Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-19
Between the Dances.

i Between the Dances.
, Deep night! This night is worthy Of you, sweet,
r, $40 many stars It has soft wind wucs
lug aelchs trembling DOR the Garden scat
, Ana murmuring such low tones a. lovers use
It brcathes along tho flowers: and slumherno s,,ce
wn IRE n nes. ssroad beyond the giled spears
me wind-harp into strains which sound ike tear,
cnanged by = charm TO music! Love, II seems
"a i Ss y"' ana night :re sisters both pure
80 fun Of munic, m,,rinurs, odoss. besms.
Both queens u dreams divine and starred repose
""'Sn no 9sy nor IMAM 'ess heaven encompass
The Deluslons Of Drink.
~ DIR. :. q. HOLLAND.
King Solomon has the credit of beins
the wisest man that ever lived and II.
declared that he who is deceived b,
WINE, the mocker, and strong drink, thu
raging, is not wise. The decisions o.
drink are rs old ~ drink itself, and arr
as prevalent now IA in Solomon's time
There arc men who honestly believe
that alcoholic drink ia good for them
yet there is not one of them who would
touch 1t except rs prescribed medi
cine Il it were not for its pleasant taste,
The delusion touching its hesalthfulnes.
grows out of the desire to Justify an
appetite which may either be natural O,
acquired. If man likes whisky OF
wine, he likes to think it is good TO,
hlm, and he will take some pains to
prove that it is so, both to himself and
others. ''>
Now. alcohol is pure stin,ulant.
There is not SO much nutriment in It az
there is IN chip. It never added any.
thing to the permanent forces of life,
and never can add anything, Its mo.
mentery intensiAcation of force is q
permanent abstraction of force from the
drinkers capital stock. All artifioia]
e1citants bring exhaustion. The phv.
sicians know this, and the simplest
mans reason is quite capable of com.
pretending it. If any man supposea
that daily drink, even in small QUAINT.
Ties, Is conducive to his health, he is
deluded. If he possess sluggish tenn.
permanent, he may be able to carry his
burden without much apparent harm,
but burden it is, and burden it will
always be.
After q man has continued moderate
drinking long enough, there comes q
change-a demand for more drink. The
old quantity does not suffice. The
powers which have been insensiblv
undermined, clamor, under the pressure
OF business, for increased stimulation.
1t is applied, and the machine starts ofI
grandly the man feels strong. his form
grows portly, and he works under CON
slant pressure. Now he is in q condi.
ton of great danger, but the delusion
is upon him that he is in no danger at
all. At last, however, drink begins to
take the place of food. His appetite
grows feeble and fitful. He lives on
his drink, and, of course. but one end
to this-viz death! It NAV come sud-
denly, through the collapse of all hia
powers, or through paralysis, or it NAV
come slowly through atrophy and em:.
clation. His friends see that he is kill
ing himself, but he cannot see it ut all.
de walks in q delusion from his early
manhood to his death.
"A lew weeks ago, one of our city
physicians publicly read paper on tie
drinking habits of women. It was a
thoughtful paper, based on q compe-
tent knowledge of facts. It ought to
have been of great use to those Women
OF the city who are exposed to the dan
gers it portrayed, and especially ia
those who have acquired the habits e
condemned. Soon afterward there an
peared in the columns of q daily paper
protest from writer who ought to he
good deal more intelligent than he ia:
| against the doctors conclusions. The
Meath and physique of the beer drink.
ing Englshwoman were placed owe,
against the health and physique of the
water drinking American women. to
the disadvantage of the latter. The
man is deluded. It is not year since
Sir Henry Thompson, one of the most
eminent medical men in England,-a
man notorionsly beyond the reach Of
any. purify Christian considerations
declared against the beer-drinkino o.
England ON strictly sanitary orounds
Our iterateur declares that the Enp,
llshwoman can outwalk her America1
sister: That depends entirely upon thl
period of life when the task il uniler
:&so:. ne typical Englishwoman wht
has stood by the beer diet until she Il
more than forty years old. ia too fat r.
walk anywhere easily out of doors, o.
gracefully within. -
| During our late civil war this matte,
OF drinking for health's cake wa,
thoroughly tried. A stock of experienc,
anu oDservatlon was acquired tina
ought to have lasted for a century
Again and again, thousands and thou
sands OF times, was it proved that tn,
man who drank nothing was the bette
man. He endured more, fought better
he came out of the war healthier tina,
the man who drank. Nothing is NOR,
easily demonstrable than that the liouo
used by the two armies, among officer
and men alike, was an unmitiQatei
curse to them. 1t disturbed the brain
and vibrated the councils ofthe officers
and debiitated and demoralized tn,
men. Yet all the time the delusio,
among officers and men was, that ther,
were both comfort and help in whisky
The delusions of drink are numfer
less, but there is one of them whic]
stands in the way of reform 80 decideill,
that it calls for decided treatment. W
allude to the notion that it ia A MIC
thing to drink nice liquors or wines a
ones home, to offer to ones friends
ana 70 make them minister to good fel
io.shlp At every social gathering, Will
it IL svery different thing. to drink ba,
liquor, in bad places, and in lare
quantities. A man full of good win
feels that he has a right to look Wit
contempt upon the Irishman who i
full OF bad whisky. It is not a lon
, time since the election of professor j,
, British university was opposed solel
on the ground that he neither sdran'
, wine nor offered it to his friends an,
when, by small majority, his election
was enected, the other professors de
c1ded not to recognize him socially
There are thus two men whom thes
stlcklers for wine despise-viz. th
man who gets drunk on bad liquor. an,
the man who drinks no liquor at All
Indeed, they regard the latter with
hatred or contempt which they do no
feel for the POOR drunkard. The abeo
lutte animosity with which many men r
society regard one who is conscientious
~ opposed to wine-drinkinq. conll
only spring from q delusion in reuari
to the real nature Of their own ha6ita
Inc sensltiveness of these people o,
this subject, however, shows that the,
suspect the delusion Of which they ar;
the victims. They claim to be on tn,
side OF temperance. They deprecat,
drunkenness, and really don't see wha
IS to be done about it. They wish tina
men would be more rational in thei
enjoyment of the good things of thi
world, ETC. etc. but their ewes seer,
blinded to the fact that thew atanI :,