Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05

oxford undergraduate is becoming less
manly, either. He seems to be as good
sort as he was in my day. And this
tendency is, / believe, as true of Cam
bridge as it is OF Oxford. A drunken
man is not an object of sympathy in
college to-day"
NEW TEMPERANCE WOF <.
Undismayed by the fact that the Brit
ish public persists in drinking more
than they believe it should, the tenn
perance folk are working tooth and
nail. While presiding at the thirty
seventh anniversary meeting of the
Church Of England Temperance Soci-
ETY. at Lambeth Palace the other day
the Archbishop Of Canterbury stated
that they had 100000 adult abstainers
and 100000 children who also had re-
solved to eschew liquor. The larger
class of temperance workers, however,
apparently has given up the attempt
to accomplish the impossible, and is
working, not to establish strict teeto-
talism, but to abolish drunkenness as
far as possible.
An instance of this tendency is the
model public house. which has just
been opened at Grayshott-the Fox and
Pelican. 1t Is licensed for the sale of
spirits, wine and beer, and is the prop
erty of men and women of Grayshott
who are temperance workers and who
take for their model the public houses
run by the association. in which so
many bishops and other dignitaries are
interested, and which was described in
these letters several months ago. The
local society is known as the Gray
shott and District Refreshment Asso-
citation, and has a capital of $12,500.
The chief object is to place non-intoxi-
cants on a level with those that cheer
and also inebriate. To this end the
manager is paid a salary, and beer,
wine and spirits are sold to him at the
regular retail price, and he derives no
profit from their sale, but he is allowed
a commission on all non-intoxicants
In this public house the harmless
beverages are exposed to view as at
tractively as the ones calculated to pro-
duce a more enlarged vision. A sharp
eye is kept out for authorizations, and
only pure liquors are to be had there.
The society is also guarding against
the dread possibility of getting rich
through the enterprise, and a dividend
on shares no larger than 4 per cent
will be declared, the remaining profits
being allowed to go toward forming
a reserve fund. This sum, in turn, will
be pruned in accordance with the con-
scientious scruples of the society's
members, and it will not be allowed to
grow larger than one-fourth of the cap
ital. When it has reached this amount
the surplus will be devoted to some
work of charity in such a manner, how
ever, that the givers will derive no
gain whatever. The Fox and Pelican
has all the conveniences of a modern
hosiery. On the ground floor are the
coffee room, the bar and the bar parlor
which are made inviting and where the
foremost newspapers are kept on file.
Above these are five bedrooms and a
comfortable sitting room, in which is
a well-stocked library.
CHAMBERLAIN'S TEMPERANCE
SCHEME.
AS far back as 1877 a movement hav-
ing for it's object the establishment of
just such places as the Fox and Pelican
was started by Joseph Chamberlain,
then simply a member of Parliament.
In an address at that time he affirmed
that even heavy drinkers were anxious
to see temperance diminished and
would look with favor upon any propos-
Ell which contained the elements of
success, and he laid special stress on
the fact that in Sweden where such
state of things exists, total abstinence
among women is the rule. However,
Parliament sat heavily upon the plans
of these men, and the scheme was
shelved for the time being.
This tendency to fight drunkenness
instead of fighting drink is noticeable
in almost every movement now made
along the lines Of reform. In the
course of significant address made re-