Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 98, 7 February 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

A friend of ray youth, an officer in her Majesty's service, and a young man of bright hone and promise, had { to be turned out of the army for ' drunkenness. His friends sent him | abroad, and he would return homo ■, from time to time, but still a victim to . the drink. On one of these occasions I heard he was staying at one of the London hotels. I went to see him, and found him on a bed of sickness through his evil habit. I prayed by his bedside, and when I arose from my knees my friend said, "It's very good of you, old fellow, to come and pray with me like this ; but it's too late. I cauiiut give it up." Oh, that cry — " Too lute ! " Flow many have echoed it from the same cause ! — C. Ernest Tiittou. The Glasgow and South-Western Railway Compauy is understood to enjoy an enviable position in regard to claims for compensation for sad results of accident. To a certain extent the company protects itself against negligeuce in a manner perhaps unique in railway management. A number of inspectors are constantly occupied in boarding the trains, some times travelling with the engine and sometimes in the guard's van, and they make note of all they observe. They may leave the trains at. any point and resume their journey iv any direction. Auy workman who is in the slightest degree addicted to drink is under this system soon detected, aud the men who are attentive to their duties and are sober have fair prospects oi promotion. In local parlance, these peripatetic detectives are called "smellers."