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Show THE INTEREST CONTINUES. C.eorir Wo'idlurd Aililr.iin a Larva Au-cJloun Au-cJloun 4,n Tampsrnnn Liit Nislit. George Woodford who is conducting tho gospel temperance meetings in the First Presbyterian church had au iuter-regator iuter-regator last uight. The party was a mid-die mid-die aged, big hearted man with one foot encased in a surgeou's led stick. He sat on the front pe"W and was so deeply interested in what Woodford wnssaying that he could not avoid punctuating the speakers remarks by asking questions. Mr. Woodruff spoke of tho deception of strong driuk. itm will deceive a nation na-tion and the minister at ids sacred desk. Why do men drink? They advance various reasons: Hec.atie tho weather is cold, too hot, ton wet. loo dry, f o-causo o-causo they are thi i and others because they are stout. Why 1 know a man who has been drinking on one prescription prescrip-tion since 1'VJ. Ha L- taking liquor for medicine just as many men do these days, lbd you ever think that to get the drink habit lixed costs moro than a man will spend afterwards? There should be a temperance meeting opened in as prominent a place as Salt Lake as the best saloon possesses that men could see the meeting as plain at they do see tho drink shop. The drinking men of this country will alxxays bo at the beck ami uod of money interests so long as they spend today xvhnt they earn tomorrow. Mr. Woodford pathetically told of a saloon keeper in au eautt-ru state who fourteen years since signed the pledge and prom-; prom-; m! rtev.,1' again to sell rum. About two weeks ago Mr. Woodford met this same man at Ogden, where he is working work-ing as a section hand on a railroad. Their meeting was joyous and the lecturer lec-turer was delighted to hear his conviv-! conviv-! ial companion of former (lavs say that ho had religiously kept the pledge. At the close of tho meeting last night a number of people signed tho pledge. Tho man with a red sock was the ti'rst to put his name on" paper. The meet-ling meet-ling tonight will be interesting. Don't fail to bo present, aud take your neighbor. neigh-bor. . , |