The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-08-29
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

uO6S uOt tukc tuO lttot oiAhA W AhesNo -
drunkard. Sometimes the first one suffices.
Doctor Speyer says that one-eighth Of tho
insane In public asylums were sent there
alcoholism.
About ono-half OF Norway is now under
absolute prohibition; the other is likely to
become so at the election OF this year.
"Mamma." said a little girl, "you know
the story In our realer about the king who
never smiled again?' "Yes, dear" "Well,
does 1t mean that he signed the pledge"
The solons of Plainfeld, N. j., have de-
creed that cider is an intoxicating beverage,
and several people have accordingly been
arrested for selling 1t as oxious liquor.
In the little German principality Of Wal
deck decree has been proclaimed that
license to marry will not be granted to any
individual who is in the habit OF getting
drunk.
sToo much beer for the head of the family
and too little bread for the rest OF the fam
ily." That is what someone says Is the
cause of much Of the labor trouble in this
country.
Our iuty as Christian women, says TO
male advocate Of the cause. Is to keep strong
drink from our children, teach Them the
harm of drinking and prevent others from
tempting them to drink.
A Chicago writer gives the following rca-
sons why there Is now so much poverty,
crime and misery in that great city: There
lives but one baker to every seventy famti-
les, one grocer to every eighty-nine families
and one liquor saloon to every thiity-dve
families"
In answer to letters of inquiry addressed
to the wariens of the penitentiartes, these
figures were received, showing the proper
ton of crimes caused by strong drink: Sing
Sing, N. Y, ninetytwo per cent; Boston,
Mass, eighty-f1ve per cent; Jackson, Mich.
soventy-eight per cent.
WHAT CAUSED ONE SONS FALL.
Tie following incident, which is rotated
by a writer In Onward, carries its own moral
with it, A story is told Of father who was
in the habit Of taking every night glass OF
whisky and water. Sometimes he took a
piece Of sugar out OF the liquor and gave 1t
to his little son, with the words: "Here,
Jack, have a bit OF sugar, boy" The boy
took 1t willingly, and though at first the
taste Of the whisky was unpleasant, he soon
overcame this and began to like its flavor,
till at last the father was persuaded by the
boy to give him sip out Of the glass; One
evening sister of the boy was standing by.
and the father offered her piece OF sugar
from his glass. Fortunately at this moment
the mother entered and said: 'No; stop.
Whatever you give to the boy, cannot al
low you to give 1t to the girl. She shall not
learn the taste OF Intoxicating drinks"
Many years had passed away, and the
father had grown old and bent, when he
was called upon to perform most unpieas-
ant duty.
He had to visit his son in prison. How
changed was the once bright, happy boy.
Bis face haggard. his eyes suuken, dressed
In the meager dress of the convict he was
led out to see his father. BE did not well
come him, hut looked at him angri.y. "Ah, :"
he said, "you sec me In my shame and pun-
ishmant. You think me bad son, but re-
member it was your fault that am thus
placed. The sips out of your glass led me
to love drink, and that love has been the
cause OF my crime. l am here because was
taught by you to becoms drunkard." The
father felt the truth of what the son said. II
was an arrow that pierced his heart. He
hung his head In sorrow. He had no reply.
Surely we should take warning and ehun the
beginning OF evil.
SOMETHING FOR DRINKERS TO THINK ABOUT.
A celebrated doctor OF France has recent,
discovered something which all drinkers
ought to know. He has found out that alcohol
In every shape, whether OF wine or brandy
or beer, contains parasitic life called bacillus
potumania5. By powerful microscope
these living things are discovered, and when
you take strong drink you take them into
the stomach, and then into your blood, aud
then, getting into the crimson canals OF life,
they go into every tissue of your body, and
your entire organism is taken possession OF
by these noxious infinitesimals. When in
delirium tremens man sees every form OF
reptilian life, 1t Is only these parasites OF
the brain in exaggerated size. 1t is not a
hallucinatiou that the victim is sufferinG
from. He only sees in the room what is ac-
tually crawling and rioting In his own brain.
Every time you take strong drink you swal-
low these maggots, and every time the i'm
biber of alcohol in any shape feels vertigo or
rheumatism or nausea. 1t is only the jubilee
of these maggots. Efforts are being made
for the discovery of some germicide that can
kill the parasites OF alcoholism, but the only
thing that will ever exterDlinate them Is alb
stinence from alcohol. and total abStinance,
to which would before God swear all men,
young and old.
SALOONS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco last year outranked any city