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Temperance Department.
Alcohol—What is it, And How
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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,
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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, ------
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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.
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—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
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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,
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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-
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