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8 Temperance Department. Alcohol—What is it, And How : Produced. -*■ CHHT8TÎAN HERALD. stances are formed, and one of these new substances is alcohol. This decay is a filthy process. When it takes [»lace in our stew ed fruits we do not eat them, but quickly send them away from the table. All alcoholic drinks are de cayed drinks, for they are made of sing. As a result it w as found nec essary to increase the police force from one to eight, and on Christ mas Day the Mayor was obliged to order the closing of the saloons in the afternoon, as the police were unable to cope with the prevalent disorder. r^-In accordance with the recent decision of the Executive Commit tee of the Woman’s Christian Tem perance Union, the two temperance papers, Our Union and the Signal, have been consolidated. The new paper is called the Union Signal; it is published weekly in Chicago, and is to be the sole official organ of the Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union. Alcohol is a colorless, intoxicating liquid produced by fermentation. It looks so much like water that it might be readily mistaken for it at first' sight. But it is sb much tm- like it in its real nature, that you tilling out the alcohol which has can easily ma*ke some striking ex been produced by decay.— Julia Coleman. periments. Water will put out fire. Alcohol Temperance Items. will feed a fire. It will also burn —Compulsory temperance educa by itself, ___ ___________ , Suppose, then, you have two tion campaigns are being pushed in clear glass vials filled, one with al Michigan, Indiana and Ohio by the Woman’s Christian Temperance cohol, one with water. You may fold a slip of paper, Union. - E le menta r y —physuofegy—and* __ —Ln.ihfl lectat circular sent out and“dip~end- into the af c ohot, ------ - and the other into the water. hygene, with special instruction by the Executive Committee of the Touch the latter with a match; it upon the effects of stimulants and National Organization of Liquor will not burn. Touch the light to intoxicants upon the human system, Dealers, it is conceded that “ neither the other end ; it will flame up at are now a in < mg the required sub separate communities nor single States can successfully fight the once. Let it burn till it reaches jects in the Vermont schools. —Cardinal Manning writes to battle against prohibition,” and the part wet with water, w hen it one of the Middlesboro’ Temperance this fact, is used as an evidence that will go out. Alcohol is made by art and man’s Society : “ I can on my own knowl “a national anti-prohibition organ device. You may look for it in edge derived from Sir Garnet Wol ization has become a necessity." nature. You may hunt through seley’s own lips, affirm that lie is a That ought to ¡»rove encouraging all the forests, and examine alt the p strict tutaLabstaincr. His army in .news-tor temperance workers?—.....- —Temperance work ds loom i pg springs, and the caves, and the Egypt is thé first, I believe, who rivers, and the ponds, the dew of ever carried tea in their canteens to up in India. Fifteen years ago there was no temperance society in grass, the honey of ffewers, the sap assault an entrenched camp.” —At the opening of the public Calcutta; now theie are several, of trees, the juices of fruits, and the milk of animals, and you will find water works at Kilcreggan, Scot- both for adults and juveniles. The no alcohol in any of them. So far and, the Duke of Argyll said that, Brahmo Somaj, the new rel’gious as we know, the Creator has never in letting out land for building body in India, takes strong ground purposes, he now did so only on against the use of all intoxicating made alcohol. Men make alcohol by letting the ex [tress condition that no liquors and also against that of to swett liquids stand and decay. whisky-shops should be erected on bacco and opium. Theie are one The sweet juices of apples, berries the land ; and to this mode of or two. temperance papers, and grapes, and other fruits are often fighting the liquor evil he intends some others willingly print temper ance articles and news. to adhere in the future. used for this purpose. • —The consumption of beer in the —A letter from India reports In Asia they make an alcoholic drink from lice. In ail countries that one of the various obstacles to German Empire amounted lust where fruits and grains are grown, the work of teaching the children year to the enormous total of 830,- uiencanmakesome of them intoalco- of the poor is the increasing intem 000,000 gallons—Bavaria taking holic drinks, if they wish to do so perance of the lower classes in Ben 265,000,000, and the smaller States but these alcoholic drinks are never gal. Within a few years the price the rest. 'Thus the general average of intoxicating liquor has become for each individual is eighty quarts found ready made. There is no alcohol in the fruits so low, and the manufacture of it so a year, but the average inhabitant and grains. The sugar in the fruit general, that even the women and of Baden drinks about 170 quails is changed into alcohol, by fermen children are forming intemperate annually, or nearly a [»mt a day, while it is estimated that, due al tation. Or, if grain is used, the habits. lowance being made for women ami —As a specimen of the prompt starch is first changed to sugar, and then the sugar is changed into ness and efficiency with which the children, the adult male Bivar.au laws are enforced in the city of must account for nearly two quarts alcohol, by fermentation. German __________ This fermentation is nothing but New York, where the liquor-dealers a day; The 11 taxes on the decay of a sweet liquid. You are concerned, it is stated that the i breweries amount to, one way or may have seen apples, nr pumpkins District Attorney’s office in this another, to about $1,200,000 annu or tomatoes decay and go to pieces. city now holds six thousand in ally, besides some $100,000 levied Some of the juice runs away, dictments against “liquor sellers. on exports of Leer.. some of the solid matter turns into Probably not six of the six thou Tobacco vs. Education. gas, and goes oil* into the air, until sand men are in any fear about the* It is safe to regard tobacco as a in some way all is gone. When matter.— Observer. —Two years ago, Rockford, III., poison and class it with arsenic, the sweet fruit juices are pressed out and put into a dish, they too which hud been for some time a lead, corrosive sublimate, etc, this decay and go to'pieces, new sub- “ no-license town, voted for licen- being still more active and deadly. Taking this for granted, therefore, < it is reasonable to infer that while the hardy out of-door laborer, for a time, may use tobacco and not seem to be very much injured by it, those of sedentary habits are the special victims. Brain labor diverts vital ity from the stomach under the me when to all of this, we add the di rect effects of tobacco on the diges tive powers and the indirect tenden cies in the line of general depres sion—the semi-paralysis, as the legitimate action of nicotine—we need notbe su rprisedal the fact that the victim of the weed, in the matter of mental vivacity, power and true development is not the equal of the non user I.f.. hi th*--— sedative effects we add the debili tating influences, we shall easily see the reason for the fact that indo lence in mental pursuits is perfectly legitimate. This class lack the vim, the activ.tv, the energy and endurance of the average student. On this point we have ample tes timony. In 1862, the Emperor of France issued an ediet forbidding — stîtutîonsTn consequence of learn-- ing that the average standing, both ► mental and moral, was lower among the pupils in colleges and schools of those who used tobacco, compared with the abstainers. Ami since that time the minister of public in struction, learnitg from the proffers that “ in every grade the students who did not smoke outranked these who did, and that the scholarship of the smokeis steadily deteriorated as the smoking continued,’’ has is sued a circular to the teachers in both colleges and schools forbidding tobacco, as injurous to physical and intellectual development. * On the authority of the Britleh Medical Journal, the observations of a medical gentleman are given who c-»refully watched the effects of tobacco on thirty-eight hoys, be tween the ages of nine and fifteen years. Of this number, he learned twenty-seven gave evidence of nic otine poisoning, twenty-three vari ous derangements of the intellectual and a strong appetite for aident spirits, with various other physical ailments. In Germany, a nation of smokers, the government is so convinced of the evils of the use of tobacco, es pecially upon the young, that it has taken measures to suppress smoking in the streets, the law to apply to all under sixteen years of age, or the students more especially. I may add that in our schools, es- J J i I- >