The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-05-24
Reasons for Total Abstinence from
Ardent Spirits.

Reasons for Total Abstinence from
Ardent Spirits.
REASON l. Because the use Of IL does
no good, and great harm. Itnever made
man stronger. 1t contains no nourish-
ment. Our forefathers, for some thous-
ands OF years, did without 1t, and were
probably stronger than we are. 1t new
cr made man richer, but has brought
many u one to rags and misery. One
vice costs more for::its maintainance than
two children. 1t never made II man
happier. It's moments Of bliss are re-
paid by hours Of misery. 1t never made
a man healthier. 1t is no preservation
against infection, no safeguard against
the weather, and very rarely a necessary
medicine in the treatment Of disease. 1t
never made man better. His drinking
companions are not likely to improve
him. His temper his principles, his
habits, are in no way bettered by its use;
but many man has scared his con-
science, quenched the Holy Spirit, and
drunk damnation to himself by falling
under the curse. No drunkdrd shat in
hcrH the Hh,gt'om Of God.
REAsON2. Because total abstinence is
required for my own safety. Temperate
drinking is the way to make drunkard.
That sot once drank prudently and tenn
perately too. No man Is proof against
temptation, and no habit more deceitful
in its appooach, or more unconqucrable
when formed. III am temperate this
will be easy-if not the reason for abstt-
nence Is the more urgent.
REASON 3. Because my example shat
not be a snare to others. Every man
who drinks, contributes to perpetuate
the present system Of drinking, with all
the drnukenss 1t entails. Let every tenn
perate person entirely abstain, and the
temperate would no more fall victims to
the vice, those just forming the habit
would hc rescued, the irrevocable would
soon drink themselves off the stage, and
the land be purified from this desolating
sin. Who will not join in measure
calculated to effect so gloriOns an object?
Will man of humanity hesitate? A
Christian surely cannot.
These are reasons sufficient for entire
!. abstinence from an article which Is rare
IN uscfH, and neuer neccssa,y-Which Is
ARRAYS dangerous, ana commonly ruin
0,ts.
"The prudent man fOreseeth the evil,
and hidcth himself; the simple by pass
and are punished.
Keokuk, Burlington and Cedar Val.
ley Railroad.
The Kcokuk Constitution alludes to
the above road in the following manner:
"If any gentleman will lay a map Of
our State before him, he will notice at a
first glance, that this line Of road has ad-
vantages for travel and commerce infe-
rior to no other line of railroad in our
State. The road is completed from Keo-
kuk to TT. Madison, and from there to
Burlington it connects with the Burl
ington & Chicago and Burlington &
Missouri River railroads. From Burl-
ington it will pass on the Mississippi
bottom near the bluff, until it reaches
Wapello in Louisa county, thirty miles
from Burlington, in the midst Of a rich
agricultural country. It will cross the
Iowa river in the vicinity of Wapcllo,
and within six or ten miles unite with
the railroad from Davenport via Musca-
tine to the Missouri river. 1t will then
pass up the Cedar river valley, where
in less than 100 miles it will cross two
other railroads crossing the State east
and west, and making connection with
another railroad already building up
that valley, will open the richest part of
, interior Iowa to the trade, traffic and
travel of Southern Iowa, and the lower
: Mississippi country
COMPUTING ISTEREsT.-A new mode
of computing interest at six per cent has
been published, which appears very
simple. Multiply any given number of
dollars by the number of days of interest;
separate the right hand figures, and
divide by six; the result is the true in
number of days at six per cent. This
rule is simple, and so true according to
all business usages, that every banker,
merchant and clerk should post it up for
reference and use. There being no such
thing as fraction about it. BY no other
arithmetical process can so decided in
formation be obtained with 90 few fig
ures.
, General Spinner, the Treasurer Of the
t United States, contemplates resigning
4 that position in order to accept the Pres