much blamed for want of sagacity in the first night of the fire, before the wind gave it much advancement. When men who were less terrified with the object prest him very earnestly that he would give orders for the present pulling down those houses which were nearest, and by which the fire climbed to go further, the doing whereof at that time might probably have prevented much of the mischief that succeeded, he thought it not safe, and made no other answer than that he durst not do it without the consent of the owners. His want of skill was the less wondered at when it was known afterward that some gentlemen of the Inner Temple would not endeavor to preserve the goods which were in the lodgings of absent persons, because they said it was against the law to break up any man's chamber."—Croake James, "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers."
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Teeth, The Value of Good—See Assimilation.
Teleology—See Work Divinely Intended.
Telephone Possibilities Discredited—See
Opportunity Lost.
Temperament—See Environment.
TEMPERANCE
That chronic alcoholism among the Russians may explain, in part, at least, some of the results of the war in Manchuria, is the editorial opinion of American Medicine. Says this paper:
On the Japanese side the reports are all
of one tenor, and depict an almost universal
abstinence. What drinking is done is in extreme
moderation. Upon the Russian side
we hear of immense stores of vodka,
champagne by carload lots, and orgies innumerable.
The Russian officer is notorious,
by general report, of course, for the large
quantities of alcohol he daily consumes, and
it is impossible for any brain to submit to
such insults without undergoing the changes
long known to take place in heavy drinkers.
It is not remarkable then that the older officers,
who are managing the campaign, are
constantly outwitted by the healthy-minded
Japanese. (Text.)
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In April, 1838, William Martin knocked at Father Mathew's door in obedience to a summons. The friar met him at the threshold, his handsome face radiant with kindness and good-nature.
"Welcome, Mr. Martin, welcome! I have sent for you to assist me in forming a temperance society in this neighborhood."
"I knew it," said the Quaker; "something seemed to tell me that thou would'st do it at last."
"For long I could not see my way clearly to take up the question. I have been asked by several good men to take up the cause, and I feel I can no longer refuse. How are we to begin?"
They began with a little meeting in the friar's schoolroom, when Father Mathew, after his address on temperance, said, "I will be the first to sign my name in the book which is on the table, and I hope we shall soon have it full." He then approached the table; and, taking the pen, said in a loud voice, "Here goes, in the name of God!"
In three months from the day that Father Mathew signed the book "in the name of God," the number on the roll was 25,000; in five months it rose to 131,000; in less than nine months it was 156,000.—Edward Gilliat, "Heroes of Modern Crusades."
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John B. Gough, the temperance orator and reformer, asked that on his monument the following sentiment should be cut:
I can desire nothing better for this great
country than that a barrier, high as heaven,
should be raised between the unpolluted lips
of the children and the intoxicating cup;
that everywhere men and women should
raise strong and determined hands against
whatever will defile the body, pollute the
mind, or harden the heart against God and
His truth.
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See Abstainers Live Long; Drink, Peril
of; Longevity Accounted for; Personal Influence.
Temperance and Prosperity—See Prohibition.
TEMPERANCE IN THE PRESS
So far as their advertising sections are
concerned, our great magazines are rapidly
"going dry," asserts the Sunday-school Times (Philadelphia), after an investigation
of some sixty of our popular monthly and
weekly publications. In this investigation
"strictly agricultural and other class papers,
whether trade or religious publications, were
