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- Intemperance and the Children.
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* ‘When thou goest thy steps shall not he
* Bteaightened ; and w: thou runnest,
L‘tu tM T\ ;:PI‘(%I“)S, 4,11,
oy
_ Aceording to thoge words two
@_%@am to be doue for the young
im}‘m to be taught and led.
.By fig "we are to make them
fwfii‘lfifl\ the great truths of
fi\y&bie, truths about God, man,
~ duty. R
. The straight gate and the narrow
.Wa ifi%be pointed out and they
%Wfie persuaded to walk there
?*,<h§?v%:fi}~lbading themi we are to go
_ before then. in preaching those
- things that wo wish them to prac-
A % the same time avoid
~those things tnat lare dangerous
- and tuinous. More attention has
bagn given to what the Bible says
‘about children in this century
~than ever before, and Lence this
s the fifst age that has Leheld any
systewatic effort to gave them. On
the other hand there seeins to be a
totresponding effort on the part of
the forces of evil to mislead and
“destroy them. Any parent would
“ shudder at the thought of his child
becoming intemperate. An intox
jcated child would sadden even the
h&est heart. Fewthere are who
g_’quld‘.fidt like to see all children
resened fi'oin intemperance. Yet
bthcré_ arc many good persons who
g’sne\er have once thought of giving
“any time or attention to this sub
“ject theniselves, and their con
“science has not troubled them 1
the least because they have not
For such persons 1 wish to submit
afew facts and figures, that they
!11'1}\' fimdcr over them. 3
_ When the Emperor of Germany
,_t"isitcd a city where Pestalozzi, that
great friend of children, lay sick.
_the sick man determined to see the
Embperor, though his friends pro
tested that hie wasnot able to Jeave
his bed. -He refused to hecd what I
they said, saying, “Let me go, for
if by .y humbie Jintercossion 1
shall cause a single! Prugsian chitd
to receive better instruction I shal
he ‘betier satisfied.” So it these
words shall only cause one child to
be protected from intemperance 1
shall be well satisfied. :
.~lt isa great thing to please a
child, says McDonald, | but it is a
- greater thing to save onc. TFor the
soul of a single child is, worth the
attention of a man’s whole life. If
in all our liyes, with all our pow-|
ers we havébeén able to make one
child really better we should thank
God and tdke courage. When
some of the pupilg of Horace Mann
. ‘went to sée their beloved teacher
‘on his déath bed all he could say
to them was, “be ashamed to die
unless you have won a victory for
humanity.” ,So we should be a
shamed—yegf and afraid to die ur,
less we have done something for
the children of our homes and
neighborhood.
+* I don’t wish to make Phe impres
.:sioii of intoxicants the] only dan
«ger from gwhich we arg to guard
our children ; I am not blind to, or
dgnorant, of the other perils that
isurround them.:l know that vi
cious, literature from the trashy
‘weekly to the leprous sheet, is qui
‘etly doing a deadly work in many
‘of out homes. The tastes ot the
syoung are their plans of life, their
day dreanis, courtshipg, weddings
and dress 11 both couniry and cit
des are largely shaped]b¥ the novels
and papers that are daily read. |
° But I beheve the greatest enemy
‘to ¢hildren of ourjcountry is intem
“peditance;” and that “itinflicts on
“them more rpufferings’ and wrong
ithan all other: evils combined., It
“is the evil beast that s devouring
“them. One of the best informed
“and most thoughtful men of our
“day said at a late meeting in Lon
“don, *“Americe - eanndét mainkain
~her ingtitutions peacefully unless
she is very stern concefning intem
perance.” “Mr. Gladsione tells us
- that Enghsh and German races
“have suifered thore fronr intemper
anve than from war, pestilence
- and famine. I believe it can be de
“monsirated that intedperance 1s
the most terrible scqurage in the
“world, and that we carinot make a
.y great progress until, in gome
~ measure, the stipplies of drink are
. dvied. Booke have Loen writien
setting forth the wrongs of the In-
Cdiansand the negro; but the sade
of :ggghmd most startling book wfi
toibe written con the wromgs and
{stifferings of children.” Do you
rknow whodhe first temperance pe
| tition came from, to whom it pload?
