Earlier text: THE THIRD DAY SINCE THESE THINGS WERE DONEWE are glad to see the question of intemperance receiving such general attention from those in influential positions. The following from the Christian at Work, for Dec. 2, 1880, will be of interest to temperance workers:— Of the various publications issued by Congress, a volume entitled The State of Labor in Europe is one of the most interesting and valuable. The document is a compilation of Consular reports in answer to a circular letter sent out by the State Department asking information upon various subjects, such as rates of wages, cost of living to the laborer, business habits and systems, habits and modes of living of working men and women, and many other points touching the present condition of labor and trade. The answers have evidently been carefully prepared, and necessarily contain a variety of important information. With one point only, however, are we concerned just now, and that is the revelation made of the relation which strong drink bears to the welfare of working men and women as incidentally exhibited in these answers. We have here the most direct testimony, and that, too, in an official shape, showing that intemperance is the great destroyer of the happiness and prosperity of the working men and women, and their families, and what is no less important, we have a clear refutation of the specious argument, so often advanced in our midst, that we have only to imitate the universal beer and light-wine drinking of European countries, to do away almost entirely with the evils of intemperance in this country—an argument utterly unfounded, in fact, since such has not been the effect of their use in the countries set forward as an example. Let us see what kind of testimony we get from Germany, France and England, especially. The Hon. Edgar Stanton, United States Consul at Bremen, writes: "A fruitful cause of want and ruin among the laboring classes is the enormous increase of the drinking saloons and dance-halls, and the complaints are universal as to the disposition of the laborers to indulge in excessive drink. Whatever the character of the laborer in other parts of Germany, in this and the neighboring districts he is, as a rule, improvident and quarrelsome. The towns are in consequence heavily burdened by poor rates." Consul Mason writes from Dresden: "The cost of living to the laboring classes almost invariably goes pari passu with their wages. They seem to be generally improvident and regardless of the future, and spend in beer-drinking, dancing, and idleness all they earn. Sunday is always remarkable for the crowds of people moving in all directions in pursuit of pleasure, such as beer-drinking, dancing, concert music, excursions by boat and rail." Consul Gerrish writes from Bordeaux: "Although wages have increased somewhat, the savings of this class have diminished. The principal cause of this comes from the pernicious habit of spending their time in cafes. The number of these drinking-places in Bordeaux and its environs is upward of two thousand. . . The hard-earned money as well as the time uselessly lost in these resorts of idleness and bad manners it is impossible to calculate." Consul Webster writes from Sheffield, England: "Many a man who can easily earn his fourteen and nineteen dollars a week will be satisfied with earning half that sum, or just enough to provide him with his food, beer, sporting, allowing his wife but a mere pittance of his wages for herself and children. . . Any one walking our streets will see where the earnings of the working men go, and in very many cases the earnings of the working women also. . . The amount spent in drink in Great Britain in 1877, according to the excise returns, was more than seven hundred million dollars. The England share of this expenditure would amount to more than five hundred million dollars. A considerable part of this sum would not come from the earnings of what are termed the laboring classes, but a sufficient amount comes from that source, if saved, to place a great proportion of them above want." Consul Cooper, of Glasgow, writes: "Whiskey (which is considered a positive necessity by the great mass of laborers here, and costs about three hundred per cent more than in the United States), with beer (which latter is comparatively cheap), absorbs the larger portion of the laborer's earnings here." Columns might be added to the same effect, all going to prove that the ushering in of the temperance millennium is not imminent. The item of waste alone through the use of strong drink by our laboring classes is enormous, but this is a minor consideration compared with the physical and mental unfitness and disinclination for work which it produces. The prosperity and welfare of every country must always depend upon the worth and virtue of its laboring classes. Whatever elevates or depresses them, proportionately elevates or depresses in the scale of prosperity the nation itself. The Government deserves the thanks of the whole people for gathering and publishing the important testimony contained in this volume. Its lessons involve the welfare and prosperity of the nation at large, and especially the happiness and welfare of the laboring poor, who have disabilities enough to contend with without adding to them that heaviest of all burdens—"The Drink Curse." It is strange, and yet it is true, that out of the classic cloisters of Oxford, out of the conservative and consecrated shades of the English church, came this rough, fervent, urgent child of religion. In the year 1729 existed there the "Holy Club," composed of John and Charles Wesley—then twenty-six and twenty-one years of age—Morton, an Irish commoner, and Kirkham of Merton College. They read together, walked together, prayed together. They fasted twice a week, and received the communion once. They were a sort of monks, and in danger of becoming sick, and morbid, and foolish, and useless. But Morton inspired them to visit the sick, to go to the prison, to teach poor children, and thus laid the beginning of an active piety which never tired, and never ended, and never will end, we may hope.—Selected. The only prayer that can save the soul is one in downright earnest. Conventional forms avail not with God. He sees through the thin gildings of formal words. Heart language will reach Him. The whisperings of penitence he hears; the prayer of genuine faith he will answer. "TO ARMS! TO ARMS!"
