Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-02-15
W. C. T. U. NOTES.


IFrom the Louisville Democrat.
In the United States, at pres
ent. more than seven hundred
millions of dollars are annually
expended for alcoholic drinks.
In 1878 the United States
used o, 478,361 barrels of beer.
The increase over the previous
wear was $4,000 barrels. At
these rates the number of bar
rels to be used in 1888 will be
11,051,36S.
Who stands by the poor
drunkard and encourages him
and helps him up againf Is it
the saloon keeper, or the man
whom he brands as a fanatic 7
The saloon keeper .drags him
down and the temperance men
lift him up.-W. Va. Good Tenn.
plar.
An exchange prints the fol-
lowing perplexing inquiry: "If
you would be truly happy, my
DEAR" said one New York lady
to another, "you will have mel
ther eyes nor ears when your
husband comes home late from
the club.' "Ycs, 1 know an.
swered the other YEARLY, "but
what am 1 to do with my toseSo
England's greatest brewer
says: at is in vain that every
engine is set to work which
philanthropy can devise when
those whom we seek to benefit
are shabitually soaking their
brains with beer or infiaming
them with ardent spirits. The
struggle of the school, the libra.
ry, and the church, all united
against the beer houses and gin
palaces is but one development
of the war between heaven and
hell"
There is not q rum seller but
can take your father, your broth.
er or son into his dramshOp to-
night and make him drunk in
spite of your entreaties and
prayers, and kick him out at
midnight, and you may find his
dead body in the gutter. All
you have to do is to take the
dead body and bury it, for you
have no redress, no protection.
Now, protection is what we
want. Hurrah for prohibition !
John B. Cough.
Mr.. John B. McFerran, in an
article to the Western Recorder,
says: "The greatest hindrance
of o.day to our rapid develop.
ment as a State, and the most
powerful for the spread of the
gospel therein, is the flood of
whisky, which is saturating, stu
pefying, deadcning the whole
body polite. What are
the churches in the State of
Kentucky doing in the face of
this great evil ~ We beg the
members of churches who read
this to ponder the subject well.
What am l doing to crush this
giant evil2 IS q question each
should ask himself.
The Pittsburg Gazette says
about beer drinking: This in
vcstigator regards beer almost
as injurious as whisky. Among
a number of men who had been
selected as habitual beer drink.
ers, he found that for two or
three years they exhibited no
signs of physical deterioration.
AT length death began to strike
among them, and the mortality
was astounding and uniform in
it's manifestations. For a con.
siderable period there was ap.
parent robust health, increasing
muscular fibre and ford faces,
When the change came, a bad
cold, as the result of some slight
exposure, would bring on an at
tack of malaria, or some acute
disease almost invariably asso-
ciated with typhoid symptoms.
The end was speedy death.
} There was such a remarkable
similarity in these cases that
| there was no installing the
cause. The conclusion was that
, the beer, while keeping the ex-
; terror fair, was gradually rob-
bling the system of its vitality
. Every important organ was SO
I weakened and depraved as to
invite disease Of every descrip-
J. ton, and when the system was
attacked it utterly and speedily
!: collapsed. This, in the main,
! has been the result of observa-
5 tons among beer drinkers eve
nv where, according to the au-
, thority Of this investigator. He
says the use ofbecr is peculiar
i ly deceptive at first, but thor
!. oughly destructive in the end,
and even the appearances OF
l health are but the disguised
f symptoms ofthe disease.
The Walden Watchman, of last