Kansas Templar from El Dorado, Kansas • 3

tttl ur Grand Chaplain, Auntie Eames, of Dephos, is still as 0 T'f? FT TTfi 7 A sincere word is never utterly lost. The man who makes character makes foes. Kansas, 12,400 sons of veterans and 10,000 daughters of veterans. There are 25,000 widows of veterans, Spanish war veterans and 50,000 grandchildren of veterans. Kansas City Star.

enough for the A short time is long unprepared. Cicero. tunity offered, and the police record of his drunken crime grew longor. Only yesterday a waiter in a cheap restaurant he must do the work of a menial or starve. Oh! vher3 is the argument of the driveling imbecile who says "drink is a good thing in moderation." Certainly moderation did not injure an innocent congregation or cause its nan to be dragged through the recking columns of the yellow press.

Oh, no! moderation did no harm to the clergy, the young people of the church, tbgt family and friends of the disgraced pastor. Not moderation, but excess dfcl the damage. There is an institution foe the feeble minded at Glen Allen. Proper treatment can bo given to the brilliant idiot who argues that moderatioa is beneficial, and spouts "take a drink or let it alone." The Rescue. IJ faithful and earnest as ever in the work of Good Tcmplary, de-spito her years and home duties she exhibits an energy that puts to shame" hundreds of younger members in this jurisdiction.

Sho is one of the "Old Guard," knows what it means to battle with the foe when he is 'solidly entrenched behind the licensed saloon and when he is fortified by all the fiend-ishness of a new country and frontier life, when there is no law, or it is trampled under foot and disregarded entirely. Such as she appreciate Good Templary and all that it means to the fullest Prosperity is a great toacher. is a greater. Hazlitt. article in the Boston Herald of July 19th, on the crimes committed by German troops in China and by American tioops deed In the eye of heaven, the wicked devised, is done.

Juvenal. in the Philippines, reminds us of General Sherman's declaration that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Wordsworth. war is hell, which we wish might be taught, as it ought to be in every school of every civilized nation of the entire HOW HE SIGNED THE PLEDGE. world.

Our Dumb Animals. The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. Lowell. ho speaker had declared that a HE Editor of this paper was child of five yoars might intelligently sign a temperance I Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as by want oC heart. Lowell.

nevor verv much of a crank on I Oklahoma Teachers Must Not Drink. Liquor. Guthrie dispatch saysr Should 'i school teacher in the employ of a prohibition, and we are not los ledge and sacredly keep it, ing any sleep nor worrying about when a middle aged man arose in the center of the hall and declared he When the current serves our purpose we must take to it, else our venture will be lost. what our neighbors are eating or drinking. But we are thinking very seri passicountv use tobacco cr intoxi could not let such a statement cating hqmts? VV Baxter superintendent ot public in- ously of sending the wife and babies back to Kansas "on a visit" of about six months duration when whisky is first He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

Herbert. just struction, has from a trip to turned loose in the Territory. Musko gee (Ind Ty) Unionist. the county in without adding his testimony. I am 57 years old, and I have rcever used tobacco and do not know the taste of any kind of strong drink and I believe it is all because I signed the temperance pledge when I was three years old.

"It was in far off England. One day my father took me on his lap and told me all about the evil of strong drink; then he wrote a pledge so simple that stitutes, and that is a question. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victory without it. Lord Lytton. Mie officer who takes a solemn oath to abide by the constitu 7 he has been hearing discussed; a great deal.

Some of superintendents have-gone so far as to step in and tion of the State of Kansas and to perform the duties of The soul that rests, shrinks in proportion to the length of time it is idle. Work tends to growth and his office to the best of his a- even a little chap of 3 could understand bility, "So help me God" and then pur it. lie signed my name, stuck the pen say that a School teacher shall .11 posely and wilfully neglects that duty in mv little fist, took my hand in his not drink or smoke. The sup The September issue will contain nmfi news from Supreme Lodge. It sacrifices his honor for pelf or political nrfifprment.

is a neriurer of the vilest kind. There are better men in the pen but failed to was expected before this, reach this office. itentiary, than he and many times it would be profitable to the community to make an exchange. Sister Mary Surplus has been commissioned Lodge Deputy for United 233, at Rosalia, vice Bro elected Chief Templar. and guided it so that I made the sign of the cross thus attesting my signature.

Then he kissed me and told me I was a 'pledged teetotaller' and must keep the pledge all my life. In less than three weeks my father was killed in an accident, and within a year my mother married again. My step-father was a drinking man. who frequently sent me to the ale house" for strong drink. I was so little that the barmaids would lift me up on the count overnor hoch has "been a great disappoint ment so far as law enforcement is concerned.

