The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-08-14
THE CuRsE OF STRONG DRINK,


Heavier and heavier, year BY year.
grows the weight Of this curse upon the
people, and thousands and tens Of thou.
sands Of those who feel the pain and sor-
row and bitterness 1t entails, are in de-
spair of any remedy. They have looked,
and waited, and prayed for it, but it has
not come. Aud is there no cure for this
awful scourge which is desolating the land;
crowding our prisons and alms-houses
giving every year more than two hundred
thousand orphaned children TO the cold
arms Of charity, or 10 death; eonsigning
oyer sixty thousand men and women an
nully to drunkards' graves, and filing
the land with poverty, suffering, and I'M
uttsrable woes Z
Yes, there is a cure. There is . way
Of healing. The poor, helpless, dsbassd
drunkard may be healed and saved, and
the nation may be healed and saved.
What is the remedy, and where can il be
foundi
There has just been published. by Hub.
bard Brothers, one of the most deeply i'm
terssting and I'm portsnt volumes that has
appeared for long time. 1t is entitled
Strong Drink: The Crss and the Cure,
and lie from the pen OF that veteran Tenn
perance writer, T. S Arthur, whose name
has come to be a household word evsry~
where In this new work he addresses
the reason, the common sense, the intel
ligence, and the hearts OF the people, and
with an earnestness, a Pathos, and con-
VincinE force that is irresistible.
Amer giving, in the 6rst half Of this
volume, one OF those intensely wrought
and absorbing temperance stories, for
which the author is so distinguished, n
story in which the insIduous growth and
overmAsterinr power of appetite, and the
desperate and prolonged struggle Of an
enslaved man for freedom, are so exhibit
ed 10 the life that the reader is held
brsathless with interest and suspense
he passes 10 the second q most important
part OF his work. Here he shows how
alcohol curses the people in all their so
cial aud industrial interests; how it sows
in every moderate drinkers body the
seeds Of disease; while il deteriorates his
bis brain, weakens mental force and
scutensss, and takes from him his ability
10 make the best Of himself All the re-
cent results OF scientific examination into
the effects of alcohol on the human or
ganism lie given; and il is shown conclu.
siVely that il has no food value, and 10
dangerous even ~ q medicine, hurting
oftner than it does good. He then de-
scribes all means Of reform and cure as
they are TO be found in InsbriAte AsY>
lums, Reformatory Homes. Pledges, Cos
pei Temperance, Reform Clubs, Women's
Christian Temperance Unions, PrOhibi-
ton ETC., closing with . most important
letter on the workings of the "Maine
Law" addressed to the author by Hon.
Neal Dow.
Never before has there been such an
awakening Of good and true men and
women to the peril in which society
stands from the liquor traffic. and the
curse Il is laying on the people; and never
before has there been such looking TO
God for help. and such an earnest and
wide spread unity Of spirit among Chris
tian temperance workers. Mr.. Arthur's
new book is wholly in sympathy with
this spirit and feeling; is. We might say,
its very outgrowth aud expression. 1t
magnifies the curss, 20 that all IHsy see
its awful features; and then, after show,
irg the people their danger and their du>
~, points them to the sure way Of free
dom and safety.
Fathers who have grOwH1p sons,
should. by all means. secure a copy of
this work for household reading We
know OF no other book in the whole range
Of literature that is 30 yell calculated to
save young men from the curse Of drink
as this one Merchants and bankers
should place il ia the hands Of their
clerks. Every young man who is just
passing into the exciting arena OF life and
business, should study its Psgea. His the
strongest: Nost iHssrGotiOS, and most eOmprs-
hsnSirs temperance book, adapted to the pop
SIaT need, WGiek has yet appeared from the
press aud it's wide circulation will do in
caIculable good. Il will also be found
Invaluable as & work of reference for tenn
pzanes speakers. voters. aud all who In
public or private seek to promote the
cause Of reform, abstinence, or prohibi>
ton, as ita array Of facts and argument
on all and every branch Of the great sub
iects Of temperance and the liquor traffic
are full and complete.