The Press., 1884-12-11
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
 w. c. T. U.

W. T. U.
 Mature" says the biologist Hoffman, "has set limits to the over-increase of every species of animals. Insects prey upon smaller insects, ,-minnows upon midges, trouts upon minnows, bikes upon trouts, the fish otter upon pikes, and man him. self upon the fish otter. Man himself has no earthly rival, but Providence (die Vor- sahung) has met that difficulty by making him self-destructive animal P
 Chautauquan "If that shocking idea were not at variance with other facts, one might indeed admmire the ingenious adaptation of means to ends, for if it were the intention of God to limit our prosperi- | ty and affiict us with every evil short of absolute annihilation, he could not have chosen more efficient agent than alcohol.
 It is reliably said that 94 of Chicagos 165 polling places at the recent election were located in saloons. Isn't it about time for law forbidding the choico of 8 saloon for such purposes?
 Toronto Globe The fact is, the tem- perance wave Is sweeping over the whole
 continent, and it will, with possible partial and temporary recessions, continue to do | tremely phlosophic people saying that 1t Is mere temporary craze which will soon
 spend it's force and be succeeded by the
 inevitable reaction, just as the Puritauism
 of the commonwealth paved the way for the mad and mean debauchery of the res- toration. There is no fanaticism in the
 case except such as is to be found in every
 man, and woman who has strong convic-
 tions and definite aims Total abstinence
 and prohibition are not everything, and no enlightened friend of this movement
 either says or thinks that they are. But
 total abstinence and prohibition are both good things, and helpful to get higher. The enlightened intelligence and piety oi tha country are, in short, against the Il : quor-traffic. We object to the importa ton of criminals, paupers, waifs and black guards, aud we do we'll in making such ar l objection. Why should it be thought
 strange, then, that we object to the estab
 lishment of places for the manufacture o all these, and that to a far more form1da 5 ble extent than could be accomplished by J importation in century?
 THE TOBACCO CURSE. course every
 callow school-boy, straining at the end O. 2 cigarette, thinks he knows more abou 6 tobacco than the whole medical faculty Dut pOSSlU1y du SACCPI1ouell oAAohOA Aio. S be found who will tread, ponder and di . gest" the reasons given by the surgeon ;. general of the United States army for tho n prohibition of tobacco in the national mil stary and naval academies This gentle if man declares Beyond all other things Q the future health and usefulness of th s lads educated at the military school re # quire the absolute interdiction of tobac ,s CO., The most eminent authorities testif. o to it's evil effects on the digestive organs 1 the nervous system, the voice, and tn II eyesight. A special form of irritabilitv c
 the heart is named "tobacco-heart." Il ', the Ec lie Polyt. chnique, in France, tn " non-smokers take the highest rank. Eve Q down south, the chewer's paradise, tn z best schools forbid the use of tobacco d Prof Richard M'Sherry, president of tn S Baltimore Academy of Medicine, declare T that ''the eft ct of tobacco on school-boy d is so marked as not to be open to discus 70 sion.', In late lecture on tobacco b , Rev. R. l.. Carpenter of England, the sul L ject of its singular effect in rendering il I devotees insensible to the discomfort ( n n others is sharply put. There is no doul ,+ that, next to dram-drinking and icentior "a habits, the use of tobacco is one of tn
 most dangerous of the national foes to tl Ia true development of manhood-a habit " be discouraged by every teacher of youtl y To,,o.,u7 nf EjaycUf;Ou