Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-27
w. e. T. L. COLUMN.
Conducted by the Ladies of the W. C. T. U.

Iwould rather face heatheDlsm in
any other form than the liquor traffic
in Africa. / have gone many times in
30 the native heather towns to preach
the gospel, and found The whole town,
men, women and children, IN excite
ment over barrel of rum that had
been opened to be drank by the town
people. have seen them drinking it
out OF buckets, brass kettles, iron pots,
eartEern pots, tins, cocoanut shells;
and mother who could not get any
thing in W bich to Put IL WOLid hllItl'
own mouth with rum and then feed
it to her babe from her own lips. And
when have reproved them they have
replied: "What do you white people
make rum and bring it to us for IT
you don't want us to drink it?' Rum
has most degrading influence on the
African. 1t is the cause of more fight.
ing, quarreliDg and Incidence than any
, other one thing.-Miss Agnes McAllis-
ter, Cape Palmas, Liberia.
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General Sherman said that war is hell
The Wichita Eagle says that whisky is
hell. 1t is admitted that both authorities
are good, and one might infer that war
and whisky are twin evIls;but not so. war
often emancipates people or frees
nation. Whisky never blesses, never
restores, never builds up, but always
Olights and tends 10 degenerate and de-
stroy-a remorse enemy to flesh and
blood, mind and soul-its course is al
ways downward.
Every young man, if endowed with
common sense, IS possessed with some
predominant propensity which the use
OF alcohol is sure TO peryert. Liquor
drinking and even drunkenness would
not be SO tad were it not tor other
crimes to which 1t is sure to lead.
If young mans propensity is to be
liberal, it makes him spendthrift and
sends him to the poOrhouse. If daring
and adventurous it leads TO foolish spec
ulation, plunging and gambling with all
its accompanying evils; if combatIve,
10 quarreling, assault, crime, murder
and the gallows; if misery, to cheat,
Overreaching, stealing and the prison.
1t is said the devil once cornered
Hermit and told him he was compelled
TO sin, aud gave him his choice of the
OF three of the worst. The Hermit
chose drunkenness as the least
three and when he got drunk be com
mitted the other two and then the devil
laughed and all hell was glad.
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"If the county attorney of any county
shall be notified by an officer or other
person of any violation of any of the pro-
visions CT this act, it shall be his duty
forthwithto diligently inquire into facts
OF such violation, and for such purpose
he is hereby authorized and required to
issue MS subpoena Tor such person or
persons as he may have reason to be-
lieve have any information OF knowl-
edge of such violation TO appear before
him at a time and place designated in
such subpoena, then aud there To testify
concerning any violation of this act;
said subpoena shall be directed to the
sheriff or any constable of the county
and shall be served and returned to
such county attorney IN the same man.
ner AS suhpoeHas are served and return
ed in criminal cases.
Each witness shall be sworn by the
county attorney To testify the truth, the
whole truth aid nothing but the truth,
and true answers make to all questions
which may be propounded by such
county attorney touching any violations
of the provisions of this act, or the act
TO which this IS amendatory. The
testimony of every such witness shall