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TEMPERANCE.1; ;fg, A PITIFUL FATE. ^HnvoVo no pity for tho poor, miserable ohildren? Is there no voloo strong enough'.- i to plead “llko angols, trumpct-tonguod lt;j against tho doop damnation of tholr taking off,”—ol thcso ohildren, who,In tho language! of Southsy, aro not so muoh bom Into tho / world as predestined, as It woro, to live Uvea _•/ of disease and degradation becanse of tho drink In the midst of whloh thoy aro brought!;,' np and of whloh they havo the hereditary/., taint in tholr very veins.—Canon Farrar. .o:THE VEBDICT OP SCIENCE. 'VThat alcohol makes for tho hraln, whon! 1 taken Into tho system, has boon proved on tho strongest possible testimony. Dr. Kirk tolls ns that on ono occasion ho dissected a man who diedln a state of Intoxication. “In two cavities of the brain was found tho usual quantity of limpid fluid. When ho smelled It the odor of whisky was distinctly perceptible, ' ahu whon ho applied tho candle to a portion' In a spoon it actually burned blue—tho lambent blue flamo, characteristic of poison, playing on the surface of tho spoon for somo seconds. Wo havo similar oxporienco related by Dr. Ogston, of Aberdeen, In tho case of a women, who, it was believed, had drownod horself In a state of Intoxication. “Wo discovered nearly four ounces of fluid In tho lateral brain cavitios, having all tho physical properties of alcohol.”Dr. John Percy found thnt by distilling tho blood takon from tho systom of ono Intoxicated ho could roproduco a percentage of alcohol; and, by submitting tho brain to tho same process, that the per sntago was muoh higher; from whloh ho concluded that “a kind of affinity exists between aleohol and the cerebral (or brain) matter.” The last experiment on this point I shall relato is thnt of Dr. Flgg, who hold a post mortem examination on tho body of John Gartor, a young athlotio man, who drank a pint of rum at ono offort. “Tho mouth, stomach, cordlaa cavities and lungs presented no approcinblo traco of the rum. Evon on opening tho oranlum wo found nothing to warrant a supposition of its presence. On making, how-ovor, a soctlon into tho lateral brain cavities, tho rum flowed out In considornblo quantities, altored In color, but with Its characteristic odor.” From all which it foUows oloarly, that alcohol has a special affinity for tho brain, and, ns a necessary consequenco, works Its saddest and most doplornblo results In this—tho seat of roason. Whonovor therefore, you sco mon struck down in do-llrum tromous in tho midst of their drunken debauch j when you sco men who woro onco strong, quivering In ovory limb, writhing In agony on tholr bod of pain, with foatures■ oontortod, and wild and staring eyes, scroam-■ lng aloud at tho fancied approach of tho most lontlisomo crawling oroatures; when you hoar men, who woro wont to bo wise, gibbering and chattering llko a parcel of domontod manlac3; whon you soo thoso of tho wonkor sox casting aside all modesty and solf-rospoot and acting tho pazt of tho domoniacal andI iusnno, you will in future bo able to give a | roason for such conduct, and nseribo it to.that deadly poison which has entered their I brains, and stolen away tho ono great gift of ; God, which alono olcvatos thorn above tho Jackal and tho ape.j M0DEHATE DBINKINO.That there may bo errors In judgment i among medical oxamlnors of lifo Insuranoo | companies In pronouncing upon a risk Is probnblo, especially In oases of what are | known as moderate drinkers—thoso who, In I reply to tho question In tho application In that regard, soy truthfully that they drink alcoholic liquors modorntoly at night. And j yet cases of that kind havo boon nffoctod, with pronounced dollrlum and delusions.