Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18??, September 29, 1882, Page 8, Image 8

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his parents and relatives in theii
affliction.
Resolved, that these resolutions
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be spread upon the records of the
in at the door a splendid specimen
of Suffolk infantine humanity, aged
about four wars and with limbs
like a baby giantess.
Grand Lecturer for the Good Tem­
Yamhill County Reporter ; also a
plars, will speak at
copy to the Temperance lieraid -,
Buena Vista, Sept. 27th, 28th.
and a copy be transmitted to the
Corvallis, 29th, 30th, and Oct. 1st.
Philomath, 2nd, 3rd.
parents of our deceased brother.
Kings Valley, 4th, 5th.
' G eo . W. H arris , 5
Independent School House, 6th.
H. C. M ann ,
Com.
Simpson’s Chapel, 7th.
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lady, “she don’t look much the
worse for the lockout, do she ?”
I replied that she did, not, but
rather as though a large amount of
fat of the land fell to her share.
“ What do you feed het on ?” 1
asked.
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“ ’Bacca, sir,” replied the old lady,
with a grin.
“ Tobacco!”
” Well, that’s what they say about
here. - You see, it’s this way. She’s
my gran’ young uh, ami her poor
mother has seven of ’em, and the
father is locked out like the rest;
and so a month trgo my old man—
him as you see making such a'don-
key of himself a minute-ago—he
says, says he, ‘ Old wamon, dashed
if I can enjoy my pipe,— which
costs ten and a half pence a week,
Temperance Department.
Temperance Lectures.
~~WiacnnaiiL.
Junction, 10th, 11th.
Clear Like School House, 12th.
Eugene City, 13 h, 15th.
Springfield, 16th.
G >ahen, 17th.
Pleasant Hill, 18ih, 19th.
Cloverdale, 20th.
Cottage Grove, 2lst, 22nd.
Spencer Creek School House, 23rd.
Siuslaw, 24th, 25th.
Coburg, 26ih.
Crawfordsville. 27th.
Bw.wLisville, 28th. 29th.
’8<H<ivilT6’’,’^0th‘, 31st.
It is expected that the friends of
temperance in each locality will
make all arrangements for Public
Meeting'«.
Please furnish some
good music. Bro. King is an elo-
q uent anil earnest speaker; give
him a cordial welcome. All are in­
vited to attend the meetings
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Please announce at Churches, Sun
day Schools, Day Schools, etc.
Grand Secretary.
Resolutions of Respect and
Condolence.
At a regular meeting of McMinn­
ville Lodge, No. 289, I. O. G. T.,
held Aug. 4, 1882, the following
preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted :
Whereas, It has pleased the
Great Architectrofi the universe to
remove from ourmidst, our honored
Bro. Geo. W. Bartley : and
Whereas, it is but just that a
fitting recognition of his many vir­
tues should be had ; therefore be it
Resolved, by McMinnville Lodge
No. 289 that while we bow with
humble submission to the will ol
the Most High, we do not the less
mourn for our brother who has been
taken from us.
Resolved, that in the* death of
Geo. W. Birtley, this Lodge laments
the loss of a brother, who was ever
ready to proffer the hand of aid,
and the voice of sympathy to the
needy and distressed of the frater­
nity ; an active member of this so­
ciety, whose endeavors were extend­
ed for its welfare and prosperity ;
a fr iend and companion who was
dear to us all ; a citizen whose up­
right and noble life was a standard
of emulation to his fellows.
Resolved, that the heartfelt sym­
pathy of this Lodge be extended to
Trifling With Danger.
I was sitting at the table of. an
Irish merchant in Sligo a few years
ago. He had eight beautiful chib
dren. He had his wines aud brandy
on the table, and of course asked
me to drink, and I had to give my
reasons f6r declining. This gave
me an opportunity to put in a little
temperance, and while I was mak­
ing my little speech by the way ol
apology, I made this retnai k : “ I
would like to see the man who
or friend of mine ever fell through
intemperance.’” I saw that this
struck him ; his knife and foi k fell
from his grasp, and he remained si-
lent for some seconds..,
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“ Well,” said he at length,. •“ I AM
NOT THAT MAN. My first Sabbath -
school superintendent was a man of
genial spirit and noble mien. He
went into the wine trade, and died
a drunkard before he was forty.
