The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-08
BITS AND BREVITiES.

"TuROUGH drink there are half a
million homes into which happiness
! never comes. A brewer, one hundred
years ago
IN spite of the diminishing popula-
ton of Ireland it is found that there is
in that country an increasing expend-
iture for Intoxicating drinks.
THE quantity of fermented liquor
consumed last year in this country
equals nearly one-half barrel for each
man, woman and child of our popula-
| ton
DR.. GUIBERT, writing to a Havre
journal, states, as u result of his ex-
perience, that habitual drunkards have
very little chance of recovering from
an attack of cholera.
PROF LEVI has made a calculation
that the wage-earning classes of En-
gland spend eightytive million dollars
a year in drink, and to-day there are
| thousand of them houseless and starry
ing.
| A CIVIL engineer in India, in writ
ing to brother in England who pro-
posed joining him, said that unless his
total abstinence principles were well
esta blished he had better bring his cof-
fin with him.
SIR BENJAMIN RICHARDSON, in an ad-
dress on athletic life says that
abstinence from alcoholic fluid is alb
solutely necessary. LAS long as you
are in course of training, don't touch
the hurtful thing. 1t will undermine
all the qualities on which you depend
for success, will injure your preon, cisi
your decision, your presence of mind
and your endurance.
| IN the old days total abstainers were
| scoffed at, and we almost had to apollo
gize for drinking water; now we find
constantly people murmuring some
thing like an apology for drinking
wine in our presence. The change is
coming slowly and steadily, and when
we are beginning to be disheartened in
our individual effort, we must look TO
the change that is taking place all over
the world, take courage and thank
| God.-Canon Wilberforce.
| WHILE we are all talking about the
Matabele, it is interesting to note in
the above correction that Khama,
whose name has figured once or twice
in the Matabele complication, said to
Sir Sidney Sheppard in 1888; 1T were
better for me that l should lose my
country than that it should be flooded
with drink. But to fight against drink
is to fight against demons, and not
against men; l dread the white mans
drink more than all the assegais of the
Malta belle. The Christian.
DR.. FoREL, the famous specialist on
mental diseases of the university of
| Zurich, sent most valuable paper to
the Worlds temperance congress. al
cohol, he said, even when diluted as
in wine. beer and cider, is a poison
which changes pathologically the It's
sues of the body and leads to fatty de-
generation. Some poisons are used as
medicines; such as corrosive sublimate,
quinine, etc. am one who assigns but
a very subordinate position to alcohol
as medicine"
The temperance cause started out
well nigh alone, but mighty forces
have Joined us in the long march. We
are now in the midst of the Waterloo
battle, and in tr, providence of God
the temperance army will not have to
fight that out all by itself, for science
has come up with its glittering con-
tingent, political economy deploys it's
legions, the woman question brings an
Amazonian army upon the field, and
the stout ranks of LABOR stretch away
far as the eye can reach. AS in the old
Waterloo against Napoleon, SO now
against the Napoleon of the liquor
traffic, no force is adequate except the
"allied forces. Frances Willard