TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4329, 28 January 1893, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Tho Union Signal, llioofßoial organ oftbo Women's Teiuporancu tnovoraent of America, is said to Imvoii circulation of noarly 90,000 par week. It is edited by five women, it is set up, printed, and despatched by 120 emt nearly all women, mid is d nt the Women's Union oatiWlsliment, Chicago. One and thirty million pages of printed matter of tomporanco literature were sent out from this women's publishing house last year.

Dr, Richardson says that it is a well observed faot that the men and women who do most work,do soundest work, and, in tho end, do greatest work, aro those, who, avoiding alcoholic stimulants under nil contingencies and pressures, trust to rest nnd to natural food for tho power that is required.

The Calcutta Medical Record mys: —"Society's uso of alcohol is the secret of half the jaundiced, haggard, dried up, prematurely aged European? T/o find in Min''. •

In connection with tbo Dockers' Dnion, London, there is a flourishing temporanoe society. It is said that of 170 branch secretaries more than 130 aro abstainers, and in many branches every member is a pledged teetotaller.

1 A moderate drinker became very angry with a friend who argued ihul safety was only to ho found in total abstinence. » What, sir," said he, "do you think I have lost control over mysfilf?" "I do not know," was tbo reply, "but lot us put it to the jfftjfcFor the next .six momhs do not iDucn a drop." The proposal was accepted. He kept liis promise, nnd at tho close of a month ho said to his friend, with tears in his eyes, " I believe you have saved me from a drunkard's grave, I never knew beforo that 1 was in any sense a slave to drink, but during the last month I have fought the fiercest battle of my life, Had the test been tried later on, it might have been too late."

The Union Pacific railway has decided to allow no more liquor to be sold in its hotels, In view of the fact that the company owns a larger part of tho prinoipal hotels along its route a great deal of practical prohibition is Sure to result. It is thought that as the revenue of a number will be curtailed in consequence they will hiwo to closo aud dining cars will take their places,

Tho Twentieth Century requests its readers to make careful search for a single social infamy that is not licensed by the Government or protected by the police.

Tho Washington Post says of a section of land within one mile of the Soldiers' Home in that city :—" The abolition of the liquor traffic throughout all that section of tho city made real ;|kte investors eager to get posseLjßn-of property there,

"Maine," says tho Ontario Tribune, " tho Prohibition State, has doubled its saving bank deposits during (he past 10 years, and its valuation has increased by £5,000,000. It lias more deposits in its saving banks than thoj whole Dominion of Canada has in similar institutions." While drinking nations are wondering whether Prohibition really prohibits, Prohibition States are growing richer over the wealth they save from the saloon,

The example of drunkards has no influence, as it rule, towards encouraging drunkenness, but the example of tespectable religious moderate drinkers is followed by many to their ruin, The Bible condemns not only sin itself, but the way of sin, the steps that lead to sin,

The Sevenoaks Temperance Council have suggested several reasons why some of the licenses might advantageously be dispensed with, and the most curious reason sot forth is that many of the houses do not pay the publican, a fact that is evident by the houses constantly changing hands,

The following is, says a contemporary, from a boy's essay on total abstinence:—" I abstain fron alcoholic drinks because, if I would excel as a cricketer, Grace says, abstain; a walker, Weston nays, abstain ; as an oarsmen, Hanlan says, abstain ; as a swimmer, Webb says, abstain ; as an g&L orator, Bright says, abstain; as a missionary, Liviagstono says, abstain;' . -' as a doctor, Clark sayß, abstain; as a preacbor Farrar says, abstain ; Asylurnt, prisons and workhouses repeat the cry, abstain I" Wo have heard a long speech with less in it,

Brighton, it is well known, posscs--608 a large number of public houses in proportion to the population, and it is alleged that many of iiiem are conducted in a discreditable manner. On these grounds a petition has been presented to the borough justices requesting the closing of a number of licensed houses.—Exchange,