TEMPERANCE CLIPPINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9355, 20 February 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

TEMPERANCE CLIPPINGS.

Miss Weston issued 3103 pledge cards to the Royal Navy last year, and presented 171 silvec medals and 713 cards of honour to men,'jvho had kept the teetotal pledge unbroktnHntthe service during periods of from one to i&and 20 years. , sgy.*,^ °* ■ GAMBIiIDOK- UKIVEKSITY: A DEBATfei^ha Union Society » of Cambridge University1 has been debating the temperance subject, the proposition submitted being "that this union would look with approval upon-a large-measure of legislative temperance reform " The nroposer was supported in the debate by seven, speakers, and opposed by an equal number On the vote being taken the proposition was carried by 62 ayes against 42 noes. According to the CT2"7 dge Uenev" the university journal the debate " was one of the best of the term " '' , , L. llE ..V s™ BxPKRiENCE.-In the "Annotations - of the Lancet, in a December issue tnere are some comments on Dr Dudley Buxlon's_ article "Is Dentistry a dangerous Profession?" m the Dental Record for November - and the Lancet writer observes—" The question whether it is expedient to take any alcoholic beverage during working hours is not touched upon by Dr Dudley Buxton, but it seems to be the experience of a large number of dental surgeons that, without it, they can do more work with less resulting fatigue." Publicans to Pay Increased Water Rates. —At Wakeueld, a few weeks since, the magistrates held that water supplied to the Bull Hotel was a trade and not a domestic suoply Notice of appeal was given. This was a test case •as between the Corporation and the Licensed v ictuallers'.Association.

The Bbewbb and tub VicAn.~Mr T. P Dorman, a Northampton brewer and a churchman, is making himself conspicuous; He had promised LSO towards the restoration of St Edmund's Church; .but because a petition t<> the licensing magistrates, urging them to reduce the number of public houses in the town, lay in the church porch for signature, he refuses to fulfil hi? promise. "You," says he to the vicar, "petitioned against my legitimate business, and I shall withdraw my support from your church." The vicar made a dignified reply, m which he declared that' the conception of duty which would lead one to consider that because Mr Donnan had promised a contribution, to his church, he should forbid his temperance workers to act. was simply degrading, and utterly unworthy of any minister or layman.-^British Weekly. The^New York Times Special Report upon. pßOHinmox' in Kansas.—Some time ago a. paragraph appeared in certain papers denouncing the Kansas Prohibition Law as a failure, and charging it with having ruined lopnka,. the capital, which was said to be "down at. heels." This was refuted at the time by an appeal to facts. More recently the JSew York limes, ever an opponent of Prohibition, sent .a special commissioner to Kansas and m the course of along report, he says lopeka, with no saloons, has been constantly growing, while Wichita, with 8.0 saloons, has been decreasing in population. Pittsburg has coupled its population, while Hutchinson, of equal size,: with saloons, has but held its own, although it has largely added to its industries. Similar comparisons might be made with other cities." Asking the question " Is, Kansas . better : off ? " the same writer answers.by r the statement that "There are in thecities and towns thousands of boys, 16 years of age. who never saw, a saloon, and only know from hearsay what they are like. It is afact that public sentiment at large endorses the prohibition law, while only in a few localities does public sentiment endorse the saloon. In the latter there is-a. revenue.' The sale of liquor, as a.rule, is as clandestine as is thievery with, as much fear for the consequences if dis-covery-follows." ■/:.

A DiLEMJtA.—At Birmingham, the brewers and tied-house. owners recently resolved to I transform their managers into tenants, with the view of complying with the requirements of the licensing magistrates; but this method of getting over the difficulty has been circumvented I by the refusal,of tie revising barrister to regardthem as bond fide tenants. Some linndreds of claims were made by the Conservatives on behalf of these' occupiers to be admitted to the municipal franchise; but the objection of the Liberals was "that: they were not bond fide tenants, and -that: the object of the claims was .merely to givo' them a status in the licensing court. This'objeotion was sustained by the revising. barrister, 'who found that in certain cases the. rent paid was totally disproportionate to the net value of the premises, and that, in these circumstances, an occupier could not be regarded as the free tenant of a house .They Can't Afford it.—The New York World gives a curious account of the personal habits of someof the richest men in the United States', a country where the tendency to great accumulations of wealth is exceedingly marked. It states :^" John D. Eockefeller never permits strong drink to" pass his lips. A mere sip of wine for the sake of courtesy is the extent of the indulgence of William Waldorf Asto. Jay Gould has tasted.wine not over two or three times in his .life, and then not because of a desire fdr.it. The Vanderbilts are equally abstemious. Collis P.THuntingtondoes not even drink coffee. His strongest beverage, it is related, is tea. Russell. Sage once in a while takes a spoonful of Bourbon whisky in a glass of water 'asa tonic.. Not one of the leading millionaires uses tobacco,-and;not one uses.pro--fanity.. The American millionaires are a-modol lot in their personal habits." ■ .