The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-10-23
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY THE W. C. 7. U.


The w. @. 7. U. meetings are held at
the M. E. Church on the three last Mon
days of each month at 8 o'clock p. m. in
the League room.
The farewell message OF the outgoing
Mayor of Beatrice, the fourth largest
city of Nebraska, gives this point for
workers: 81 certainly am
not mistaken when 1 say that for the
$l0,000 yearly obtained from saloon IL
cense the city loses annually $75,OOO,-
taken from the pockets of the people
without adequate remuneration. Is it
not true business statement when l
say that the taxable property of the
city is far less than it would have been
had this great sum of money gone into
lots and cottages instead of being utterly |
wasted in the saloons?
No doubt some of our readers have
heard how Mr.. Higginbotham's home
was made interesting. He had told Mrs.
Higginbotham that he went out at night
because his home was not interesting.
Therefore, like wise woman, she pro-
ceeded to effect remedy. Concealing
her identity she discovered what kind
OF place Mr.. Higginbotham considered
interesting, then she set to work. The
carpets in the front and back parlors
we're taken up, the floors were sprinkled
with saw dust, the beautiful paintings
gave place to something little loud,
spit boxes with stumps OF cigars were
put in the corner, and decanters adorn.
ed the rough table which had taken the
place of the OF the handsomely covered
stand. Then Mrs. Higginbotham invit-
ed Mr.. Higginbotham to spend the
evening at home, and he did. He sur.
veyed the situation with open mouth
and round eyed wonder; then look
of sneaking dismay came o'er his face;
and when at last he had gotten enough
of his humiliated manhood together to
express an opinion, he declared that
if Mrs. Higginbotham would only put
the parlor to rights again, he would con.
| slider her home the most interesting
place in the world.-Chicago Adrance.
The business done by the Woman's
Temperance Publication Association,
Chicago, in the last year, amounts in
round numbers to $ls0,0O0. The in
crease in cash receipts the past year is
$50, 900. A-dividend of seven per cent.
has been declared for the third time to
stockholders. Considering that all this
enterprise relates to temperance pure
and simple, and 10 conducted by the
women, the record is one to which the
history of the temperance movement
affords no parallel.
The Southern Star, of Atlanta, Georgia.
states that more than $1,000 day is
spent for intoxicating liquors in that
city, also that one hundred per cent.
more paupers we're buried by the city
during the last two years of high license
than during the previous two years OF
prohibition.
The scientific temperance instruction
law of California has already so seriously
affected the saloonkeepers' regular crop
of customers-the boys-that the liquor
men have begun agitation to have the
law repealed by the next legislature
The w. G. T. U. win endeavor to pour
cold water on this project.
That "cold water" city should give
promise of becoming the phenomenal
city of the south" is fact to encourage
prohibition economists. The great salt
of the East Tennessee Land company al
Hartman, Feb. %, brought together
1000 people from almost every Stats
and territory in the Union The city
as surveyed, embraces $500 lots o
which 500 were auctioned at the sale a
an average of $52 a foot. This lanc
company is composed almost exclusive
ly of prohibitionists and every titlt
deed of the new city forever prohibits
the sale OF intoxicants on the premises
The Chicago Champion, organ of thu
liquor dealers, is hot for the fray in it
high license stronghold. Witness tn,
sentiment of a late editorial: "No matte
how many men it takes, no matter how
much it costs if it costs the liquor trad
. one hundred thousand dollars, nay, TIVE
hundred thousand dollars to fight thi
battle successfully, the victory will b.
worth to Nebraska, it will be worth Il
the liquor trade of the whole Unite,
States ten times more than it will cost.
Sure to relieve. There is no failure il
Simmons Liver Regulator.