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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
SELECTED BY W.C.T.U.
NO DRINK IN THE STATE.
If we had one country in England
which answered to the account given by
the Rev Dr Lucas, the well known
orator of Canada, of his experiences in
Kansas, wa should think ourselves veil
on the way .to great things regarding
the temperance movement. Once when
travelling in Kansas State —it had been
a 'long journey of about seven hundred
miles—every now and. then they stopped
at some station where food and drink
were to be had, 'but he noticed that no
intoxicating drinks were sold. They
stopped at a certain place, and he
thought he would try for himself. -‘I
went into the refreshment room,'” he
said, ‘and said to the barman, ‘A glass of
whiskv, please/* “Haven't got such a
thing, 5 ’ said the man. “Well, brandy
will do/’ said Dr Lucas, “or anything
else you have got; but I must have some
thing, I am so thirsty.” The man again
declared that be had’nt got anything of
the kind, and when he was pressed to
send out into the town and try, he
waxed wrathful, and said, “If you don't
clear off, I’ll make you! For I tell
you there is not a drop of intoxicating
liquor, to be had in the whole of the
State!”’ and Dr Lucas retired satisfied
as well as gratified. _ _ '
Appearances were against him.
“A. few years ago," continued Dr
Lucas “I was a much bigger and mor6
florid man than I am to-day. I .was
speaking for nine nights in succession on
the temperance question in Christchurch,
New Zealand, and one night, -when I
waa going to the hall where I had to
speak. 11 overtook a woman, who asked
me some questions, and, os we were both
going. the same way, I asked her if she
had. been to any of the temperance meet
ings that were being held in the town
hall, and was she going there i.ow 5
‘No/ said the woman. Tm not going theie
to-night. I was there the other night,
and heard a man I didn’t think very
much of.’ ‘Why,’ I enquired, ‘what was
lie like? Was lie tall or short, and what
did he say?. ‘Well,’ answered the woman,
‘I did’nt put much faith in what he said,
because he looked as if he was fond of
his beer himself.’ ”
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