| Show in T E X PE R A N C Z r 1 I 1 1 CHAPTER ili III properties have alcoholic beverages beveral bes they stimulate and use up nervous power and after their action leave the system jess less po power ful fui fuit fult hare hari before are they medicinal A gentleman in washington washingto apparently in a decline called oil va oneff f the most moat eminent physicians atut butras buttas athe agho he did not rapidly recover lie he told the tho physician that whiskey had to him and ask edif it would do any ans good cy yes es said saia the doclar tait it would help heip you bems bemy 0 ihen then ao you not givert gi veit velt said the sick man Bo because cause causo dhave have given i it to a dozen gentlemen and d au otil ha have ve become are they tonic professor Prof csor miller says people consider alcohol as n u simple and common cognion tonic and are rea ready to accept its supposed help ay as aach m every form of weakness and general disorder of health but it is 18 ordinarily no true tonic in its primary m afy effect it ai merely a stimulant with narco narcotic tic tle action when in large doses lin jin irl its secondary action it is tefie reverse of tonic tonie 21 are they nutritious great ger german man clib chemist mist declares in regard to beer we can an prove proad p with certainty tal nty as plain L ain aln a as s t two wo and two 0 make maka 0 edour jour four that as m much uch flour hour or riceal ah as can ean C ilo lio 11 D on the pointon a table knife is more mor I 1 nutritious than arne quarts of the best Bavarian bajuri be beer ebl oki that aman amar chois able daily dally to consume colsum 0 that amount or beer obtains from I 1 it ts in ilig whole year duko dako jn 11 favor tavor lahie mba cwi wwi amount of ft r k ay a t f po und pd loaf lda ida of bread or in three pounds bf flesh what other properties hl have havo a det deg they the old indian thought one barrel of whiskey contained a good many nights fights wellington Z thought tierces pierces of win winey contained something which lie ho feared more than an army for during the peninsular war he heard heanU hat that a large magazine of wine ilk lii lay yon annis lils line of march and he dispatched a body of troops to knock every wine barrel on the ahe head and dr dir gui Oti therle therie declares isdo in my conscience believe that intoxicating stimulants have sunk into perdition more men and women than found a grave in that deluge which swept over oven the highest hill tops angul p ing a world of which but eight were saved we concede therefore th that at they have some gome properties and powers are stimulants nee cesary in summer or winter or in warm or ox cold climates men have havo hav labored in every clime from the equator to the arctic and the antarctic regions without their aid the celebrated general havelock under the burning sun of india abstained from their use the world renowned and adventurous ro us traveler and explorer dr livings ingston ton abjured their use and the motto of sir john boss ross amid the etem eterna aliee fice and perpetual snow of the tho arctic regions wak wai was vas touch not taste not horace Gree greeley leyvas was a home laborer but a hard bard worker and aud ad he declared at sixty years of age that he had worked for forty years without intoxicating drinks and had ien len lengthened hen his 1119 life by doing so and we could adgive give the names of a number of the elders of israel who have labored long and hard in the cause of truth and righteousness without tho the aid of that which un mans man inebriates and des destroys destross i troys we once quest questioned ionea lonea an B eider elder ider lder relative to the prop eriety of his going into the liquor business the consistency of the act and the reason why he did so and lie he honestly acknowledged that there was money in it an and d he h c thought lie he may ay as well make it as any one else eise 1 he was after the dollar thac that was his only rear reason ve we asked him if he had reflected upon the moral effect his bu business Iness would have upon the youthful portion of the community and he replied that he had not nov he thought of nothing but the almighty dollar this is the oba object beet of many and they have but few scruples as re regards 0 gards the nature of the business they engage in so long as the object is reached many will remember the anecdote ofa of a man being drunk and apparent ly asleep in a tavern when it was emar bed hed by the landlord that the drunkard was tras taking the shingles off the roof of his own house and putting them on the tavern keepers whick remark the drunkard heard ceased visiting the tavern was subsequently met by the tavern keeper and asked why he did not come and enjoy his glass as usual to which he replied that he had concluded to put t the shingles on his own house wh the e disposition manifested by some would not only take the th ingles shingles but the house too the land a nd upon which it stands and every dollars worth of personal onal property from a man and tb enkich then kiak kick him out but all liquor venders benders would not do this at least one notable exception comes to mind three or four years ago we read the following and preserved it cat gat at a second class hotel in frankfort kentucky a few days since a little