The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-13
GENERAL GlEANiNGS.


under the influence of cider in Litch.
field county. Conn, during the last ten
years.
FROM the report of the chief of police
there Is a beer or wine shop in Berlin
for every one hundred and eighty.five
citizens. including women and children.
The Pennsylvania railroad employees
at Columbia, Pa, numbering sk hun.
dred men, have been notified that they
must not drink when on duty or they
willfb severely disciplined. ! Ss1
TEMPERANCE legislation ison the pro
granme of the new house of commons.
It is reported that local option will
form part of this legislation, and also
the closing ofspublic houses on election
days. Liquor dealers are uneasy, and
an unusual number of public houses
are offered for sale; The temperance
people never before. had SO many repre-.
sentatives in the comm ns.s-Advance.s
On the basis principle of absolute
prohibition, Gen: Ridwell says in his
letter OF acceptanee<-of the nomination
for president by the prohibition party,
the danger of monopolistic tendencies
menacing the government is not so
great as that of the destructive results
sure to>come fromtthe liquor traffic 1t
is, the constant menace of labor, which
creates the wealth OF the; nation. and
the traffic is now sapping aud impover.
ishing the very foundation of the ma
tioual fabric.
''THE Vermont liquor laws are some.
thing wild and terrible, :" remarked
commercial traveller. "But >: some
of the smart il hotel proprietors
get ahead of it. The law pro-
vides o fine of fifty dollars Tor
the first violation OF the law I've
hundred dollars for the second, and two
years in the penitentiary for tho third.
These bonifaces run. the. bar in their
own name for the first two weeks, sur.
render themselves, and are fined fiftv
dollars. Then the clerk takes his
turn. is fined fifty dollars, and yields
control of the bar to the head bellboy,
who in turn transfers the freins of au.
thority to the porter. And SO. ON in
definitely, all that it costs being a fifty
dollar fine every other week" -.
81. Drink and nj Health.
The annual report 81 che de partuent
of tho insane of the pennsylvania hos
pital, presented at the last annual
meeting by DR.. Chaplin, physician in
chief and superintendent, for the year
ending April 90, 1899, document Il
great interest. in classification Of the
causes Of insanity IN 1O.'9so4 cases. gives
an aggregate of Diseases as caused by
intemperance. Under the head of "ill
health of various kinds the number
given is LOST, otherwise the mum her of
cases ascribed to intelnperance is in e Z
cess of all the other causes. It is prob
able also that the use OF intoxicauts
may have been more or less importan
factor in causing ill. health innot q
few cases, as also in the 4O2 cases Of
business anxieties aud perplexities,'
and in the 21v cases Of s..me1tal anxiety,''
and In the 14l cases of vicious habits
and indulgences," and in other in
stances in which alcohol % . brain ir-
:ritant, would predispose those indulg-
ing in it. even in quantities convention
ally deemed moderate. to mental un-
soundness. Alike for physical and men
tai health abstinence is the wise and
safe rule Of conduct. Temperance