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Show l.ili cost of liquor may grow over llie entire world. Aivslii'is equipped with skiis i 11-s,-nd of' whirls for taking off and I- uiiiug gon the snow are seen in the mountain districts of Switzor- MILK SUPPLANTING BOOZE. Miik is lakitm liic plnco of whiskey whis-key ;is a workman's lu'Verni.' t sui-li ;ni extent in Kiihiml th:it ( i his'iiw puMirnns ;n- .m':i dually triinsl'crrin.u' lo the milk business. Tin- principnl reason for the change is said (o lit' tho hiirh nriee of whiskey, workmen leinx unable to afford 10 pence for a drink. Some years no publicans paid from $50,(100 to ijitOu.OOO for the "ood will" of a lieensed house and now they find these valueless. Hence, small milk shops are being opened to take the places of the abandoned licensed places. Good news for prohibition advo-fcates. advo-fcates. But better news for England. Milk drinking produces strong iicaiiny oooies, wuicn in turn go a long way toward producing safe, sound and sane Juinds. Drinkers of intoxicating liquor to any great extent ex-tent have neither. Their bodies are burned out, dwarfed. Their minds must follow, In great degree. The result is bad. Bad for the drinkers, drink-ers, bad for their children, bad for the nation. Besides the ruined bodies and souls, there is loss in a material way of vast resources; loss because of work badly done by half -intoxicated workers ; loss of lives killed in drunken brawls, loss ot happiness of women and little children. The indictments against intoxicants are so numerous, thy. ramify so infinitely, that no statistics statis-tics compiled by anyone.-feut God can compute the lo'.'The drinking drink-ing of gr.od nji-lir- harm no one. Friends, .firf, can be as sociable over their glasses of milk as they are in S.e of the stimulant. And with no hang-over, or come-back. In America, too, milk is used more widely than in the pre-pro-bibition days. Coffee, also, comes in for its share of popularity. Not so good, nor so harmless as milk, of course. But many aged persons, I ;n fact the majority of them, de-j de-j clare they have used CoflL-e since childhood, and generally add tiiat I they like it strong. Even granting j that its use in excess may he harmful harm-ful in some cases, the barm is negligible negli-gible when compared to that of intoxicants. in-toxicants. It is to be hoped the |