The Red Cloud chief., 1883-12-14
DON'T BEGIN THE HABIT.
A Plain Talk with Young Men.

4tShA "a ANN lu0b lOSJ u
excellent situation by a two-day:
''spree," came into my study lately an
said to me- doctor, l can not under
stand how it is that I should have mad
such q fool of myself and thrown ava
my chance for a living. This is almos
killing my little WIFE" l replied
him: There is no mystery about YOU
case. You have been tampering wit
drink a long while, trying to jump hal
way down Niagara. You ought to hav
stopped before you began. 1t woul,
not have cost you one -hundredth part a
much effort to have signed a total alb
~stinenee pledge several years ago as i
will now to break loose from this terri
BILE habit" / entreated my friend I,
grapple his weakness to Gods strength
he signed q pledge of entire abstinence
and went away with the desperate lool
of a man who is pulling for life in tn,
rapids. in full sight of the cataract.
That young man is a fair representa-
tive of a sadly numerous class WHIT
''lOck the stable door after the horse i.
stolen" He may possibly be saved
but SO as by fire. My plain talk to-day
is with those who have not yet flung
themselves into the rapids. 1 wish t.
give half a dozen common sense reason.
for letting every intoxicating drink
(whatever its nancy entirely alone. He
who never touches a drop will assured.
ly never become a drunkard. Proven.
ton is easy, is safe, is sure; refOrma.
tiOn is difficult, and with some persons
is well-nigh impossible. The Jews were
commanded to build ba:tlements around
the flat roofs of their dwellings in order
to prevent the children from falling
over into the street. To put up the
parapet cost but little; but the want OF
it might cost broken bones; and alas.
what human power could recall a dead
darling to life? 1 am always thankful
that I took a pledge Of entire abstinence
in early boyhOOd. But for that battle
nent l might have been ruined by the
drinking-usages which were deplorably
prevalent in my college,. "Stick to the
teetotal" said q shrewd old kinsman to
me when ] started for college; and now
after forty years l wish to commend the
bridge that carried me safely over.
a. The first argument, my young
friend. for total abstinence is that
healthy person needs an alcoholic
beverage; and even invalids had
better be careful how they
tamper with it as q medicine. S.r Hen
~ Thompson and several other distin-
guished British physicians have DELHI
declared that ''alcOhOl:c bever-
ages a not, in any sense, be considered
necessary for the maintenance Of healthy
life; that it is net u food in n true
sense Of that term, and that the jsteadi-
est and best work is best done without
it," Livingstone, the heroic explorer of
Central Africa, was roth a physician
and a teetotaler. His testimony was:
Il find that I cal stand every hardship
best by using water, and water only"
| entreat you not to fall into the dclu-
sion that you can do any honest work
he better by firing up your nerves with
If you 90 you will have to in
crease the fuel constantly in order to
produce the effect. Solid food and sound
sleep are all you require. Even as q
ionic medicine wine and Bourbon may
cover up a great deal; they curc bat
rery little. Several friends have known
o be decoyed by them into drunkenness
md disgrace.
(2.) Therein les a second reason for
wedding all intOxicants. They are de-
Not only the sting Of the SER
,ent, but the subtlety of the serpent is
them. The deception lies in the fact
hat the habit of drinking will become
confirmed before you suspect it. That
IOung man who came into my study SO
ortured with the adder's bite, never
at the outset that he was play
NC with a ~rattlesnake. Every alcoholic
rink has in it this quality, that it never
atisfies, but awakens a constant desire !
or more. A small glass creates a
hirst for q larger; one draught only
Vhets the appetite for a second. This
not the case with any wholesome food
r beverage. Bread and beef do not
reed excess; one glass of milk does not
rouse q morbid thirst for two the next
But this horse-leech quality in
lcOhOlic liquors, which cries ..give,
and is never satisfied, is the very
hing that makes them SO dangerous.
his it il which makes it so difficult to
rink wine or brandy moderately and
D easy to fall into drunkenness. A
ealthful beverage satisfies appetite; a
urtful one. like wine or brandy, stim-
lates appetite until it becomes IN I'M
frenzy. This / regard as
re Creators law against alcohOl; and
hen you take your first social glass
ou begin to play with a deadly ser
ent.
You may say: Every one who
liquors does not become q sOt."
cry true. but every sot drinks liquors:
nd not one in q million ever expected
become . sOt when he began with his
or his 'sherry cobbler."
ill You run the risk? fwouId not.
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