SEVEN NUTS FOR B. TO CRACK.
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at IS pleasant to observe that, while il is
publicly proclaimed along our avenues, by la
borers in the temperance cause, that our city
is full, beyond all other places, OF licentious-
ness and deprayity--it is pleasant TO observe,
10 the face of such humiliating declarations,
that there is still virtue and piety enough in
the metropolis. Of our great Union. for the
erection and dedication Of new places Of reli-
gious worship; that even here--polluled and
defiled as we are--eyen here, the temple Of Al
mighty God may lift alofi its pious dome, and
that the worshppers of our blessed Saviour
are here permitted, in quietude and peace. to
unite and send up towards heaven. with hu-
mility and devotion, their songs, their praises,
and their prayers" X 'sl3.ea B.
DEAR FoUNTAIH: have ex scissored the
above paragraph from The Washington Union
newspaper Of the 28th Of September, with the
view Of asking B. a few questions through
your columns.


aal. Does b. mean to convey the idea that the
laborers' in the temperance cause do not tell
The truth in publicly proclaiming along our
avenues, that our, city is full beyond other
places, Of licentiousness and deprayity, Of pol
luton and defilement, produced by the habit
of drinking intoxicating liquors


2. Does b. mean to insinnate that these de,
claratons Of the temperance advocates are hu-
initiating, not because. they are. true, but De
cause they are false2 as @sel8p


g. Does B. consider the first and only duty
Of a Christian 10 be 10 build houses in which
to worship our Saviour and 10 attend them reg
ularly when built? at


A. Does B. consider il virtue and piety in
any man to drink intoxicating liquors


5. Does B. deny that the habit Of drinking
intoxicating liquor in the city of Washington
prevails TO greater extent than in any city Of
the same population in the Union2


6. Does B. regard the drinking Of intoxicat-
ing liquors to be sin or not TO be sin?
Z. Does B. or does not B. consider il TO be
the duty Of a Christian to abstain from covet-
BUSINESS or stealing? et t el~b q
| hope, dear Fountain, that if b. desires 10
crack these seven nuts with your hammer, you
will give him chance; or il he prefers to speak
through The Union, that its editor will not re
| fuse him his trumpet Your very obliged ser
want, as lr85s4 -f 3Ss,5 t} LITTLE b.


Washington, Sept. 80, 1916.