Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-04-21
w. c. T. U. COLUMN.
Edited and Compiled by the Woman 5
Christian Temperance Union.
Degeneration from Beer drinking.

Degeneration from Beer drinking.
Confirmed beer-drinkers can scarce
ly scratch their fingers without risk
of their lives. The worst patients
brought into the metropolitan hos
pitfalls are those apparently fine
models Of health, strength, and
soundness, the London draymen.
They have the unlimited privilege of
the brewers cellar. Sir Ashley
Cooper was once called to adrayman,
a powerful, fresh-colored man who
had suffered an injury in his finger
from small splinter ola stone. The
distinguished surgeon opened the
little abscess with his lancet, and the
man died in few hours.
Malt Liquors, under which title are
included all kinds of porters and ales,
produce the worst species ofdrunken-
ness. The effects of malt liquors are
more Supplying than those of ardent
spirits, and less easily removed. In
short time they render dull and
sluggish the gayest disposition.
New WINE.-Juice, when newly
expressed, and before it has begun to
ferment, is called must, and, in COM
mon language, ''new wine."-Ure's
Dictionary of Arts.
'The punch-bowl as a part of
Washington social life seems fated to
90. Everybody has noticed that less
punch and fewer wines are offered,
unless at invited companies, than last
year. An observant woman, who
made the rounds of the Senators
houses Thursday, declares that at
only one place did she find a punch.
bowl. This was a Southern Senator
noted for his hospitality. In Other
official circles where once the punch
bowl fiourished, tea and coffee are
now served" This gratifying ten
dency in Washington society thu;
noted is doubtless due in no small
degree to the praiseworthy total
abstinence example of Mrs. Cleveland
as "the first lady of the land"
FRUIT OF THE NINE.-Alcoholi'
wine is no more entitled to be called
"the fruit of the vine" than any othe
product of its decay-such as carboni
acid, vinegar, yeast, orammonia. II
apply the phrase, "fruit of the vine,
to any of the substances resulting
from its decay, is just the same alb
surdity as to call death the fruit o
life.
Cider for Vinegar usually passe
through the alcoholic fermentation
In one factory a man who handle
much of it, said that its fumes ofte
made him dizzy. The cider-vinega
barrel in the cellar is often the begir
ming of fatal temptation to boys.
Take away from the indifferer
and sinful masses all the poor whor
the intoxicating cup has made poo
all the children whom it hf
orphaned, all the sorrowing wome
whom it has converted into Niobe
"all tears" all the Migrants whom
has stripped of home and bread an
bed, all the anarchists whose brain
has set seething and spinning wit
pictures of the glory of owing nothir
and obeying no man, and you wi
need the lamp of Diogenes to find Il
few individuals who will be left
alienation from the Christian Churc
A writer says in regard to Il
business of the liquor seller: "Y(
try to make US believe your busine
is an honorable one. If it is hone
able why do you seek to cover it
and screen it from the public gaz'
Why those screens upon the windo,
and extra doors in front of the pla
of business? Why not leave yo
place of business open as the groct
and the butcher, and the baker, al
the dry goods dealer do?"
Fractional Currency.