The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-10-25

established in their stead; and that healthy
men and women, instead Of providing their food
of nutritious articles, should send to the drug
gists and got lot Of drugs, with perhaps few
strengi hening pasters thrown in, to make their
breakfast, dinner and supper! But tho Doc
tors don't recommend the use of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage. There was no physician
in the world who would not say that alcoholic
liquors were injurious TO the healthy human
stomach! There was no nutriment in alcohol
and never was digosted. All physicians would
say that it never could be dgested; it possess
cd thrce properties-it was nervne, stimu-
liant. and a narcotic, and men act with rum as
they don't with any thing else in the world
No man would go to druggist and get some
thing to keep his nervous system constantly ex-
cited; neither would he get stimulant to keep
bis faculties all fired up TO the highest degree
of activity, and still less would he go and got a
narcotic to keep him asleep all of his life. Yet
they would drink rum nhieh produced all these
effects in succession.
The first effect was the nervine; after man
had drank little he began to feel as happy as
a king; his heart warmed and expanded so as
to include every body within its friendship
he had not an enemy in the world; everybody
must come up and drink with him--he would
shake hands with every one, and say Come,
Come! walk right up aud take something and
and after that was done, he would be ready to
hug them. Aad in this state they were all alb
olitionists, and wou JUST as soon hug black
man az white one. They always lelt very
rich also when in this condition.: a man would
believe he owned Tho whole world, and if he
did'ntown it those who did would give il to him
if he wanted it, And they had proverb down
East ''what is The use of being poor, when you
can got rich for twelve and half contsr
But after man had taken few more glass
es, then it became a stimunnt. Then his feel
ings all changed. Instead of all being his
friends, everybody vas his enemy. Then he
wanted to knock down and break things
Every body must stand out of his way. This
was the condition in which mon commit crimes.
This was what made i. unsafe 10 be ont at night
in the streets of New York and of all large
cities whore rum is sold. The Chief of Police
in that city told him that ninety nine out of
every hundred assault and battery cases, were
traceabe directly to rum. This was the con-
dition that caused the bloodshed and murder
that we hear of all through the country.
But from the stimuant state, after taking
little more, tho drinker passed into tho narcot-
ic state. Then he became sleepy and stupid,
and began to look out for The soft side OF plank
TO repose on, and while ho was looking, per-
haps he would find himself on one before he
expected to. If he had more money left the
landlord would then put him away somewhere
and let him snooze il off; but it he had no more
money, tho landlord would kick his own work
into the street to let him snooze in the ditch.
lie saw very good illustration of the slim
ulant and narcotic states when he was coming
up the Mississippi on The boat with Jenny Lind
and party; man who had been drinking BRAN
dy in his state room, came rushing through the
Cabin with blood shot eyes, tightening every
one from his path and making bis way into the
saloon, very appropriately called social hall
The passengers followed, fearing that he might
do some harm, and found another, who had
drank little moro and was just passing into
the narcotic condition, citing by table with
his head leaning on his hands. On seeing this
one the other stopped, looking at him fercely
and grinding his teeth, declared that he would
cat them t. this however, the narcotic man
paid n attcntion but the passengers tried to
persuade the other to 90 away aud not harm
him. "No!' said ho-"loI me alone-IW eat
him" After this was repeated several times,
the sleepy ono began To wake up enough TO sec
that he was expected to take some part in the
matter, and when The ether declared I'll eat
him. he drawed out, Il nevcr-r said so or
If men could only SEQ themselves as others
see them, in this matter, it would certainly in
uuCo lNtIi UtNtT again W OIIIk Wuul ibduo
such fools of them.
There was man down in Now York who
had got into the habit of drinking pretty hard,
hut had managed to conceal it from most of
his neighbors, though his wife had found it
out. On one occasion, no did not come home
till long after midnight, and she, fearing that
something had happened to him, called up
some of the noighbDrs TO 90 after him, and told
them they would probably find him at hotel.
They went and found him just walked mp from
"A snooze, looking at a directory. They asked
him what in the world he was doing there at
that time of night with directory. He said
-"Gem-l-men I'm a little confused this morn
in, and and tcaS tryin TO make out ,chere I
fre" [Great laughter.]
There was another whose name was Ammi
Hubbell After he had got about as much as
he could get homo with, the landlord used to
say TO him-"Ammi you can't have any more
tonight; you must go straight home now, and
take care Of your wife ana children" 1t was
pretty idea to tell diunkard to "go straight
home, and to 90 there TO stake care Of his
ioife and children hu, that was what the land
lord used to tell him. But one time, while the
landlord was busy with somebody else, Ammi
got little moro than usual, but the former
soon discovered il and started him home. He
got out iuto the street, and pretty soon he saw
the buildings on the other side coming at him
and no lodged and went into the ditch He
got up, and thought then he was pitched into
tho third story window on the other side,
so he lodged again ond went into the
other ditch. But at last. by means of dodgiDg
and staggering he got along to his gate. Hs
felt long timc for the latch, but tho more he
felt, the loss he found; and at last he began to
doubt whether he lived ihcro or not. He look
ed up to the house. and seeing double, as men
in his situation generally do. hc saw two hou-
SOS, and concluded that h. didn't live there, be-
cause ho had only one. Bnt thon another
question raised in his mind. and that was
whether he was really Ammi Hu bell or not!
He did not know but he might be somebody
else, and SOM BODY else might have two hou-
ses, and he nigh be at the right place after all.
Just then watchman, coming along, heard
him utter the following solnquv-"Am I Am
mi, or am l not Ammi! If 1 am Ammi iohere
am I? And if l am not Ammi, then mho the
dence AM ~" Laughter and cheers.
This was what liquor made of men, and il
they could SEQ in glass what they do when
drunk they would abandon it f"rever. The