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Show DE1TUS FKU.H Sl.li-SIHUltS. The deaths from sun-stroke reported from New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities east, are indieativo of more than a high temperature of the atmosphere. at-mosphere. They tell of debilitated constitutions and enervated systems, the result of intemperance. The heat is not more excessive in the cities named than in many places where no such fatal results occur from it. But in those large hives of human beings, there are so many men whose physical organizations are heated to an abnormal ab-normal condition through the habitual use of stimulants, and whose strength is thus destroyed, that an increased temperature prostrates them, the effects ef-fects in numerous cases being fatal as reported. One of the greatest blunders, blun-ders, in regard to the physical system, which sentient beings make, is that stimulants give strength. They create a fictitious vigor by firing up the nervous nerv-ous system which gives an increased, but transient, force to the muscular energies, as men raise tie working-power working-power of the steam engine by increasing increas-ing the quantity or heating quality of the fuel employed.' But the reaotion comes as certainly as the stimulant stim-ulant ia employed; and with each successive application, the vital .powers are weakened. This is (he explanation of bo many ef these fatal sun-strokes. The fieroo rays of the sun pouring down on the earth may prostrate a person whoso system is enervated from any cause; but the numerous cases occurring prove a lamentable weakening in the physical powers of a large number of people, and tho cause of that weakening is beyond be-yond all question intemperance. |