The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-07
A BOY DIES OF DRINK.

John Flynn. lad thirteen years old, died
at his home in New York city recently OF
alcoholism. He was found lying upon the
floor Of his sleepingaroom in an unconscious
condition and died before medical aid could
be summoned. Beside him lay an empty
soda-water bottle which had contained
whisky.
Two or three years. ago. the father says,
Johnny was very ill, and it was necessary to
give him stimulants to keep up his strength.
Always after that the child had to be given
liquor once or twice day. At first the IA
ther bought the LIQUOR and administered the
dose, but after while Johnny grew to be
such big boy that he was allowed to take
the liquor himself. -
Every morning when no went to his wore,
and before John got out Of bed, his father
would leave ten cents on the mantelpiece to
be given to the boy for liquor. At one OF
the soda water bottle that was found beside
him. On'a recent morning when the boy got
UP he found ten cents in its customary place
on the mantel, and taking his sola water
bottle with him went to his favorite saloon
to get it filled. About half an hour after
ward he was found unconscious and soon
died.
A HINT TO MOTHERS.
Miss Willard says: "Begin to teach
temperance in the lullaby song and
the twilight evening story" The Pennsyl
vania Bulletin contains the follow
ing suggestion in furtherance Of this idea:
A telegram comes into the house. Children
will ask numberless questions about it.
Mothers, it pays to stop, and take time TO-
answer all these countless little inquiries.
Don't finish your story until you have toldS
of the wonderful telegraph system which e1-
tends over our bodies. Tell OF the tlne net
work nerves upon which messages are con-
stantly being carried to and from the brain,
the central office. They must be kept solt,
like an egg, in order to-keep the telegraph
apparatus in working order. Alcohol sucks;
the moisture from these delicate nerve cells,
and then they do not work perfectly, and
the drini;er thinks he feels better, when the
truth is he only feels less.
Mother and child are walking the street,
and notice q sign over store. what was
il placed there for? To SHOW what 1t con-
tained within. God has made man so that
he cannot help hang out his sign and show to-
all what he keeps within A dishonest per-
son will seldom look you square IN the 1ace'
he cannot laugh full and round and open,
like the true-hearted honest man. There are
those who read character in everything, but
the tobacco user aud the drunkard hang OUT
a siSn so plain that all who SEQ may read.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
II is hoped to erect temperance temple
for E,nsas Women's Christian Temperance
Union on the Ottawa Assembly Grounds.
Steamer bars are to be abolished in Onta-
rio Canada, as they should be wherever
TRANSFORMATION companies value human lie.
The arrests for drunkenness i'll Great
Britain for the past ten years are salu W
have reached total of nearly two mllllons-
OF GAO persons who entered five saloons IN
Columbus Ohio, within an hour one oaluf-
Iav evening. 554 were found to be young
men.
samp,e of W. c. T. L. activity IS the
fact that one Illinois woman alone mas esCsc-
lishoi twenty-five new local unions wi1hln
the last five months.
4 New York white-ribboner suggests lhaS
coffee stands be placed close to every Saioon,
Zach n n,rson to receive piec, OF bread o"
cracker, with coffee or tea, at a penny
cup.
There are ID. 900 bands of hope and Inven-
;,a temperance societies in tho United k!ngj
dom with nearly 1000, 900 members. lhl
Scottish Union includes 600 societies aho
100, 900 members.
This is how all exchange figures 1t out
From bushel of corn distiller gets I0ul o
Gallons of whiskey, which retails at Sl6. Inc
Government gets 1850, tho farmer wnC
raised the corn gets forty cents, the ra'iroae
gets 81. the manufacturer gets 81, the Te
failer gets 81 and the consumer gets drunk.