The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-11-21

ones DEEDS or ways are observed or much
regarded so long as he keeps out of the
hands OF the police, aud there balance a
years compelled decorum by weeks un-
restrained debauehery. Fifty years back,
jug would readily be filed with any
designated liquor at almost any country |
store now the devotee Of alcoholic pota- |
tons must usually send or take his demi- |
john TO the most convenient city, where |
it will at once be filled and dispatched to |
Its impatient thirsty owner; and so, as |
the liquor Interest grows weaker and
weaker In the country, it becomes strong
er and yet stronger IN the cities, whose
politics 1t fashions, whose government it
governs, by virtue of its inherent strength
| and apprehenslve activity. And thus the
IAqUsSE4 TRAFFIC has greater strength and
vitality In our city to-day than Is had
twenty or forty years ago.
Sylvester Graham first appeared in New
! York as lecturer, [ think, in the winter
! of 1872. He Lad been a Presbyterian
clergyman settled in New Jersey, aud was
styled "Dr.," though do not know that
he ever studied or praeticcd medicine
He had an active, inquiring mind, and
considerable knowledge Of physics, meta
physics, and theology; he was a fluent
aud forcible though difuse and egotis;ical
speaker, and he was possessed and i'm
PEELED by definite convictions. He vas at
home in single combat alike with Alcohol
and Atheism; but there was nothing mar
row in his Temperance nor in his Ortho-
doxy. He believed, therefore taught,
that Health is the necessary result of
obedience, Disease of disobedience, to
| Nh ~ oil
er alcoholic or narcotic, are pernigious,
and should be rejected, save, possibly, in
those rare cases where one poison may be
wisely employed TO neutraiize another he
con rdenned Tea aud Coffee, as well as To-
, bacco, Opium, and alcoholic potables-
| Cider aud Beer equally with Brandy and
Gin, save that the poison is more concen-
trated in the latter. He disapproyed of
all spices and condiments, save gtudgiug-
} ly very little salt; and he held that
more suitable and wholesome food for
human beings than the flesh Of animals
5 can almost always be procured, and sho' d
e be preferred The bolting of meal, 10
d separate its coarser from It's finer parti-
> cIes, be also reprobated teaching that
the ripe, souE5 berry Of Wheat OF Rye,
: being ground ITO the requisite fneness,
t should in no manner be sifted, but should
: be made into oaves and eaten precisely as
] the mill-stones deliver it. Such is, in
/ brief, ''the Graham system" as / heard II
) expounded in successive lectures by It.
1 author, and fortified by evidence and
!, reasoning which commanded my general
e assent. y clearinghouse was soon es
|, tablished, based on its principles, aud
Y became an inmate thereof, as we'll as oi
y others afterward based on The same gen
e cral ideas, though never wholly rejected
: | the use of meat Tea | never cared tor
Il and [ used none at all for quarter OF 4
n century; now, | sometimes take 1t IL
+ moderation, when black aud very good
e Coffee had for years been my chief iuxu-
: ry; coffee without breakfast being ia
preferable to my taste to breakfast with
s out coffee. But, having drunk cup o
It it one evening at festive board, wok'
r next morning to Gnd my hand trembling
e and I at once said, ''No more coffee y ant
4 have not drunk it since. My taste grad
e ually changed thereafter, SO that | soor
Y ceased to crave and now thoroughly dis
o like the beverage. And, while ca
It meat. and deem it, when unspoied b,
/, decay or bad cookery, far less objection
d able than hot bread, rancid butter, de
e, cayed fruits, wilted vegetables, and TOT
/ many other contributions to cur ordluar,
4, diet, [ profoundly believe that there |
d better food obtainabe by the great bod,
Is of mankind than the butcher and tn
" fisherman do or can supply, ard that
ir diet made up of some sound grain (groun'
o. but unboted), ripe, uDdecayed fruits, an'
IS variety of fresh, wholesome vegetables
with milk, butter, and cheese, aud yer.
n little of spices Or condiments, will enabl
oar grandchildren TO live in the averag
Ie far longer and fall less frequently into th
IS hands of the doctors than we do.
,e NY wife, whose acquaintance | made &
ct the Graham House, and who was long
Ig more faithful, consistent disciple of Gra
is ham than I was, in our years of extrem
e. poverty kept her house in strict accord
al ance with her convictions, never eve
lie deigning an explanation to her friend
ir and relatives who from time to time Wis
ly tied and TEN porarily sojourned with us
~ and, as politeuess usually repressed CON
ed plant or inquiry on their part, their frs
of experiences Of regimen which dispense
a with all they deemed most appctizin
at could hardly be observed without a smile
a. Usually, day, or at most two, OF oeau
lr- and potatoes, boiled rice, puddings, brea
ar and butter, with no condiment but sal
,al and never a pickle, was all they coul
er abide so, bidding her a kind adieu, eac
.at In turn departed to seek elsewhere MOI
lie consenial hospitality.
to On the whole, am satisfied, by Il
liz observation and experience of third
IN century, that all public danger lies
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