By W. N. Glenn
If some foreign foe were assuming as formidable an attitude toward the Government of the United States as is presented by the domestic foe, the intemperance, the cry, "To Arms! To Arms!" would ring throughout the length and breadth of the republic, and a million of men would be ready at once to respond to the call, with their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor." Here are a few statistics over which even a national sand-lot agitation might be pardonable. There are 400,000 drunkards in the United States. Intemperance kills 40,000 persons every year. Intoxicating drink sends more than 100,000 persons to prison annually. The same cause furnishes the poor-houses and other charitable institutions with over 200,000 inmates per annum. The frenzy of intoxication causes 500 murders, and leads to probably 400 of each year's suicides. The proportion of deaths of intemperate people to those of temperate livers is as four to one. Magistrates, chaplains and prison-keepers testify that four-fifths of all the crimes have their origin in intoxicating liquors. Seven-eighths of all the pauperism in the Union has arisen from the same cause. It costs the country $60,000,000 a year to support pauperism and crime. The United States makes for home consumption 250,000,000 gallons of fermented and brewed liquors annually—about five gallons to each man, woman and child. And of distilled liquors, about 85,000,000. Besides these amounts 25,000,000 gallons are imported for consumption, and probably millions of gallons are made of which there is no statistical account. The whole cost of the liquor drank in the United States is not less than $700,000,000; and the total revenue to the Government is but $50,000,000. The balance, $650,000,000 is total loss in cash, to say nothing of the loss of life, of happiness, of morals, of time, and of material productions of a legitimate nature—the aggregate of which, figures fail to compute. In view of all these facts, relating both to time and eternity, what is the duty of every loyal citizen—Jew or Gentile, Christian or Pagan? Surely no one can do less than to sign a total abstinence pledge and keep it inviolate. A MAN of temperate habits was once dining at the house of a free drinker. No sooner was the cloth removed from the dinner table than wine and spirits were produced, and he was asked to take a glass of spirits and water. "No, thank you," said he, "I am not ill." "Take a glass of wine, then," said his host, "or a glass of ale." "No, thank you," said he, "I am not thirsty." These answers produced a loud burst of laughter. Soon after this, the temperate man took a piece of bread from the sideboard, and handed it to his host, who refused it, saying that he was not hungry. At this the temperate man laughed in his turn. "Surely," said he, "I have as much reason to laugh at you for not eating when you are not hungry, as you have to laugh at me for declining medicine when not ill, and drink when I am not thirsty." WHAT PEOPLE WILL SAY.
