TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4348, 18 February 1893, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

John Burns, tho Socialist leader, lias, says the Methodist Times, refused an oflor ol £2O for his famous straw hat from a publioan, and ho says ho would have refused a million pounds, heoauso he knotf that it was ouly wanted to entice bis friends into the public house, and so increase the demoralising trade, One of the Chicago city judges remarked that" of all boys in the Reform School at Pontiao, Illinois, and in the various reformatories in the city, 95 per cont aro tho children of parents who died through drink, or became criminals through the same cause, In Capo Colony in February of last year a white man had tho option of paying a fine of £7 103 or going to gaol lor three months for only giving away liquor in a neighbouring kraal. Dr Dawson Burns says that since tbs foundation of tho Temperance: Hospita*fWfcmonnt of nlcohul used ia the other London hospitals has boon reduced by ono half, Thu American Postmaslor-aeneral, Mr John Wauamaker, addressing his Bible class, said:-" Tho dnmkird who voles for Prohibition is a freer man t'mn tho total alntainor who carries water on both shoulders and then voiis for liquor, or to put it in tho harness of high license, it is simply a |uestion of whether or not we aro in fa.'or of the saloon, I», isn't a question of high license. Tho quibblo that Prohibition does not prohibit has nothing to do with it, Tho law against stealing does

not prevent stalling. Tlia same that puis tbe amendment on our Constitution will attend to the enforcement of tlio law. It is our duty to make it ns difficult to get liquor ns to net poison."

It was discovered on Octobor Gtli that the Kov Thomas Cook Saunders M.A, of Oxford, had committed suicide in a most determined manner, He occupied the house alone, and was rather eccentric in his conduct. As he bad not been seen by the neighbours for two days previous, tho police broke into the premises and found him lying in tho front sitting room on the couch with his throat cut and his watch in bis band, It would appear from the marks of blood that the wound was inflicted upstairs in front of tbo looking glass, and that afterwards Mr Saunders walked downstans, drew a cork from a bottle of port, and drunk nearly the whole of the contents. He then lay down on the couch with his watch in his hand, and bled to death. He was educated at Eossall School, and since he has been at Oxford he has acted as •: coach" to members of the university.

Mrs Leavitt bus formed 131 temperance and purity societies in Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and flew Zealand, She has crossed thofcquator eight times, and travelled 100,000 miles in making her interesting journey round the world, in the interest of tbo World's Woman's Christian Temporaoce Union, founded by Miss Willard, of America, nine years ago.