Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-02-20
w. c. T. U. Notes.
OUR PLEDGE.

w. c. T. U. Notes.
OUR PLEDGE.
hereby promise, God helping me, to |
abstain from all distilled, fermented and
malt liquors, including wine, beer and
cider, as a beverage, and to employ all
proper means to discourage the use OF
and traffic for the same.
The February meeting held with Mrs. |
Lucelia Morton was most successful |
one. There was a good attendance and
the programme prepared by Mrs. Cliff |
ford was both interesting and instruct |
i've. The question of the Mormon
Octopus was opened by Mrs. Cotton of
Norway. Some of the facts brought out
were quite startling. A magazine favor |
ing Mormonism was brought in by the |
leader. This magazine was sent TO our |
public library, presumably by some one
especially interested. That this sort OF
literature should be distributed in our
own quiet village was revelation to all.
Two new members were received and
dainty refreshments were served.
The programme for March is as fol-
lows: Mrs. G. B. Crockett, leader.
Quotations from temperance workers.
Neal Dow and his work. Lady Henry
Somerset. Scientific temperance in
struction.
Statistics show that prohibition in
Kansas is an annual saving to the people
of 1000, 900. Forty-four out of lO5
counties are without a pauper; and in
thirty-seven counties there is not a single
occupant in the jails.
The Portland Express for Jan. 18th
contained the following:
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-Damages in ST.
500 were awarded by jury yesterday
to the children of drunken father for
redress against the saloon keepers alleg-
ed to have made a drunkard of him.
The verdict establishing a precedent
which will result in the institution of
many similar suits, was rendered in
Judge Richard S. TuthilPs court. The
plaintiffs were the five children of John
Hedlund, and the defendants Oscar
Geyer, Louis Lundquits and Ernest
Theron, saloon keepers. The verdict is
against them separately and Jointly.
SOME GOOD REASONS.
During temperance campaign a
lawyer was discussing with no little
show of learning, the classes of the pro-
posed temperance law, says the Presby-
terrain Review. An old farmer who had
been listening attentively, shut his knife
with a snap and said:
IL don't know nuthin' about the law,
but I've got seven good reasons for
votin' for it,
what are they?" asked the lawyer.
And the grim old farmer responded,
"Four sons and three daughters.
THE CIGARETTE BOY.
What is the future of boy who
smokes cigarettes? Will he try to get
place in a store? A lad in Chicago APP
piled for ten positions, being met each
time with the question, "Do you smoke
cigarettes and was rejected in every
instance.
The manager of a large department
store says: ave don't want cigarette
smokers-the firm has no use for boy
with dried up brains"
viii he try railroad work? The Pan
handle system, the Michigan City divis-
ion, the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis, the South Carolina division,
the Union Pacific. the Rock Island, the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, have all
issued orders against cigarette smokers.
They say, at is harmful, and renders
men unfit for service requiring steady
ves."-Selected.
Again we quote from the Portland
Express:
There was a decrease of Is per cent
in the number of arrests for the year
1905 from that of 1904 according to the
annual report of George W. Sylvester,
city marshal for those years, which was
submitted to Mayor Clifford this morn
ing. The following abstract from this
report shows many interesting things in
regard to the arrests for intoxication
and other crimes for which intoxication
was Responsible:
The arrests for the year have shown a
marked decrease both as to the total
number made and particularly so as to
the number arrested for intoxication.
The total arrests for 1905 are 1925 as
compared with 3,lS9 for the preceding
year, falling off in round numbers of
Is per cent.
The number placed under arrest for
intoxication being 1,525 as compared
with 2, l52 for the preceding year, de-
crease of 20 per cent.
In the classified list of the number of
arrests for the year, the following are
noted in the report: Assault, IS; assault
with intent to kill, 3; breaking and en-
tering, "a; bigamy, /; common drunkard,
l; drunkenness and disorderly, $50;
drunkenness, GA; deserving from the
army and navy, 80; evading fare, IL; en-
bezzlement, 2; forgery, 8; insane, SO;
larceny, 1913; malicious mischief, 4S;
murder, 3; running away from home,
46; safe keeping, 20l; truancy, II; un-
registered apothecary, 2; Migrants, 3S.
In an article in the Christian Herald
upon dangerous indulgences in intoxi-
cants, we read: ''It is in the beginning
that the danger lies. No one who be-
gins the habit expects to become a
drunkard. He can stop when he likes,
he AYERS. 1t is seldom that he INDUCES.
He has full control over himself 1t is
perhaps after long years that he discovers
that he is tied and bound, unable to alb
stain. 1t is wise saying that he who
cares little for intoxicants should alb
stain for the sake of others; and he who
does care for them should abstain for
his own sake. 1t is the most gigantic
evil of our day, and the only remedy
for it is resolute and entire abstention
from the first indulgence"
A story is told of an English school
master, who offered prize to the boy
who would write the best composition
in five minutes on "How to Overcome
Habit" The prize went to lad of nine
years. The following is his essay:
''Well, sir; habit is hard to overcome.
II you take off the first letter it does not
change 'abit.' II you take off another, you
still have bit left. II you take off still
another, the whole of it remains. II
you take off another, it is wholly used
up; all of which goes to show that If |
you want to get rid of habit You must
throw it of altogether"
Let us ''look straight out
See things, not try to evade them"
Let ''fact be fact" for us,
Sand the truth, the truth forever"
OF all the ten or twelve thousand I'M |
fortunate girls and wrecked women |
arroo<oI ovovv voor In Nh;co0o 90 ONT ~ |