The Press., 1884-11-27


 -"I knew poor man who had acquired an appetite for drink. After much effort l succeeded in getting him to abstain. He became a new man. His health improved, his business improved, and his family was happier. After eighteen months his wife 5 brother, physician, gave him glass of port and desired him to take 1t. That hour marked his fall, and nineteen years later he died in the greatest Horror in de- irium tremens." +
 -Dr. Munroe has made the following statement at public meeting in Exeter Hall ]: 'It is great sorrow to me now to think of, that for twenty years I have made many families unhappy. believe ! have made many drunkards, not knowing ly, not purposely, but have recommend ed the drink. It makes my heart ache, even now, to see the mischief have made in years gone by--mischief nexer to be remedied by any art of mine.
 More than forty kinds of disease are brought on by the use of alcoholio drinks They are far more destructive than any plague that ever ragged in chrisendom. more malignant than any other endemic pestilence which ever devastated os1r suf- fering race, whether in the shape of the burning and contagious typhus. the loath- some and mortal small-pox, the cho1era of the east, or the yellow fever of the Test, a disease by far more ]pathsome, infectious, and destructive than all of them put to- gether.- Pr0f. sL B. Ksrk, Al. D.
 -Secretary's report of Band of Hope meeting held at Congregational church, Nov 2d: no present, thirteen of W hich were new members. There were two reci. tahons, one by Myrnie Washburn, ths |0thkr by Grace Comins, and temperance song by six young misses. The younger members were taken to another room by Miss Cunningham, that the leader might give the older ones lessons better fttedfor them. A motion was made and carried that we have catechisms and learn regular lessons for. each meeting. We used our new Band of Hope song books for the first time. Several visitors were prssent, and we had an enjoyable meeting.
 Surgeon Mcdonald, of the Dunkirk and Hatfield works, who paid some attention to the effects of tobacco smoking on the system says, Sailors and nayies smoke l moro than any other class, yet with lesa injury than those who lead . sedentary life." He mentions one curious fact not generally known, but requiring only to be proved, viz-"that no smoker can think steadily, or conscientiously, on any sub. jeetzwhile smoking. He cannot follow oul ta trainsof ideas-to do so he must layasidt This pipe. think it was the good illiam BramwelL who said he could make no re igious or serious impression upon . cer tain man while he continued smoking but after he had persuaded him to lay aside his cigar. then his conversation pro duced conviction in the soul of this man. The author already quoted says: "On wo man, smoking takes a sad hold. She soor becomes lazy and indolent. In conclu sion, he says, 'I may state the germs O premature decay which the abuse of to bacco is spreading through the country will ultimately, in my opinion, prove nor, overwhelming than even the serious abus, of Intoxicating liquors"
 Dr. McCosh, once, professor in tn, Calcutta Medi0al College, says, among other tht6ggs Hah1tual smoking too of ten lea13 to bnbitual afinking; the. .dEail upon p Mystem must De replenished, ant brandY &nd 4atcr is the succedaneum. ''
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