The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
W. c. T. U. NOTES.
Observation-Disclosures

Our Messenger: Dear MIS-. NatlOn,
what time she is having and what a
lot of good her stirring up of the peo-
pie is doing. What if few people
do get killed. People act as If this
was the first time death had ever oc-
Cured because of the observation-disclosures
traffic, when everyone of us knows that
about 100. 900 die annually from drink
ing liquors, while goodly number
die from the effects of it and other
people who become fiends that can
murder their own families and loved
ones. / am tired of this sentimental
gush about stopping before 1t comes
to bloodshed, l." when it got that far so
long ago, that no one knows when the
first death was caused by 1t. and no
history will ever record on earth the
number who died from it before Car
RE Nation smashed joint. for one,
hope thousand more OF them will be
smashed in Kansas before she stops.
WHAT BOTTLE OF wHISKEY DID.
A South Australian paper made the
following comment on the receipt Of a
little gift from an admirer of the jour
nal:
ga present in the shape of bottle
of fine old Scotch whiskey was kindly
sent to the Office at 2 p. m. on Thurs
day. Ten minutes past that hour not
dram of the liquor remained; ten
seconds later the Office boy had sold
the bottle at the rag and bone shop
next door. AT $3.50 three men were
charged with being drunk and dis
orderly. The editor of this paper re-
turns thanks for the handsome gift
and would feel obliged if the donor of
the whiskey would send along Us, a
policeman's helmet, an office boy, four
panes of glass, new street door
knocker' and no more whiskey."
ONLY ONE FAULT.
"a very generous man, Stephen
was," said one of the men standing
by the newly made grave. always
visited the sick,-he was feeling, when
anyone was in trouble. The old peo-
pie all liked him. Even the children
used to follow him in the streets. He
had only one fault"
"What was that?" l asked.
"Only intemperance.
"Did it harm him?"
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have any power to resist it at last.
He had got behind hand and had to
mortgage his farm, and finally had
to sell it. His wife died on account
of the reverse; kind of crushed, dis
appointed. Then his children, not
having the right bringing up, turned
out badly. His intemperance seem to
mortify them and take away their
spirit. He had to leave politics;
'twouldn't do, you see. Then we had
to set him aside from the church and
at last his habits brought on paraly-
sis and we had to take him to the poor
house. He died there, only forty-fve.
There we're none of his children at the
funeral. Poor man, he had only one
ultu'-Selected,
Our Messenger: GA cigarette fiend
at Marysville has broken out
all over with little yellow spots
and his fingers and toes are sore
He is afraid he has caught the
leprosy from the detestable cigar
rettes. Recently two cases of the
dread disease appeared in Chicago
supposed to have been contracted from
cigarettes. 1t is thought that the Gig
arctic paper which mostly comes from
China, has been handled by leper.
In 1890 Governor Burleigh said
''No state has so little property under
mortgage, according to valuation, al
the State of Maine. There are who'll
counties in which there is not farm
under mortgage, and Maine loans
more money than any other farming
state" Governor Foraker ofOhio sait
that the Ohio people were suffering
dreadfully from their heavy mortgages
and that thousands of their farm
were mortgaged for more than the,
would ever bring. SELECTED.
lPress: The chaplain of the Preston
House of Correction, in England, pub
licly stated that nine-tenths of tn
English crimes requiring to be dea
with by law, result from intemperance
and a recent inspector Of English pris
ons says: ~ am within the truth
, when l state that in four cases out @
, five, when crime has been committed
intoxicating drink has been one of tn
causes" ETA HELFRICK,
, Press SUPP