Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-01-05

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although not wholly approving OF tn,
custom. But now, that her days wer'
full of weary toil, she often drank ,
glass OF wine to whip up her fisggiDs
energies. At last she drank TO exees,
and WIS turned out of doors In disgrac,
by the woman who had hired her ser
vices.
Stung to the heart by keenest re.
morse. she tren gave her pledge 10
God, in His strength. never to touch
another drop. TIE pledge she faithful
ly kept for more than . year. But
one day she became so faint from ex-
cessive toll. that she would have fallen
had not her employer. protesting
Christian, helped her to her couch, anu
then, with her own hands, she pre-
psred hot brandy sling for her relief.
"Oh, / would give all the world IL
she had not done IT," said .he poor
woman, Ms she wept bitter tears, "but
l had not the courage 10 tell my weak
ness so that she would remove the
temptation, and she urged me TO take
1t. ,uld not resist, slipped out
Of the house that evening TO get just
one more drink, and never got back
again, for the next 1 knew, f,und
myself locked up In q station house.
Three times have l passed through
the terrible struggle to control my sp-
petite and every time have, after
long spell of abstinence, been tempted
to return to the bottle by having IL ad-
to me rs medicine" There
are few people who have not heard Of
or known similar cases.
What then 10 the nature OF this ap-
petite for strong drink? Its history
proves it to be q relentless
master, when once aroused, forging
the chains Of its slaves. stronger and
stronger with every indulgence.
There are few people, no doubt, who
do not acknowledge the fact Of heied-
ity. Not only beauty and deformity
Of person are transmitted, but also
beauty and deformity Of character.
II . parents life has been one Of strlv-
ing towar the true and the beautiful,
the natural tendency Of the child will
will be in that direction. But IL, on the
other haLd, the parent has led dissi- |
pated, impure life, the ohild will re-
,eive, as his Inheritance, . desire for
The low and the vile. Physical as well |
v mental tastes are inherited. The
yreat curse that Is transmitted from |
,ne generation TO another In China, 10
he taste for opium, but In our Civilized
America, it 10 the taste for alcoholic
irinks. The child 10 born with the
appetite and with the inevitable &C
compartment, . weakened will.
power. If this child could be kept
away from strong drink altogether, he
probably would never know he had
he demon lurking within. But when
ae once gets taste Of IL. the appetite
Q infiamsd and his life henceforth is
,ne Of the most bitter seryituds man
IAN conceive. A taste for alcohol is
'asily cultivated. and. when once &C.
Iulred, is almost impossible to be con-
Iuered. Tns victim may have IL In
,artial subjeotien, but when he has
Whisky prescribed 10 him BY . physi-
ian who has never calculated the evil
{ 10 capable o. doing or when fermen.
ed wine 10 administered to him at the
table. imm mediately the
I'D habit is upon him with increased |
power.
Such cases are by no means rare.
Those who know the history OF one
,f the strongest men of our country,
Ind perhaps the greatest lecturer In !
his line, OF whom we have yet been
Abls to boast, John b. Cough. remem-
Dor how many times he fell, and what |
struggle he had for years to |
obtain the mastery. He would resist |
'or long time. but at an unwary |
the tempter would present
tself In medicine, at the communion
able or otherwise. aud then would be-
gin again his terrible struggle.
Public sentiment is apparently
upon the question OF
but stern facts exist and
must be met. o! that Christian men
md women would study carefully the
presen' condition and tendency of our
American people. and arouse to defin-
te and immediate action. The ladies
of the W. @. It. u. seem to see thines
In their true light, and the establish
ment Of the National Temperance
Hospital In the city Of Chicago IL one
Of their convictions. Itl
was formally opened at 34ll Cottage
Grove avenue, on the 4th of May, 1886. |
II has, In connection with 1t, the
Clara Barton training school for nurses.
Any physician, who desires to be ad-
mitted TO practice In the Hospital,
must subscribe 10 the following agree