The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-01-07
DRINKING IN PALACE CARS.


makes the same charge against the Pullman
car saloon" the W. G. T. U. has so often
made: "Auong the many annoyances OF
travelling in Pullman car none Is worse to
bear than the saloon Last year took q
trip to California and back by way OF
Tacoma and st. Paul. The through trains
carry liquor and it is sold and drank to IN
toxication, and what with the noise, pro-
family and gaming, determined never to
spend any more money to secure sleeping
berth when the porter is unable to secure
ouiet. It was my misfortune to be located
near to the .state-room' which was occupied
by quartet Of drinking and card Playing,
swearing fellows lone an editor of Mime
anoiis daily,. and twice did I call for the
porter asking him to stop their noisy, bolster.
Gus conduct, but he said he could mott
DEN1zENs OF DARKEST ENGLAND.
General Booth in his new book, "1n Dark
est England says: "Have you ever watched
by the bedside Of man in delirium tremens?
Multiply the sufferings Of one drunkard by
the hundred thousand. and you have some
idea Of what scenes are being Witnessed IN
all our great cities this moment. AS IN africa
streams intersect the forest In every direc-
lion, so the gin shop stands at every corner
seventeen hours out Of the twenty -four for
the destruction Of the people. A population
sodden with drink, stepped in vice, eaten up
by every social and physical malady-these
are the denizens Of darkest England, amld
whom my life has been spent and to whose
rescue I would now summon all that Is best
IN the manhood and womanhood OF ourlan
HOW TO PROMOTE TEMPERANCE.
Edward Everett Hale says in the Cosme:
nolitan Muqazine: once asked the chief o.
a great temperance home how one could
work to dest1 oy the craving for liquor. He
looked at me with some surprise that man
in NV profession should ask such question,
and said at once: mo man ever becomes
temperate himself unless he tries to make
some one else temperate" In fashion l
had know this, as every preacher OF chris
tianity must know it; it is doctrine iald
down in the osrels i'll hundred forms, but
had never used it as working formula nor
had recommended it to other people as
have done since. Let me say this to any per-
son irving to reform relative or a friend.
You must introduce this desire to help for
ward somebody else or your work will not
stand long Your protege need not speak OF
temperance meetings if he does not want to,
but do you take care that he is doics some
thing in the general cause OF purity-that hs
Is thinking OF some one besides himself. We
do not attain purity by thinking Of inapur-
ity. We do not attain to temperance by
thinking of intemparance. Give him high
motive and you have SO far lifted him from
the plane on which he slipped and fell. An
old and wise friend, who is still living under
the not cold shadow Of four score and ten,
inculcating practical morals said to me
once: "You ara intereste in temperance; l
will tell you how to save men from drunken
ness.n And when eagerly asked the secret,
he replied by saying: MAKE them plant
trees, make them plant trees? So soon as
they are interested in the growth OF any
thing else they will be led outside them
selves, and they will not have time to be
drunkp Ishould be afraid to trust to this
instruction if had man returned to me
from the House of Correction after his tenth
confinement for the tenth spree which had
commanded the attention of the police, out
it involves an element which ought to be
more considered than it seeZls to be general
". You want to change the manner OF life
of your patient as largely as you can,
especially you want to take him into the open
air if YOU can. The army in the Civil War
was, for the private, a school Of temperance.
T think most officers will agree with me IN
this. For officers it was often. alas! school
of drunkenness, because they could order for
their own use liquors which their men could
not use. Butunder the absolute prohloitlon
which existed when an army was far from
any ''civilized post" and in the freedom and
freshness of the open air life, many man
learned practically lesson which, before, he
had no opportunity to try. If ! were the
dictator of this Nation there should bs beef
tee or some stimulant Of equal value and
Innocence, at the door Of every factory
where hard work is done, that man or woman
might drink cup as he goes out from work
before he could refresh himself elsewhere.
You overcome evil by putting in good. You
keep the devils out of the house by introduc-
ing angels. And the person who is thor
ouehly well fed escapes one Of the most terri
BILE temptations as it comes upon the person
who is hungry,