The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-21
CLEANED HERE AND THERE.

GRAND temperance work is being
done in the English navy through the
efforts of Miss Agnes Weston and 9TH
ers. On some ships ten per cent of
the ship company are enrolled as total
abstaiuers
The wife of United States Senator
Spooner, of Wisconsin, is credited
with saying in recent interview:
The woman or girl who offers one of
my sons glass of wine will personally
affront me-"
The opinion of the W. C. T. U. on
the subject of tobacco is we'll expressed
in the following letter to recent Chi.
cago daily: king Tobacco rules the
country, on land and sea- Our nation,
our intelligence. our life is clouded by
the toba cco delirium."
THE slums and the saloon are insep-
arabic allies. We are accustomed to
think of London slums as being not
only the darkest spots in darkest
England but surprising in misery
and crime anything in our own coun.
try. But good authority asserts that
in the poorest district of Loeylon there
is one saloon to each one hundred and
thirty-six persons, while in less pow.
erty-stricken section of Chicago there
is one saloon to each sixty-tive persons.
Brandy Consumed in Norway.
There are lamcntation and woe
among the advocates of temperance in
Norway. The official report concern.
ing the consumption of alcohol in
Christiania during the last twelve
months is just out and shows that the
co consumption of brandy IN that town
has been larger during the first six
months of the present year than has
been the case for the same period for
many years past. In 1899 Christiania
had been drinking l79, 975 litres of alco-
holic drinks by the end of June; this
year the figure has risen to 1856, 1856
litres. With regard to the whole
country the report is almost as bad for
it shows that more ''braen-devin" has
been consumed from January to July,
1891, than at any equal period during
the last decade Is it the severe winter
which has to answer for these facts, or
is it that the revival of interest in their
own poets has caused the Scandinav1ans
to act upon the advice of so many Of
their skalds. ancient and modern,
whose drinking songs belong to the
gems of the poetry of the north? Who
knows but that good Bishop Franzin,
with his inspired drinking songs, is
really as much at the bottom of tho
mischief as the publicans and sinners
themselves?-Pall Mall Gazette.
No Alcohol.
Scientific knowledge is not half so
necessary in practical life as sound
principle, even though the latter, I'M
aided, may not be satisfactory guide.
There is a certain old gentleman in
the country who is IN ardent believer
in the temperance movement, and who,
by his earnest counsel, HIS helped
many man in reforming his mode of
life. Yet this good man not long ago
offered some guests cake and wine.
''Why, Uncle john" said niece who
was visiting him, II thought you were
temperance"
$50 be-" was the reply, ''strict tenn
perance."
But here you arc giving us wine"
'Currant wine, dear, currant wine.
Made in this house out O. my own cur
rants"
But, uncle, it's wine just the same"
mo. it amt, my dear. There amt a
drop of alcohol in it. see to its MAX
in, an you'd better believe l don't
have any put in!"-Youtl's Companion.
Horn DRINK.
A mission visitoI of one of the Lon
don churches thus describes her visit
to a gin palace: "Without, in the mar
row. dirty street, misery and squalor
on every side; but within, all bright
and gay. A throng of men and women
crowded the bars, many of them
scarcely more than children in years,
but old in sin; and on looking around
and lower, even upon the floor, were
to be seen as many as thirty or forty
little children, many of them babies I
at first thought they were asleep and
pitied their neglected condition, but
this feeling was quickly changed to
horror when I was assured that they
were all drunk-dead drunk, stupidity
drunk-and that some Of them had
never been sober, having actually been
born saturated with the accursed stuff
and fed on it ever since, the result
being visible in their old, pinched
faces and miserable. half-starveti