The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-06-09
A Word In Season.

DIR. j. g. Holland
! A Word In Season.
How good it is is shown in the follow
/ ing incident:
| Those who were members of the Con-
gregational Sunday school of The Dalles
ten years ago and less will remember
General o. o. Howard who SO often
stood before them with word of in
| struction and encouragement, with his
sleeve dangling at his side. He told
them how he lost his arm at Fair Oaks
June l, 1862. Now he has this pleasant
result of word spoken in season:
AS was making my way to the
hospital, weak from the loss of blood and
from pain, l saw young man intoxi-
Gated. He was so under the influence
of whisky that he could hardly walk
AS / came near him l stopped long
enough to tell him it did not pay to
drink. 1t would ruin him and he had
better stop before the habit had control
of him. passed on to the hospital, had
my arm amputated, and was sent home
to recover. l saw or heard no more of
the drunken soldier until short time
ago, when letter from an officer in
Washington told ME his subsequent his
tory. Impressed by the fact that in nv
wounded condition l had taken enough
interest in him to stop and give him adj
vice, he had then and there quit drink
ing lie kept his resolution, and when
the war was. over, settled down to a life
OF steady, honest work. He gradually
rose, and the letter from Washington
told me he had just died Judge on the
supreme bench in the state of New
Hampshire, one of the foremost in that
commonwealth. .''-Advance.
Mr.. T. V. Powderly at a convention of
labor leaders said of the saloons in the
city of Pittsburg:
''Before the delegates to this conven-
ton separate to go their homes, would
ask them to go on foot through the
temperance question as they go. They
will see handsome buildings devoted to
the sale of liquor ON the principle streets
and, if they estimate the cost of one of
these buildings, they will learn that it
runs away up into the thousands, far
above the reach of the working mans
income. On one of the streets of Pitts
burg will be seen saloon, the plate glass
front of which is worth $4,000, the bar
and fixtures are worth $40 600, the paint
lngs and other decorations are valued at
$1,000. All of this is separate and apart
from the building itself, and of the plot
of ground on. which it stands. Stand
guard at that door for twenty -four hours,
and thousands of men viii be seen pass
ing in and out. OF the. number nine
| tenths will wear-the garb of labor; they
will be the workers in, the mills and
factories that make Pittsburg famous
and foremost in the history of manu-
facture in the United States. Follow
one of these maO n his homo no.,
trast its appearance, condition and sur
roundings with the palace,he stopped al
on his way home, and not one iota of re-
semblance will be seen. Inquire if he
owns the house he lives in, and it is
more than likely thai the answer will be
in the negative. Ask him why he does
not live in a better or more comfortable
home, and his reply will be, 81 cannot
afford it." Take walk through the en-
tire city, and it will be seen that the
palaces IN which liquor is sold are costly
and well furnished. Go still further.
and it will be discovered that the men
who live in the illy-ventilated, poorly
furnished, stuffy, unhealthy tenements
or dwellings, are the very men whose
dimes and dollars have furnished the
"palaces of hell' with plate-plass
windows, expensive bars and fixtures
costly paintings and neat surroundings. y
A curious lack of proper restriction
upon the licensed liquor traffic of the
national capitol was brought out by the
petition of poor woman to the loca i
authorities, asking that certain saloon
keepers, who had disregarded her person
al requests, be prevented from selling
liquor to her husband, who is, she saws.
an habitual drunkard. The petition
was referred to the Chief of Police. and
he in turn referred it to the ATTORNEY for
the District of Columbia in order to as-
certain his legal authority in the pre-
misses, and that official, after a careful
search, said there was no law by which
these saloon-keepers could be prevented
from selling the poor woman's husband
all the liquor he wanted, notwithstand-
ing his being an habitual drunkard and
the piteous appeal of the wife. Congress-
offers splendid field for temperance
missionary work. siSs,se
WashlngteR has model police Judge.
The other day q prisoner, arraigned be-
fore him, began to plead as an extenua-
ton for the crime he had Committed.
the fact of his having been drunk.
stop, said the judge FesI want it un-
derstoed that no person who violates the
law while in state of intoxication need
this court; he who deliberately cl ouds
his brain must take the consequenc es. -
Lost-Somewhere on Washington ST.,
a pocket book containing a ten dollar
green back, five dollar green back and
two and half dollar gold piece and
some silver. A suitable reward will be
paid Tor its return to W. S. Norman of
this city or to this Office.
Three furnished rooms suitable for
n col zoo Co.