The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-31
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70 the Editors Of the N. P. Farmer.
About four-fifths of glass of wine
will submit to be analysed, and chem
ically defined like crude animal food;
but that portion of the other fifth,
upon which the peculiar virtue, flavor
and value of the whole depends, is
intangible as the human spirit, to
which it ministers. Any one can
prove it's value as a food, by using a
glass of wine at each meal with
measured quantity of crude food, and
note each day his work and his weight
for q few weeks. Then take the
same crude food, and exercise with
only arater for a solvent, for the same
length of time, and his increase OF
work and of weight with the wine
diet, and his decrease of work and
weight with the water, will settle
the value of wine as a food. This
test is easily tried, and as easily un-
derstood.
The crusaders are constantly pub
fishing proofs, that spirit helps bad
men to plan and perform many wick
ed things, which they would never
think Of without it's aid; but they
never tell us that spirit is equally ef-
fective in promoting good projects.
When Il good man has exhausted all
his moral powers on useful and
difficult project. and is ready to give
up in dispair, give him a drink OF
wine. and all his mental energies will
increase, and far exceed their moral
powers. His brain and nerves will
',e strengthened, his blood will flow
faster. and his breath deeper; all his
powers Of sense and intellect will be
brighter, ideas will flow more easily,
and be better defined; the difficulties
that perplexed him will vanish, and
the object which was before impos-
sible. will be finally accomplished.
AS spirit increases the brain power
of one man, thus it increases the
brain power of other men, or a whole
nation as we'll, and this Improvement
is transmitted to the next generation.
This shows why those individuals,
and nations who have used this spirit
ual lever intelligently control the des-
TIMER of their less fortunate neigh
bors, and multiply all the resources
Of human knowledge. It i5 TO graft
fy this eoncious mental inspiration,
that spirit is used, and neither for its
taste, nor because it's sale is licensed
or prohibited. It is for want OF this
inspiration that tetotallers SO seldom
rise higher than clerkship, a Il. r.
conductor, or president Of a tetotal
society.
Neal Dow has now 81 lawsuits
entered against the Portland liquor
sellers. Take this work of the de-
funct
COLD WATER PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES,
struggling to keep the padlocks on
his neighbor's mouths, and the wish
ey-waslley record of cur retired hen-
pecked president Hayes, and compare
them with the works and records Of
those temperate men Of Blood and
Iron. Bismark and Gladstone, mold
ing and directing the destinies of the
world, and study out the contrast.
Then study the varying contrast be-
tween the Scotch and the Puritans.
Scotland is called ''the land of steady
habits" and New England was fast
earning a similar name, when fanat-
les began to reform it to the con-
dition of Turkey. or the Sandwich
Islands. Prof. Marsh, in Chicago
Adrance. says: GAIL the superior
classes in Scotland use spirits every
meal. It is found on the tables OF
most christian families. 1t is as diff
ficult to find minister here who does