By Editor
A FEW days since, we were pondering the question, Why is it that, with a few exceptions, every one is under the thumb of Mrs. Grundy when we called to see a friend. Her little child was playing in the room. Presently the nurse girl came to take him away and prepare him for dinner. But the young gentleman preferred to remain with the company, when mamma interposed in this manner:— "Oh! Willie must go and have his hair brushed. Why, that lady thinks Willie has not had his hair brushed to-day. See how astonished she looks! And [to the nurse], Mary, every one will think Willie has no more clean aprons unless you put one on him right away." This had the desired effect. The child went at once to be brushed and dressed, from fear of what persons would think of him. The next call was made on a poor, sick woman. She had a child somewhat younger than the other—two years old, perhaps. Soon the little one began to cry, interrupting our conversation. "Oh, my!" said the mother. "See gampa looking at you. He thinks it is awful queer Minnie should cry." Now, grandpa was a surly old man sitting in the corner of the room, reading his newspaper, and paying no attention whatever to the child. But Minnie straightened her face, and wiped her eyes, to see whether "gampa" didn't think her "awful queer." This visit finished, we returned home, and proposed to take Ethel, our own little girl, out for a walk. We asked the lady who has her in charge to put on her coat. But Ethel said,— "Oh, no! I want to wear my 'ittie boo shawl." Immediately the lady exclaimed: "Mercy on us! If the little girl should go out with only her little blue shawl on, everybody in the street would look at her. And they would say to themselves: 'Is it possible that little girl hasn't got her winter coat yet?'" At this Ethel laughed. The coat went on, and the walk proceeded. The young lady carried herself and eyed every passer-by in a manner that said, "Look at me. I've got my winter coat on." Returned from the walk, her wraps were removed, but her mittens, being a novelty from gloves, she did not wish to relinquish. "Mercy on us!" was again exclaimed. "Did I ever hear of a little girl wearing her mittens in the house? What would everybody think?" At this point we sat down, with the clear conviction that we had arrived at the solution of the question previously pondered. From the earliest dawn of consciousness up to maturity, the motive most frequently held before our children is the opinion of others. What wonder that so many of us are slaves to Mrs. Grundy? Boys and girls thus trained will be at fourteen years of age thoroughly unconscious, and will ask themselves, in regard to every action, not what is wise and right, but "What will people say?" If parents and all who have the care of children will watch themselves, they will probably be surprised to discover to what an extent they present this motive. It is so easy in this manner to stop children from crying, or to induce them to conform to our wishes, that the temptation is great. But a very little thought will obviate this, and offer true motives of action. For instance, take the case of Ethel. The very next day she was going to play in the yard, and her warm coat was needed; but again she preferred her shawl, and was cute enough to suggest,— "Nobody tan see me in the yard." We drew her into our arms, and said: "Our little darling must wear her coat because it is right to do so. Does she not remember how bad a cold and cough and sore eyes she had when she came from the asylum to live with us? She is now strong and well, and we love little Ethel too much to let her get sick again. At that time, you know, Pet, you had no warm clothes to wear: but now our heavenly Father has given you home and friends, and nice warm things, and he expects you to wear them and keep well. Is it not kind in our heavenly Father to take such good care of little Ethel?" By this time the coat was on and buttoned, and the child's lips were held up to us for a kiss, as she said,— "I 'ove heav'ly Father most, and 'ou next." And thus with her thoughts drawn off from herself to the goodness of God, she went out to her play. Now we submit if such motives are not far in advance of the former. Besides, the former are not true. People are not thinking about us, are not talking about us. If we pause to reflect, it is very apparent that the world—a few gossips excepted—is thinking of itself, not of us. The one general reason to be given to children, however young, for any course to be pursued is, because it is right. Why it is right can also usually be explained to them. If we had one generation trained to such motives, we would need fewer prayers against a "man-fearing spirit," and heroes would be more common, who would "dare to be a Daniel, dare to stand alone."—N. Y. Independent. THE story was all over town. Everybody was talking about it. It was too bad, they said. What was too bad? Why, the new minister had been beating his wife! Was it possible? Yes, there could be no doubt about it. Mrs. S., who lives next door, heard a shriek about ten o'clock last night—a woman's shriek—from a chamber in the parsonage. She looked across, and through the curtain she could see that a man and woman were running about the room in great excitement. He was flourishing a stick, and striking with it. The blows could be plainly heard. And as he struck, she screamed. Mrs. S. could hardly sleep that night, she was so excited by what she had seen. She was up early next morning. She hurried through her breakfast, and then started out—to see the poor abused minister's wife, and comfort her? Not a bit of it. She went to Eld. A.'s, found the family at the table, and told the news. Then she footed it to Eld. B.'s and Dea. C.'s, and over half the town. The other half that she had no time to call on soon heard it from the first half, and before noon there was great excitement in Ballville. The officers of the church discussed the matter with heavy hearts. Such disgraceful conduct could not be endured. Something must be done. But what? Call at