The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1899, 1 040 + 040404 +0+0404 04 + jay Call Public at- directed ional patu look upon s of modera- pity to Ger- horrible examp to ement was made to kly told ti 1w publi zainst the slander- ited as 2 second ged thefr con- series of articles pre- nely of the influen is shown that close to bout sixteen quarts, of h The a of heading the ermany and the British d fourth in the rank- cond place after with nearly a third less in consumption. Fifth in the land, the home of absinthe, er imed every year for $.000,000 people in the republic. d that ir akes s Holland, nd y European the world in its pita of over two This means that our neigh- mode liters a ar, ba 1 the northern dominion drink less than a seventh as much as the mother country, whence many of them came as French emigrants Head of the Reform Movement. It is from the Sorbonne, the Faculte de Medicine and the other famous lycees that new has been sent forth. able is its present de- Heading propaganda mar] for total abstinence. movement is Dr. C, Grain, one of t best meaical authorities in France, who 18 presid the Natlonal Antl-Alcoholic League and editor of a temperance ver with me alone scnsor, and I Boys! and we took the c! Thursd; S+O404THTIO4CHB 4040404 O+ CHOI0+0 4 O+ + 0+ 04040 monthly called T'Alcool. As his active adjutants is a coterie of forty-two doc- t of medicine, and other faculty mem- bers. nearly all of whom are men of wide reputation and means, sev- eral being to! in common with their presiden Under the stimulus from tk distin- guished leaders, it is not strange that the st nts in these schoo! leges throughout France, should up the campaign. They have organ the tudents’ National le Grain I pushing the work into all parts of the atry under- the leadership of Barbey, who is an advocate at law active- Iy ected with the defense in the Drey fus case. When I saw Mr. Barbey a few days ago he said he had just returned from a tour in the south of nce, wher he m: ince addry in as many schools and colleges. In all of these he organized leagues of the stu- dents, numbering from 20 to 150 members in each. To such proportions I this movement reached that it is extending to other countries, notably to where students’ leagues have blished Lausanne, Ba Switzer] nd, been and Zu- est rich “Killing the Little Worm."” Drinking shops in the poorer qaurters of Paris are open at 4 o’clock in the morning, and even then there are shivering men and women who have braved the nipping alr to “kill the little worm,” as they call their thirst for drink. In the poor quar ters 1 have seen by night little groups of women put their drink money into a com- mon fund, so the amount of alcohol may be a bit larger than if they bought sep- arately, and they drink it oftentimes in its full strength. This use of ‘“neat” drinks is steadily growing. So fierce is the appe- tite for the strongest distillations that the law compels chemists to sell methylated €pirits only in colored form, which means that they are polsoned. Alcohol from wood 1s deadly, but popular with them, In Paris they drink ether, in the north of ¥rance turpentine is growing in popular- ity, and here and there a case fs foupd where kerosene oil is taken, glthough this is generally done secretly. Petroleum especially has a terrible effect and causes severe vomiting and other sickness until the stomach becomes inured to the horri- ble practice. Normandy is the most drunken of ail the departments in the republic. While the fishermen and peasantry of the north coast are bad enough as men, the women are worse, So besotted have many of these people become that they work but five hours & week, earning but enough for I believe St that makes these rm ar nd dried them 1y dear three days, but went to all 1ttentions sh. ut, the her for Heavens! an sit Point for—and old Gruff—I, too, can little riding school graduates 1! Bob Biddle! 1've got a ig TC ork and hunted her the barest necessities of life and to keep themselves in drink. So keen is the desire on the farms, after the ap. sed for cider-making thre a fermentation and lling further intoxi- Much the same Is done with grapes in some - tions. Terrors of Absinthe. 