Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-08

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cases OF service anemia are not rare
accompanied by great muscular weak
ness Of the lower limbs, and cramps IL
arms, etc. He adds, the au.opsie
showed a marked anemia of the brail
and spinal cord.
What . comment! A manufactor,
of cigars, and what is infinitely more
sM-a manufsctory OF idiots! MOI
ldoes the mischief end here. The ply
sicial effects produced by narcotic
lpois0ns, OF whatever kind, in the
parent, are too often transmitted to the
child A fabulous brain, as certainly
asa Roman nose, or sixth toe; fOI
the brain Is physical organ as vel
as the nose; while Its healthy functions
are ten thousand times moro valuable
N there pDssessOr. What then shall
We say of these persons claiming to be
rational, will first render themselves
fabulous by the filthy indulgence, and
then entail that intirmity on their
offspring? Yet 60 almost where you
will the caustlc answer comes.
THOU ART THE MAN.
You need not now he told that the re-
cord of nicotism runs parallel with that
OF alcoholism. They are indeed twin
sisters who have prostituted themsel yes
to the vile embrace Of every evil pro.
pensity, and their bastard progeny has
become legion thrice told-the sub
limati0n OF every wickedness and
crime.
DR.. Henry Gibbons has drawn a
vivid pen picture of this unholy ALI
ance of nicotism with alec holisln.
"Physicians who have practiced
medicine in the border States and on
The Pacific coast have had the best
opportunity to observe both their bodily
and mental effects. In the excitement
incident to those localitles-without
the eDjoyments and restraints of home
and Of female society-nen give up
ranch more to the mastery of the lower
appetites. There, one bGholds the
victims Of indulgence hanging around
the door Of the physician, or, decoyed
into the dens of advertising impostors.
whose trade is to frighten timid people
into their tolls, ny acting the alarmist
through the newspapers.
Thin and hazard, nervous, tremb-
ling and restless; sleepless. timid and
apprehensive; irresolute and despond-
inl: no language can define their suffer-
ing. And 10 health, hope, money and
manhood, all pass away together; aud
nothing is left for him but death.
Death by the wayside, iu the hospital,
or the mad.house. How many mothers
mourn their CONS and widows their
husbands. " no have trod this path of
sorrow, to the bitter end, Ill the far off
land of gold.
My dear friends, do not allow your.
selves TO be deCeis ed. DO not turn to
the far of land of gold TO realize those
abhorrent scenes of suffering and death,
from whisky and tobacco They are
occurring continually everywhere
around you in this seif-devDted land
Of bsastly indulgence and crime. II is
time for us, Individually and collect
lively, to inquire, SIS there no remedy |
for this great wickedness in the earth
sho,t of another deluge ?"
have said that alcoholism and niCo-
tism are twin sisters. Their affinity is
stillcloser. Paradoxical as it Il ay ap-
pear, they often become the reciprocal
parenis of each other. Hence, we find
5bat drunkards are almost uniformly
and if there are some to
oacconists who are not drunkards, |
would say to them, "Put on the whole
lrmor OF God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles OF the devil"
Otherwise it may DO only q question of
line with you.
Take two lads, in their virginity, who
nave L Ot used either, and give one whis-
~, the other tobacco till both are made
equally dunk. The effects would US
ially be so similar, that a stranger
coming in would hardly be able to dis
inguish them Hence we may perceive
low easy it Tor the victim OF one of
hose debasing appetites to resort to the
'ther for its qualification. Hence, too,
We perceive good and sufficient rea-
on why any countervailiug means for
be one should embrace the other
laO
While ! do most heartily rejoice that
he signs OF the times are becoming
lore and more auspicious, States adop-
ing prohibitory constitutions aud en-
citing cal option laws, schools eX-
luding tobacco from within their walls
ishops refusing to ordain and churches
} receive pastors who use alcohol or ;
'baccO many of their pernicious forms,
ct must
AS SD as angels for good mans sin,
Weep to record and blush to give it in"
lat our own State and county, with
leir schools, their education, their
lurches and their Christian profession
70 degraded to 80 low level, both Is
and consumers Of whisky
nd tobacco-E. Kitchener in West Ches-
# Local News, lst mo 2Gch, 1882.