Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-06-27
rEYpgRtNcE REFORv


the president. Mrs J.M. Whitney, and is pub
lshed at the request Of several Of the members
rHE PAPER.
The bancful thirst fot stimulants seems to
have reached all times and affected all nations
From the time when Noah "planted a vine.
yarCpnd drank ofthe wine, and was drunken"
to the present, all races have more or less
loved ntosicants. The Hindu ehews his betel
nut, and the Turk his hasheesh. The japanese
finds comfort in his saki, and the Micronesian
in his tadi-whilc opium and tobacco number
untold millions among their votaries. But it
is the class OF drinks called aicob0hc to which
We shall confne our attention to-day,
Wine, he fermen,ed juice Of the grape,
seems to have been the primitive intoxicant Of
all ancient nations. In Egypt, the wine seems
at first not to have been intoxicating. As ia
the buter's dream" And Pharaoh's cup was
in my hand, and took the grapes and pressed
them into Pharaoh's cup, and gave The cup
into Pharaohs hand" But an Egyptian Off.
cial, writing about the time of Moses, says
" II beer gets into man, II overcomes his
mind. Thou art like an oar starting from its
place, which becomes unmanageable in every
way. Thou knowcst tina, wine is an abomi
nation"
HNe was an article Of commerce among
the Jews. solomon furnishing /, to Hiram,
king Of Tyre, in exchange for timber. Homer
represents priest of Apollo extolling Thra.
clan wine as " luscious, pure and worthy
the palate Of the gods" I, is said Of Alexan-
der the Great, that he met his death after two
days and two nights Of excessive drinking.
Pliny says that " wine began to grow into rep
founding Of the city, He speaks Of some which
he had tasted (which was 200 years old, and
was as thick as honey, and rough in taste"
Coming to more modern times, we find that
the early SIaniards were great drinkers Of
wine the Anglo Saxons had their great ale
| feasts-and the Danes were desperate drunk.
ards" The Germans from their earlies, history
have been famous for their drinking propens-
ties. % Tacius relates that in the tedious
intervals Of peace, these barbarians were ad-
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