The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-07

C"i hVAu regular IneetlnB Will Dt
held in the M. T.. church at O'Clock
Friday afternoon, December 14th. All
members and friends are cordially in.
vited to be present.
GOOD CHEER.
Have you had a kindness shown
Pass 1t on.
Twas not given for you alone
Pass 1t on.
| Let IL travel down the years
Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on.
No man Is expected to stop the
whole saloon business, but merely to
stop his part of it, as represented by
his'ballot.-Paciilc Ensign.
A saloon can no more be run with
out using up boys, than a -four mill
without wheat, or saw mill without
logs. The only question is, whose
boys-your boys or mine-our boys
or our neighbors?-Our Messenger.
GENERAL SHERIDAN AND HIS SON.
Two grave, quiet-looking men stood
on the steps of big house in Wash
iugtOn some years ago. They were
watching four bright children get into
cart and drive down the street,
throwing back kisses and "goodby"
to papa and papa's friend, the general.
The younger man, the father. was
Gen. Phil Sheridan-"Fighting Phil, 3"
as he was called in those days. The
general. the old friend, said:
"Phil, how do you manage your lit
tie army of four?n
Don't manage; they are mischiev-
Gus soldiers, but what good COM
rades All the good there is in me
they bring out. Their little mother is
wonderful woman and worth regi-
ment of officers, John. | often think
what pitfalls are in waiting for my
small, brave soldiers all through life
] wish ! could always help them over"
Phil, if you could choose for your
little son from all the temptations
which will beset him the one most to
feared, what would it be?''
General Sheridan leaned his head
against the doorway and said soberly;
at would be the curse of strong
drink. Boys are not saints. We are
all self-willed, strong-willed, maybe
full of courage and thrift and push
and kindness and charity, but woe be
to the man or boy who becomes "a slave
of liquor! Oh, l had rather see my
little son die to-day than to see him
carried in to his mother drunk! One
of my brave soldier boys on the field.
said to me just before a battle. when
he gave me his message to his mother
if he should be killed: Tell her |
have kept my promise to her. Not
one drink have | ever tasted The
boy was killed. / carried the message
with my own lips to the mother. She
said: General, that is more glory for
my boy than if he had taken the city,"
Union Signal.
WHY is THE PROHIBITORY LAW BEST? |
l. Because crime will largely dis
appear if the drink curse is removed.
Judge Noah Davis says that nine
enths of all crimes committed are
raceable to liquor.
,. Because the youths of to-day
will be the lawmakers of the future.
md public peace is promoted by tenn
lerance laws.
). Because temperance principles
will increase the wealth, not only of
individuals but of nations. The drink
'ill amounts in one year, to say moth.
ng OF the expense of criminals result
ny from drink, to more than twice as
much as the yearly expenses of the
United States government.
4. Because the good name of ma
ion is dependent upon the sobriety of
Ter citizens Tin Mohammedan coun-
ries where water drinking is enioined
lpon all people, our drink habit is
made reproach to us as a Christian
latlon.
8. Because the Bible teaches us
hat drunkenness is a sin.
6. Temperance is in the list OF
christian Writ ues.
7. God tells us l Cor. 6-l0) there
no place in heaven for drunkards.
Union Signal. (
ETA HELFRICH,
Press Supt.