1f is not checked, Frs may as a nation. It is only a few years since two old women living in a secluded mour valley witzer- out their for of rare quality from the little plants growing only in that local- absinthe is known around the Jand drir sinth ity, b gave secret world. Nowhere has its sale grown to so great or threatening proportion in France, where its exc > use annually drives thousands to wild insanity. A friend of mine here in Paris had an Eng- ish coachman who was a model sery but who was noticed as trifie erratic. One day he driving out with two of the children wher wdden frenzy seized him, and he at tacked them to do murder. It was only by help being at hand that he was over- powered, and he was led away a raving maniac. It was found he was an sinthe drinker in secret, and had got up to eight glasses a day. Such is the effect of this insidious craze upon those who follow it far enough. In the last stages of this form of suicide, the victim sometimes drinks six- teen glasses of absinthe in a day, and is the most pitiable of all the types of drunkards. Cost of Absinthe. In the better cafes absinthe costs 50 cen- times, or 10 cents, but in the “dives” it is only 3 sous a glass, As such it 1s little lcss than a deadly poison, especlally when a dash of vitriol is added to give it an extra “bite.”” Vitriol is regularly used in many of the cheap drinks, and even in the bet. ter ones. Last week I had an interesting talk with Senateur Jules le Jeune, Secretary of State in the Belglan Cabinet, who s pushing a bill to prohibit the sale of absinthe {n Belglum, “It is doing much the same for us as it 18 here in France,” he gaid. "I alao have a bill before our Parllament to eradually decrease the number of public drinking-houses through the country in the next ten years, At present we have 208,000 of these {0 n popuiation of but six millions of people, or ono to every twenty-four persons. My plan is to make But then, money. the fact nia fruit. out for a cent. amount of att thinks it's wo ghe’s Yesterday he outdo W. ne, and he nty-five pe Resides, my at him as if 1’ t the first time however, a gentlem eent her re To return to the n| n and sh time. pathy roldier. We had the 7 If T'd been a posta applied himself to he weary. At lu between us she that her honed_turkey, t time I tied a W third finger of her 1¢ third time I hummed ry—vou'll m- horrid voic The fourth time 1 § with more than that hc P. S.—This mort into the the proportion one drinking place to every 200 people, but the proposal is too ical to carry without material amend- ment,” Some of the Continental Governments are posting temperance lithographs in public place warning to the peo- ple on the of intemperance, and the temperance societies in ance dis- play posters labeled “‘Absinthe—Poison! with a gkull and crossbone: Not alone are the present French ef- forts educational, but they are aiming at ional legislation as being the only permanent cure. There is a coterie of ance legislators in the Chamber of ties and in the Senate who are pre constitutional relief from the pr desperate itions. Senator § fried will shortly present a bill to reduce the number of drinking places in the re- public beginning of an extensive legislative reform. There are over half a million of public drinking in France, and in some of the departments as the the consumption of alcohol now amounts to twenty liters per person yearly. Legislation Against Drink. The influential daily, Le Temps, this morning contains a,long article callingup- on the Government to pass the Siegfried bill to abate the public peril and saying that the present liberty to drink is simpiy license to poison the people. The Temps calls upon the French to learn the lessons of regulations are taught by the United States, and it cites the city of Boston as a model in this regard, where there is hut one drinking place to 580 Inhabitants, while in France there is one to every 30 adults. One to every persons is what the editor thinks a correct proportion for this country. A redeeming feature of the French in- temperance is that next to no drunken- ness is seen upon the streets. Practically everybody drinks, and rich and poor alike take the “little glass,” or its multiple, with every meal, and between meals. Only among the poorest do they follow the barbarous American practice of brac- ing up against a bar and drinking on an empty stomach. As it Is, they may be in a continuous fuddle, but never drunk. An. unexpected indorsement of the temperance movement has developed since the first of the year in the friend- ly attitude of the Soclalist press of France and other countrles. Thesa pa- pers, as the organs of the powerful work. ingmen’s societies of the Continent, s: they can co-operate with this propaganda a3 tending (o lessen tha apportunity to her in Florida last winter, and he's dead gone sma }ad to go to England or would have followed her he's got no end of rocks. 