The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-06-24
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ed to reopen their business. They
offered to pay one-third cash the
balance in installments, besides a
monthly fifty dollar license fee to city
treasury. The mayor positively re-
fused to consider or recure the PROPOSE
ton. Reports place the number Of
homeless at eight thousand and the
dead at twenty five the results of the
flood at Sioux City.
1t is said sos 100000 is spent in
saloons in Chicago every year To ask
a man to sign the pledge, and then
teach him that his ballot may be cast
for license high or low, instead of pro-
hibition, is travesty on human kind
ness, and an insult to God, whose laws
are all prohibitory.
My homeless friend with chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the
sugar in ten cent glass Of gin let me
give you fact to wash down with it,
You may say you have longed for years
for the free and Independent life of the
farmer, but have never been able to get
money enough together to buy farm
But that is just where you are mistaken.
For some years you have been drinking
a good improved farm at the rate of
one hundred square feet a gulp. If
you doubt this statement figure it out
yourself. An acre of land contains
43, $50 square feet. Estimating for
convenience the land at $43.56 per
acre you will see that i. brings the
land to just one mile per square foot
one cent for ten sqnare foot. Now
pour down the fiery dose and imagine
you are swallowing strawberry patch,
call in five of your friends and have
them help you gulp down that five
hundred foot garden. Get on pro-
longed spree some day, and see how
long it requires to swallow pasture land
enough to feed COW. Put down that
glass of gin; there is dirt in it-one
hundred feet of good rich dirt, with
$43.56 per acre. ROB BURDETTE.
One powerful reason for total absti-
nence is that you and I are resposible
for our example. If the wine on my
table tempts any young man to drink,
and he falls into drunkenness / am
largely responsible for his ruin !! If be
stumbleth or is made weak "(as Paul
expresses it) he stumbles over me. l
am an accomplice In his destruction
even it he sees mo drinking the social
glass and is influenced by my examples,
to sophistry can explain away or ex-
cuse my guilt. If We protesting Chris.
tians tempt our fellow creatures by one
direct offer of intoxicants, or by our
EXAMPLE into the habit drinking, we
just so far help to shut them out of
heaven. On the other hand an example
of total abstinence helps to strengthen
the weak and given courage to the
irresolute.
Don't you take wine? said an hospit,
able and rather jovial bishop to his
neighbor at table, before whom he
pushed decanter, are you afraid of
it" "No' replied his neighbor 81 am
not afraid Of the wine, but I am of my
example" Every person who touches
I a glass of intoxicants gives his or her
, support to the drinking usages. and the
drinking usages support the drink traf.
fic and fill the dram shops. evil is
; wrought by want of thought as we'll as
by want OF heart REV. TIL. CUYLER.
A party Of three of four gentlemen
who were in hotel in a village few
days before an election, were invited to
stake something"by one of the number.
After they had taken it and chatted a
few minutes, another of the part,
tsolemly suggested that it would be well
to stake something" they accepted the
invitation and took something again.
They then started out and 10 few
minutes as they we're passing a dry
; goods store another Of the party stopped
them and said lets go in and take "some.
thing" why this is dry goods store
said one Of the party, we'll what of that
come in. In they all marched and
arranged themselves before the counter
what will you take said the gentleman
;, who had invited them in, one took {
: box OF collars and another clean shirt
when the bill was settled they walked
D out and looked at each other rather
:, sheepishly and began for the first time
to see the foolishness of the treating
business. INDIAN HELPER.
a Bishop Galloway says in Al out "a
e counties in Mississippi enjoy prohi-