The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-14
TEMPERANCE.
1.,ouot&ANp LurAcY.

The University OF Vienna has added to ths
list OF her eminent professors the alienisi
DR.. Kraft Ebing, of Gratz, who to his pro-
found knowledge adds a clearness Of literary
inence In belIes.lestres. In his opening lee
ture on mental Diseases he stated chat sixty
per cent. of all Cases of insanity inherited a
predispoeiti0n frbni theirancestors. In twenty
per cent. OF all 4ses intSnpcr.nce is found to
cent. more, one the ccSses OF mental ais. .
ease: He advised legal measures TO combat
the habit OF intemperance. }or the formation
Of societies to tocounteract II
EFFycrs OF FALcoHoL ON THE MIND.
T. D.Crothers, in the Scientific American,
says Of the effects of alcohol on the mind:
1t isone OF the curious errors that alcohol
stimulates the imagination. and gives a
tlears more practical ;;i insight into the rela
rouses up by the increased circulation Of the
bloodin the brain is not imagination; it is
not asuperior insight or conception OK .he
reluton Of events, but is a rapid reproduc-
tion f previous thoughts, soon merging into
confSion. The inebriate never creates any
new 1eas or new views; all his fancies are
tumufuous blurred and barren. The APP
paren brilliancy is only the flash Of mania,
quickt followed by dementia. Alcohol al
ways iwers the brain capacity, and lowers
the po,er of discriminating the relation Of
ideas ad events. After n few '-jods of in
toxicat,n, the mind under Suence of
spirits IS a blank, blurr The
RSsss Rss sSo,sS as GFssors to make swrs0usnu
what had bsa said befor Id Ioyled
deliEium Of ssAssion. The HvM 70 who
ares1ppUse1 ~ estetE AVN II. aging
spirits, have ParaIesd1 1t the3 3will onlv train
acRoh aets, and hence 'as ae @ @or1 We hacaliy,
simply doing what hey rst case before
without any clear apreclati ikailed iscrimina.
tion of the results. trheinet boe is the best
Of all imaginative prisons, III the one in
reason and conception are the first to give
way. The man Who uses spirits to give
mental force and clarness is doing the very
worst thing possibl to destroy this effect.
Alcohol is ever and .lWays Iarslysant 1t
stfenSthi of force tat did not exist before;
It never gives a cleaer conception and power
Of execution, but always lowers, destroys and
breaks down.
BARNUM UPSETS STATISTICS.
A small controversy is going on now
among certain English newspapers regard
ing the duration of life Of persons using in
toxicating liquors, and recent. issue of the
London Express says that, according to the
statistics, p. T. Barnum who is now in his
eightieth year, should have died twenty-six
years and some months ago. his allotted age
being less than fifty four years. The same
paper further sS = lat the total abstain
er's average o. IL sSS statistical showing, is
a little over fifty three years, while the
moderate drinker has ten years more of life
than his totally abstemious brother. Bar
mum has been according to the same author
ity, "a teetotaller for the last twenty years,
and is manifesty defrauding the compilers
Of statistics, or else playing it very low down
on the other total abstainers, whose average
life he is cutting down to, frightful extent
by living so much beyond his rightful statis-
tical turn As matter of fact Mr.. Bar
mum has not tasted intoxicants for period
and has many times knocked the conceit out
Of the national statisticians and all their ia
bles Oh this subject.-Neto York Times.
HOW TO BNCoME A MILLIONAIRE.
Henry Clews, the Wall street banker,
laughed pleasantly when the question was
put to him, and said: "This is the problem
that bothers 'ninety-nine out of every one
hundred men living. and when it is solved
life SHOULD be worth. the living Some men
have the art off speculatingi with success. A
great many haven't, and they lose their little
all in discovering the fact Others are sue
cessful mechanics, scientists, merchants and
in1ysent92rry inv trade and industry has its
rich me rrs:s$ eiiiilfi-olan possesses the pecn.
a bright and free of liquor
'Nothngcm De Sained by drink, and con
siderable can bel Host Find out what yo,
are At for, work IT with your whole heart
and soul, and yoF will be doing what men be
fore you have done teget rich. "-Ne,o Yor'