The Ripley advertiser., 1843-09-23
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

"lt is wise to listen to the teaching Of
experience. And what, ask, has, in times
gone by, been the consequence Of temper
ale drinkers?
'The Physicians Diary, and the ages of
the dead, chseled on monumental marble
in the grave yards which adjoin our city,
answer this interrogation. 10 view Of these
records o: wha, has been, who can look
upon a family, however full of promise,
where temperate drinking is tolerated,
without shuddering at the thought Of wha,
awaits some, perhaps all, Of its members,
in future!
"What must the millions OF total abs,i>
nence citizens in this Republic think Of en-
institution, planted a! the capital Of the
Empire State. for the education of youlh in
The healing art, in which institution the SAL
utsrv restraints, which an enlightened pub.
lie opinion has recently imposed on the ri.
sing generation, are TO be removed, ia
which institution the efforts to Danish the
entire use of intoxicating poisons are TO be !
and in which those destined
hereafter to stand beside the sick bed as
sentinels TO watch those crisis of disease, on
which the issues of life and death depend,
are TO be taught, in place Of preserving that
clearness Of intellect, and frmness Of nerve,
which total abstinence secures, that il will
be befiiing for them to indulge in the tenn.
perate use intoxicating liquors, and that
in place Of considering that there is any
Fixed limit to that use that must never be '
each smusr Judge for himself, i
how far he can 60 with safety S
"You say, 'Oae who crosses river runs Il
'ome risk Of being drowned, and you ask, Il
will you therefore say that the act of cross. g
ng the river produces state Of incipient T
,sphyxiai' Ianswer, would not; still if
hat river were deep and rapid, and had d
proved fatal TO thousands who had under.
AIKEN to ford it, should advise all travel.
ers to Cross on the total abstinence .hridge,I
where there was no dauger of drowning,
ather than encounter the current Of the R
reacherous temp rance stream which flow 81
ID beneath, and the children, too, sporting 4
m the verge Of it's excayaied banks, I|tI
hould warn away, rather than encourage s
hem to see how far they could wade OUT Il
rom the shore with safeiy.'--E. c. Della b.
ans Letters to DR.. Hun lk
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Flatterv is often traffic Of mutual mean pt
less, where, although both parties intend Sc
eception, neither are deceived: since words r.
hat cost little, are exchanged for hopes dc
hal cost less. But, We must be careful in
ow we flatter fools too little or wise men oil
70 much; for the hatterer must act The very vi
eyerse ofihs physician, and administer bi
,e stronges, dose only 10 the weakest pa. "a
cnt. The truly great will bear even ha
eproof, if truth supper, it, more patiently fig
IAN flattery with falsehood; for by veniur. lie
,g on The first we pay compIimentto to their er
carr, but BY venluring on the second, We WI
.flict nm insult on their head. Two pairs tu
,rs undertook portrait Of Hannibal; one bo
them painted full liknsss Of him, and go
ave him two eyes, wh,re disease had 90
sprived him Of Que: the other painted hun ui
profile, but with his blind side from the oil
lie severely repremanded the 81
ret, but handsomely rewarded the second be