Show ON TO UME E A CENTURY avoid the ce use of strone drink it Is I 1 a pestilence I 1 c til nice here is a portrait by An feland of a i man destined to long life iio ile lias has a proper and well proportioned st sfa lature ture without however being too tall iio ile is i rather of the middle size and come co what thickset his complexion is not too florid at any rate too much ruddiness ia in youth is seldom a sign of longevity ilis 11 hair approaches rather to the fair than to the black his skin shin is strong but nol rough his head is not too big ho lie iw hai large veins at the extremities and aud hi shoulders are rather round than f flit lat fl it his neck is not too long his abdomen does not project and his hands are large but not too deeply cleft his foot is rather thick than long iong and his legs are firm and round he ile has also alc a broad arched chest a strong voice and the faculty of retaining his breath for a long time without Fifi difficulty culty in gen eral there is a complete harmony in all his parts his senses aregood are good but not too delicate his pulse is slow and res reg ular his stomach is excellent his appetite good and his digestion easy tin joys of the table are to him of importance they trine his mind to serenity and his soul partakes in the pleas pleasure nrc which they ho ile abbod strong drink above all and his breath I 1 ir clean and sweet ho ile does not oat cat incie ly for the sake of eating but each inual is an hour of daily festivity a it kind of 0 delight attended with this advant advantage agi with regard to others and it dooe does noi nol make him poorer but richer he ile cab eal slowly and has not too much thirst too great thirst is always a sign of lipil self consumption in general he is abrene serene loquacious active susceptible of joy lovo love all and hoie liole but insensible to the impre impressions 0 oi hatred anger and avarice his passions simo never become too violent or destructive if ho lie ever gives way to anger ho be expert ances rather a useful glow biow of an artificial and gentle fever without an overflowing of tile bile he ile is fond also of enjoyment particularly calm calin meditation and agreeable speculation i an optimist a friend to nature and do bestic felicity and lias has no thirst affet honor or riches and bani banishes all thoughts thought of tora tomorrow orrow christian advocate la ilelle incite france drunken the fortnightly review says that insanity increased in paris pais in the pro portion of 30 per cent from 1872 to 1888 dr garnier the chief medical officer ol 01 the prefecture of police says that the progress of alcoholic insanity lias has been so rapid that tho the evil is now ai at prevalent as it was fifteen years ago this striking remark is made by the writer in the fortnightly review th accomplice of two thirds of tho the crimes crime committed upon which the crimin criminals alk themselves throw the responsibility ol 01 their revil evil deeds and whom the police sucked in discovering exists thai accomplice is alcohol it visits uli ul I the child the sins of the father ami and en genders in the following generation homicidal instincts it is known that there hasteen has been foi twenty five years a vast increase in the drinking of the strongest distilled liquor liquors and such fatal combinations of alco alcohol liol and drugs as absinthe we used to hen that thero there was no drunkenness in ili er franc ance and now and then some naturally rl ly fl 01 willfully blind traveler saye says the saim thing franco is rapidly becoming ont of the most drunken countries upon tin earth light wines are no preventive oo 01 drunkenness no drunkard ever comeback from stronger liquor to wine the taste for wine often fortified by tho the ad of distilled liquors leads on ti tc the latter slaking making allowance for eget ii eions beer and wine wilio may bo be called primers of drunkenness to suppress the drink evil after forty years of hard work in the good cause I 1 have reached the fol following lowin conclusions stringent law for the suppression ot of all dram shops when backed up by 11 ma majority bority of tho the people in any locality is the most effectual method of del mcalinn jig with the drink curse I 1 agree with D L moodys late ire dec la ration at edinburgh that a dead law lav is worse than no law there is too much reliance on legislation to remove the terrible curse aa aud d there is too little moral ant and educational effort to break up lip tho the drinking drin kine usages we need more of tho the old fashioned total abstinence organization and nd indie suasion work in pulpits sunday schools and press and platform there is not enough moral steam to drive our ma ilia clil chinery nery we must fight the bottle in social life as well as the accursed saloons millions of dollars are being made by medicines and nostrums for curin curing drunkenness but very little money if spent in teaching people not to drink at all total abstinence as a prevention is it worth all the nostrums yet invented theodore L cuyler in christian at work A nation nations decline scandinavia is gradually beginning to recover the political prestige which the tle forefathers of the modern modem swedes claimed for nearly years culminating during the thirty years war when tho the victories of gastavus gustavus adolphos adolphus decided the fato fatoot of northern europe A century after the battle of lutzen sweden was still stil I 1 a match for any coiner but from that time the tLe star of her glory be began bean 0 an to decline and it ia is a remarkable fact that thee the era ra of the m most ost complete eclipse coincides with the period when the maximum of intemperance was represented by tho tile monstrous total of distilleries to a population lation of less thai the gothenburg system ia is at best a compromise but its ita union with numerous active temperance P societies has after all begun to regenerate a nation which like the tile indian of hudson bay territory wae was for a time exposed to the peril of actually perishing in a deluge of alcohol union signal |