevail
ing among these tribes awake a sense of
horror in all who read of them. But it
is still more horrible that from Christ
ian nation the vile poison should be
poured in upon them that must lead to
their debasement. robbery and destruc-
ton. Is the history of the corruption of
so many of the Indian tribes by intoxicat-
ing liquors to be repeated in Africa?-
Mid-Continent.
w. II. CRoGMAN, professor of Greek in
Clark University, Atlanta, Ca, in an
article on '"The Negro and Temper
ance" in the forthcoming encyclopedia
! of Temperance" states that noticeable
per cent of the mortality among the
colored people to-day is attributable
directly and indirectly to the increas-
ing drink habit, and that consumption,
disease hardly known among tho
blacks before the war, is now of fire.
quent occurrence, owing on she one hand
to reckless and unnecessary exposure
through drunkenness and on the other
to the inability of the poor man to pro-
vide comfortably during the winter
months, both for his own home and that
of the liquor-dealer.