Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 104, 21 February 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

'It is very satisfactory,' says the Fall Mall Gazette, 'to hear from the employers' side direct corroboration of the statement made in evidence by one of the laborers a few weeks ago that habits of sobriety are increasing among the river- side workers. Mr Griffin put down the improvement to the law which prohibits the payment of wages in public houses. Whatever be the reason, it is gratifying to learn that with more wages and greater opportunities for dissipation the men are choosing the better way. It is worth noting in this connection that nearly every prominent official of the Dockers' Union, from Mr Maun down, is an avowed teetotaller. Schoolmaster : 'What persons was the Court of Star Chamber composed of "?' Scholar : 'Of lords spiritual and temporal.' Schoolmaster: 'What is the difference between lords spiritual and lords temporal ?' Scholar : 'Lords spiritual were those who drank spirits, and lords temporal were those who did not drink at all.' It is said that about 375 American railway companies prohibit tbe use of intoxicating liquors by their employes. The force of this statement lies" in the fact that only 225 companies have not yet issued such a wise order. Miss Weston's work among the sailors continues to prosper. During the past year 3336 nledges were taken at Davenport and Portsmouth. Seventy- eight thousand sailors elepi at the 'rests' during the same period. Teacher : " Yes, my children, remember there is no human love equal to a mother's love," Little girl: ••Women love their children bettoi than their husbands, don't they?' "Very often." Yes, indeed. Whei we gets the hiccoughs mamma get! very sorry for us and tries to cure 'en but when papa gets the hiccoughs she gets mad." In Canada liquor sellers cannot b< members of municipal councils, o: hold any municipal office. The Palm Leaf, published in Bom bay, says that the Maharajah of th< State of Barodaand his entire cour are total abstainers, and do all it their power to discourage the drink ing habits of the people, but that tin British Government are making success difficult.