5 if he's worth a nickel money in hardware or with her beaut with a million baclk of her? I'm the most miserable wretch on e (From the Love Syndicate (Limited), at West Point, to T. Van der She treats us exactly alike. If T get her I don’t ca I thought ou tell me nd said coldly liked him extremel moment my he’s a_corker! picnic. She sat by him d wn. of course ic., wasn't he? What uulhl_l do Well, T wast 1f solid I'll stay in the a grove. Arrived, sred myseclf to her elbow. > stamp 1 _couldn’t hay etter. hated rivai r other elbow, and h wo of us she looked we both devoted ourselves to her r t, and il encuzh to eat indor compels me to st s healthy. She 1y She said th ad made her hungry But T like to se t. Hate vour wasp-waisted. sallow-faced crumb-pick After luncheon she sat on 4 rock Posta said not! Apnea ch was play is a about coaching vacht racing, Delmonico A thousand thanks. when it occurred to me to go to the crack livery I'll do it or die. ab case. Asked him if there wasn't some ng could borrow a coach. Boys, only inspiration sent me to that had a coach. He bought it second-hand from a | eight years ago, and bad never been able to sell, rent ¢ We went into the purlicus of the barn an d such a dilapidated old rattletrap. Cobwe oked as it rats had developed their That thing can neve ced u and no mustake. spruce as new in a wee We x bargair And, voys. As 1 was leaving him a thous ck me. "I think SaYbxOther J0 L R th a cold million jection, I'll have my coat-of ainted on the panel.” * His name is Hutch . J. Hutch. Made his %ir. 1t will make the coach more valuable. I'll j t OlEtlug; (Sockdl nobody, and nows it gone—that you got d of it nd made me pre and the start she's got, what couldn’t she do you'll never give me away?’ “Hope I may die if And she knows I'm worth no million. Boy Aha, b 15t ther developments rth, and your money will be wa Oh, bo us to pay her t¥ cdded to that d waited all 1 r the opportunity to know aim T ever s that teh was th f T didn’t win h mission to be a cc 1, an T did him up. heard of them,' d. Hu > asked me a homeopathic into a ring -7 ft ha to the rom e vou should see th eWsD: You'd n t coach. Ruy the New York Coaching ter, at Narragansett Pier.—By telegraph): silk. And that coat-of ep Stiff upper lip; who knows what you've got. Play name against Tues as finished I sauntered up to where she Thanks, old boys, for that telegram. T had braced up and sworn {hat tennis, surrounded by Jay fellow shouldn’t down me. But he h led in and no mistake. Got on to Miss Osbourne, you are so fond at once that 1 was a rival. He has been sending her flower coach. Will y s enough for a funeral. Telegraphing to N rk_for maroons and Califor- " She ope The old lady vibrates hetween pendulum. If His eyes buig wasn't &0 ingenuous she would be offensive. r her, T can't make sver mentio white d drove rnoon. m must 1 She do in nove T agement took 1 on that coa We will ed her incomparable ng in the middle o back to m 11 fic abot he ballr salcony t the end moment loft » tables, Drink Consumption. drink, which they plainly say is the church of Russia is using its paramol h mas workingman's greatest e v. power for temperance, an 4.»)” at el 00 me m\; T i , of the Catholic clergy of Europe has j considerable part of the ) Royalty That Abstains. h the church work for and other offici The King of Jtaly is a total abstainer, Sidonailin Ame restric sale of s is also practically the Grand Duke of ¢ time in the history of F welve s th mpti I h, den: and Emperor W sveral times expr tions there will be Paris next year. ropean expo ance building at a tempe German ¢z third. and the u ta of light beers and the K with wh ma ver was T end. I so long sinc ncheon s m lock struck on my arm. Jay H had the ch £ e Thursd Well, I got a coach. Hanged if 1 did first it was ne go, for there wasn’t one in signt. 1 coulun there had been, Tor of course I had to make ner think it borrow the one over in Newport was cquaily out of the questi sk recognize that oo, There was no time to hire onc from New in despair, m which he ile eces saw fraction. It's boodle or position, 1 suppose, and s, she actually blu 5 sparkled, tr g ag time to make up her mind. Now, don't th eameint full 's simply itious as Lucifer, and I like r me,” she mt I’ go 1 sh e what she marries me for.