Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-26
Moderate Drinking.

Inc Star, the organ OF the temperance
societies in New York, states that there
never Was a time when young men and mid
dle-a!ged men drank as at present, and al
since in its columns of several brilliant
journalists who have lately died victims of
intempcrance. We must admit that the
Star is fearfully correct in its statements,
and strong in its appeals for some move
ment looking toward a general reform of
our present drinking usages. 1t makes
few practical suggestions, when, as they
are all good, we both copy and approve. 1t
says:
The press and the pulpit have in their
power to change all this. Why don't they
do it? The press can create 4 moral tone
in the community, if it WILL and surely the
press has suffered sufficiently from the
cause to feel enlisted in the matter. The
pulpit, which in oldcn times made tenn
perance, if not hobby, at least regular
theme, is, with very few exceptions,
literally silent on the subject, and ger
eral tone of laxity prevails about the mat
ter, which is as wicked as it is foolish.
Let us add another suggestion. 1t is that
our most eminent physicians give the re.
suit Of their own personal observation OF
the effects OF moderate drinking on their
own patients during the past year. No
names need be given, and no facts need h."
stated which might identify the cases de
scribcd. The testimony of Doctors Roch-
ester, Miner, and others Of like standing,
would be accepted rs conclusive evidence,
without these personal and irrelevant dc
tails.
Let us know how wine and spirits are
affecting highly respectable men who were
lr1,O1- bTi 1;,-ac.
man, with brilliant intellect and spot
less name, is gradually losing his better
powers through 'molerate" indulgence;
how another man of middle age has mar
rowly missed deaths door through 'mod-
erate" and private rotations; how fashiona~
BILE women have by moderate Indulgence,
implanted i'll their offspring that inera,lic:,-
ble thirst for stimulants; how, on all si,l.I
and i'll quarters least suspected, stron';
drink is steadily doing its devils work and
leaving souls in ruin, while the exterior is
all respectable and indicative Of strength
and health.
From repeated conversations with such
men as We have alluded to, VIC arc Statistic
that they could jointly prepare an cxhh,t
of the actual ravaSos of this evil in tln
highest circle Of our society, which would
thrill the community with a wholesome
horror, and make every intelligent man
pause before again giving count,nance t"a
vice so destructive as at present, and no
where moro destructive than among those
who openly offend against the standards OF
public propricty.
The ncn who drink to excess need no
warnings other than their own experiences.
Ii is the moderate drinkers who arc must
in need of the plain and fearful TRUTH
which our Physicians without any brra'''s
Of professional honor can disclose.
BUTTER MAKING. "f,rmcrs wife in
the Western Rural says: Washing butter,
III my opinion, destroys that rich flavor
that GOOD buffer slloull have; and | find
that the PARTICLES Of water left in it will
turl. sour and rancid quicker than the milk
will if no water is used. The grcutrst dit
fcnlty IN making sweet butter is in l,rcr!;:g
the cream too long, in order to get Il ''b:S
chnrning.' have been repeatedly a$A''!
what mado my butler taste SO rich and
sweet. answer, l SKIM my milk at a
proper time, chMn often and never wash
my butter, but work II twice and some
times three times Letore packing it away.
I have been making butter for my own
family for twenty-five years, and have
found this way preferable to any other.