It came from the far west, and was
presented by “Little Turtle,” an
Indian chief. Wildman as he was,
he sald, with a breaking heart, “I
have lost 3,000 of my little Indian
children in one year by the use of
liquor.” He therefore, begs Presi.
dent Adams not to allow rum to be
gold in hig nation. Did that wild
man, who had never read a book or
heard of him who said, “suffer lit
tle children to come unto me,”have
a kinder heart than e have? Did
tie care more for his children than
we do for ours? Will he rigd up in
judgment and condemn ug,because
he made every effort to save thewm,
and we make secarcely any effort to
save ours? It was said snceringly
of Pestalozzi, that, “He had the
weakness of comsidering all the
suffering members of the human
race as belonging to his own fami
ly,” Well would it be for us and
the future of our eountry, if we felt
as if all suffering children helonged
to our family, (1.) Notice some of
‘the dangers that threaten our chil
children in the days of their weak
ness. From the report of the Su
perintendent of Police of Chicago,
we gather the followirg facts: In
1¢76, children arrested, 6,098; in
1877, éfii]_drcu arrested, 6,818 ; ¢hil
dren sent to the, House of Correc
tion in. 1876, 1,592 ; in 1877, 1,782,
In 1877, the louse of Correction
received 220 children between the
age of eight and fourteen.
Here is asight as which angels
wiight weep. In one city aloune, in!
one yer, 6,818 ohildren. arrested for
various crimes ranging all the way
from thelt to paurder. Can you tell
how many l_mi}).::- were -darkened
by the crimes of thes children, in
how many houses the laugh was
silenced, and from how many faces
it banished the stnile? This report
alarmed and awakned to their du
tv a number of parents.” They or
ganized the Citizeus League, and
began to Jlook inte. the cause of
these things. The Superinten dent
of the Hoyse of Copreciion “urged
them to push the work, for, said he,
“There axg dens in this ity in
which crimjnnl@g are made faster
than we cpnjeure them.” The city
was divided | into wards and the
wards into blocka, In a few weeks
it was discoyered that 20,000 boys
and girls pitrgnized the saloons
and that niore than 1,000 saloons
sold liguor.to children.; It was al
-50 ditcovercd that ehiidren who!
were tried for criminal oifenses had
'with hardly an exception, been to}
the salcons before they commitied
the decii. In one instance a saloon
keeper decoyed two boys, seven
years of age, into his galoon and
made themi o drunk -that they
both fellinte the gutter. Two sinall
'bn_‘v-; came from a saloon and fell
intoxicated into the lake and were
lfi.«:hvd out almost dead. A widow
goes to a saloon in seareh of her
;‘3o\,', and starts out with him; the
salgon-keeper pushed her off the
sidewalk and dragged the half
drunkén boy ,back 'into .the
chambet of hell.
Page after page of &uch cases
might be given. If any one will
take the trouble to inqgujre in his
own tewn or neighborhood, he will
soon see how busy the angels of
hell are with the - children. 1 took
the trouble to look alitfle into {his
mutter in a few of the townsin
South Keutueky: T find a persis
tent effoit to destroy the children
by the ltquor men. There is Cardiz;
in Twiggs county. In the past six
months there were eighteen indict
ments against the saloonz for sell
ing and giving to minors. The
eriminal record at Madisonville
showed twenty indietments for the
same offense. . In Hopkinsville,
during the yoar) therewere thiriy
nine. Oune of the oldest lawyers,
from whom I obtained these fig
ures, said that there had been he
tween eighty and one hundred mur
l ders in Christian county in the last
ten years, and all had’ been cans
ed by whisky. I went carefully o
ver the criminal docket at Padu
cah.myself, and: found 13 indict
ments againgt the saloon-keepers
for selling to children during the
past Syear. Everyoue lnows that
only a small fraciion ot these ca
sesare ever reported. " Now whose
‘firefi wre fhiey who are leing
atined for both worlds by these
(drinking Uplaces? The physi@fif
’of the Washingtonian Home, in
one of our ecities mays: “When a
boy has once - formed the habit of
of drink, heis never, never
safe.” Itis true that gome of these
children” may be rescued and re
iformcd ; but what axiety afid ex
pense it will cost! and then they
l'wil! never be the wen and wemnen
they would have been if thoy had
never been led Into these ways of
sin,
It is said that about 75,000:per
sons die every year in this country
from drink. That is a verylong
proeessicn, but it is a very sad onc.
It is alarge ariny, but it is fighing‘
for no great principle. No oneis
proud of u friend or relationsthat’
is in this army. But the saddest of|
all things about this is, that when
one in this army falls into a drunk
ard’s grave, the saloong have a re-|
cruit ready to take his place, and
these new »eciuits .come from the
children of our homes.~Gro. E.
