The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

inviting young men to his church. In we'll
known resort the proprietor asked the rever-
end gentleman if he would not take drink
before he left. Mr.. Simonsen replied that he
didn't care if he did, and ordered whisky. a
glass and bottle were passed. to him, when
he filled up the glass, passed ten cents over
the counter, and, pulling bottle out Of his,
pocket poured the liquor into it,. took the
number of the saloon and departed. In sew
eral other places he repeated the same act
It is surmised that he intends to have liquor
analyzed and show the 'boys" what they are
drinking.
A GOOD THING Fol. FARMERS.
The closing of the saloons in Ackley, Iowa
has worked wonders for the farmers OF that
vicinity. A correspondent OF the Christian
Advocate says: Mine years ago. Ackley,
Iowa had seventeen saloons, and the banks
and farmers sent $25, 900 to the East au-
nually to pay interest on farm mortgages.
Now he found no saloon or sign of saloon,
and banker told him they had sent only
$500 East during the year TO pay interest on
farm mortgages. Not a policeman there now,
and not a pauper in the Poorhouse nor
criminal in the Jail. Poor old poorhouse, it
had to give up business, and the Jail is full OF
cobwehs! Yes, temperance has hurt the jail
and poorhouse in Ackley. 1t has ruined these
institutions"
WHAT THEIR SAVINGS WOULD BUY.
Canton, ILL.,, carried on its anti-licencs
campaign in very practical fashion. Among
other campaign literature it circulated
dodger containing this lesson on dimes, do
lars, drinks and dinners: Here is what you
can get for the prics of two ten-cent drinks
daily for every working day OF one year
3ll days: Twelve sacks of fcur, 100 pounds
Of granulated sugar, ifty pounds Of butter,
ten bushels of potatoes. ten pounds of coffee,
twenty five cans Of fruit, twenty-five cans OF
vegetables, fifty dozen eggs, two barrels OF
crackers, and cash bonus of s420. How
msny men who work hard spend more than
twenty cents day Oh the saloon, and never
think of the value they are daily wasting"
TO prove that these figures were no guess
work, there was appended to them the state
ment Of nine leading grocerS OF the place
that they were ready to make contract TO
supply the above list Of groceries to any
family for the price of two ten cent drinks
Der dav. for year. Yet license won by
twenty votes. Slaaal
DRUNKENNESS AND DRUSKARD-HAK1NG.
A recent feature of proposei new legisla-
ton in Massachusetts, provides for the espe-
cial punishment Of drunkenness. 1t is pro-
posed to punish any one who has been ar
rested twice within twelve months for
drunkenness, and to abolish fines for drunk
ards, and to sentence frequent Offenders to
longer terms. We should have compara-
lively little faith in the efficacy of such
statute, though it might possibly accomplish
a minimum Of good. We should have great
er faith in stringent statute against drunk
ard-making. While the license system con-
tinues and drink-shops are protected in hav-
ing wide open doors with all possible allure
ments for victims Of the drink appetite, 1t
will be TO a large extent in vain to put upon
the statute.books laws which shall under.
take to prevent these man and women OF
weakened will and deteriorated character,
under the inaencs Of strong drink, from
Welding to the saloon temptations. Nation
al TEMPERANCE Advocate.
wEAT THE IRISH BISHOPS SAY.
The bishops of Ireland, in their Pastoral
Letter from the National Synod Of May
nootb, say:
"With deepest pain, and, after the ex-
ample Of the Apostle, weeping, we say that
the abominabls vice of intemperance still
continues to work dreadful havoc amongst
our people, marring in their souls the work
Of religion, and; in spite of their rare natu-
raj and supernatural virtues changing many
among them into enemies of the Cross Of
Christ; whose end is destruction, whose
god is their belly, and whose glory is their
shame
rs it not dearly beloved, an intolerable
scandal that in the midst of Catholic na-
ton like ours, there should be found so many
slaves Of intemperance who habitualy sacri-
fee to brutal excess in drinking, not only
their reason, but their character, the honor
of their children, their substance, their
health, their life, their souls and God him
self?
TO drunkenness we may refer. as to Its
baneful cause almost all the crime by which
the country is disgraced and much Of the
poverty from which it suffers. Drunkenness
has wrecked more homes, once happy, than
ever fell beneath the crowbar in the worst
iavs of eviction; it has filled more graves,
and made more WIDOWS and orphans, than
did the famine; it las broken more hearts,
hlichted more hores, and rent asunder fam
ily ties more ruthlessly than the enforced e1-
lie to which their misery tas condemned
emigrsnts
:. Against an evil so widespread and so per-
nicous we implore all WHO have at heart the
honor OF God and the salvation of souls 70 be
file with holy zeal
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Hundred Millionaire Rockefeller is Sotal
abstainer.
It is proposed to hold the first convention
Of the Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ance union at Boston next fall on the day
before the opening of the national gather
ing.
The Los Angeles w. c. 7. U. have hand
some new headquarters for their union.
The building contains offices from when
the union expect to obtain source OF reve-
nue..
Numerous Womau's Christian Temperance
nnion training schools will bs held this
summer at various assembly grounds ana
each will be led by some worker OF exper-
ience.
Mrs. Holen Cougar says she has Kept
record of the account of wife murder 6y
drunken husbands published in the daily
papers since January lst, 1857 Ihe aSgre
gate number is 1904.
Oil Township. Perry County Ind. EN-
braces about seventy-two square miles IN
its limits, and there is only one place "a
drug store, within its boundaries where
whiskey can be purchased