once on the minister and his wife and inquire into the matter? Oh, no; that would not be dignified and official. Besides, there could be no doubt about it. Did not Mrs. S. see the beating with her own eyes? So they called a meeting of the session, and summoned the minister and his wife. He had to answer a charge of unministerial conduct, and she to testify in the case. They came, greatly puzzled and surprised. The case was gravely stated by the senior elder, when the culprit and witness burst into a laugh. Checking themselves, when they saw how serious and sad the session looked, they explained. The minister's wife, though an excellent woman who loved everybody, and especially her husband, did not love rats. But the house having been vacant for some time, the rats had taken possession. When they went to their chamber, a huge rodent ran under the bed. The wife screamed. The husband caught up a stick and missed the rat, the lady screamed again. How could she help it? It was an exciting scene, and must have looked very funny to their neighbors who were watching through the curtained window. They laughed heartily when it was all over, and the rat was dead; and they could not help laughing whenever they thought about it. The session were in a fix. They were down on Mrs. S. for making fools of them. They asked her, "Why didn't you go over to the minister's and make sure about the matter before you reported it?" And she retorted, "Why didn't you go and inquire into it before you called a meeting?" And all the town that talked yesterday about how the minister abused his wife, is talking to-day about what an awful gossip Mrs. S. is, and how she fooled the elders of our church. I am mortified and disgusted. Is there any way to cure these mischief-making gossips? Would it be right to hang them? It seems to me that that passage in the third chapter of James about the tongue ought to be printed in big letters on a card, and hung up in all our churches. Don't you think so?—The Occident. LET others write of battles fought
On bloody, ghastly fields,
Where honor greets the man who wins,
And death the man who yields;
But I will write of that brave man
Who struggles on through years
Against himself, and wins the day
Unstained by human tears. He is a hero staunch and brave,
Who fights an unseen foe,
And puts at last beneath his feet,
His passions base and low,
And stands erect in manhood's might,
Undaunted, undismayed,
The bravest man that drew a sword
In fury or in raid. It calls for something more than brawn
Or muscle to o'ercome
An enemy who marcheth not
With banner, plume or drum;
A foe forever lurking nigh,
With silent, stealthy tread,
Beside your board each passing day,
At night beside your bed. All honor then to that brave heart,
Though poor or rich he be,
Who struggles with his baser part,
Who conquers and is free.
He may not wear a hero's crown,
Nor fill a hero's grave,
But truth will place his name among
The bravest of the brave. Of all bad habits, it would be difficult to name one that has less reason or provocation in it than that of using profane and vulgar language. When coolly viewed, the act of one human being calling violently on his Maker to deliver over his fellow-man to condemnation is wicked in the extreme; it is a vain and irreverent use of his Maker's name; and it is the expression of a hateful and infernal wish. But leaving the wickedness of the habit out of account, it is useless and irrational. It brings no pleasure, nor comfort, nor relief. No swearer is ever the wiser, richer, or happier for his curses. He cannot inflict the evil he invokes. He may curse his enemy for a lifetime, without turning one hair of his enemy's head white or black by the process. The language furnishes all the words and terms needed to give strength and vigor to expression, without resorting to oaths and curses. All the words needed to express indignation and wrath are to be found in it. An oath does not give strength or emphasis to the truthful man's yea; and all the oaths and maledictions that can be imagined cannot give an atom of strength to the liar's nay. Swearing is chiefly a habit. For the foul volleys of oaths and curses that the habitual swearer pours out in ordinary conversation, or on slight provocations, there is no shadow of excuse. They are a shame to himself, and a disgust to his acquaintances. Some men are such slaves to the vicious habit that they swear without knowing it; they converse in a dialect of oaths. They would be disgusted themselves if they could see one of their simple conversations taken down in shorthand and put in print, with coarse oaths bristling all along the line of their remarks. Profanity and vulgarity do not always go together, but they are apt to. The swearer is in danger of becoming vulgar, and the vulgar man is almost invariably a swearer. When both habits meet in the same individual, they make him intensely offensive to all pure-minded people. It is imagined by some that an occasional oath or a little vulgarity gives spice and flavor to conversation; but if it does, it is a very offensive flavor. There is nothing more charming than chaste and simple language, and it is worth any young man's while to cultivate the habit of using it. An oath would not be considered a flavor to the conversation of a modest and beautiful maiden; neither can it be justly held to add to the spirit or piquancy of the conversation of a man. A LADY once, when she was a little girl, learned a lesson, a good lesson, which she tells for the benefit of all whom it may concern: "One frosty morning I was looking out of the window into my father's farm-yard, where stood many cows, oxen, and horses waiting to drink. It was a cold morning. The cattle all stood very still till one of the cows attempted to turn round. In making the attempt, she happened to hit her next neighbor, whereupon the neighbor kicked and hit another. In five minutes the whole herd were kicking each other with fury. My mother said: 'See what becomes of kicking when you are hit.'" - Great damage by floods is reported in Spain.