Frowkr, in The Old Path Giiic.
A Congressman Attempts.
- Suicide. }
Wasmxarox, July 20.—William \\'.!
Culbertson, Republican Representative !
in Congress from the 6th Kentucky Dis |
trict, attempted suiclde to-day by shoot- l
ing himself five times in a foom in the
National hotel. Two of the shots wer ‘
in the back of the head and depressed |
the skull, but did not penctrate the
brain. Ilis chances fer recovery are
slight., He had been drinking hard re
cently and to that circumstance is due
his present condition.. =He went about
the deed with great deterinination and
deliberation. e shipped his trunk:
howe to Kentucky, then ent red anotlies
room disteng from theonc he had been
cecupying, fired five shots, and when he
heard search being made for the locality
of the sliw;t‘ifié he unlocked the door and
gtreaming with blood admitted the offi
cerg, saving thdt he was afraid thathe
had not been succes:fuly but he would
be at another time. lle then collapsed
and is now at Providence Ifospital, his
life hanging by 2 slender thread.
Sl. Louig, Aygust ].%fifzmk Wil
liams, colored, who shot, and killed
his wife, Effie, in a cotton field last
October and seriously wonnded her
danghter, was hanzed here jo-day al
Bluff Avk., in the presence u&-fi— creal
crowd of people. The deop fell at 12:12
p. m. Death ensued in about 15 minutes.
The every-day cares and duties,
which men call drudgery, are the
weights and counterpoises of the
clock of titte. giving Its pendulum
a true vibration, and its hands a
regular motion—d Longfellow.
Rep Bixgk, July 31.-—Last Saturday
two little girls went through town ped.
dling huckleberries, They sold most_of
them to Mr. -Alvin Chadwick. Saturday
night the berries were placed on the sup-,
per table and all the family partook of
them with the exeeption of Mr. Chad
wick and his wife. In the night thos¢
who had eaten the berries, Mr. Chad
wick’s three little givls and a sister was
visiting them, wore taken violently ill.
A doctor was sumwoned,who stated that
there were mixed with the bucklebe:-
ries a little black berry commonly term
ed the “kill-calf”” ber'y, which is very
poisonous, Mr. (}lr.:,ld\\'ick’s‘sistcr igin a
very precarious eondition ahd at this re
port is not expected to live.
T
Cicaco, July 31,—Governor lHamil
ton, last night, issued a warrant for ex
goveruor Moses,
+ IHardly-a weck passes that we do Not
loge @& subgeriber: by people wio arg not
willing, to pay for a paper themselyes,
taking papers that belengito subresbers
out of the post office and veglecting to
deliver them. Often we hear just such
talk as thig: “[like theTmmes and would
be glad to have it, but somebody gets it
out of the office and half the time I do
not get it all, and frequently it comes to
me half worn-out and a week old, {rom
some golid neighbor, who does not value
it highly enough to fake it'and pay for
it, but.thinks enough of it to get mine
aut of the office and keep it, knowing
‘that [ean’t afford tolget mad with him
about it .”’ o .
~ Another stops his paper ; because, he
says, “I haye neighborsjarcund me who
‘\s"on’t take any papér and 1 ean’t keep
ting long enoughfor my family to read
‘it before some neighbor will step in and
borrow it. I can’t afford to offend them
by refusing. I am tived of paying for a
paper for people, who, thoush clever e
nough in most things, are too stit),«.;y" to
take a paper for themselves, and lot too
‘ndependent to-deprive my fanily and
me of the one ¥ pay or. So I have cone
‘cluded to stop mine awhile and fe if 82
ny ot“t-hun‘l will take o paper for thiem:
pelves.’ -
. Ob, ye paper borrowers, cany yon not
gee you ave taking the broad ot of the
‘mouflus of printers children ?—Carroll
CORNty I HEdr . i o e
© Crstxar, July g 1 =The Commercial
(&gfizom“; “Shelbyville, Ind., dispatch
savs: Joel Maw, Jr., cifme home drunk
Tuosday night and abused his famiiy,
when Charles Wright, his stepson, shot
and fatally wounded him. the affair hap.
pened at Mavietta, nine miles east of
here e ;
They have a cuvious way of deciding
lawguits in Siae, The litigants are put
under ¢o'd water, and the one remaining
the longest is declared the victor. In this
country both_lv;;;-(igs are thrust into hot
water and kept the longest possible
{ength of time. :
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