WHERE THERE’S DRINK THERE’S DANGER.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume IX, Issue 26, 26 November 1903, Page 3

WHERE THERE’S DRINK THERE’S DANGER.

Write it on the liquor store ; Write it on the prison door; Write it on the gin-shop fine ; Write, Oh, write this truthful line ; Where there’s drink there’s danger.

Write it on the workhouse gate ; Write it on the schoolboy’s slate; Write it on the copy book, That the young may in it look ; Where there’s drink there’s danger

Write it on the churchyard mound, Where the dnVk-slain dead are found ; Write it on the gallows high ; Write it for all passers by ; Where there’s drink there’s danger.

Write it underneath your feet ;

Write it in the busy street ; Write it for the great and small, In the mansion, cot, or ball ; Where there’s drink there’s danger.

Write it on our ships which sail, Borne along by steam and gale ; Write it in large letters plain, O’er our land and across the main ; Where there’s drink there’s danger*

Write it in the Christian home ; Write it where our drunkards roam Year by year from good and right; Proving with resistless might,

Where there’s drink there’s danger.

Write it on our History’s page ; Write it Patriot, Scholar, Sage ; Write it in the Sabbath school ; Write, oh, write this truthful rule, Where there’s driuk there’s danger

Write it for the rising youth ; Write it for the cause of truth ; Write it for our fatherland ; Write, ’tis duty’s stern command ; Where there’s drink there’s danger.

Write it for bright heaven above ; Write it for the God of love ; Write it near the dear fireside, To teach the country’s hope and pride Where there’s drink there’s danger CORK. It may not be generally known that this valuable substance is nothing more or less than the bark of an evergreen oak, growing principally- in Spain and other countries bordering on the Mediterranean. In our gardens it is only a curiosity. When the cork tree is about fifteen years old the bark has attained a thickness and quality suitable for manufacturing purposes; and, after stripping ? a further growth of eight years produces a second crop, and so on at intervals for even ten or twelve crops. The bark is stripped from the tree in pieces two inches in thickness, of considerable length, and of such width as to retain the curved form of the trunk when it has been stripped. The bark peeler or cuttei makes a slit in the bark perpendicularly from the top to the bottom ; he makes another incision parallel to it, and at some distance from the former, and two short horizontal cuts at the top and bottom. For stripping off the piece thus isolated he uses a kind of knife with two handles and a curved blade ; sometimes after the cuts have been made he leaves the tree to throw off the bark by the spontaneous aqtion of the vegetation within the trunk. The detached pieces are soaked in water, and are placed over a fire when nearly dry, and acquire a more compact texture by being scorched. To make them flat they are pressed down with the weights while yet hot.