TEMPERANCE ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4785, 28 July 1894, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS

The writer of" Cycling Kotos," in f tho Manchester. Gmrdian recently, £> '-: _ says: "Do cyclists: drink too much ? Vi is a question which lias been oxciting much discussion. Wo should most ■■■:* emphatically reply in the negative. " Cyclists are absolutely the most ' J temperate class, in the whole com- ; ~ munity ._ Tho sight of an intoxicated j cyclist is exceedingly rare, mid in -' the few cases which may como ; under one's notice it is almost in- v^£ variably an individual who lias hired i a machine' for a spreo,' and who is ; not a genuine cyclist. This.istho ■-. more remarkable'. whon : it is" con- } sidercd that the majority of cyclists , are young men, and that riding tends . to create thirst, There tiro several reasons to account for this condition J ; of affairs. The healthy outdoor lifo ''•' tends to kill the craviug for alcohol, ; Experience teaches that indulgence ; even to a small extent ruins a man's f form, and as all cyclists, liko to ride C- : t well and easily, they will not knowingly do anything that tends to'pref Ycnt tlioir excelling, Lastly, over- * , i indulgence when cycling would provo T* ■ niost dangerous, Cyclists, nro no ■ doubt' frequently seen stopping at ; public-houses, but as often as nqfr it , is "for tea or for some temporanoo j drink, and in other cases light ale Is ' selected, which really is little more i than a teinpernncobovorngo andean do no harm. There is no stronger J ■ factor in the cause of Temperanco [ than cycling, and were all tho world ; on wheels there -would be' far less drunkoimoss than there is." ; 'i' : , The Vienna correspondent of tho . Daily News ' repqrtg' a" strango stqiy • from Qa|ioia. In the spring of 1893 ' a, peasant of the village of Mnlaba, ' iieSi'-Ciinvnojvltz, folj 'isßSTEatajep. ""^^ J tic trance,'_ Just r as he was being J borne to his grave he awoke, and, , with all tho village peopld present, told a: tale which .impressed bis s hearers in an extraordinary manner. ' Ho said lid had been to Heaven, and ; that God had given him permission to rotum to earth again if ho would | strive to convince the peasants how , bad the drinking of spirits was for . their souls and bodies. When ho had done speaking the villagers : swore on oath that they would not drink spirits again while thoy lived, ' In the Oantral Prisons at Toronto, a plebiscite on Prohibition was taken a few days ago, Ipijo Aynvden consenting, a canvass of nil the prisoners was matte. The reformatory for wqrqon was also canvassed. The following figures, gip the result': - r>m Central Prison, fqr PixjhibitiQii, 257j against, 58; neutral, 26; tqtal, 341, . Mercer fleformatory, for Prohibition, A 72, against, 10; total, 8?, Sq tlutf ~ the vote was 75 per cent, qf tiieinalo prisoners, and 'BB per cent of the female prisqners in favour of a Pro. hibitorv law, while only 17 per cent and \i pec cent respectively ara against it, An investigation of tho records shows that about 85 per cont of all thoso at present in prison * are there directly or indirectly through drink, An interesting list of tho wills of the richest people who died in 1893 has beon made public, ,Tho largest estate on which probato duty was. paid was valued at This large wealth had been aclffiuldted by o Liverpool brewer; and among the wills'of other brewers and wine morchants (says Mr G. A, Sala) "I lindporsonalitiesvaluedatf742,Boo. £563,600, £380,400, £328,500, and so down to amerofjeabitoof £20,5(J0. The estates of a niiinberoi baiikeis como next, ranging betweon£3oo,oob and £16,000 j but strange to relato among a list of sixteen brewers, bankers, and wino merchants, • I do not find a single person whose namo suggests tho remotest inference of his'being of Hebrew'descent. Did'