The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-04

When drundard spends his last cent
for whisky, what condition is he in E?
Senseless.
What is the difference between a
drink of whisky and drunkard2 One
is set up, the other is UPSET.
There is fraud concern in Cincinnati
that advertises Golden Specific" sure
cure for drunkness. You may be sure
there are men who are fooled into drink
ing both
defy any clergyman or legislator to
give single argument against licensing
counterfeiting which will not apply
against licensing the liquor traffic
Hon. Samuel +. Cary.
Recent decisions in Illinois are to the
effect that liquor seller cannot shield
himself behind the plea that he did not
know his customer was drunk or a
minor, but he must know that he is
sober, or of age, as the Case may be.
The people of Fairbury, H., are tired
of high license. They have had six
saloons paying SO, 900 into the municipal
treasury; but they have just voted to
dispense with that sum, and to ask the
saloons to close up and 60.
Evidence is accumulating among Eng
lish medical men that the value of alco-
hol as drug is almost wholly imaginary.
A leading physician recently testified
that in one season he treated 500 cases
of typhoid fever without alcohol, and
that only per cent. died. According
to generally accepted fever statistics,
the average of deaths among typhoid
patients is Is to % per cent.
The Kansas House of Representatives
has indefinitely postponed a resolution
providing for the resubmission to popu-
lar vote of the Prohibitory Amendment.
The vote stood seventy-one to thirty
three, with twenty-one absent or not
voting. This action may be regarded
as finally settling the question.
From Vermont comes the first ac-
count that we remember to have seen Of
beer being the means of keeping a per-
son out of the poor-hOuse. a woman
named Mary Welch was caught selling
illegally, and her three barrels of beer
were taken from her. She pleaded that
if the property was cOntiscated she
would be thrown on the town for sup
port. The beer was accordingly given
back to her on condition that she would
keep it for her private use.
1t should be clearly understood that
habitual drunkenness has generally but
one cause. Alcohol, ''free" chemically
as it is in distilled spirits of any kind,
acts directly upon the delicate coatings
of the stomach, the alimentary canal,
the secretary organs, and upon the brain.
Infiamed conditions follow, creating a
feverish thirst for the very cause of the
difficulty. Human will power is not
strong enough to resist, and the disease
goes on from bad to worse.-American
Wine Journal.
The absolute wastage Occasioned di
rectly and indirectly, by the liquor
traffic in this country in the last five
years, was not less than one billion dol
lars year; this equals five hundred
dollars for every family. Were five
hundred dollars given to every family
in the country to-day. hard times would
instantly be at an end.
The Russians are developing a fondness
for Eau de Cologne as a beverage. In
certain parts of the Empire the sale of
spirituous liquors is strictly prohibited,
and the people fall back on the "per
fume." In a single town 1000 dozen
bottles of the cologne were sold last
year, according to the Russian Finance
Minister'S report. The cologne, on analy
sis, has been proved to be bad whiskey
favored with drugs of the ''linked sweet
ness lOng-drawn-out" quality.