Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-02
FOUND BY THE WAY.

AN English member of parliament
asserts that, as result of the drinking
habits of the parents, $4,000 children
in London go to school each morning
unfed
railroad, for twenty-five years would
not allow liquors to be sold on the Oar
lingten & Stockton railway.
s.MANY temperance people want to
perish the man who gives the drink.
1t is all right, of course; but what is
the matter with Furnishing the man
who is gwen to drinlk?" asks a clergy
MANN. Y. Tribune.
HoN. W. ii. Rowland, of Toronto,
states that the consumption of intoxi-
eating liquors amounts to 80 gallons a
head in England, 10 to Is in the United
States and only AZ gallons in the Do
minion of Canada.
RUSSIA most people are accustomed
to regard as a very cold country, and
so it is in the northern region, but it
has large area in the southern part OF
the temperate zone. 1t will surprise
many to learn that it has an area of
vineyards amounting to about ass, $50
acres; the average yield of wine from
them being55, 800, 900 gallons, of which
rather more than half is grown in the
Caucasus.
Mr.. ]. W. BEvINs, of Glasgow, with
the largest model lodgiug-house in the
world, and also the superintendent OF
another Glasgow model lodging, says
that almost every case he had some
across of men who had fallen from
good positions to inhabiting the lodg-
ing-house was caused by drink, and ii
the public houses were only closed the
homes might be closed too, for there
would soon be but little need of them.
THE barrooms in Willimantic, Conn.,,
have been closed after fifteen consec-
utive years of business, but some of
the keepers win retain their old stands
for year, awaiting the outcome of the
next vote ON the license question.
One will become an undertaken, an.
other a druggist, another dealer in
boots and shoes and few will move
out of town. In the meanwhile the
legal sale of liquor is to be continued
tuC ouDOi Va q tOWh o3Ohs
and seven druggists.
lin the ''Orders of Regulations" for
Soldiers of the Salvation Army, we
Md the following relating to total
bbstiLence: 1.-THE use of intoxicating
US n almost every portion of tia
World has now become source of evil,
farsipg indescribable misery and tenn
po-al ruin. The only course to be
fa,Sen for personal safety with regard
u strong drink is to abstain entirely
from its use. If not used at all it can.
bot be taken to excesS No person can
be, or continue, a Salvation Army sol
bier who takes intoxicating liquors"
\ A DISCHARGED soldier at Omaha,
Neb., recently drew eight hundred
dollars for his five years services in
tie army and bought ticket for Phil
a. lelphia, intending to start east in the
afternoon. when he fell into the hands
OF hotel runner, who induced him to
.Hsnk and visit some low dives. At the
END of three days the ex-soldier turned
up dead broke. 1t was afterward as
certaned that the victim had wife
aud I've children in Philadelphia, and
>tgat he had saved his entire five years
wages for the purpose of establishing
himself in some business.
| THE late Mr.. Florence never aspired
to be temperance lecturer, but he
gave some excellent advice to topers.
If you must drink, said he, buy gal
Ion of whisky at time and make your
wife the bar-keeper. When you are
dry. give her fifteen cents for a drink,
and when the whisky is gone she will
have, after paying for it, six dollars
and seventy-five cents left, and every
gallon thereafter will yield the same
profit This money she should put
away, so that when you have become
N inc briate, unable to support your
self. and Stunned by every respectable
man, your wife may have money
enough to keep you until your time
comes to fill a drunkard's grave
There's some practical philosophy fol
you.-Boston Herald.