The Press., 1895-03-21

flc has the state by the throat. It re mains to be seen whether it has it's griI also on the throat of the church. ! It is sixth star of hope that the Meth dist church declares that the liquor traf fic can never be legalized without sin, anG that both the Methodist and the Presby terian churches affirm, in national assem. bligs, that no political party that legal izes the liquor traffic ought to be sur. prised if it loses the votes of church mem. bers.
 It is a seventh star of hope that reor. ganization of temperance politics, side by side with improved methods of moral and educational temperance action, is in prog ress, and there is rising tide of outraged public sentiment demanding that the liq. u)r traffic be made an outlaw by both state and national, legislative and consti. tutional enactments.
 It is true that many clouds. some ot them full of fearful portents, obscure these stars. Municipal misrule, under the des potism of the dramshop, is possibly the darkest threat in the American future The sovereignty of the saloon is one ot the chief causes of the corruption of pol. itics, both municipal and state, and may ultimately invade the national field itself The wastes and burdens of the republic by the loss of one thousand millions an. nually through the liquor traffic, add i'm. mensely to the distresses of the unem ployed and the poor. The apathy of lux urious society to the temperance cause is perhaps diminishing, but is, nevertheless so great as to be appalling.
 It is certain, however, that through all these clouds the glorious cluster of the temperance -Pleiades is rising, with Goo behind it, in the now brightening dawn ot the twentienth century.
 Warning Cry.
 One of the most terrible warnings against cigarette smoking was given moi long ago by chOrister boy in one of the Brooklyn churches, who died in grea' agony at St. Johns hospital. This is the story as given in the Laws of Life:
 Almost his last words were: "Let any boy who smokes cigarettes look at me now aud know how much have suffered and he will never put another into his mouth" He was a bright boy, an ex quisite singer, and had many friends. Ht lived with his grandmother and worked in chandelier factory.
 Here Is his story as he told it to hi nurse, Sister Cornelia: ''To me he con fessed that this trouble had originated from cigarette smoking. Some days h. said he sucked twenty cigarettes. A I first he kept his grandmother in ignoranr of his indulgenc. As he continued t, smoke ethe appetite grew upon him witt such force that he could not break it of ana 1C began ro anecr n1s consEIJuuIon.
 "'Why,' asked him, did you not stol when you saw what it was bringing yo1 to?'
 GO, could nOt,' he replied. If could not get to smoke I almost wen wild. could think of nothing else. Ina uS SL SLouuuAOVACA u1ASAG uOI SuSpoCb Lu01 would work extra hours instead of spend ing my regular wages for cigarettes. Flo months kept up this excess, although knew it was killing me. Then seemed to fall to pieces all of a sudden" Hi disease took the form of dropsy in thu legs and was very painful.
 Sister Cornelia continues the story During all his sufferings he never forgo what had brought him to this terrible condition. He kept asking mo to war; all boys against their use. A few day before he died, he called me to his bed side and said he thought he had not liveC in vain if only those boys who are stil alive would profit by his sufferings anC death"
 There is no other form of tobacco sC dangerous as cigarettes, because the nic otine in the smoke Is not absorbed in th loose tobacco, smoked clean up to th end, but is taken, unf1ltered and undilut ed, into the lungs. It was not the poisol in the paper but the poison of the tobacc, which killed Samuel Kimball, and is ruin ing the health of thousands of other pale faced boys.-The COngregGttOnaliSt.