Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-12-19
NOTES BY THE WAY.

THE Russian clergy have been or
dered 10 preach against drinking.
TEMPERANCE is not a question of sem
timcnt but Of public safety.-Chicago
Standard.
PrTrING screens in the saloon doors
is the DEVILS way of saying that he is
ashamed of himself
THE scorpion is total abstainer. II
a drop of whisky be placed on ones
back it will Immediately sting itself to
death.
THERE is deadly sin in that commun-
| ity where it is easier to buy glass of
beer than beg glass of water
| Thomas Addison.
! MAN is born unto trouble, as the
sparks fly upward" and the drunkard's
wife is married to trouble, as sure as
saloons drag downward.
! FIFTY-THREE per cent of the lunatics
| in the asylum of Bengal are there as
result of hasheesh, an intoxicating
preparation of Indian hemp.
| CHAUyCEY NJ. DEPEw, whom no man
will call fanatic" or ''crank," says
that eighty thousand young men of our
country are destroyed annually by the
| saloon.
WHEN some one demonstrated with
an old saloonkeeper for enticing in the
boys, he replied, ''Oh, it is beezness,
! beezness-the old drinkers will soon be
dead and where will my beezness be if
1 don't get the boys?'
THE number of arrests for drunken
ness in New York city for 1890 were
1854: in Philadelphia, 24,66l; in Bos-
10, y in
Over 500, 900 persons are annually ar
rested for drunkenness in this country
is the estimate of the census depart
ment.
THERE is a common belief that alco-
hol gives new strength and energy
after fatigue sets in. The sensation Of
fatigue is one of the safety valves Of
the human machine, to stifle the feel
ing Of fatigue in order to do more work
is like closing the safety valve SO that
the boiler may be overheated and ex.
ploSion result
In LOcl,hart's cocoa rooms, of which
there are IS in London, 3,615 pledges
were voluntarily taken last year: 1,1S9
of these are known to be keeping the
pledge, and only 452 are known to have
broken it. The Lockhart mission, con-
Quoted by the firm, has five metropoli-
tan branches, and is doing successful
temperance work.
GER,<ANY is the great beer country,
but it also produces large aggregate
of wine. 1t has about three hundred
thousand acres of vineyards, and its
annual average of wine for the last
thirteen years has been fifty-six thou
sand gallons. 1t is not surprising that
the young emperor is solicitous for the
future of his country.
INSURANCE companies are not fan
atical" on the temperance question.
but their managers are keen business
men, who have been taught in the
school of business experience that
liquor dealers, who generally use the
alcoholic beverages they traffic in, are
not safe pecuniary risks for the com.
panies The lesson for others is OBJ
vious.
THAT the economic argument of tenn
: perance advocates is founded on facts
is every day more apparent. An old
gin distillery in England with dozen
old cottages for the men employed, has
been converted into a soap factory,
while hundred new houses have been
built to accommodate the increased
number of workmen necessary to carry
on the work.
THE body of a young man was found
in one of our cities. In his pocket was
paper on which was written the
words: This is the end of a wasted
life. Do not ask my name. 1t is drink
that has done it, After the inquest
the coroner received no less than two
hundred letters from fathers and
mothers asking if there were any signs
by which the body could be identified.
THERE is at least one immediate and
practical piece of temperance work
which every man and woman can dc
whatever their position in the world,
or wherever they may be, and that is tc
put away the bottle or the wine cup
from their own lips. No one who is
not willing to make that sacrifice for
the good of his fellow men has not
learned the first letters of the temper.
ance alpha habet-abstain Christian at
Work.
A PLACARD has been ordered by the
Belgium government to te hung in ev'
cry school-room. 1t reads as follows
''Of 125, 900 deaths, as many as 25, 200 or
one-fifth, are the result of alcoholism.
In a period during which the popula-
tion increased IA per cent, the con-
sumption of alcohol has been augment
ed 81 per cent, cases of madness by "a
per cent, crimes by "A per cent, sui
cides by so per cent, and vagrants and
beggars by 156 per cent
Ten ago years the cause of temper
ance was not as respectable as it is
to-day, because there were not SO many
respecta BILE men and women advocating
it 1t has gained ground, it is gaining
ground, and all because men and wom-
en- who believe in it could not be brow
beaten or frightened Neither the
kissing of geese nor the throwing of
rotten eggs has stopped or even delayed
J the march of temperance among the
: workers. V. Powderly.
A WEALTHY bachelor of Philadelphia
recently left various sums for religious
and charitable purposes, including two
J thousand dollars to the Franklin Re-
: formatory Home for Inebriates, but ex-
pressly stipulated in a codicil to his
: will that no portion of the money
J should be used, under the penalty of
} forfeiture, to advance the cause of what
he considered sthe perniciOus fallacy