Temperance Items Parcels Rates

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 184, 3 August 1901, Page 1

Temperance Items

Parcels Rates

'GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS. Parcels are carried on' the Government railways at the following rates : 31b weight, any distance, 6d. 71b, 50 miles, 6d ; over 50 miles Is. I4lbs, 30 miles, 6d; 50 miles, 9d ; 100 miles, Is; 200 miles, Is 6d; over 200 miles, 2s. 2Slbs, 30 miles, 9d; 50 miles, Is; 100 miles, Is 6d ; 200 miles22l;s 1 ; over 200 miles 3s. 561bs, 30 miles, Is 6d; 'SO mites, 2s 100 miles, 2s 6d; 200 miles, 3s 9d ; aver 200 miles, ss. 84Ibs, 30 miles, 2s; 50 miles, 2s 9d; 100 miles, 2s 6d; '2OO miles, 5s 6d; over 200 miles. 7s 6d. H2lbs, 30 miles, 2s 6d ; 50 miles, 3s 3d; 100 miles, 4s; 200 miles, 6s 6d; over 200 miles, 10s.

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(Published by arrangement.) TEMPERANCE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. With the exception of two'Btates, tfio laws of America require that physiology, having •special reference to the effects of alcohol, shall bo taught in all the public schools. Here are some specimens from the sohool books:—" If you receive into your atomanh Ta piece of bread or beef, nature welcomes its presence. The, juices of the system at once Uke hold of it, and 'transform it for the use ot the body. . *•* Soon it is no longer bretd or beef; it 1b flash on your arms ; its chemical energy is imparted to you, and it 1 becomes your strength. If, oh the other hand, you take into your stomach a little alcohol, it receives do such welcome. .Nature treats it as ft poison. Every organ v 6i elimito. ation, all the scavengers of the body, ib once set to work to throw off the enemy. So surely is this the case that the breath ot'& person who has dmnk only a single glass of the-lightest beer will betray the fact. The alcohol thus eliminated is entirely unchanged. Nature apparently makes no effi rt to appropriate' it. . . \, It courses everywhere through the circulation and into the great organs with all its properties unmodified. Alcohol, then, is nob, like bread or beef, taken hold of> broken up by the mysterious process 6i digestion and used by the body. It cannot, therefore, be regarded as an aliment of food." J. G. WOOLLBY ON CHRISTIAN* CITIZENSHIP. Christian citizenship means at lea§t two things—Christianity Bnd citizenship. The voting churoh, by trying to be true to both parties, has been untrtJte to both. ' The Christianity that stays in dirty parties loses its savour precisely SB the fishes of Mammoth Cave lost their eyes. Politics is the average vtsTUE. The first duty of a Christian is to bais« the average by as much as his character weighs. Because we have lost sight of that, the parties have been able to disfranchise civic Christianity and transmute the power of the church into saloons. PROHIBITED HIS OWN BEER. Recently Guinness, the igreat " bee\' baron " of Dublin, erected some moddl {'tenements for the use of working peopre, and amongst other things prohibited ail •intoxicating liquors ; even his own beer •is not allowed to be sold. Lemonadte and mineral waters can be had, biit intoxicants of every form are shut out, Plenty of baths, hut no bars !

A WELLINGTON SABBATH STREBB? SCENE. On Sunday morning, May 12th, as tHte Wellington congregations were streaming from the various churches, two drunken firemen fought for some ten minutes at the corner of Willis and Manners retreats, in the very centre «fr the city. One man was stripped tothe waist, and his nether garments werte torn. His opponent, said to be ah Auckland pugilist, "bub considerably the worse for liquor, had a deep gash cut under his eye. Both were Btreaming with blood, and fought furiously, te crowd watching them until the poliefe arrived.