Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-09
Temperance Column.

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ally follow that its continued use
would give increased strength, instead
OF the reverse, as is the case. Alcohol
is stimulant and stirS up and arouses
to sudden action the strength that
has been gained from nutrition, the
same as the spur compels the horse
to exert his powers to the utmost
No one supposes that the spur gives
any new strength or power; if so,
then spurs might be used instead of
grain to prepare the animal for its
duty. 1t has been proven time after
time that Alcohol is not used or ap-
propriated by any part of the system,
not a particle ever used to build up
the Il wasting tissues IF tbs ttbs body, that it
all the forces are called to expel it
from the system. Thus it is plain to
be seen that it can not be means of
help or strength, for it gives nothing
Of itself to be used. On the contrary,
proper food that is taken into the
stomach, gives itself up entirely, and
is appropriated, changed and made
use of by the body according to its
various needs. The fruits are full of
generous richness; the luscious peach
ripens on the bough, and falls to the
mother earth from which it came;
soon change commences, and it gives
its wealth to enrich the common wealth
of nature, leaving only the hard, un-
nutritious stone. So in distillation or
fermentation of the rich juices of fruit,
the part that nourishes or builds up
passes away, leaving alcohol as the
carcass, the refuse, behind. The fol-
lowing which we take from The Plat
form, shows how we may have the
wine of blessing that will not bite like
a serpent and sting like an adder:
"Currant and blackberry wines, and
other kinds, as usually made, contain
from ten to twenty per cent. alcohol.
They are unfit for use In a Christian
family, and are the very beverages
which are most likely to create an un-
controllable appetite for strong drink.
Thousands of drunkards can trace
their ruin back to the influence of
wine drinking in the family circle.
"Most people who make such wine
claim that they only want it for medi-
cinal and culinary purposes. To such
we desire to say that there is no ex-
cuse for turning the pure and whole
some juice of useful fruit into an in
, toxicating poison for any purpose
whatever. 1t can be preserved in a
pure state, and entirely free from alco
hol. Take the juice of grapes, cur
rants, berries, or other fruits, and boil
it until it is reduced one-third, care
fully skimming off all impurities
Bottle it while hot, carefully cork the
bottles and seal with wax, and then
stand them in the cellar, or some 9TH
er cool place, top downward. The
juice will then keep good for any
=. length of time, and never acquire alco-
hol or any other injurious clement
-, The boiling should begin as soon as
! the juice is pressed from the fruit and
no sugar or any other substance should
be put in it. Juice thus prepared,
when used, may be diluted with pure
water, and sweetened as desired
Wine so prepared, is a wholesome
e and invigorating drink for invalids,
; and is the only kind fit for their use.
e Alcohol drinks always do more harm
/! than good.
n "Now, if any of our Temperance
e ladies desire to make wine for medi-
O cinal purposes, let them try the above
= plan. We assure them it will prove
t. a success"
FEMALE TIppLERs.- Evansville,
Indiana, Courier says:
Il at is bad enough in all conscience
= = that our young men ruin themselves by
" =" drinking, but it seems that this de-
+ structive habit is spreading among
the young ladies. Fancy drinks are
mixed up, containing brandy, whisky,
" or other intoxicating liquors, not only
le at private parties, but at the soda
or saloons frequented by tine ladies'"
Sc The above will apply to our own
tn city, as well as to Evansville. Whis-
ty ky drinking is carried on to an alarm
ing extent among our women. We
have within the last week seen ladies
ar who move in the ''first circles" COM
'h placently sip their sweetened whisky,
he and they thought that we were decid-
e. edly questionable and ungallant be-
ie cause we declined TO take g lass with
aS them. We noticed that when the
II, company separated, the tongues OF
III these ladies were looser than they
were before the "social glass" went
t. round. 1t is horrible to contemplate
an the influence of fsuch women upon their
er male friends, and particularly of those
i'd who are mothers, upon their children
m Boston Nation.
u We can hardly wonder that drink.
ing is made so respectable. Many
or people who despise gutter drunkards
ne and the lowest saloons, never have a
ng word of condemnati1n for fashionable
IS, drinking at higher places. Writers
VI who burst out with righteous indigna.
IT. tion over a murder in vile drinking
as haunts, and urge the shutting up of
ut such places, grow mellow over cham
1t. pagne parties and dwell upon the
Id popping of corks" with great unction
So it is through the length and breadth
of the land. The great iniquity is
~ petted and sustained by people of po.
"s " sition, instead of being outlawed and
% its advocates driven to decent and
az honorable callings.-Wisconsan Chief.
Honor thy father and mother in