The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-21
FACTS Ard FINDINGS,


The town of Washington, Me-, ut its
annual spring meeting, refused to ap'
propriste any money for free high
school, but voted to establish a liquor
agency.
The Yale faculty hereafter require
the exclusion of all restaurant, hotel
and other advertisements which include
the sale of Intoxicating beverages from
the college publications.
In connection with the British
Women's Temperance association there
are four homes for inebriate women,
through which upwards of three hun.
dred and tifty-ive patients have
passed, many of whom are thoroughly
reclaimed, and most grateful for the
help received.
Bishop HARRISON, of Glasgow, speak
ing of Burns gathering in Greenock
temperance institute, said that the
truest way of honoring the memory Of
Burns is to fight against the giant In.
temperance with whom the poet had too
often struggled in vain.
The London temperance hospital at
its recent annual meeting heard reports
which testify to its good management
and beneficial work. Fifty per cent.
were cured, thirty per cent. relieved
and the death rate was about six and
three-fourths per cent. of the in-pa.
tients. The attendance of out-t atients
has increased. OF the total number
treated more than fifty per cent. were
abstainers.
Bishop WARREN said: IL knew hard
drinking man always able to attend to
business. But he transmitted to his
children such vitiated constitutions that
all died early of disease, except ole,
whom l knew. He had chronic dyspep.
STA. The appetite for liquor descended
on the second generation with terrible
power. His daughter early died OF
consumption. One son committed sui.
eide for fear of second attack OF
delirium tremens. The second son
walked right on in the same path till
he was placed where he could get nc
liquor. He lives in that confinement
yet"
In a recent editorial of the Boston
Daily Traveller the following true words
found utterance: 1--WE do not now
discuss the sinfulness of the habit OF
moderate drinking, but leave that mat.
ter to each mans conscience, aided by
a study of the words of st. Paul ad-
dressed to the church at Corinth. Nor
do we, in this connection, say anything
about the effect of so-called moderate
drinking upon the life and health of its
devotees, other than to commend a
study of the teachings of modern sci.
ence on that subject. But we feel il
our duty to say distinctly that nc
agency is SO effectually battling to
efforts to save the young men of our
land from moral and physical death as
is fashionable drinking, assumed to be
moderate
The First Pair Of shoes.
Among the many interesting Incl
dents connected with the closing of the
saloons in Kittaning, Pa, leading
merchant tells the following:
A woman came into his store timidly.
She was evidently unaccustomed to
trading.
"What can do for you?" inquired
the merchant.
II want pair of shoes for little
GIRL" she answered.
"What number?''
''She is twelve years old"
but what number does she wear?'
II do not know
'But what number did you buy when
you bought the last pair for her?'
''She never had pair in her life
You see, sir, her father used to drink
when we had saloons; but now that
they are closed he doesn't drink any
more, and this morning he said to me:
Mother, I want you to go to town TO-
day and get Sissy a pair of shoes, for
she never had pair in her life.' I
thought, sir, if told you how old she
was you would know what size to give
me. Union Signal.
Tobacco and Rum In En1lanI