TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Western Star, Issue 1575, 1 July 1891, Page 1

TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Published under arrangement with the New Zealand Temperance Alliance.)

DR. TALMAGE'S WORK IN' NEW ZEALAND. The influence of Dr Talmage is not confined bo Brooklyn, nor to the readers of Lis sermons, for a few days ago afc Temuka, a hundred persons (a fourth of the audience), including many of the most prominent citizens, .signed the temperance pledge after the recital of the popular preacher s famous temprrience sermon " The Archfiend of the Nations " by Mr E. Tennyson Smith (the second ttough). Great excitement prevailed, the meeting being prolonged until nearly eleven o'clocd. A repetition of the sermon, given at Geraldine on Sunday, June 14th, resulted in over 40 of the audience signing the pledge.

At Hastings recently, Charles Davis was charged with being d.uink whilst acting as postillion to a pair of horses attached to the carriage which conveyed Mr and Mrs Gladstone, Lord Brassey, and one of his daughters to ■ the Hastings railway station. _ The prisoner lost control over the animals and lay between them. After the occupants of the carriage had alighted he was arrested. He admitted having a glass or two of ale. The magistrate, addressing the prisoner, said be should have been doubly careful on such an occasion. There was a not a shadow of a doubt that he was drunk, and he should had him 20s and costs. A o'hiss or two of ale seems an insignificant thing, but to what momentous results it might have led I " For want of a shoe the horse was lost, «fcc. ; and, for want of a teetotal coachman, Mr and Mrs Gladstone, to say nothing of Lord Brassey and his daughter, might easily have gone to smash. The liquor-traffic ran very near to causing a catastrophe which would have made a loud report all over the world.— Alliance News. Truth in a Nutshell.—ln an article from the pen of that versatile :iud popular leader writer, Dr Andrew Lang, in the Illustrated London News, iu issue, appeared the following truth in a nutshell : Wine looses the tongue, una sets men joking and laughing, but they loose control of their judgment, and their witticisms are usually so flat anctfinsipid that they cannot, imagine in thoir sober moments why they laughed at them at all. Canada doe* not allow a liquor dealer or a saloon keeper ro hold a municipal office. A nubJican, who wiw summon.'.! in Liverpool for serving drunken p cp'e, declared that "a working man c add drink twenty pints of leer without being made drunk." and the Bench di - inisacd the case. What cannot bo done.-—Licence the saloonkeeper ! Kegulale the traffic by law ! Tou might as well try to regulate the tiger bv law. There is but one. way to deal with the liquor traffic an 1 the ti."or in this country, and that is to destroy both. Pronibition, ab i u e and unqualified, is the only remen. Pray that it may be destroyed, and voto as von pray.—Cincinnati Journal and Messenger. Ah! What could bo more lonelus j ve ?_ What single point of e\i tencj could bo more conclusive than t .is recomendation of the Governor of low i made in ISSB :—" The enforcenent of the prohibitory law has been so cilieient in reducing crime, and cm* ipi-mly diminishing the business of ihe e-uris, that 1 reemmend a consolidation of di.dricls so as so reduce the numhi-r ot judges from -10 to 31, in i am at i died 'it can be done and will be a saving linancinly." Thebc.-t. medicine known i.i Samu'k e:i) Sons'El'CAl.vi-i'-KsTii-U'T. r fo«! it- einiii.-u:!.v powerful effects in cough', ch!m>, intlm-it;*.-.: th« voliff is ii'slanttmcoiis. I-i an min. .-sis s sunl accidents of all kinds, bril.-. w.mmis bums, soiil ins?, hri ihcs, spr I ihe safestremedy —in.-sv.i iliug —no iniUiinimu i.n. r.iko surprising eih-cls produced mi en up diphtheria, l>i-oiie!iil,i-i, itillir.iiiiiit.oii oi . i.o lung.--, uwcll:u;'«i < v< "- : diitrrlnoii, ■'y.si-nl. y, diseases of lliu kidneys and urinsn-j o:*i:u..~. | In use at liospiiiiis and medical elude- si'-l i.vit the globe: p:itruuise.l l<y His JiHJe.-iy ilie King of Italy ; crowned with metial and d - ploi'nal lit the international Hxhiuiiinn, Amsterdam Trust in this approvod article, nn4 reject all othoro. "To put tliis business on a cash basis, Mr Peduncle," said the father of the yum.: lady ; ■' in «i:-.e y»n -.lionhl marry Lieue, you iiuisi have .-•> nettling lions:" '• v\\di, - to 'lliat," the emban'.i.sv.al young e, in, •' f shouldn't uxpsci much, of e.)i'.:>, , .it tin: start, though it's kind of you to asU.' rudlllll Jo '.'•: tnd boaa'ifii". N ;-or grc.i- . .'. hr.i. leclotuive. Stopsbair •• <l>--I'.\£ »ui , >. u-> lis auctSj hfeftU Jiani.