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NORTH CAROLINA GOOD TEMPLAR PUBLISHED BY THE GRAND LODGE. Vol. VI. RALEIGH, NT. C., MAY, 1879. INTO. 9. For the Good Templar. AMONG THE LODGES OF GRANVILLE. Dear Templar : I have just returned from a visit to the following Lodges: Tally Ho, Knap of Reeds, Walnut Grove and ^Oxford. Con nected with these Lodges are some of the noblest temperance men and women it has ever been my pleasure to meet. Dr. Pat Booth and brother John Meadows, at Wal nut Grove, will almost rank with those of whom it is said “ the world is not worthy.” At Tally Ho, Dr. John Booth and lady may be justly classed with those who are “ the salt of the earth” and “ light of the world.” Knap of Reeds Lodge is blessed with Bro. Waller, an earnest, zealous worker, and County Deputy of Granville. Bro. Peed is a member of this Lodge. This brother, when young, and under the eflects of rum, to prevent its discovery by his young wife, and for the purpose of appearing natural and home-like, very deliberately took a seat inside the frame of an old loom—per haps upon the treadles—a seat upon which to maintain anything like a proper equi librium, would require an expert circus rider. Since that time brother Peed has. been a total abstainer from all intoxicants. O that others had been as wise ! Oxford Lodge Templars are a faithful band. An introduction to the “ angel of the Lodge,” as a good and Rev. brother called her, was a pleasure to me. This lady’s faithfulness deserves all praise. At Knaps of Reeds, after speaking in part was over, Rev. M. L. Winston arose and made a few earnest remarks in favor of temperance, and closed by giving his name and expressing a desite to be initia ted immediately, which was done. Brother Winston is a member of the Christian church, a man of excellent stand ing in his community, and will do good. He will in all probability have a Lodge or ganized near Mt. Energy. May the good Lord bless him and his neighborhood with a good Lodge near his home. And now, Messrs. Editors, allow me to express the belief that good was accom plished by this visit to these Lodges, not withstanding their disappointment at the failure of P.G.W.C.T. N. B. Broughton to be present. The Good Templars in all this section have a love for him that he may well be proud of, and they may be assured that he has a nobleness of soul that can, and does, appreciate such love. J. T. B., Deputy. For the Good Templar. FROM BRO. GATES. ** ——— Dear Bro. Ballard: On last Saturday, 19th inst, I vis ited Broad Creek Lodge, Pamlico county, at 10} o’clock, a. m. Wehad a public meeting at Star of Bethany church, one mile below Stonewall, and we had the good fortune to ob tain eleven new members, which were initiated the same afternoon. I also conferred the Degrees on 23. I find the Lodge in an excellent condition, and the brothers and sis ers fully awake on the subject of temperance. They boast a membership of 64, and the number of members present at last meeting about 58. This is what I call a good working Lodge. We are going to try to re organize Pamlico Lodge, and the brothers in that section seem to feel sure of suc cess. We intend holding a District Convention on Tuesday, May 20th, in Newbern, and expect a full delega tion. I shall try and visit most of the Lodges before that time. Athens and Metropolitan Lodges are increasing in numbers and influence, and are much encouraged. Will let you hear from me again after district meeting. Yours in F., H. and C., B. M. Gates, Dist. Dep. Newbern; IN. C., April 25, 1879. NOTES AND COMMENTS. —The Queen of England has lately given twenty.five thousand dollars for the temperance cause. —“ The saloon,” says'Dr. Lorimer, “is as much the gate of hell as ever the church was of heaven.” —75 Good Templar Lodges of Kentucky either own or have an in terest in the halls in which they meet. —The Kansas Legislature has pass ed the resolution submitting the cor . stitutlonal amendment to the vote:/ j in November. —It is stated that the House restau rant, in the Capitol at Washington, sold, on the last night of the Forty- fifth Congress, 2,976 drinks of lager beer. —Francis Murphy, the founder of the Blue Ribbon movement in the Eastern States, has started for Cali fornia to hold Gospel Temperance meetings. —The temperance work of Balti more, Maryland, is advancing vigor ously. Six of its large distilleries have fallen off, some one-third and some one-half in the past year. —The Bishop of Rochester, Eng., at the opening of a new coffee tavern at Greenwich, said that he had been a total abstainer two years, and found that he could do more work without the drink than with it. —The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company now requires the written pledge of every employee to abstain from using intoxicating drinks, even ale, beer and wine, to keep out of all places where such drinks are sold, and to refrain from profane and abusive language. —Learned judges, jurists, and emi nent counsellors at the bar, have placed it upon record, that the indis criminate sale of intoxicating bever ages is the chief source of all the crimes and numerous evils that now afflict society. The voluminous re cords of the courts all bear concur rent testimony to the same fact. —The accusers of alcohol are reli gion and law and medicine and phi lanthropy. By the united