The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-11-29

his first to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury Its chililike, pathetic elo-
,uence reads DIS follows: Great and
.ood chief of the tribe of Christ,
greeting: The humDlest Of your ser
ANTS kisses the hem of your garment,
md begs you to send to his fellow ser
,ants more gospel and less rum In
ne bonds of Christ, Ugalia Mon
signal.
Ina vigorous ana startling article
which appeared sometime since from
the pen of Margaret f. Stewart in the
Herald and Presbytcr. occurs the fol-
lowing burning passage: ~ few
wears ago IN Il lonely hat i'll Central
Africa, worn-out man died upon his
tnees. praying in the fervor of a con
secrated, loyal soul oh, let Thy king
iom cCme.' lie LA | opened, he
thought, the great, Dark Continent to
The onward march Of Christian civil.Z-
alton ana the light of Gods truth.
Ghristiandom shouted for joy, and the
procession started across the sea.
Watch it One missionary. 10000 gal
Ions of rum; one missionary, 10000
gallo of rum; another missionary,
another 10000 gallons of rum; and so
on and on 1t goes. rum and mission
aries, missionaries and rum Thus we
touch the great Congo state. Watch
again One convert to Christ, q humid
rec Grankards; one more, a hundred
more; the missionaries heart grows
sick, it cries oat, Oh, Christians at
home for the love Of Christ stop the
rum But, as the climate does its
Exhaustive worl, and one by one the
brave workers sink beneath the burn
inr sun, hearts at home are discOur-
aged, and the next ship GOES only with
rum-without the missionary. Under
the madness Of Intoxicating liquors
sent from Massa chusetts, two hundred
of the people (of Congo slaughtered
each other in a single day. Again we
are told of a single gallon of this drink
causing 4 fight i'll which fifty were
killed. Judas sold his Lord for seven
teen dollars, but America hurries fifty
souls TO the bar Of God f II ninety
cents
At TankcIly, South Africa. there is
an average Of one native founl dead
every morning as Il result Of exces s:ve
drinking.
Bishop William Tay Tor, just home
from Africa for short visit in this
country said in an address at Memo
rial Hall, Evanston, Sunday, May 1,
among other startling facts regarding
the liquor traffic in the Dark Cont
nent: ''IIamburg alone sends ont by
Its English and German steamers an
nually 200, n00 tons of rum and gin
not gallans-not b.:rrels-but tons"
The greg shops cannot be resolved
down, prayed down nor sung down;
there is only one way one way on
earth by which they can be suppressed
and th,t is by votes in tn. ballot box
Neal Dow.
The great Tnrsenietf characterized
alcohol as III, bitter cup after the
drinking Of WI CT there is no redemp-
ton and no resurrection.
Between fifty and sixty coffee
hous s are now open in New York
City, where tea, coffee and temper
ancc drinks, with food, are sold at
moderate prices.
4 prom nent Nebraskan estimates
that the annual liquor bill of that
st tie is 81 ,000, 900.
\ German American prohibition
league, numbering about one hundred
members. from different parts of the
state, was recently organized in In
diana The object is to build up a
sentiment among German Americans
in favor of total abstinence and the
legal prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Won Moltke 'hears this testimony:
Beer is a far more dangerous enemy
TO Germany than all the armies of
France"
\ New York medical journal is re
sponsihle for the following in regard
to injury from tobacco: 1t is only
necessary to have some record of what
the general health was, previous to
taking up of the habit. and to have OBJ
seryations cover a long enough time.
The history of tobacco in the island of
New Zealand furnishes quite a sugges-
tive illustration for our purpose, and
one on large scale. When EUrop-
cans first visited New Zealand they
found i'll the native MaoriS the most
developed and powerful men of any of
the tribes in'iabiting the islands of the
Pacific Since the introduction of to-
bacco. for which the MaoriS developed
a passionate liking. they have from
this cause alone, it is said. become de
clmated III numbers. and at the same
time reduced in stature and in phvsi-
cal we'll being 50 as To be an altogether
inferior type " men. :"