The Lake Charles echo., 1893-03-03
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
Br ans. i. y aaRAD.

a woman exclaimed when her hus-
band had aligned the pledge, God bless
thee. Sam, and nov let the devil drink
bis own broth.
Judging from the fact that Iceland,
with seventy thousand population, has
but two policemen and two lawyers, 1t
must be a sober country.
II Is said that the German Kaiser
takes graat interest In society which |
distributes Bibles among the soldiers.
Since its organization in 1881. over one
million Bibles have been sold at re-
ilncad rates TO privates.
At an important conference to be
held In Birmingham next month with
Miners Federation Of Great Britain the
importance and necessity for the APP
pointment Of women as factory inspect
ors will be discussed.
Prof. TyndaII gives some rather
gloomy rearits OF his researches in lon
geyity, for he asserts that the average
age of the trained nurse is bnt twenty
Ave years while the non-nursing women
attain the average Of fifty-eight.
A millionaire English brewer owning
ninety public houses has bequRathed
two hundred and fity thousand dollars
to Bible society. Is this q case where
| the recipient should say, "Ihy money
/ perish with thae?"
Since February Of the present year,
/ Mrs. nj. }. Borden, president Of the
New Mexico w. G. z. o., has, with
one exception, visited every local nnion
! Ia her territory, some of them two or
/ three times, and has organized two new
unions. In doing this she has travelled
three Thousand miles and given thirty
addresses. The local unions though
ont The territory stand by the work
nobly, many times under trying dis
couragements.
/ The second animal county convection
/ Of the Wbateom county, Washington,
/ w g. q. U. was held in Lyndon moi
long ago. Seven unions we're repre-.
ssnted. The session was thoroughly
/ harmonious, enjoyable md profitable
/ The Il. n T.. bali hour deserves especia
mention. Little Fay g0berly, age eight
years, presided with much dignity
showing what even little girl may do
Several new lines of work were adopted
Mrs e. O. Graves was reelected presi,
Gent.
Imagine the happy country where
/ the law forbids the sale Of liquor In The
rural district and for the first and second
| transgregsion imposes fine, and fol
the third, imprisonment. Such 4
country is Finland and the result is
according 10 those who know, nearel
approach to total abstinence peopll
than any other country can present.
A novel race can be seen Ia a Con
nectieut city, a school house Fupnin
/ alter q hotel. a wealthy citizen an
liquor dealer bnilt a large hotel wit
bar attached. The temperance me
put school house on wheels and ri
I IL near the hotel to stop the iicenI
Y uudar the church and school honse lay
The owner says be can put his hotel {
4 wheels too Education driving off u
liquor traffic.
e Owing to outside pressure. the a
y Museum Of New York was opened
3 Sunday. This experiment has not pa
B 10 dollars and cents even, for the COZ
d mitsee reports loss Of four hundri
J, and six annual members and the 10
3 Thousand and six dollars from thel
u They know Of large bequests revok
y because Of Sunday opening. They "
& also be lii debt several Thousand dollE
Ie because OF Sunday expenses. The
j. are two sides TO the dollar and ce
d question, even,
q i u +
y A converted anarchists confession
4 ID follows: III was an anarchist becau
4 4 1 loved beer. i loved beer beeanse
Y was an anarchist. MY wifea loved !
u and ours. but j loved my anarchy d
y i beer. She went TO work TO support /
u anarchy and my beer. ] abused I
y capitalists for making me poor. Final
Y / abused my wife. Y 4 ] became d s
n II vationist and stopped abusing my v
4 n and the capitalists who didn't care
!, !. my abuse, and stopped drinking beel
of Among the beantiful epitaphs
re- which the world il full, Inote the 1
ia lowing recently observed by me in !
travels. Down of Cape God is Mar
Geld, the famous country home
!. Daniel Webster, and il q lonely lii
grave yard near BY, the great stat
~ man who did not understand tba siG
u. 0f his times lies buried. Beside hin
IA the grave Of his wife with this exqnis
ye inscription, Let me GO, the day
d. breaking" Near by Is the grave
bi Adelaide Phillips, the once famS
&, vocalist, with the words Of her favor
Iae recital. "Oh, rest III the Lord. !
sa tomb Of Abraham Lincoln who