Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-03-07


in it, and scattered it over his freshly T
planted field. The crows were early at
the feast. According to sensible usage
among the crows. one was posted on the
margin Of the field, as sentinel. He
touched not, tasted not; his brethren
eat boun,ifully one could fancy, as they
swallowed grain and hopped toward
them, they enjoyed il with as much zest
as the best of our drinkers. After a /
while the farmer said to his little bows,
run those blsck birds out oil the field.
accordingly away they went; the CLOVIS
bounded off at the approach OF danger. |
but they could neither walk straight nor
fly straight, and when after many cir
cumhexions, they reached their sentinel
they in their happy joyous moments.
had either forgot OF were too prond to
speak ia the old crow dialect caD eau.
instead Of il, they broke upon him with
grand hoor0h and he fed from them
as strangers. But once drunk was e.
nough for crow. They never returned
10 the field again.
A friend, in whom have great conf.
dence. said TO me. that he and party
Of young friends were 10 the habit OF
visiting Still-House accompanied BY
an old and favorite hound. Or. one oc-
cesion they drenched the poor dumb brute
\ with whiSkey and made him drunk; he
played the part of the drunken merry dog
10 perfection but once drunk was enough
for him: He ever after when the party
took the path TO the still-ho use, took the
other end for home.
i 5. By the almost universGl ioathing sDith
Which intoricating drink is begun to Be
, dTIsnk By men The natural appetite re-
jects intoxicating drinks. The child al
The mothers breast treats it with disgust,
until it is rendered palatable by sweet
! ening, and an appetite is prepared for
: IT. So among men unaccusiomed 10
drink, the taste is loaths ONE even the
drinking man will not adrni; that he likes
ri II. With every one, there is not only an
: appetite and desire for water, but an ab-
1 solute necessity for It's use. II seems
therefore clear to me. that total absti.
I nence is the casting off badly acquired
Q habits aud returning TO nature.
. 6. The claims of Total .4bsIinence to
!. the acceptance and fidelity of eUery human
> being are so numerous, that il
|. is next 10 impossible to stale them in q
: tract Yet as il may be useful we will
a endeavor to enumerate few Of the mos
n prominent.
r 1. That the drunkard's fate is one tc
e be avoided, every one is ready 10 admit
o II can only be accomplished, certainly
: by Total Abstinence. The temperal,
dr.nkar ;s - i. .or.farf 1.noa. oc d~,,,l,
K enness. In company he has no shiel'
il against indulgence he must yield TO re
|. quest after request, or give offence
= Few men have nerve enough to do this
d and therefore IT often happens, that th
. usually temperate drInker Is led on b,
ii company to drink deep, and reels 10
RI drunken bed. very often far from hi
n own house. 1t is well known TOO, ths
2 appetite increases by indulgence. Thi
Al is especially the case, in the use of in
n toxicating drink.
10 2. Money is the great desire Of th
i human family; give one money and h
q generally thinks. be is happy and
ID great man. THAT this is a great mi.
Il take every days experience proves
4. here however, we have nothing TO d
Il with it.) The use OF Intoxicating drin
io never made money for any one. In ir
r. Vulnerable cases, 1t has wasted it. MeF
temperate drinking costs great deal.-
,a- Drunkenness in itself is not perhaps s
od expensive For very cheap liquor sa
1,s isfes the drunkard, and therefore
al can day after day occupy the quite
al at very trifling expense. But drunl
nd enness wastes everything. / have bee
IL told fashionable southern gentlema
h OF great means, had before his death
IN about sixty. expended more than thirt
thousand dollars for wines. What foe
.er ish extravagahce. How much goc
n could have been done. with so muc
~ money Colleges might have been el
,gs dowed: the poor clothed and fed; ,
r7d the Heral6s of the Cross enabled 8
III carry the word TO mil ions. Instead
,,,s looking around upon such splendid be
e. !n efits, and hearing blessings mingled wi
m his name in every breeze, nothing r
=. NAMED to him or men. save diseas
, - and the influence Of "a bad example. 7
!; ial Abstinence prevents all such expe
as, ditures. small or great.
- 8. Health is consideration Of fl
consequence 10 every one Of sane min
- Which most contribute to it, intoxic
-. ting drink or Total Abstinence T.
80 question hardly demands careful exaI
~ nation. For even those who drin
,;,h M will admit that intoxicating drink sht
Mrs. M tens the lives, and destroys the heal
ol its voiaries. III authority be nee,
~ 80 safy TO prove this, il viii be found
,sr Z McNish's Anatomy of Drunkennei
~ tenth chapter, commencing al pa
" 1903 and extending TO lS5. After ~
merating many Of the diseases Of
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