TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4971, 9 March 1895, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

" The teetotallers have always been , telling us" says the Westminster Gu:- - ctte" that intoxicants are not necessary in health, and the other day the Temperance Hospital people again insisted on the 1 fact that they are not necessary in dis- 1 ease. 1 Alcohol,' runs the address pre- , seated to the Lord Mayor' was not administered in any shape or form except ! from the dispensary, and it had been administered only seventeen times in ' twenty-one years amongst oyer 10,000 j in-patients. The mortality was a little over 0 per cent., the convalescent pat- ' ieuts recovered rapidly and satisfactorily . and altogether their returns were at least as good as those of any other general hospitals at home or abroad.' . There is, of course, no gainsaying the | truth of this statement, and one result of ! the system is its remarkable economy. ' As most of the other London hospitals, which are always in funds, spena annually a very large sum in liquor, might ! not some of them try the Temperance ! plan of treatment—at least as ail experi- ' incut i 1" . A the IPinc and Spirit Gazette, a w™r says" I will finish this article, ! by quoting from a work published in the 1 reign of Queen Elizabeth, respecting (lie 1 numerous class of topers. ' The first is ] ape drunk, and ho leaps, and sings, and holloas for the heavens; the second is 1 lion drunk, and he flings the pots about ] the house, breaks the glass windows , witli his dagger, and is apt to quarrel with any man that speaks to him; the \ third is wine drunk, heavy, Lumpish, ' and sleepy, and cries for a little more , drink and a tew more clothes; the fourth is sheep drunk, wise in his own conceit ' when he cannot bring forth a right word; ' the lifth is maudlin drunk, when a fel- i low will weep for kindness, iu the midst of his drink, and kiss you, saying, : "Captain, I love thee; go thy ways, thou dost not think so often of me, as I 1 do of thee; I would I could not love thee 1 so well as I do;" and then he puts his ' linger.ill his eye and cries. The sixth is martin-drunk, when a man is drunk, 1 and drinks himself sober, ere lie stir; the seventh is goat-drunk, aud the 1 eighth is fox drunk, when he is crafty ' drunk, as many of tho Dutchmen be, ' who will never bargain but when they j arc drunk." j The Bishop of London presided re- ' ccutly, at the Mansion House, over" a ftfcial gathering of metropolitan and ffljic county workers" in connection 1 with the National Temperance League. J There was a very largo attendance. The 1 chairman said it was proposed to begin ' the new year with a regular campaign ; in favour of the society, which did not aim at any political purpose, or take up ' any political party, but which confined 1 itself to one simple object—namely, to 1 persuade as many as they possibly could to adopt the rule of total abstinenco from intoxicating liquors. The great change vrhich had occurred in public opinion with reference to the question had all 1 been brought about by the persistence of total abstainers. The Mayor of , Northampton (Alderman H. E. Randall) 1 said he would support no scheme that . did injustice to any class. The magistrates should have the same power as they had in America, of sending a man to a home for inebrites for six months after he had been fined three times tor drunkenness. Mr Jones, of the Peace Society, has been telling what happened once when he had an intcryiow with Li Hung Chang. During the interview Li called for champagne, and set a glass before his guest Mr Jones asked to be excused from drinking it, and the Viceroy asked why and added," You are an Englishman, andall Englishmendrink cliamMine, do they not f" He explained to flwiceroy that he and his wife belonged t*an organisation, the members of which abstained on principle from all kinds of intoxicants, just for example's sako The Viceroy requested the interpreter to roneat the observation. He was struck with it, and it seemed to take such an effect upon his mind that he- rose up in his chair, and, giving a vefy profound bow, said, " I perceive, sir, you aro a man of benevolence," Tne New York Wine and Spirit Ga. fptlk says that the city of Stuttgart, in Germany is supplied with beer on a very novel plan. The beer is carried through tho city, like water, by a system of pipe!. The customer pays his beer rate as he would his gas or water-rate, Tho pipes arc of lead, lined with a thin layer of wood pulp, to prevent the contact of tho beer with the lead pipes, The pipes are air-tight, and the oeer, when drawn at the home of tho customer, is as fresh and sparkling as when' taken from a bottle. Two large breweries have seemed a monopoly in this line oyer the whole city," . The Wutminster Gazette notes that in renewing the returns from the different liwed States," a result which appears nnpss satisfactory than the overthrow is the victory gained by Governor Tillman in South Carolina. Mr Tillman, it will be remembered, loyally insisted on carrying out the State anti-liquor legislation,, and when riots broko out 'did not hesitate to shoot.' While too much has certainly been mado in this country of tho fact that in certain States, where some sort of local veto exists, liquor is still procurable in an illicit way, it is very satis- • factory to find that the citizens of South Carolina are thoroughly determined to see to it that, the laws- which they make are more Strictly' administered.'" ;