- A ladies anti-polygamy society has been formed in New York.
- San Francisco is again excited over a female walking match.
- The Chinese New Year, the seventh of Quong See, was celebrated Jan. 29 and 30.
- Mrs. Hayes has accepted the presidency of the Woman's Home Missionary Society.
- The President has nominated Stanley Matthews for Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Increased mining activity is noticeable in nearly all the mining counties of the State.
- Twenty-nine young women have just graduated at the New York Training School for Nurses.
- The man who recently robbed the Walnut Creek stage has been sent to the insane asylum.
- There are forty-two night schools in Philadelphia with a registered attendance of 3,200 pupils.
- The Russian army has 25,000 officers, which just equals the whole army of the United States.
- General Ord has been placed on the retired list of the army with the rank of Major-General.
- The rain-fall in Oakland for January was 16.38 inches; for the season, it has been 23.35 inches.
- Portugal proposes to mediate between England and the Dutch Boers of Transvaal, South Africa.
- The trial of Rev. I. M. Kalloch, for the murder of Chas. De Young, is progressing in San Francisco.
- The new census gives 103,000 Chinese in the United States, of whom 99,000 are on the Pacific coast.
- Rev. John Westrup, Baptist missionary to Mexico, was recently murdered by twenty Indians near Monterey.
- Eight Chinese wood-choppers were buried by a land-slide in the Santa Cruz mountains, during the recent rain-storm.
- King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, arrived in San Francisco Jan. 29, on a tour of the principal points of the world.
- Prodigality and speculation on the part of two tellers has caused a defalcation in the Detroit Savings Bank of about $30,000.
- The consolidation of the great telegraph lines of the country has stirred up an active move in Chicago for a new competing line.
- There are 1247 persons employed in the Census Bureau at Washington. There were 31,265 persons employed in the enumeration.
- The bill permanently remitting 1,400,000 marks from the annual taxation by the State has been adopted by the Prussian Diet—343 to 106.
- A move is on foot among prominent Italian and Swiss merchants for colonizing some of California's rich foot-hill land and planting vineyards on a large scale.
- In the Greek church the sixth of January is celebrated as Christmas day. Imposing services were accordingly held in the Russian chapels in this country on that day.
- Two hundred and twenty-six street lamps at Providence, R. I., which extend over a distance of nine miles, are now extinguished by electricity in fifteen seconds by one man.
- There are at present only two Hebrew colleges in this country—one in New York and one in Philadelphia. A third, however, is to be established permanently in Cincinnati.
- The census of the city and county of San Francisco shows a total population of 233,006, of whom 20,840 are Chinese, leaving in San Francisco a population, other than Chinese, of 212,165.
- The San Francisco Post wants to know if the Moody and Sankey meetings have done all that the regular clergy of that city expected of them; and if so, are they prepared to adopt the methods of the evangelists.
- A new feature in some of the leading schools of New Jersey is placing daily and local newspapers in the highest department for the use of the pupils. The students are required to give an occasional abstract of the news of the day as gleaned from their columns.
- On the 26th inst., the wife of Dr. H. St. George Hopkins, of Oakland, was accidentally shot while removing her husband's pistol from beneath his pillow, where he was in the habit of keeping it. She died the next morning.
