The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-11
THE MODEL TOWN.

THE MODEL TOWN.
The model town of Pullman, m.-named
for the founder and famous builder Of the
Pullman cars-is aprohibition town, as IN
deed all model towns are. An Australian
gentleman, becoming interested In this widely {
known village, addressed number OF ques- I
tions to leading official of Pullman. An
l. In what year was the city OF Pullman
founded? Answer-1SsG.
2. What is the population at tpresent Feb-
ruary, 1890? Answer-1l, 900.
8. Flow many churches does 1t containt
Answer-Si1.
4. How many schools also, and teachers
employed! Answer-Four day schools and !
one night school; twenty-four teachers.
5. How many lock-uIs or jails? Answer
None. 49,.
8. How many magistrates, with amount OF
salaries? Answer-None.
Z. Number of police, and their cost? An
swer-Two, at seventy-hve dollars per
month.
8. What is the annual amount spsnt in the :
relief Of the poor? Answer-None.
9. Can you furnish Us with your statistics
of crime? Answer-We have none.
10. Have you any asylums, such as those
for lunatics, orphans, benevolent, etc.H An
: swer-None
II. Is the trade in strong drink prohib-
tied? Answer-Yes.
12 Do you attribute to TIA absence Of IA
cilities for getting drink al improved state
of morals as compared with other cities In
your States AnswsS-Ye..-Unio Signal.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
A saloon occupies the house where the frsti
sunday-school in America was held at Paw
tucket, r. l.
The Atlantic Chamber OF Commerce as
sisted the W. C. T. U. to pay the expenses
Of Of the last national cosyentissp, =
Washington's birthday win be observed in
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
by another membership crusade.
Mrs. Case of the Baptist Mission at Mying-
Wan, has formed temperance and purity
leagues both among the Burmah pupils OF
her school and the English soldiers stationed
there. -
At a temperance meeting lately held in
Rapgoon Burmah, where but fifty natives
were present, seventeen signed the pledge:
The speech, made in English, was translated
into Tamil, Telugu and Hindustani. --' !
The National W. c.. T. U. will send delet
GATES to the National Temperance Conven-
ton to meet next June at Saratoga. Among
them will be Mary A. Lermore and Clara
Hoffman, President of tie Missouri Society.
Several new divisions have been added to-
ths national white-ribbon work. Among
them are department OF mercy, home ana
foreign missionary work among coioreo peoIi
ole and Woman's Christian Temperance
Union restaurants. II
The w. C. T. q. of st. Johns, Newfound-
land, organized thres months ago, has since
doubled its membership. It lately held
public meeting, and sustained the interest," OF
:, Sloo o,I nP
hours in length. The largest hall In tina
city. seating over thousand persons, was
packed /;
"A hospital has been established at DeS.
Moinas To-" notes the st. Joseph Ne,css
"for the treatment of alcoholism by the
Keeley method. The method proceeds on
the hypothesis that drunkenness Is disease
and the chloride of gold treatment Is used,
Tt is claimed that less than one per cent. OF
the patients treated with this remedy, which
is powerful but harmless tonic, ever return
to the drink habit" =.
PASTORAL DUTIES To~AkD TEMPERANCE
Bishop Cameron, of Canada, has issued
letter to the clergy Of his diocese, treating OF
their pastoral duties toward the temperance
reform. He cites the depredations made by
intemperancs, and calls for charge all TO-
gether, upon this 6ercest wolf that comes
with the priest himself. THE phrase: !
practice teetotalism myself is found to os
worth more than any amount OF preaching,
says the good Bishop, proceeding to call fora
pledged priesthood. "feetota!ism conduces
so powerfully to the preservation OF heaitn.
that the combined voices OF reason ana e4-
uerience proclaim it to be most potent lac.
Tor in the work of social amelioratlon, tnat
revealed religion soaring above the passions
- f,na h,rp SnAD-
ing her divine lessons to the ser-denylnS
spirit of a crucified God, not only pro-
nounces it TO be good, but also, under clrcum-
stances which we see most widely to obtain
in our day and generation, necessary pres
sryatiou against q scandal that deals dam
nation TO those for whom Christ
died. our interest as individuals, as
members of the great Cnrls-
tian family, and as disciples OF Jesus Cnrist
loudly call upon us to enroll ourselves under
the sacred banner of the total abstinence
pledge and by united effort to battle each
and every device Of its enemies *
Isolated efforts, however strenuous ana en-
during, will not do. Hence, dear Rev.
Fathers, every one of you who has charge OF
souls, is expected to do his DUTY in this cru
sadie against the demon Of intenpsrance.
There must be no neutral no laggard amcag
Won :" You are hereby requested TO
COQlDllle, " uSSi1le iS'eh.tS'' "NA N5N,
tine ,rsGic aud the use of intoxicants, and to
insist p,uiently on every member OF your
r.srectiye focIs becoming as soon as possl-
bic enrolled under the blessed banner OF the
League of the Cross" .,,
TIE lerter closes with the injunction: "Bs
pleased to imparr, in season and out OF sea,
son, the substance OF all the foregoing prin-'
cipIes to your respective focSs," and notice
is given that hereafter upon every New
Years Day. each pastor in tbe diocese will be
expected to inform the Bishop or the precise
number of total abstainers i'll his parish, the
report to be made from the parish pledge
book.