The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-04

drink. The great cause of poverty is
dr;uk When | hear of family broken
up and ask the cause-drink If go to
the gaIows and ask It's victim the cause,
The jrswcr--cirink. Then ask myself
in perfect wJnderment, why do not men
put "A stop to this thing? Our legisla-
tors will come together and pass every
measure necessary to the welfare of the
people, aud yet pass laws sanctioning
the sale of liquor through saloons arch
biSAod Heland.
Abraham Lincoln was as absteRious
i'll his eating as in his drinking. His
breakfast was commonly an egg and a
cup of coffee; lunch, bread and milk or
fruit, and diuner, one or two simple
courses. He never used tobacco, and
gave himself no indulgence of any kind.
a paper on Heredity read at the an
nual meeting of the American Social
Science Association credited forty per
cent OF drunkards directly to inebriate
ancestry, and twenty per cent to insane
and mentally diseased parentage, SO that
sixty per cent of all inebriates are
Launched into existence freighted with
diseased tendencies and impulses which
burst into activity from the slightest ex-
citing causes" What legacy for more
tEan one-hali of our children!
Nife-'1 wish that man would go
home, if be has got one to go to-"
Landlord Hush, hush! he'll call for
a drink directly"
about it then, for it is time every honest
man was in bed.'
Laudlord-'' is taking the shingles
off his house and putting them on ours"
At this time James came to his right
senses and commenced rubbing his eyes,
and stretching himself as if he had Just
awoke, said, Il believe I'll CO."
''Don't be IN a hurry, James," said the
landlord.
oh, yes, must go, " said James, and
he started.
After an absence of some weeks, the
landlord met him, and accosted him
with: Hello Jim! Why aim you been
down to see us?'
"Why, had taken so many shingles
off my house it began to leak, and have
been mendiug it, said James.
The tavern keeper and his wife were
James is now a happy man,
and his wife and children are happy too.
Young man, whose house are you shin
gling? World.
Recently vessel.sailed from a Bel
GUM port for West Africa, having on
board fourteen missionaries, four hun
dred and sixty casks of gunpowder,
eleven cases of gin and ten thousand
casks OF rum. Verify civilization ca is
a puzzle of Inconsistencies! Is there not
a question here for the foreign mission
airy societies, as to how far they lend
their sanction to rum and gunpowder
tactics by sailing in vessels bearing
such cargo?
The following is, says the australian
Sunday School Teacher, from a boys
essay on total abstinence: 81 abstain
from alcoholic drinks, because, if would
excel as cricketer, Grace says, 'abstain;'
as a walker, Weston says abstain; as an
Hanlon says, abstain; as a
swimmer, Webb says, 'abstain;' as an
orator, Bright says, abstain as a mis-
Livingstone says, abstain; as a
doctor, Clark says, abstain as
preacher, Farrar says. abstain. Asy
lums, prisons, and work houses repeat
the cry, 'abstainr" We have heard
long speech with less in it.
The following testimony from General
Won Moltke, the great military hero of
land flowing with beer, which is COM
monty considered as harmless as milk.
Verify, the day of enlightenment is at
hand, He says: Il, myself, abstain
from alcohol. do not con-
slider it necessary or helpful, except, per-
haps, after fatiguing work, when the
principal thing is to revive ones strength
at once. Certainly, one of the greatest
enemies of Germany is the misuse OF
alcohol. A healthy man needs no such
and to give it to children,
which is often done, is absolutely
wicked"
The model town of Pullman, ILL.,,
named for the founder and the famous
builder of the Pullman cars, is prohi-
bition town, as indeed all model towns
are. An Australian gentleman, becom-
ing interested in this wldely-known
addressed a number of questions
to leading official of Pullman. An
English paper gives the result as follows:
/. In what year was the city of Pull
man founded? Answer. 1880.
2. What is the population at present
February, 1S90)? Answer. 1000.
8. How many churches does it contain?
Answer. Six.
4. How many schools also, and teach
ers employed? Answer. Four day
schools and one night school. Twenty
four teachers.
5. How many lockups or jails9 Answer.
None.
6. How many magistrates, with
amount of salaries? Answer. None.
7. Number of police and their cost?
Answer. Two at seventy five dollars per
month.
s. What is the annua! amount spent in
the relief of the poor? Answer. None.
9. Can you furnish us with your STA
tistics of crime? Answer. We have
none.
10. Have you any asylums, such as
those for lunatics, orphans, benevolent,
etc? Answer. None.
II. Is the trade IN strong drink pro-
hibited? Answer. Yes.
10. Do you attribute to the absence of
facilities for getting drink an improved
state of morals as compared with other
cities in YOUR state? Answer. Yes.
The 7aoentieth Century delivers the
following monologue on "Society's Two
Extremes:
When you read Ward McAllister's
book you have picture of what our
civilization has done for the rich. If you
will walk through the Mulberry Street
New York; district, you will see what