girl entered the barroom and in pitiful tones told the barkeeper bar keeper that her hen mother had sent bent her there to get eight cents cei cee eight I 1 ht cents said the bar ban keepe r yes acs sir lir sir 1 what does your mother want of eight cents I 1 dont owe derany her hen anything well said baid the child father spends all his money here for rum and we have had nothing to eat eilt today to day mother wants to buy a loaf of bread A loafer suggested to the barkeeper bar keeper to kick the brat out no ano said gaid ane lie tle barkeeper bar keeper ill til give the mother the money and if the father comes back af again nin min ill pil hiek kick him out such a circumstance never happened before and may never hap happen chanar en again humanity owes that barkeeper bar keeper a vote of thanks among habitual drinkers can be found some who have inherited the love of liquor their parents in a few instance have fostered and strengthened this love and t they ey themselves have fed it until it is is a part of their being an insatiate monster continually crying faive vive GIVE t GIVE and alad dragging its victim down to penury shameless shamelessness noss and hell 1111 such auch have but little power of lance and I 1 it t gradually dil edly grows beautifully less loss when wms once oneo tho the taste or eyen even the smell greets greats jesole je tion mit kit control inq eason mason x seem ep m iw M uw 1 fiend vel vei within thi n bears sway si cay vay a and ada accomplishes his bia deadly pu purpose rOe while whig writing upon this point we are prompted to introduce an anecdote of dr samuel johnson one of the greatest if not the greatest of the literary men of the century 14 pray sir asked dr aston what objection have hale you to wine A aa sound one sir bir answered dr johnson it disagrees with mm me and yet sir says mrs urs sarale you will cat heartily of a val voal vai pie stuffed with plums lums alums a mess that would an ostrich J I 1 madam he answered you have to accept lifo life on the conditions under which it is offered I 1 cin can eat eai veal pie and plums without wit holit injury to my health for when my hunger is appeased I 1 eat cat no more but of wine madam I 1 am never to know when I 1 have had enough one glass creates the want of another and a second demands the support of rc a third Bb besides sides madam chave I 1 haug have no con confidence floence fl dence in my iny powers of resistance therb is a heedless vivacity ih hi wine that is above the reach of judgment come dr aston let us pledge one anether in water and put t in for a hundred well said hir bir ar charles bracebridge for my par part I 1 had rather die at fifty a wine drinker than to live to a hundred on water 5 and und sir you will have all the tho fools in the country to te agree with youl you answered dr johnson 11 and whai aliat is to be done in such case race why never hever to touch the accursed stuff to wake up or give sway to the destructive fiend this is the only sure remedy apply 1 it and let jet all the fools in the country benefit b your example while writing the word fools Is we were reminded of some of the te i sayings of the great temper temperance an ce orator J B gough he no doubt doubty has done much good but he be too found his powers of resistance insufficient nici fici ent leht for he lapsed some time ago so we read in a public prin tand now pays a person a large salary to travel with him to prevent another lapse gapse nead bead you young ng men I 1 w what hat lie he says for your belie berie benefit fit young ng men ceif as you lift the gleaming wine glass to your lips in the jollity of the he nights will it pay it is is a gross insult to call a man a fool every man would besent it but in the suffering of the next mornin morning gy with disturbed conscience aching head bead throbbing temples racking brain hot fevered tongue and all the horrible reaction that might come does not the victim of aches clasp his burning hands and bitterly call himself fool fool it does not pay to begin first you tolerate it then you touch and taste viste it then you jest and laugh at it and then revel in it when it becomes your master then what what numbers have been swept down in the hurricane of uri uni temptation in the mad power of this passion they have tave burst the bonds of a mothers bothers love trampled a fathers couns counsels chi cli in hi the dust mocked at re proofs and tears and prayers and now with tattered sails sail s leaking hull and splintered masts are drifting on amid lift Jing winds and wintry skies to utter ruin when w hen ben they might have reached the haven of peace and sec see security u rity laden with honor and happiness verily it does not pay in every condition and circumstance of life young men mea need decision of character the yes and land no faculty and it is especially needed when the tempter says drink for the want of this many are aze started on an the road to ruin and kept traveling thereon they may say no but the thing is too weak to live and very soon becomes yes it may flot hot be necessary to always blurt out the blunt nosir thi this is not our out meaning ing ap respectful language suitable to person and ai ad occasion embodying a healthy well meant meano negative is what we mean me and find no not t a no th that A