TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4536, 30 September 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

An Amusing but Instructive . Incident , : ; Home men working on a.cerfl farm in bharobrook ashorUime H sent a boy, who was a stranger in til village, to fetoli six pints of beerj <elling him to go'to the .-first publichouse ho oame to.and.to ask for the loan of bottles to carry it in, The boy went on his errand, and seeing a largo sign over" the village-tavern (which, by-the-bye, has recently been converted from a '•' public«house); thought this was tbo house; where be was to fetch his beer from. '. The boy went in and asked for six what, he did not say, but the manager, thinking he meant Up bittm, which he sold, drew the quantity ordered, hit the.boy some bottles, and away he went_ with what be thought was the desired beer. The boy gave the hottles to tho meu, who after drinking freely of the biiters, said, " You have brought some good beer." "Here, boy," another said, " It's the best beer I've tasted for many a day." One of themHO took the boltles back to the publio-houßej where he expeoted they oame from; but the landlady refused to take tliem, saying they did not belong to her. The man'then todtthem to the next public-house, thinking the boy had got the beer from tho wrong house;. but, no, the bottles did not belong 10 them either. Being thus fixed, the - man said he would carry them no further, and put them down. On again seeing the boy, he asked him where he fetohed ihe beer from, and the boy told him from a place where he saw tarts and oheesecakes on the counter. The man then saw how nicely they had all been sold.

Dr Waldo, tbo inodioal officer of health for a parish m Southwnrk, London, says ttat there is a yory in-' adequate noiiou of tbo real number of de»ths resulting from cbronio alcoholism and Minim tremens, The truth is that medical men, io their desire to spore the feeling of surviving relatives, and under a constant temptation to ndoptouphemißiiodeticription as when the .disease well-known by the name of " hobnail" or " gin« drinker'sliver" is described simply us liver complaint, Seeing that the liver is the organ most injuriously affeoted by indulgence in stioug drinks, it is a significant hot that the mortality from hepatic diseases is found to be fix times as high among innkeepers and publicans as among the generality of males, Dr Waldo, expresses {he opinion that a neurof approach to truth as regards alcl holism and certain other disease! would ba arrived at were it male obligatory for medical practitioners Jo forward all death certificates, in o>p tideuce, direot to the registrars insteM of handing them to relatives, whiclZ is the present practice. ]

The Bishop of London recently said lie did not think' there was any charity in the world equal to the,: charity of winliing people away from social. habits and indulgenoies of appetite which bad been proved, by considerable experience, to be so hurtful, not only to the victims of the sin, hut also to all who were connected with them.. He rejoioed that the borough oflpawich had given them so hearty a welcome upon such an occasion, because lie looked upon that welcome as evidence that the townspeople took some real interest in the matter. At any rate, the Mayor had taken the bold step of inviting everyone to it public luncheon without giving tbew any intoxicating liquor to drink. (Laughter and applause,) In a very clear manner, therefore, his Worship had indicated that he was on their side, although he might not go to the length that he (the Bishop) did, of abstainiug from intoxicating , liquors at all times,

We r§ad n Modem Society, that " It was stated on the shooting ground at Bisley that the Marquis of Bute > had promised to give £I,OOO to the J first Welsh Volunteer who won ihe i Queen's Prize, so that Sergeant i Davies, in all, gets and is noy | jjoing to give up working, , and will probably take a public-house, 1 like most of the other 'Queen's' : shooting winners have done."—Alii-. ] ance News. . ,