The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-09
VARIOUS NOTES.

free from the saloon curse One was
recently opened there, but the church
people rose en- masse and protested so
effectually that it was soon closed.
KING KAMA, a south African chief, is
said to be very enlightened and tries to
prevent the sale of ardent spirits to
his subjects. He besought the Eng
lish government to prohibit the liquor
traffic among his subjects, but all in
vain.
NEVER DRINK.-I love liquor and I
love the fellowship involved in drink
ing. My safety has been that l never
drink at all. 1t is much easier not to
drink at all than to drink little. If
had to attribute what have done in
life to any one thing should attri butte
it to the fact that am a teetotaler.
As sure as you are born, it is the pleas
ATTEST, the easiest and the safest way.
Henry w. Grady.
The commissioners of the Lancashire
lunatic asylums state IN their annual
report just issued that although
drunkards are not generally regarded
as insane, it is question whether the
habitual tippler might not with advan-
tage be considered an irresponsible
being, and treated as SUCH" They
point to the fact that in not few
cases the only cause that can be de-
tected for patients insanity is the in
temperance of one or both parents
Journal of Inebriety.
Nix. 4. BLACKLoCK says: 'The female
market is overcrowded, and wages
thereby reduced. largely through the
drinking habits Of men," Mr.. Charles
Booth said: Factory girls are FIRE.
quently the daughters of drunkards. +"
In workshop in London where twelve
women were employed, four of the
number were found to be wage. earners
because of drunken husbands. A gen.
tleman employing seven hundred wom-
en- and girls in London said: II can state
for fact that large number of our
female employees have to seek work be-
cause of the intemperance of their
male relatives"
AN American physician calls atten.
ton to the fact that the free use Of
apples is an excellent means of pre-.
venting the appetite for liquor. For a
number of years he has treated patients
suffering from dipsomania by re4uir-
ing them to eat apples freely at meals
and 10 take an apple whenever the ap-
petite tor liquor was experienced. He
claims that this free use of apples is a
complete antidote for the appetite for
alcoholic drinks. On principle we do
not approve of substitutes; neverthe-
less, no objection could be offered to
the use of so harmless a substitute as
ripe, sub-acid apples journal of In
ebriety.
4 TEMPERANCE laws in Norway are
unique. A correspondent describes the
regulations observed in the cities. A
! syndicate may be formed to sell
licenses conditioned on the giving up
of all profits beyond Ave per cent. on
the paid-up stock to benevolent OBJ
jects which depend on voluntary con
tributions for support In Bergen, 9
city of so, 600 inhabitants, the syndicate
has capital of $50, 900, divided into 400
shares, which are owned by $50 stock
holders. Shares are at premium ani
the profits are fully 1875 per cent Since
} the year 1875, S3SO.775 have been dis
tributed in charity. Seats are not al
lowed in country barrooms, neither il
lounging permitted. Prices of liquor
} are posted in the saloons and each day.
sales are reported at night to tn,
agent for the syndicate. Drinking ana
crime have steadily decreased since tn,
introduction of these stringent laws =
: Congregationalist