| Summing up an able articlo on tho subject i of tho relation of lifo insurance to inobrloty, Dr. T. D. Crothors says: “Tho object of all | companies, to minimizo tho uneortalnty and risks of all policy-holdors, and mako tho question of tho mortality of its Insured a ronsonablo certainty, is a reality when the facts of alcoholic. degonoration aro studiod \ abovo tho lovel of opinions and theories. Tho greatost peril to lifo Insurance to-day 13 1 tho confusion of theory relating to tho nature 1 and action of alcohol Evory poltoy-holdor 1 has to pay for this ignoranco In increasod rates. Tho companies are porilod and a do-I grco of uncertainty exists whloh a larger and i more accurato study of alcohol would remove.| Companies whoso managers and medical nd-I risers ore moderate drinkors are on tho road to failure. Companies who assumo that this question is sottlod and tho lines of health and disease can be mnpped oat aro failures • already. Companies who regard this peril from alcohol as ono requiting tho most careful scientific study nnd cautious application of tho npparent facts of to-day will arrive at somo rational lines of successful solution of tho problom. Finally tho aleohollo question, from every point of view, demands a now and more exact study to lift It out of the fogs and moss-oovorod superstitions of tho centuries.”—Mall and Express.DBINU BILLS OF BIO CITIES.It has been shown that tho olty of Chicago alono consumes $10,000,000 worth of boor In 1 single year. Pittsburg spends $18,000,000 -'or drink. Now York spends not loss than ! $60,000,000 to $70,000,000 for beer alone. ■ t’horo are in New York City about 8000 fflloit ■ establishments where drink Is sold without a ' ilconso. and tho drink estnblishmonts swing wide their doors dny and night and seven r Jays In tho wook.A CHIEF FACTOB OF CBIHE. ■ ^Tho New York Medical Times notes the ■ fact that In 1850 thoro was ono criminal In i 8500 of our population, but that In 1890 thoro was ono In 780.5, a startling increase In forty years, and odds, “Thoro must bo somo'woy vj to stay this mad rush of crime j somo remedy .V for this bacteria whloh Is poisoning tho fountains of moral and physical strength. Wo ' venture to suggest to the Times, that chief among tho factors of tho crime and dotorior-otion which it doplores aro intoxicants. Wo Invito Its holp In our contest to abolish thorn..”. —National Temperance Advocato.TEHTEBANOE NEWS AND NOTES.Stookholm has tho highest death rato from . drink of any olty In the world, ninety „in •? 10,000. N'jShetland Is tho most tomporate county and/! Cork tho most drunkon town In tho United' ,: Kingdom. /‘/In eleven cathedral oltlos of England there !. '■ isannvoruge of ono publlo houso to every N 157 Inhabitants.Carter Harrison, Mnyor of Chicago, has' Issued an order that no drinking man will be retained on tho police forco. •.Queen Anno, of England, was oxtromoly fond of brandy, nnd hor face became so bloatod thnt among the populace she was -known ns “Brandy Faood Nan.Consider whothor there Is any real ndvan- V tage In shorter hours or higher wages for workingmen, If tholr earnings and unom-' *■ ployod tlmo are both spent In tho saloon. ..rOf tho 51,000 breweries In tho world Gor-fyi many has 26,210, England has 12,874 and the Vi Unitod States havo 2300. In tho consump-' -'!; tion of boor tho German province of I3ava-.y . ria leads tho world, with an nnnual average V’ of 222 litres per hoad. Tho Inhabitants of0'; tho Unitod States nvorjvgo thlrty-ono litres *S per head.Would mon and womon, adults and youths'* /• bo safe beyond all poradvonturo? And why',.'-, should thoy not wish tq ho so, when so muoh, when all, Is at stake? Then lot them' be tho faithful obsorvom of total abstinence! A: Prudenco Is a virtuo prescribed of God and V ,y man. “He who loveth tho danger, shall fUi perish therein.—ArohblshoD Ireland. , ,57:■Doctor—“Well, my tine little* fei-j£ low, you Have got quite well agaln!^;.1 I was sure that the pills I left lorVv'ii you would cure you. How did youi'N take them, Id water or in, daka?.N$‘iy “Oh,-'I used them In my pop-irun.‘’-,^|
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Macedon News Gatherer
Macedon, New York, US
Sat, Jul 15, 1893
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