The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-01

sive depression which ensues after the
first named malady are not uncommon.
The second kind are those individuals
with whom the desire for intOXicaton Is
less habit or propensity than mad
ness and a mania, They are not steady
constant tipplers, they have intervals
| long or short of sobrety, and during
! these periods they are often the most
amiable, friendly and agreeable of NOR
tails Presently their time comes, and
either from some sorrow or worry or
anxiety, or often without any apparent
cause at all, they become silent, soli-
tary and moody for a few days or hours,
and then they betake themselves to rum
shops which have welcomed them be-
| fore, and indulge in fri@htful and in
cessant drunkenness for periods vary
! ing from five days TO three weeks.
! These persons, rs a rule, are extremely
abstinent in their sober intervals, and
very guarded as to drinking anything
of an Intoxicating nature il general So
ciety. Occasionally they are reformed,
| or reform themselves, and there are.
several vino under these conditions
| have lived to a good age and enjoyed
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wise their interludes of temperance or
OF abstinence become shorter and short
er, they suffer more in the reaction
after each debauch, and are less able to
! struggle against their craving for stimu-
lants. The effect of this is often to
make them shun society, and when this
is so the downward career is very rapid.
At last they lose all discrimination and
will drink anything, anywhere, at any
I time, or at aIiyone's CO Pm J III it only
promises them the pleasure of intoXica-
ton. Ultimately they die in ditch,
workhouse, or n hospital if they are
| poor-in a lunatic asylum if they are
better off, or perhaps in a prison.
Sometimes man will jump out of the
window and break his neck in a fit of
! delirium tremens. As rule, the great
| est crimes-murder, bloodshed and vio-
| lence-are not committed by these per-
sons; they are too much absorbed in
! their own sensations to pay attention
to anything else, and, to use a common
expression, they are nobody's enemy
| but their own.
Then there are very many men, not
habitual tipplers, who still can not be
| described as leading temperate lives.
They drink and get drunk with their
companions in spirit OF conviviality,
and ought not to be classed as ine-
briates, though, as matter of fact,
they are, not infrequently, very drunk
indeed. Good company, SO called. is
to them the direct channel of tcmpta-
ton, and one which they hardly ever
pass without entering therein. Num-
bers of our best workmen, mechanics,
laborers. etc, indulge in intoxication,
and many of them regularly devote the
Saturday night to this sort of excess.
Nor can it be questioned that it is
among these men that most of the cases
of manslaughter, bloodshed, violent as
saults and so on arise. They get drunk
in company, are quarrelsome in their
cups, or, as the French say, they have
"the bad wine in Them" fight ensues,
and one of them receives severe, often
fatal, injuries, or they are disorderly,
resist the police, and Imprisonment is
the consequence; or the man will 90
home three parts intoxicated and kick
his wife within an inch of her life, or
kill his child outright. Moreover, very
many accidents by rail and in factories
are not infrequently due, directly or
Indirectly, to intemperance. When a
man has been drinking Tor couple OF
days his nerves are unstrung. his tenn
per is irritable, his memory is often at
fault he neglects some of his usual pre-
cautions; sudden danger presents it
self, he loses his head altogether, and
some terrible catastrophe ensues.
There is also certain per centage OF
drunken and disorderly cases which
occur in our large cities. more pariicu-
larry during the Christmas and New
Years holidays. They consist of young
men who have come from the country
''to see life," as they express it; OF col
legians, military students, etc. They
are probably unused to strong drink,
and, having more money than sdom,
they drink till they become excited and
violent; sceflle follows, the policemen
are knocked about, and night in the
station is followed by ten dollar fine
the next morning. They have received
a lesson and retire, too gla if by any
arrangement they have succeeded in
preventing their names and addresses
being published. These young men are
neither inebriates nor tipplers, nor do
they habitualy lead Incorporate lives.
Their escapades are mostly due toyouth
and animal spirits they represent
"wild oats" in fact, not a very admira-
BILE product, indeed, but differing in ev-
cry conceivable respect from the settled
vices before referred to. There will
probably always be a certain number OF
silly youths who will appear on the
scene to commit the same folies in the
same proportion, and who will be dis
posed of in the same way, but they have
nothing in common with the other class
es.--Br0OEJyn Eagle.
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