Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-06-30
w. C. 7. u. COLUMN
EDITED BY MRS. ]. R. WALKER.

Our state convention for 1892 has closed |
and it will be very interesting to note the |
progress made and work done this year
as compared with the past. How many
homes have been made happy by the
pure light OF gospel temperance reform
How many boys and girls have had their
characters moulded Alright by the hygiene
training they have received? Thirteen
thousand children are being taught scien-
tific temperance in the schools of forty
states in our Union. If the teachers are
faithful aud consistent there is little dan
ger that the ranks of tipplers will receive
many reinforcements from these and
thus the public schools-already the
grandest force for good in existence-willl
in the next generation wholly eradicate
the drink curse from among us. No
emancipation proclamation will be
needed to announce to the world the
deliverance from bondage of the masses
OF our people for in the light of knowl-
edge gained in childhood relative to the
effects of alchohol on the system popular
science will frown upon the drink-habit
and break asunder every bond which to-
day holds men and women in such
strange, hopeless thralldom. In the
children we place our hope and in 1892,
Chicago will entertain such host of
noble, true-hearted temperance boys and
girls as would have astonished the world
twenty years ago. These children are
daily growing older and wiser and ere
twenty years more shall have rolled by,
we shall feel their power in way little
dreamed ofnow. God bless the children
The following extract speaks its own
significance
Treasures of the Vatican at Chicago.
Pope Leo, through his representatives.,
has made special application to Director
General Davis for space at the Columbian
exposition in which to show some of the
famous treasures OF the Vatican. The
rarest paintings sculptures, manuscripts
and curios of all ages are stored in the
Vatican and never before in the history
Of the church have they been permitted
to be removed.
Truly this is an age OF progression.
Temperance.
Guess who the saloonkeeper was.
"Joe," said San Francisco saloon
keeper last Saturday night to man who
came into his place and called for drink,
it'll do you no good compared to good the
price OF it will do your wife and babies.
You know you can't take drink and
stop. You've got your weeks wages in
your pocket. Go home and see how
happy they will be over there"
Joe looked at the speaker surprisedly
moment, then turned and walked
shame-facedly away.
The salocnkeeper called to an employe:
"Sam, 60 and see that Joe goes home.
Tell him if he stops on the way to take
drink I'll never be his friend again"
Sam did as he was bid, and he had no
difficulty in doing it. He found Joe in
tears, and as he began to exhort him to
do as he had been advised Joe stopped
with him:
"Don't say another word, Sam. I'll
60. Great God! didn't know l had
such friend as that in the world. And
he's the man who might have had my
money, and he sent me home to the
family. They shall have it,"
A more surprised wife than his was
when he not only came home early and
sober but handed her his wages and told
her to go out and make the evenings
purchases and he would stay with the
children is seldom seen, nor happier
family titan that was last Sunday. And
a saloonkeeper did it. That saloonkeeper
is better man than the minister who
breaches against the dives and votes for
the obd parties who license them.-S. F.
Visitor.