t is a puny half yes ses the no which has bas the backing of decision of character firm resolution stern determination and the spirit of the living jiving god is the no that will live and prosper r it is understood to be au all no na it is 18 not tampered with much anait carries salvation with it young men need not fear to properly kuspit uso use it they will be res respected acted for doing ab so and will grow in r power to use it effectually but says one suppose I 1 am invited or requested by my particular friend or by one in jn authority over me must I 1 decline if by so doing I 1 am liable to of offend lend rend we will ask what kind of a friend pr person in authority must hobo hebe he be who would take offense were you to respectfully decline from such mich tri fri friendship and alit authority borit good lord 0 deliver eliver vig vis and you and mu J the sooner the better george Washington the dather father of ha ilia country and under god its i and sa ta vior I 1 ap nen men WB tir tit iw I 1 the following beautiful inci incident delit in tho the lifo life of friend and nobia nobie officer toward the close of the vaits war var gad say dr cox f an officer in the army dined with washington just before the dinner was wag concluded general washington wes wis fim lim agton stood up and called him by name and requested him to drink a glass lass of wine with him vill will you rave fave have the goodness to excuse me meGen general era cra la 11 replied the officer fj fx havo have madg it a rule ruie n never ever to take win wine e all eyes were instantly turn turned j ed upon the young officer and a murmur of surprise and indignation ran around the table that a person should be so xin unsocial social and so po nean a as s never to drink wine was really too tog bad oad pad but that hes houed abstain fromet on an occasion like ilke that and even wh when cn offered to him by washington himself was perfectly intolerable wash waa In once onca law saw the his guests and promptly addressed ed them gentlemen said gaid he be gour our friend isi is I 1 do nut not lisbany wis hany bany of my guests to partake of ai anything against their thein inclination and ond I 1 cerr cert dp do not wish them thena to violate any r established principle in jn their social rocial intercourse with me J J emor J my n friend jor jon J nis his fragness fr akness for jor his consistency in thus to an establish rul which orn oln cin do airn him hatm harms and for the adoption of which 1 3 have haste no doubt he has good and sufficient reasons nelm all with whom you bave have intercourse may not bo be jn in this respect but be not discouraged your youn oun our influence and exaum exam pie le may h help heip e p to make them P suc sue such b and s should hould this thia not be the cases case remember that the bitter and sweet are intermingled in this life that it is your your youn privilege to enjoy the benefit of opposition which helps to establish the right which jn in connect connection ign with the jove of right rouses into nearva energy ibe the lj Md odies the brightest and the most mot godlike powers of its champions makes of rhem them the men which they otherwise would not be and adds to their honor and glory in jime time and eternity it may be that some young men may consider the themselves melves mno too young joung to form resolutions or th that at th they thes ey cau cannot break ot off their evil habl habits ts which have become comparatively dd and established in them or br that thene there js is no ile tie use to do so fah far inh will be well with them they will not become dishonored or disgraced or be beany beauy any auy the worse i for their present course oh ob no n 0 will such please plean to read carefully the following stat stal statement e ment meat of admiral farragut would you like to know how I 1 was enabled to serve my country it was WM all owing to a resold resolution tion I 1 formed when I 1 was waa ten years of age my INV father was WM sent down to new kew orleans orlean with the little navy we then had to look jook af ter the treason of burr I 1 ascom danied him as cabin boy I 1 had some qualities that I 1 thought made a man mati atme of me I 1 could swear like ilke an old salt could drink austiff as stiff a glass of grog as if I 1 had doubled cape horn and abid could smoke lik ilk a locomotive I 1 was greib great itt at cards and fond of gambling in eveny every shape at the close of the dinner one I 1 day das my father turned everyl everybody dut out but of the cabin locked the door and salato said sald to me fide david what do you melfi mean to be 1 I mean to fo follow the sea 3 12 i follow the sea yes 9 being a poor miserable drunken sailor kailor before the mast kicked and cuffed aboul abou the and die did in some come fever oever hospital talin in a foreign cli ell clime me na d ill lul tread the quarter deck and command as you do no david n no 0 boy y ever trod the quarter deck with such principles ples pies as you have and such habits as you exhibit have to change your whole course of life if it you ever cler become a man my father left me and went vent on deck I 1 was wa stunned by the thu thero theno ro buke butte and d over overwhelms whelma ath mortification adgor A poor miserable drunken sailor before the mast kicked and cuffed |
