The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-01-19


academy were resumed on Saturday
evening with a full attendance. Select
reading by Messrs. Peter Gaspard'
Thomas Flahaven, John Miller, Jonn
Minde and Herman Banke; decla-
nation by Fred Estey; dialogue, Mar
mion and Douglas, by the principal and
Allen ]. Fort; essay on the effects OF
alcoholics and narcotics on the human
system, by Thomas Lynch; debate, ques-
ton resolved that mercantile business IS
preferable to farming; positive, Prot.
Casey and o. c.. Comstock; negative,
Prof Cogan and George B. Jones. The
wonderful one-hoss shay was detained
by Mr.. Estey in manner that excited
wild applause. The essay by Thomas
Lynch was highly appreciated by the
audience. At the request of the students
Mr.. Lynch submits his essay to the
columns of the HERALD this week. The
debate was particularly interesting. The
principal on taking the floor said that he
felt sorry for his side of the question, ne
knew the question was all right, but for
some reason or other the chair was
against him. Of course, if the Sunday tur-
key was not all right, or the coffee too
weak, or the farmers wife put too much
salt in the butter, he was held responsible
and the boys were only too glad OF.
chance to pay back. Talking of the debate
your correspondent must make special
mention of Oliver c. Comstock as having
handled the negative side of the question
in a most mastery manner, he is ayoung
gentleman of broad views, logical and
conclusive; the principal complemented
him at the end of theexercises. Mr.. Jones
also deserves special mention: he is a
young DICTATOR but gives evidence of
much promise.
There are ffty-seven boarders at the
academy. The boys are satisfied and are
working hard. Fifteen new students
entered this week. This is the acad-
emy's best year. There are eighteen
German students in the house. There
are twenty students in the bookkeeping
department. They are well pleased with
Prof ]. M. Casey. Mr.. Caseyis gentle
man of manners and requirements, and
has special aptitude for teaching COM
mercial studies. On Saturdays he takes
part in the general review.
The students from town deserve much
credit for attendance during bad weather;
they are all looking upward, and improv-
ing the time. Messrs. Dodds, Mann,
Reid, vessey and Diebel deserve special
mention. r
The academy looses one of its most &C.
voted and talented students this week,
Allen J. Fort, who has put in his term in
manner satisfactory to himself and the
faculty. The house regrets his departure.
He assures us that we shall see him
again.
The following is the essay referred to
above:
Among the many causes by which the
human body is made the subject of
disease, the use of stimulants and mar
cotics predominates. Alcohol, which is
stimulant and narcotic, taken in small
quantities acts as stimulant, and in ex-
cessive quantities as narcotic. Whiskey
rum, wine and beer contain alcohol, and
when any of them is taken into the stom-
ach, the first effect is to excite the mucous
coat md increase the gastric flow. If
drink is continued from day to day, the
gastric flow increases and is excessive.
In consequence it becomes thin and weak,
and is unable to perform its proper work
of digestion. But alcohol has a great
power of absorbing water. 1t takes the
moisture out of the mucous coat of the
stomach. If drinking is continued, the
stomach becomes hardened and is unable
to supply enough gastric juice for diges-
ton. If drinking is then kept up, more
orless active Inflammation sets in, causing
long illness or death. When alcohol is
expelled from the stomach, it makes it's
appearance in the liver, causing injurious
effects; from thence it passes unchanged
into the veins. 1t next makes it's appear
ance in the lungs. 1t does not become
a part G. the blood or furnish it with any
needed element, but causes the blood
eorpuscles to shrink, probably by absorb
ing the moisture from them SO that they
do not take up the proper amount of
oxygen out of the lungs, thus vitiating
the blood, which is the vital fluid. When
men take little liquor, it makes them
feelcomfortabls and gay. The brain
and nerves are stimulated; if they take
enough to become slightly intoxicated
they become cross, boastful, and silly.
If they drink more their passions become
violent and they are excited by small
things to quarrel. Many of the murders
we read ofin the daily papers are COM
nnitted under the influence of liquor.
Tobacco contains nicotine and other
| poisonous ingredients, and is very in
furious to the body. 1t affects primarily
the nervous system. 1t stimulates and
soothes. It seems to furnish great pleas.
IRE to those who smoke it; but it has
injurious effects, Its habitual use i'm,
pairs digestion, often causes palpitation
of the heart, trembling of the hands, dis
turbance of the delicate bronchial tissue,
and some times permanently Injuries the
nerves. In smoking, the fumes of tobacco
are taken into the lungs; this is especial
/ ly the case in smoking cigarettes. The
effect of tobacco on the lung tissue is to
rstard its action so that all changes OF
breathing are more slowly performed.
In this way the blood goes on it's course
without being thoroughly purified and is
therefore unable to nourish the body.
Tobacco, used to excess, produces a
particularly paralyzing effect on the
nerves which control the muscles of the
heart, to such degreeas to cause spasms
and insensibility, Should not practice
however popular, which is filthy, often.
sive, hurtful, and expensive be avoided?