TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4489, 29 July 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

\ Lamentable Lack oj Enter-'' *>3s prise, , * "Let me nave three fingers ofwhiskey," lie bokl to the e'erkofa drug store in a Kaimi town. ~ "I can't" replied the clerk, who-—;; did not knnw the customer " This » is a prohibition Stile" > " I can't get a drink of whiskey. - jJB '' No, sir; not without a prescription, medioine." ; /••"-Is"tliere no emergency at all in.. : wliich you would be permitted to dis- . • pense a small quantity -of whiskey: without that formality—a case of: life , and death, for instance?" " Why, yes," replied the clerk. "I suppose if a man were to be bitten by a 'rattlesnake; audit would require, some time to go to a doctor and get a prescription, imthat case it-wight be allowable to give him wHjjfct" "Do you know vhere lOld find a snake ?" was the next question. " Why, no," replied the clerk, greatly surprised at the query. " Well," commented the thirsty ' > one, with a great deal of disgust in his tone, " it seems to ta'e that if this drug store had any enterprise it would v keep a rattlesnake on hand for use iaeases of emergenoy." Wiluaji r Henry Sivitek.—Harper's. ■ Under the Thumb, Mr Eavnshaw: It is not nonsense. Thejlinister of Labour perhaps is as tmioh under the thumb of the liquor. ' . ring as. any man in this Bouse, If the hon. gentleman will notinterrupt meMr Fish: I must again rise to a point of order. It onnnot be in order for:., an hon, gentleman to say. of a: Minister that he is as miich under the ; - thumb of the liquor ring as an else in the Hqusc, me more improper. . ■ ■' Mr Speaker: That may be ■ taken in several ways. It may be assumed that no one in this House is under the thumb of th? liquor ring, and therefore to say he is as much under the thumb of the liquor ring as anyone else in this House is not to • say that he is under the thumb of the : ; liquor ring at all. THE EARLY ~UTTLE FOR MPERAtiCE.- - The following is a verbatim copy of a letter written to the late Rev, \Y. ' Collings (father of Mr J. B, Collings, in whose possession the original now ' is)iuthe year 1838:—" 101 High ' atroefc, Whiteotiapel, M-iroh 17, 1888. Mr ijanlield begs tojnform Mr Collings author of the note addressed • . 1 to hiui, that he has no intention of 1 deviating from the assertion he made ' to his cousin relative to Mr Orsborn, 1 the treasurer of the society .(falsely) called temperance, neither is he at all ' surprised at the construction that has bstion put upon his assertion, as, of' 1 course, every person prior to their becoming a member of a sooiety so. ' infernal in its nature, and base in its design, as tho one in question, mast 3 have theirconscience seared as with a ' hot irou, and all thoughts of an 1 eternal world banished from their ® .view, and is a full proof of his being correct in his remarks relative to the ! members of this society ia that they are, without a single exception, Mars I Fools I and God have mercy on the wicked wroiohps who have dared to act ' together to insult the Almighty and ;■ attack' the commands of Hiß most Holy Word by denying themselves 1 and their creatures 'those mercies 5 which he has not thought too much to bestow upon them, or, rather, pro«. /easing to do so. Let me, before I close, remind the poor ignorant youth, to whom I am writing, that if he were as zealous for the cause of God as he is now in the servico of the Devil, lie would be an honour to his country; but I am, however, bound to assert, in order to olear my conscience and honor my God (I), that bo the members who they may, they are a ourse to the land in which tlioy r dwell. Temperance being moderation, ! I would pray that God may.keep me 1 temperate in all things; therefore I ' 3 will not make stronger assestions, although I might, and perhaps ought so to do, having at a bold _ blasphem- " er's shop beheld at a picture showing 1 the ten drops wliich a gin-drinker ! takes—the last one being the gallows. I' would remind the author of so paltry a paper that here is a drop ® of a worße description in store for the despisers of God and His mercies—- ! viz., the drop with the daviL - tbo champion to this society, iill, the ' bottomless abyss of agony, where the 3 only consolation they will get will be 1 to find that there is no end of their sufferings, in proof of which read the following textßehold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish.' ' Plain Truth.'