The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-05
OUR W. G. T. U. COLUMN.

OUR w. C. T. U. COLUMN.
Some Interesting Gossip Gathered From
| Various Sources.
Baron Liebig, the great German chem
ist says that ''as much flour as can lie
on the point of table-knife contains as
much nutritive constituents as eight
quarts of the best and most nutritious
beer that is made"
The saloon is the enemy of the home,
of the school, of the state, of the church,
of everything that is good.
/, 1t paralyzes industry and thrift, makes
4 politics dirty pool, debauches all par
ties, corrupts elections, defles everyone
who enters therein, brings reproach
npon the American name, while good
people fold their hands, hoping that it
will become satisfied and drop away like
a gorged leech.
T. The United States annually spends
$600,000,000 on tobacco. Internal rev.
enue reports this increase in the use of
tobacco in 1891 over 1890, in cigars,
$22O, ,5O4 $40; in cigarettes, $Sl, ,799 9,52S; ;
in smoking and chewing tobacco $15,-
677 ,29S. 6a.
| The educational influence of the uni
versal habit of newspaper reading of
the people of the United States cannot
! be 'oyer-estimated.
The newspaper of today is tremen-
dous power for good; for the perpetua
tion OF our free institutions for the bet
terment of republican governments for
the Improvements of social conditions.
The press has reformed many things
and it is able to do more good than any
other one agency.
Mr.. Spurgeon says: 'tGrape-juice has
killed more men than grape-shot.
Don't kill the dude, just give him lots
of cigarettes and let him do it himself.
Gibbetted in a Living Death.
In recent sermon DIR. Talmage told
the pathetic story of Rizpah, the mother
of two of the dead boys, who from her
tent on the rock close by the gibbets,
kept up continuous, tireless watch, by
day and by night during all these
months, to guard the seven corpses from
the vultures, wolves and lions. He then
said:
Right here, in these three cities by
the American sea-coast, there are a
thousand cases this moment worse than
that. Mothers watching boys that the
rum saloon, that annex of hell, has glib
beted in living death. Boys hung in
chains of habit they cannot break. the
father may go to sleep after waiting un-
I'll fxuoIuo,o rl0obr Of ,,;rht far bo r,7i,, al
boy to come home and give it up;
he may say: t'Mother, come to bed ;
there's no use sitting up any longer. :"
But mother will not go to bed.
It is one O'Clock in the morning. 1t is
half past one. 1t is two o'clock. 1t is
half past two when he comes staggering
throuoh the hall. Do you say that
young man is yet alive? No; he is dead.
Dead to his fathers entreaties. Dead to
his mothers prayers. Dead to the fam
lily altar where he was reared. Dead to
all. the noble ambitions that once in
spired him. Twice dead. Only corpse
of what he once was. Gibbeted before
God and man and angels and devils.
Chained in a death that will not loosen
its cold grasp.
His father is asleep; his brothers are
asleep, his sisters are asleep, but his
mOtner Is WaIcnlng MIN, WaCcnlng mm
in the night. After he has gone up to
bed and fallen into drunken sleep, his
mother will go up to his room and see
that he is properly covered, and before
she turns out the light will put kiss
upon his bloated lips. Mother, why
don't you go to bed?'' ".Ahle. she said,
"I cannot go to bed. I am Rizpah
watching the slain."
And what are the political parties of
this country doing for such cases? They
are taking care not TO hurt the feeling of
the jackal and the buzzards that roost
on the shelves of the grog-shops, and
hoot above the head.