The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

send him to the workhouse until h
 reformed asked her how she woul,
 get along without him. Sho said sh < would take in washing and manage t, I eke out an existence. She was will ling to make any sacrifice if he oult only be cured of the drink habit.
 T called the defendant to the bal of the court ahd-had a heart to hear talk with him. He seemed penitsnt and when I asked him what he would do if I gave him chance to reform his countenance brightened and he said he would do his best to- keep away 1 from liquor I asked him if he could keep sober a year. He said he would ltry. ! produced the pledge and he signed it. Then told him to r, port to me at my home once each week for a month. because he had no time to lose from work. and his family need ed all the money he, could possibly earn.
 He came to sec me regularly every week When he appeared in court he was sorry looking sight. but week after week there was an Improvement
 In bis appearance. He was more cheer ful and ambitious. It was not long until he told me the mortgage or his
 furniture had been paid off and that
 he was getting along better than for years. He wore better clothes and his general appearance was heater saw that he was reformed man. and aftef
 .ie first month I released him from the obligation to visit me every week.
 I saw him few days ago and nc told me he was happy and prosperins. that
 he had been promoted and never in- tended to drink again.
 If I had sent him to the workholIfe he would have come out soured on the world and probably would have gone back to drink. During his incarcera-
 ton his family would have endured many hardships. I have not the slight. est doubt that he win keep the pledge not only for year. but for all time.
 His wife tells me that he treats her with the greatest possible considera- tion, that his children have learned to love him again, and that he is ambi- tious to get ahead in the world
 That is only one case out of hun- dreds. The records of the police courts of St. Louis show that thousands of persons are arrested annually and for-, nally charged with petty offences committed while they are under the in- fluence of liquor. So many cases re- suiting from intemperance made me do some real earnest thinking.
 The saloons cause me no personal worry. I figured it out that every time reformed a man settled the saloon problem for him for all time to come. I thought the, best way to cure the drinking habit was to cure the in- dividual of the appetite for drink I knew that the ordinary temperance pledge taken every year by thousands of persons was largely a failure. but thought a pledge backed up by the power of the court would be respected, and am happy to say that during an experience covering nearly thirty months I have not had more than half 3 dozen men violate the pledge. When B man knows that he will ne sent to the worlxhouse for getting drunk be is under a powerful restraint to keep sober. Any man after a forced so- briety of year who has any moral stamina about him will not fall into his old habits of intemperance. My system is better than all the so-called ntemperanee cures ever invented. 1t 'osts nothing to, take 1t. but 1t costa l nuch to not to-"