My first craws leader, 1 believe,
was a good, intelligent, useful man ;
but he, too, yielded to the habit of
intemperance and died a drunkard.
My own father suffered through in­
temperance.”
“ Yes,” 1 exclaimed, “ and you
yourself arc parading before your
friends ami your childrewthc instru­
ments of death which slew tour
first class-leader, and your father, I
The very rope with which they
were hung you are adjusting to
catch your children, I cannot af-
ford to put my head in such a hal­
ter as that.”—W. T aylor , in Meth­
odist Advocate. *•
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a cruel hard smoker he’s alleis been
—‘ I can’t enjoy my pipe,’ says the
old man, ‘ and see our Joe’s young
uns wanting a meal; so I’ll make
ovvy my ’Lacca-mongy tu help ’em
end put my pipe out till things
mend a bit.' And this is the young
un that gets the benefit of it in
m:'k night and morning.
A good many other babies, and
their mothers too, might be well
led and well clad if they had the
“’bacca-money ” and the whisky--
money which husbands and fathers
squander.— lieview.
Temperance.
The full moral significance of the
temperance conflict is gradually re­
vealing itself. The connection be­
tween drunkenness and falsehood
is thus set forth by Dr. B. W.
Richardson, of London—confessedly
at the head of the’medical pro­
fession in the Old -World: “I am
President of a society called ‘ The
Medical Temperance Association.’
There are three hundred of us
banded together as Total Abstain­
A “ Bacca ” Fed Baby.
ers—by physicians and surgeons in
A visitor among some of the En- large practice—not to muke u
glish poor during one of the lock­ propaganda of Total Abstinence,
outs, when mills were stopped and butt) meet among ourselves, and
lalxrr suspended, gave the following discuss the points which are most
account of how one baby lived and interesting to us in the treatment
of disease.
grew fat through the hard times.
The wife of a laborer, while look­
A little while ago the question
ing on at a game of “ hop scotch ” : came up as to the treatment of
in which her husband was engaged i dipsoinonia. We had a very re-
with other idlers, was describing ■ markable discussion on this sub
their way of living. While she | ject, and w bat struck me as 1 was
was speaking there ^ame toddling ! presiding was, that everybody who
I
spoke dealt with the moral aspect
of the question. We were all of
this mind, that one of the; most
diagnostic marks of drink-craving,
jJhat, which. dktinsuiiahM
mental characteristic from all other
things, is that the drink-craver is
always a falsehood-teller; that
there is no actual case where a per­
son affected with the drink-craving
has been known to speak the truth;
nffiatWeTrewr’can believe a word —
they say, and many of us are of the
opinion that the tendency of un­
truthfulness descends to the child­
ren of these people.
See how solemnly strange it is
that a physical agent should be
taken into the body which should,
after a time, so destroy r I! moral
sense of right, ami thought of _
responsibility, that the very foun­
dation of morality is actuully so
changed that the person becomes,
as it were, naturally and habitu-
a'ly the cud 1 and representative of
falsehood,
which .._____
were not known twenty years ago,
and which must in the end tell
largely as they are made known in
the promotion of our cause.”-— Ex.
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The Sailor’s Story.
I’ve been fourteen years a sailor,
ami I’ve found in all parts of the
world 1 could get along just as well
without alcoholic liquors, as with
them, and better too.
Some years ago, when we lay in
Jamaica, several of us were sick
with the fever, and among the rest,
the second mate. The doctor had
given him brandy to keep him up,
but I thought it was a queer kind
of “ keeping up.” Why, you see, it
stands to reason, that if you heap
fuel on the tire, it will burn the fas­
ter, and putting the brandy to a
fever is just the same kind of a
thing. Brandy is more than half
alcohol, you know.
- Well, the doctor gave him up,
and 1 was 831 to watch with him.
No medicine was left, fir it was of
no use. Nothing would help him,
ami I had my directions what to do
with the body when lie was dead.
Towards midnight he asked for
water. I got him the coolest 1
could find, and gave him all he
wanted, and if you’ll believe me, in
less than three hours he drank three
gallons.
rl'he sweat rolled off from him
like rain. Then he sank off and I
thought sure he was gone; but lie
was sleeping, and as quietly as a
child. In the morning, when the
doctor came, he asked what time
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