voice of their acknowledged representatives uttering themselves perpetually, they proclaim the tremendous indictment through every avenue of communica tion and in every tone, from the moan of orphanage to the maledictions of outraged human nature and the in dignant thunders of High Heaven it. self. —A hotel keeper who sold alcohol asked a local bard to get a motto for a new sign-board which he was hav ing painted. He wanted something funny, and our worthy poet gave ut terance to the following; Rum and whiskey, ale and beer, Beggars made and mended here ; "When nothing’s left to pay the score, I’ll up and kick him to the door. —Ireland is experiencing so much benefit from the closing of its liquor saloons on the Sabbath, that it is anx ious for more good in the same direc tion. A movement to this effect has been started for closing the public houses on Saturday night. This is intrenching the Sabbath in the right way, and allowing the people to enter on the day of rest with sober heads and clear minds, unmuddled by whis key or beer. —But how to cure it is the question of questions. There are at least three very well-defined types of opinion in regard to it. Some demand a well- considered license law, steadily and rigidly enforced. The objection to this is that we license an immorality. Others advocate strict prohibition. This certainly is logically self-con sistent; but whether such legislation can everywhere be enforced or not is another question. Success in a fron tier State like Maine might not guar antee success in States like Massachu setts and New York. Others, again, stand up for free trade in this as in everything else, simply holding men accountable for the mischief they do. —The Tobacco Pest.—In a late sermon upon “ Christian Courtesy to the Aged and to Women,” the Rev. J. C. Jerome, of Long Island, took occasion to refer to .the tobacco pest as: “ The use of tobacco, in any form, is selfishness. Isay, not only is it a pest and a poison to the user in his own person, but also is it discourtesy and selfishness toward other persons. Because it renders the breath and gar ments, even though the filth may not be then in, the mouth, offensive to al most all ladies. And it is a wholly animal gratification which men alone' enjoy. I want no pleasures which my wife and sister cannot share ” —It is claimed that 2,800 cases of intemperance have been cured by a Chicago doctor by the use of red Pe ruvian bark (Chincona rubra'). AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SALE OR GIVING AWAY OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS OR WINES WITHIN TWO MILES OF ANY PLACE AT WHICH POLITICAL SPEAKING TAKES PLACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or to give away, either directly or indirectly, any spirituous li quors, wine, or bitters containing alcohol, within two miles of any place in this state at which political public speaking shall be advertised to take place and does take place, this prohibition to continue only during the day on which said public speak ing shall take place. Sec. 2. Any person who shall be found guilty of violating this enactment shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than twenty days. Sec. 3. Justices of the peace shall have original jurisdiction of the offence above described, upon view er -written informa tion duly sworn to, but subject to appeal by either party to the superior court of the county in which the offence happens. Sec. 4. This act shall not apply to in corporated towns. Ratified the 13th dav of March, A. D. 1879. *• A SINGLE GALLON OF WHISKEY.” In a recent temperance address in the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Judge Pierce, in the course of his remarks, said: “ Science has revealed, by the aid of the microscope, the presence of liv ing and often disgusting objects in a drop of water. The stomach revolts at the spectacle, under the glass, of the creatures which tenant every re freshing draught, however invisible to the naked eye. Let me tell you what once came out, under the process of justice in the Court of Oyer and Ter miner in this city, from a single gallon of whiskey, which to most eyes seem ed innocent and harmless enough. There came out of it two murderers, two widows, eight orphans, two cells in the State Prison, filled with wretch ed convicts for a term of years. The whiskey, moreover, was used in con nection with the administration of one of the ordinances of religion—the sac rament of baptism. It was drunk at the christening of a child, and the men and women who drank it fought, and two lost their lives, and the furth er results were what I have said. Did not Shakspere say well: ‘O thou in visible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil’?” The only place in the world where young men are taught that there is not an honorable woman on earth, is the drink shop. Obscene stories are at a premium and filthy jokes are al ways in demand in these smut-mills. No lady's character is safe from slan der, and young men are led to think lust a crowning glory. No man would think of taking his wife or daughter to spend an evening in any bar room. Any place that is not fit for a lady to frequent, is not moral or respectable, and a man that manages an immoral institution is an immoral man.—-True Citizen.
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