River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-25
Temperance.

CONDUCTED BY THE. G. Il. u.
"F0r God ard Home and Ndtiue Land"
Beer contains but one per cent. of
nutritiye matter, and is. therefore, not
thing to be taken for nutrition at
all.-nr. Lancaster.
The Lutherans in the Baltic proyin-
ces of Russia have undertaken vigor-
GUS campaign against intemperance,
and have already achieved notable
success.
The "Exmouth training ship, Es-
sex, England, has at present $40 boys
on board, nearly every one of whom
is a member of the ships Band of
Hope.
The Young Women's Christian Tenn
perance Unions have now a member
ship of 80, 900 and raised and expended
over ss35 900 in their work during the
past year.
The report of the Edinburgh Royal
Asylum for 1889 says: 1--WE never,
except in 1879, had SO many cases sent
here in which the assigned cause of
the malady was alcoholic excess as
this year.
The Calcutta Medical Record says:
"Society's use of alcohol is the secret
of half the jaundiced, haggard. dried
up, prematurely aged Europeans we
find in India"
A colony of temperance and vegeta-
rian people is being formed in East
Kent. No sale, manufacture, or dis
tribution of strong drink is to be al
lowed on the estate under heavy pen.
alties. The land is well adapted for
fruit growing, poultry, and dairy pro-
duce. All success to the scheme.
George W. Childs of Philadelphia
says that since the introduction of
AOitlSh ohu ndllfc Lu1uclesl Hd0Cto do
table beverage the use of wine has
decreased one-half at dinner parties
and entertainments.
1t is not generally known that under
the high license law of Nebraska,
known as the Slocumb law, ''treating'
is prohibited. Section 80 says: .'The
person offering or accepting treat is
liable to a fine of $40 or ten days in
Jail"
The will of the late jeremiah Loot
was probated at Philadelphia. 1t is a
peculiar document. Eighty thousand
dollars is left in trust for his family,
provided they shall lead godly lives,
avoid the use of tobacco and liquors
in any form, including cider.
Since the establishment of the vi
emma free kitchens the number of
drunkards is said to have greatly di-
minished. The medical profession
testify to enormous improvements in
the health of the lower classes. De-
of the stomach, formerly
the most frequent cases in Vienna
hospitals, have decreased to one-thiTd
of the number of ten years ago.
At Atlanta and Macon, Ca, it is
proposed to prohibit women from en-
tering saloons. If it is wrong for
women 1t is wrong for men. Why
make any such distinctions! Ministers
of the Gospel always call upon men to
repent as well as women. Why be so
particular to make any distinction be-
tween male and female sinners in the
matter of visiting saloons! Men and
women were made to go in pairs--not
to saloons, however.
Neal Dow, at the recent council of
war against the saloon, held in New
York, Indignantly repealed the state
ment of the liquor advocates that pro-
hibition in Maine is failure. There
is not distillery or brewery in
Maine, and Neal Dow affirms that
there is not a 1.-THE of the drinking
there was before the "Maine law"
and that $24 100000 a year is added
to the wealth of the State, and yet
people will continue to say that prohi
bition laws are a failure. If so, why
do the liquor dealers spend their mon-
ey so freely to overcome theml
"A Chicago saloon-keepers' journal,
felicitously named Mixed Drinks, calls
attention to a rather curious condi-
ton OF things in the world journals
tic. In the course of an article on the
wide distribution of Prohibition liter
AZURE, it says: According to Rowell s
Newspaper Directory for 1890, one
hundred Prohibition papers, with
circulation of 50,O00,000 per annum,
are distributed all over this country
while Only seventeen papers in the in
terest of the liquor trade, with a
meager circulation of l,200.0 900 per
annum, exist to counterfeit this over