He is earnest in United Workers 233, located at making' a good substantial growth. Its membership is alive and active and it is a power in the community. er and try to force me to drink by put ting a glass of beer to my mouth. But I i 1 erintendent of public instruction has sent to each school! board in the county a contract which the teacher must sigcit before he can acccept the pa- sitton as teacher. This forces-the teachers of Custer county to take pledge, and notoa-Iy remain sober, but also abstain from the use of tobacco Custer county is working up a prohibition record.

A temperance delegation was sent to the statehood convention Oklahoma City. Another requirement which is made of the teachers of. Custer county is thatuhey he-come active members of the Teachers' Reading Circle. A part of the text of the contract which was written by the Custer county superintendent, and OVERNOR HOCH has 'not yet "called out the militia" his declarations and his intentions seem to be honest, but he lacks force and aggressiveness. In other words he lacks back bone.

He is pandering to politics and loses sight of duty. He is trying to keep on the good side of his constituency and at the same time curry favor with the politicians and political machines. He may yet redeem himself, but it is doubtful. can remember drawing myseii 10 my childish height as I shut my lips over clenched teeth saying, 'No, I'm a pledg toenforce the prohibitory law, or any other law for that mat- ed teetotaller." ter. Since then the speaker has never 'othing short of absolute prohi known how young to say a child may sign the pledge.

having a great revival of tem bition will check the villainy nnrl nbatfi tho nuisance of the sentiment, since the blow Tfola is I pera I) ing dyn: is perance liauor traffic Theo Kan- up of the Joints there by the -x house. wo months ago these columns told the sad sad story of Henry Lunstedt, "a good fellow," who died an outcast because of dynamiter Melvi'n. The Templar brother, Sister, listen, do you owe JL drink He poor mortal, didn't obey the advice of that wise pin head anything on subscription to the Templar. If so remit at once, so the accounts may be cleaned who admonishes you to "let whisky a- lone and it will let you alone." Another does not approve of anarchy or unlawful acts, even in destroying evil. But then in extreme cases, what is to be done? If good citizens will not see that the law is enforced, they can expect not better than unlawfnl acts like Melvins, who after all was not half the criminal the outlaw jointists were, or the officers of the law sworn to do their duty yet preferred to perjure themselves.

After all what protection can outlaws expect? up before Grand Lodge. terrible case has come to our attention oy tne arrest of Jvennetn Duncan, an hatsoever a man soweth that unfrocked preacher. Kenneth Duncan shall he also reap" the old law has never been repealed. And wa3 a man of uon, tne pastor of a pros perous Presbyterian congregation in San while lots of people think they are succeeding in evading it, Francisco, iiaa everytning in life, a princely' salary, a good home and the re one at all familiar with ordi all bound to find themselves they are Tf: nary affairs will deny that there spect of his fellow citizens. A gentle mistaken.

Senator Young. are a disgraceful number of girl loafers. A male loafer is looked man of standing in the community, and a pulpit orator of note. But in a evil hour he took a chance drink needed a Tfhe Attorney General has rend II ered a decision, that jointists which he says he believes will be for the best interests and tend to make the of the county more efficient is as follows: "Said teacher further agrees that he will abstain from all use of intoxicating liquors and tobacco during the period this contract is in force. Said teacher further agrees to attend the county normal institute, bcome an active member of the Teachers' Reading Cir-.

cle and make a special endeavor to attend all educational meetings of the county and territory. Said school district agrees not to deduct from salary by reason of any loss of time occasioned because of attendance on saidcounty and II and brewers cannot recover stimulant perhaps or a brain clearer. With all his masterly qualities Kenneth 1 bars and fixtures under a re Duncan coald not "take a drink and let it alone." His only hope was absolute abstinence. Started with the one drink and almost in a moment the Synod had plevin suit. In fact they cannot file suits in replevin in such cases.

Of course not, what rights has an outlaw under the law anyhow? down upon but a female loafer is supposed to be a little better than the others, because she does not work. In this country there are thousands of men who by working hard, are able to keep their families in comfortable circumstances. Daughters in such families too often become loafers. Their father works and so do their brothers, but the girls think it would be disgraceful for them to do anything. They often say to their fathers "You don't expect me to go to work do you?" And it is a pity their fathers are not bold enough to say: "Yes, I not only expect it, but demand apt Dutton, so well and fa.

vorable known to Kansas Good Templars, is still hard at work in the California jurisdiction. barred him from God's ministry: he had disgraced the cloth. Deserted by the friends of affluence, for who wanted a "bum" or a tramp around, he fell lower and lower until in rags he begged a meal's meat from the rear door of his former sexton's house. Occasionally assisted by a pitying acquaintance he re Kansas never had an abler, more faithful and earnest worker than Capt Dutton and he will be accorded a royal reception if he ever comes again. territorial teachers' association it." State Journal.

paid the kindness by thievery it oppor- meetings..