The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07
FACTS AND FINDINGS.

A PARLIAMENTARY return gives the
number of convictions for drunkenness
in England and Wales during the past
year, and. keeping with the four pre-
vious returns, reveals a decided in
crease. The convictions in England
numbered 173,036, and in Wales TO-
$50. There had also been an increase in
the number of convictions for Sunday
drunkenness
The undergraduates of Cambridge,
Eng, have taken to drinking tea
after dinner instead of wine. But
though novel at Cambridge this prac-
tice has been in vogue at Oxford for
seventy years, the innovation having
been brought about by Newman and
Froude, even then famous, who induced
most of the other fellows of Oriel to
give up wine in the common-room after
dinner and substitute tea
SENATOR FRYE, of Maine, in a speech
recently made at Lewiston, said: MY
deliberate judgment is, and measure
my words, that there is no worse man
to be found than the rumseller, and so
far from his being worth anything in
this question as to whether liquor
shall be sold freely over the bar to
whatsoever wishes to purchase, I say
that if every rumseller in the country
were in Jail to-day the country would
be ten thousand times better off than
it now is"
THE London Standard, in an article
upon the French experts in tho
adulteration of liquors, declares that
there is scarcely any genuine wine or
brandy in the market. 1t cites the
testimony in a case of litigation in tho
French courts which shows that the
art of initiating the brandy distilled
from grapes is now SO perfect that
only by analysis can it be discovered
to be an imposture 1t adds that NJ.
Jacquemin, an cnterprising French.
man, has succeeded in producing de.
licious wines without any grapes at
ALL This is perplexing dilemma
for wine drinkers. A good way out OF
it is to drink no wine at all
HENRY A. HART, NJ. D., says:
drunkenness is a voluntary lunacy,
which causes three.fourths of the
crimes of violence, and, exclusive OF
itself, two-thirds of all other crimes
and two thirds of the pauperism under
which the people groan. II the doors
,, of all the insane asylums in the land
were thrown open and the whole army
of involuntary lunatics were let loo,e
it is doubtful whether they would pro-
duce one-half the devastation and he r.
rors which flow from this atrocioa rs
vice. Can any man of common sense
ask if this is a crime, or question the
right and duty of society to punish it.
both for its own protection and as q
preventive?"
THE amount of restitution and misery
which can be traced directly to drunk.
enness is appalling. In England, for
example, the enormous proportion Of
the national earnings expended ON
strong drink is attested by the impos-
ing contributions to the imperial ex-
chequer derived from excise duties,
and it is certain that by far the greater
part of the stupendous outlay for drink
represents consumption of alcohol
which even the defender of moderate
and careful drinking would admit to be
excessive. Hundreds of millions of
dollars which, if invested in the neces-
saries of life, would materially promote
the well-being of the English crmuni-
ty. are wasted every year upon strong
d.ink.
Lincoln and the Colonel.
An officer wearing the insignia of q
colonel's rank came in, and MIR. Lin.
coin was full of sympathy, which he
shed like the summer rain, (which
makes the fields it hastes to bright and
green" He drew his chair near the
colonel, whose complaint was, in brief,
that he had been unjustly dismissed
from the army for drunkenness on duty.
The officer had a good and gallant
record. Lincoln knew him. He never
forgot such case. The lines in the
soldiers face told their own story Of
long and unrestrained indulgence. Mr.:
Lincoln heard the story patiently. He
rose and, rs was his habit when
moved deeply, he grasped the soldiers
right hand in both his own, and said:
Colonel, I know your story. But you
carry your. own condemnation in your
face" The tears were in his voice,
and to the soldier, who walked out
without word, Lincoln appeared like
a slice of the day of Judgment The
only comment the president made sub
sequeatly was: II dare not restore
this man to his rank and give him
charge Of a thousand men, when he
puts an enemy into his mouth to steal
away his brains '''-Overland.
A Practical Plan.
A certain little tract, addressed to
inebriates, contains no sentimental ap-
peal to the emotions, but is full of
practical common sense. Let every
one addicted to the use of liquor read
it. and pronounce judgment upon the
advice it contains: One gallon Of
whisky costs about three dollars, and
contains, on the average. sixty five
ten-cent drinks. Now, if you must
drink whisky, buy gallon and make
your wife the barkeeper; then, when
you are thirsty. give her ten cents for
drink. When the whisky is gone she
will have left, after paying for 1t, three
dollars and half, and every gallon
will yield the same profit This money
she should put away in the savings
bank, so that when you have become
an inebriate, unable to support your
self, and Stunned and despised by every
respectable person, your wife may have
money enough to keep you until your
time comes to fill drunkard's grayA