- It is reported that President Hayes has arranged to visit England in May next, and intends to prolong his European tour into the Autumn, so as to be present at the Methodist Ecumenical Congress to be held in London in September.
- In the largest library in the world, in Paris, may be found a Chinese chart of the heavens, made about 600 years before Christ. In this chart 1460 stars are found correctly inserted, as corroborated by the scientists of the present day.
- The station agent at San Gabriel, Los Angeles county, says that already 1,000,000 grape-cuttings have been shipped northward from that point this season. Also that 1,000 acres of new vineyard have been planted in that county.
- A thousand persons, mostly women, are employed in engraving and printing Government money and bank notes at Washington. They are so strictly watched during work hours that they look upon themselves as prisoners.
- The Harvard College library contains 500,000 books and pamphlets, and has a fund of $175,000 to buy new books. Charles Sumner gave it 1,300 volumes, 250 maps, and nearly 20,000 pamphlets. It is said to be the largest and best library in America.
- It is authoritatively stated that about 60,000 women in and about New York City earn their own living as seamstresses, saleswomen, teachers, copyists and the like. Their average income is from $4 to $4.50 per week, and out of this they support themselves and dependents.
- Twenty-seven Chinese gamblers were fined $20 each in the San Francisco Police Court Jan. 29, and the two keepers of the den in which they were caught were fined double that amount each. On the night of the 30th the Oakland police arrested a gang of twelve and broke up their den.
- Victorious Chile proposes the following conditions of peace: Cession of Asto Agoste to Chile; surrender of allied fleet, and payment of an indemnity of $30,000,000, whereof Peru shall assume $20,000,000 and Bolivia $10,000,000, Chile to occupy Callao and work the Grand copper and saltpetre mines until payment of the indemnity is made.
- A Yankton, Dakota, dispatch of Jan. 30 says: "There has been 60 cases of small-pox in Union county, 50 miles east of here, half of which proved fatal. Both Houses of the Legislature suspended all other business and passed an act authorizing rigid quarantine. A private letter says there are 100 cases near Elk Point, and guards are placed at all entrances of the town. No trains stop at Jefferson, and mails have been discontinued."
- Late African news gives the following account of the recent engagement between the Boers and British troops: "General Colley's advance guard attacked the Boers' position. The attack was at first partially successful, but subsequently the Boers were reinforced, and repulsed the British troops with heavy loss, the Boers suffering severely. Both sides maintain their former positions. As to the reinforcements which General Colley must now await, the infantry portion arrived at Durban last Thursday, and are now on the way to Pietermaritzburg by railroad, but thence they have 200 miles to march before they can join General Colley, and the horses to mount the Hussars who arrived at that town are still on the way from Cape Town."
- Here is an item for American misses: "France has agricultural schools for girls. One of the chief is near Rouen, which has been begun with a capital of 1 franc by a sister of charity and two little discharged prison girls, and to be now worth $160,000. The establishment has now 300 girls from 6 to 18. The farm, entirely cultivated by them, is over 400 acres in extent. Twenty-five sisters form the staff of teachers. More than one medal of the French Agricultural Society has been awarded to this establishment at Darnetal, and the pupils are in great demand all over Normandy on account of their skill. They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm managers, dairy women, and laundresses. Each girl has, on leaving, an outfit and a small sum of money, earned in spare hours. If they want a home, they can always return to Darnetal, which they are taught to regard as their home."
- The Russians under General Skobeloff captured Geoktepe on the 24th, inflicting enormous loss upon the Turcomans. In consequence of the large number of corpses of Tekke Turcomans, more or less decomposed, lying before and behind the Russian positions, and in view of the impossibility of burying them without incurring fresh losses, Skobeloff proposed to the Tekkes that they should remove their dead, hostilities to be suspended one hour, and in order to avoid any misunderstanding it was proposed to the Tekkes that they should afterwards reoccupy their positions and should be the first to reopen fire. This was done, after due warning given to the rest of the Russians, the Tekkes taking care not to fire until the Russians, who had temporarily left their trenches, had returned into them. The conduct of the Tekke Turcomans was altogether honorable. Fighting was afterwards renewed with the former fury.
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