—T. il the evening ¢ Thursday, terribl game—go down t H. J. Hutch He was bound he'd But he « band along i A spread fit A ban- ople. Oh, hang him I wouldn't go. Then T concluded T didn’t dare stay sister said T must ignore the fact that s a rival blaze a man owns a coach lidn't a turn for the looks of the thing, We walked +O4D4CHOITHD 04D+ 04 04CHTIOHO+DIOHCID+ O+ + 04 OISIDLOITIOITITIO$ O+ 0+ 3+ 0404040454 D40+ O+0+ D +040404 O+ 0+ 0+ 04040404040 e oemr ¢ TEMPERANCE WAVE IS RUNNING OVER EUROPE. ; 3 4 D+O4O4THTHCHO 4 0404040404404 04040 B40+040404 0404 040 40404040 $24OEOIDI0 404 04D 4 TCH04ID4D +04040404 P+ 0+ QL0 +C4D40ID 40404404+ 0 4 0 4 ©HO + OITIDIT 4T 040404 France Leads the Nations in d th “he D404040 & 3 B404+0404040 40+ 04040404040+ 04040400 he German Temperance made up in ably Down between between We Oh, boys! I'm done for! Tt's : Teile the oving lights cn the ited rval. He saw that he had to outsplurge me. and i Lgiies 2 ooty tar demy tkatved TromiNewiTarIcs Vouimaver Marian 0 o for tholast e, will you 350 Tt's the talk of the place. The r ters have been p marry > minutes I shall leave you, never to-re. he Newspapers. girls hav heer aking eyes at tur e 2 e (S n o oiiTyely Sicken been strutting around lik o knew T me . She hesitated - £ course, he took her out first t She'd half promi a ninut y-two seconds said, with the most o t she hegged of d sh dored horses del ug g 3 I U A D " r old goo e togoty, you allgthe dnie What:do:you the way she held her littie head up. Her littered with pride. - supy waited th e S ey L e e ey I'm ashamed to show ey chinery of woman is bey nd s ing. and T shall never Newnort, and L was face. but Tl Tepay vou If T have to mort the old house, you ses, know all events she looked as if she 1, her head, looked D e e e ninE uithe h the best of me all r at the stars, then turned 1 yes on me. care whether it Jflow her What's mere position nowadays ke as not she g < 1 was the coach or not.—T. e A R R ng 1 may have made her think Sl . . e 5 de "“ve got to a million? Oh. Lord AU revoir 2 W od bless him e e O e ynaleat West Point, to T. Van der Ruy- A 1 jod Mess nimi” ¢ e 5 ‘tt Pier.—By tel 1 iod bless him! f .'f‘;‘ And Y THoid on Check on the way. Letter will explain. Barion: “Amer ‘ - flowers (Bv letter.) 5 3 : . . v / nds ihe Dear Tom-Fnclosed please find check a conch. That man shor't After a pause. S : ist, T can have her. Our honer Is invalved as well as vours. By heavens. we all foel Whack (with a deep sigh: “No girls in our: in a fashion as if we were marrying her ou plurge it! Win her! Win her! Win A Biddle (gloomily): “No ] oo her! 1f vou need more rock We'll pawn our uniforms and sit Langhorne: T hope that goat nd to my fox-terrier.’ Sunday in onr underclothes, but you' s her. By heaven, vou shall Barton: “Virtue is its own reward and the interest is three per cent.* 0 Fived (T. Van der Ruvter. at Narragansett Pier, to the Love Syndicate (Lim- s e T Met ited), at West Point.—By telegraph.) « bly on the drinking ts of the have been drawn and stock is bei growing instead eaioed le recomime officers that seribed for by prominent French people DWARD PAGE GASTON. good to the men in the for a handsome structure, which wi r is said to be alive serve as a soft drinks cafe on the ground Ethel— ter, Ger- m the growth of child floor. It is intended to use the 1900 expo- trude? drunkenness in rmany. Other sover- sition as a vehicle for widely spread Gertrude—Oh Jack and T eigns are apparently awakening to the sit- the movement had a quarr and Liwote uation. and the young Queen of Holland/ Onthe Continent the most powerful tem- and tc el evan especially 0. In Russia the government perance association is the Blue Cross, 10 me v let monopoly of the drink traffic has proved which has a membership of over 23,000 ar 553 so successful in the provinces where operates in Switzerland, Belgium, France pp. v n you imagine any it has been on trial for several years that and other count In Germany there thine wor ge without love? " Niche 1T is extending the -ys- are 40000 enrolled for temperance, many Unmarried One I think I can tem to decrease drunkenness. The Greek of whom are total abstainers. A powerful Love with instance. N OBSINTHE ORINKING, THE BEGINNING Fac-Simile of Poster Now Being Scuattered Over Europe by the Biue Cross Workers. Evils of Absinthe Drinking. It Depicts the