The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-22

serve to illustrate that all things in this
world are not determined by our votes.
But this doctrine of bad tendencies is
not so bad after all. 1t Is q two-edged
sword. y CUTS both ways. 1t is as easy
to acquire good scars as bad ones. The
only musical instrument that eyer
mastered is the Rolian harp, but Of
those l have several ut my windows and
they vibrate with sweet music. But q
musician trained to the use OF an in
strument grows expert with his training.
Wendell Phillips extempore speeches
were a marvel Of correct English.
Words and sentences uttered in the
heat and furry of the public deliver
ance. when photographed in cold type,
were observed to be models of selection
and diction. This was tho result OF
good scars. His long training had pro-
duced a faultlcss habit that was Scared
upon his very self-ground into him.
Thus good habits: the keeping ones
room in order, the observance of bust
ness rules, ones writing, his wardrobe,
the keeping of his garden, the care of
his horse and carriage may be drilled
into a man until they become automatic
until they root themselves into his
very nature.
sThcrc are white scars as well as black
scars. The way to conquer an evil ten
dency is to abstain from gratifying it.
Abstain by abstaining totally. 1 call to
mind DR.. Johnson's plain declaration, Il
can abstain totally, l cannot be temper
ate.' Physicians say the same thing.
You go to a physician and ask for medi-
cine to correct your habit. He says,
stop your drinking, no medicine will
cure YOU; abstain, abstain totally You
say to him, Il can't Then he will say
there is no help for you. This is motto
that should be hung in every school
room Of this broad land: THE tendency
OF alcohol Is to make a demand for q lit
tie more One must resist the first
fancy of temptation. He must not coun-
tenance the first momentzefasaeillation.
1t was a wise physician who advised
some men as they applied to him for re-
lief from their alcoholic appetites. He
said, stop three months, abstain totally
He knew that he who can rule himself
for three months can rule himself for
thirty years.
III call attention to the three founda-
ton principles again. 1 wish to apply
them: az Drinkers do lose Judgment; (2)
they do become diseased; (3) they do
transmit disease. In order to clear the
way, let us make a distinction that is
very clear and easy to appreciate. APP
petites are of two kinds, natural and
artificial. They are very different. A
natural appetite is one that does not
grow on qualification. An artificial ap-
| petite is one that does grow on gratifica-
ton. The appetite for water is a natural
one. One quenches his thirst. but his
orrafita 10 ant nv IN lninn whaftal for
more. 1t will take no more to satisfy
him next time than it did this. With
| alcohol 1t IS not 50. Alcohol has a fish
hook barb. Drink a little now and more
is wanted soon. The appetite for alec
hol is an artificial one. Appetites should
never grow uncomfortable. An appetite
that grows in that direction is arti-
fetal and not natural. The rule
necessary to apply is a very sim
pie one. Nothing is surer than that
at appetite that grows on qualification
ought never to be gratitied. 1t is true
that hcredity affects the standard of
natural appetite. A number of years
ago l lectured in Boston Inc had the as
sistance of two expert physicians, DR..
Hartman and DR.. Cutler. By the aid of
a microscope, which was at that time the
finest in the world lit was a on%e-seventy-
fifth objective; since that time it has
been the subject of scientific d%escription).
they cast upon a screen the magnified
forms Of healthy and diseased blood
cOrpuscles. The views thus produc-
ed 1 had photographed, and had l
known three weeks ago that l was to
speak on this subject, l should have had
the photographs here. but not knowing
it. | shall cndeavOr to represent on a
blackboard, roughly, what l might have
shown you by them exactly"
Here Mr.. Cook went to Il blackboard
which he had. and drew the circular
form of a healthy. rcd-blood corpuscle.
1t was a round, plump disc. Beside il
he drew II that was withercd, and be
You'd that he drew one crumpled out OF
all shape. Beyond that he drew one
with a hideous sporc growing out of it.
Here he reverted to a visit he once made
to Jerusalem, where he came very near
shaking hands with a lepcr, and enjoyed
a pcrilOus escape from contracting
the awful disease. "NOw, do you know
that the cOrpusclcs in the blood of a
lcpcr have these same spores or flamcnts
sticking out of them? | do not know
whether l ought to speak with complete
candor here Or not, but I I'M constrained
to think that it is not the act of wisdom
to refrain from speaking important
truths, though they be uncanny. 1t
should be understood by all persons that
good physicians can tell by an examina-
ton of the blood corpuScleS whether Il
man is afflicted by an infamous disease.
l know many physicians; l have talked
with them and asked multifarious queS-
lions. I have studied this subject with
great earncstncss for twenty years, and l
talk upon this subject. 1t is my business
to talk upon it. 1t is the business of
physicians to talk upon it. Many dis
eases can be told by examining the
blood corpuscles. Consumption can be
detected, and some awful diseases can be
positively identified long before they be-
come externally visible. BY this you can
see how disease comes by inheritance. l
have, and you have, seen children that
were born with diseased stomachs and
diseased livcrs. Children are born idi-
otto because their fathers were drunk"
Calling attention again to the shriveled
corpuscles, the speaker continued: "This
shriveling does not take place only in the
blood, but in every other organ. This
will enable me to explain the red nose of
the tippler. There is. a ruddiness that
10 lllc pIOtlulluc1 VI Acdllu-Ol lIllS i
do not speak. There is a ruddiness that
is the certain evidence Of disease. A
man takes a little alcohol, the tiny,
delicate nerves that give sense, and mo,
ton, and life, to the tiny, delicate mus
cles, are affected. The muscular fiber
gives up the water in it, and grows
hard and shriyeled. and the veins being
relieved from the pressure of compact
muscles, enlarge. There Is temporary
increase of temperature, but it is fol
lowed by u certain cooling, and in larger
measure. 1t is as if an engine were
pumping through elastic rubber pipes
which were bound about by delicate
bands, which bands would melt and fall
off if the temperature were raised above
a certain point, say so degrees. Let the
temperature reach SC degrees and the
little bands melt off, the rubber walls of
the pipe are weakened and stretch, the
steam bounds forward, and the engine,
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