The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-10


fuel that he furnished it in all fruits,
herbs and grains used as human food.
TO assist, and relieve the human sys-
tenn in digesting it, he furnished each
food with the germs of ferment,
which produce this spirit in GALA
bash. in a hide bag or in q beer vat,
wherever the food is crushed, mois-
tened and heated, as in the human
mouth and stomach. TO farther in
sure the supply Of this spirit food,
the air we breath. the water we drink,
and the dust we tread upon, are all
supplied with these germs of ferment
like the pepsin of the stomach. Hux.
ley found dust from a room, from the
ground and from the top of Nelson's
monument, to be half it's volume,
these germs Of ferment. Thus nature
provides much free spirit in our solid
food. Common light bread contains
OLA per cent. r. Bolas obtained
over FIVE ounces of absolute alcohol
from sample loaves, obtained from six
London bakers. Vienna bread con-
tains much more, and the German
| statistics show that seven and a half
millions of gallons of absolute alco-
hol is consumed in the bread eaten
in that empire each year. Add the
spirit consumed in all other German
diet, and we know why they rank next
| to the British in health. wealth and
intelligence, rs these attributes in
| each race are developed, and best
measured,
BY THE RATIO OF THE SPIRIT FOOD
THEY CONSUME.
A generation of jews last for 40
years. and Of Mohammedans only 20
years. The puritans were as temper
ate. moral and healthy as the jews.
Now they are reformed down to the
| standard of Mohammedans. The
fermentation of spirit in bread, is
interrupted by the fire in baking, till
! renewed by the juices in the stomach,
and completed by the acidulous di-
gestion Of it's crude elements into
| blood. The spirit furnishes the fuel
for the mental organs, and the blood
furnishes the elements which COM
pose the physical system. Spirit in
creases the mental powers for good
and evil. Blood increases all the
physical powers for good and evil;
and both are essential to human life.
But the spirit may be digested in 4
wine vat, and the blood in an OK, and
each produce the same effect as if
digested in the system. The sensa-
tion in the system from a glass of
wine, or of blood, cannot be distin-
guished after the taste is gone, but
much excess or defect of either, are
each equally dangerous. The elc-
ments of flesh and homes are not
found in spirit by analysis, and by
this, the totalists pretend to prove it
is not food; and the materialists
by similar analysis, pretend to
prove that man has no soul. But the
simple fact, that
WINE MAKES MANS SPIRIT LIGHTER.
AND H1s BODY HEAVIER,
is positive proof that wine is both
mental and physical food, and the
simple fact that man can comprehend
Gods method in his universe, is posi-
tive proof that man has spiritual
soul. When listening to some Re
former expounding from those 900
pages of qnips and fibs in the 'Tem-
perance Hand Book the catechism,
and creed of the Totalists, from which
W. S. H. quotes his paragraphs, l
have often had scientific friend, or
an NJ. D. whisper in my ear: "What
a light you or l could throw into his
subject if we chose But we pre-
fered that they should have full
scope and time to try their reform.
Now, is not one temperate, or two
totalist generations, time enough for
trial! That it is enough, and that
these quacks mistake the diagnosis
of the disease for which they are
prescribing, and are dreamers regard
ing the efficacy of their remedies, is
the judgment of Gov. Long, Chan
cellor Crosby, Judge GODDARD and all
who have made this subject special