Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 347, 23 June 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

comtnetnoration of his eightieth that veteran Temperance re- i H|rar, Dr F. R. Lees, was lately i Hfeiented with an address, : W' What is known as the Tyson Drink Cure has been causing a considerable amount ot discussion in Scotland. In Edinburgh a committee has been formed to test the cure. Under the title of *• Societe Fran- , caise de Temperance de la^ Croix Bleue," a French Gospel Temperance Society is meeting with a good deal of sympathy and encouragement in j earryiug out an active propaganda. j Over 20,000 children connected with the C.E.T.S. in London during the winter have been instructed in historical Temperance, and 0000 assembled in seventy.two centres and took part in a written examination. " 1 will tell you," said a gentleman, when conversing with a friend on temperance/' how much it cost to open my eyes on this subject, 1 commenced house-keeping with n bountiful supply ot liquors. I continued in this way until my son became a drunkard. 'Jhen my eyes were opened. In connection with the challenge of Dr Bakewell, the lecture recently delivered in Auckland by Rev L. M. Isitt was an immense success. The city hall was crowded, and the Doctor, who did not put in an appearance, re ceived a sound thrashing at the hands ot the lecturer. To keep working men from the public house, the Fres Methodists of Spalding, in the Old Country, have -within the last six years been the means of establishing a number ot clubs in the town and district. I' ach member pays QA per week, for which he gets the benefits of a friendly ■ociety, and has iho balance returned at the end of the year. The movement has been most successful. In the Indianopolis Journal, J. D. Defrees says :— tC Twenty years ago I was a looker-on at the doings of Congress. Two men who attracted most attention were W. C. Johnson, ot Maryland, and T. F. Marshall, of Kentucky. They were the most brilliant orators — the observed of all observers. Mr Johnson died in Maryland, a few days ago, a pauper and an outcast ; and the papers have informed us that Marshall is tin inmate ot an asylum, diseased, miserable and about to die. Intemperance was the cause of this sad end in both cases." It seems that the citizans and freemen ot one of the Cantons of Switzerland have lately introduced a special clause into their code to this effect . — " Any hotel-Leeper or inn-keeper who gives his customers sufficient intoxicating liquor to render them unconscious, or nnable to walk straight or steady home, shall be obliged to afford them a bed for a night, and adequate board and lodgings till such time as they are completely recovered. No fee, cost, or charge" shall be made by the said hotel-keeper for the said board and lodging." Not a bad clause, is it?