The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-05-19
w. c. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
A Puzzled Japanese Omcial.

A Puzzled Japanese Official.
A distinguished Japanese official
visited New York recently land men,
Der of the municipal government, who
had been in Japan and can speak the
language of that country, undertook
to show him around.
"Is that officer making an arrest?"
asked the Japanese as he saw man
stop a milk wagon.
'Not exactly" replied the official.
"He is milk inspector, and his duty
is, under the law, to see that no i'm
pure milk is sold in the city. If the
milk is all right, he will let the milk
man pass on; otherwise, he will arrest
him."
'<What is impure milk"
milk that is mixed with chalk and
water"
is the chalk a poison7"
ooh, no; it impairs the quality
that's ALL
"Does water in milk make anybody
sick?"
"Why, of course not! But when
person pays for milk, he wants milk,
not water, which he can get for little
or nothing when he desires it. 1t is a
swindle on the public to put water in
milk
"But you say no one is hurt by il"
Feelings are hurt that is ALL"
Soon after they passed low corner
saloon, when the door opened, and
man came staggering out tripped,
struck his head against a lamp post,
and fell heavily on the sidewalk, and
lay as one dead"
"What is the matter with that mana"
asked the foreigner from Japan.
Full of benzine," replied the NUM-
cipal officer with look of disgust.
"Benzine? What is that?"
at is the name we have in this
country for poor iquor-poor whisky,
you understand"
"Is there any good whisky?'
"Oh, yes, there is good whisky; but
selling bad whisky"
"Bad whisky is poison?"
deadly poison, sometimes"
HAS the man a license TO sell whis-
ky, same as the milkman has to sell
milk?"
"Of course, or he couldn't carry on
business "
And do you inspect the whisky as
you do the milk?"
"Never."
"Yet there may be poison in it,while
milk is adulterated with chalk or wa
ter, that does no harm in particular,
you say"
"Ahem" said the city official, twist
ing about uneasily, "let's look at the
markets"
At the markets they found officials
, inspecting the meat that was on sale.
what do they do that for?" asked
the Japanese.
"To see that the meat is healthy
was the reply.
eff man should eat a piece of I'M
healthy meat, would he stumble on
the sidewalk and split his head open
against lamp post as the man did
coming out of the saloon? Would wa
tered milk do it,"
Why, certainly not"
yet you inspect meat and milk land
let men sell poisoned whisky,that kills
people, as much es they please. I
can't understand your country"
And we ask, who can?-Texas Sift-
ings.
All that God can do for the human
soul, the tempter promises to do with
the intoxicating cup. Whisky is the
devils counterfeit for the Holy Spirit,
and mortals in all lands have been de-
ceived by this counterfeit. The phil
osophy of Christian missions is de-
sire born of the Holy Spirit in a NOR
tails heart that he must go and tell
mortals who may come to Him and
drink and thirst no more.
The Eolian harp yields no sound
to the human hand but only to the
breeze of God; in like manner reforms
come only to hearts swept by the spir-
it of our Heavenly Father.
Truth, like cream, always comes to
the top.