Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 94, 28 January 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

» In one of the towns of Illinois a banker lately put bis private mark on the money, he paid out on Saturday night to the wage-workers of the town who patronised his bank. It is stated that od the Monday night, of the seven hundred dollars paid out and marked privately, over three hundred dollars had come back to him from the saloons of that town. The Temperance Cause. — The annual report of the etate of temperance in the Irish Methodist Church for the year ending June, 1892, has just been issued, and shows that there are 228 Banes of Hope, with 25,523 enrolled members. A sum of £21 was given for superior answering on Dr Richardson's Temperance Lesson Book, and temperance sermons were preached in several congregations during the year. Church and Nonconformist ministers are working hand in hand at Wolsingham for the furtherance of the temperance cause. At the petty sessions there a short time ago the Revs T. E. Espin (vicar of Tow Law), J. R. Cleminson (Wesleyan), M. Cuthbert (Primitive Methodist), and Geo. Samuel (Presbyterian), were included in a deputation sent to oppose the granting of an occaeional licence, and several applications for extensions have been successfully opposed. Mr McCabe tells of a drinking man who, being in a saloon late at night, heard the wife of the landlord say to her husband, " Send that fellow home, it is late." "No never mind," replied her husband, uhe is shingling our roof for us." This idea lodged in the mind of the drunkard, and he did not return to the saloon for six months. When passing the saloom keeper in the street the latter said, " Why don't you come round to my place any more ?" "Thank you for your kind hospitality." replied his former victim ; •• I have been shingling my own roof lately.'