Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-22

things not to be lost sight of II alcohol
is n poison. and Il brain poison at thal'
| II ourht to be combated by the people IN
schools. churches, and politics. Science
has proved. il it has proved anythlns'
! that alcohol is poison. call II more
than poison: it is poison with hsh-
hook barb. 1t goes in easy but does not
come out. The appetite for alcohol is
easy to acanirc but hard to eradicate.
"But let us go back to the proposition
that scars do not grow out, nor weafou1,
nor come out. Here is scar on IN!
! finger, the producing injury OF whlch was
received in my mouth. Physlolosisis
tell us every particle of our bodies Is re-
placed by new particle every fc" years.
Perhaps the particles of this finger have
been changed two or three 1lnes. pus
thc scar is still there. 1T will remain.
shall he buried with it still there. Now
scars in ordinary flesh are 10 more or
no less crasbIc than scars in brain tissue.
The more YOU drink. the more you must.
You say. will tipplc and quit; but the
continual soaring of your brain by this
tpplng before quitting will make you
permancntlv another man who vii! pos
sibly never quit. whose very inclination
will at length be aNcrsr to quitting. and
whose will will be too weak But should
reform ut length come. you ar" not WHAT
YOU were once. You are a Scared man.
and the scars will not come out
"You say this is a hard doctrine. Well,
7 am not to blame for that: | didn't
make the world. Which thing may
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 two-edged
sword 1t cuts both ways. 1t is as easy
to acquire good scars as bad ones. Inc
only musical instrument that ever
mastered is the Eolian harp, but OF
those / have several at my windows and
they vibratc with sweet music. But a
musician trained to the use OF an in
strumcnt grows expert with his training.
Wendell Phillips cxtemporc 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 the result OF
, good scars. His long training had pro-
duccd faultlcss habit that was Scared
upon his very sclf-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 man until they become automatic
until they root themselves into his
very nature.
"Thcrc are white scars as we'll as black
scars. The way to conquer an evil ten
dency is to abstain from gratifying it.
Abstain by abstaining totally. ! call tc
mind DIR. Johnson's plain declaration. j
can abstain totally, j cannot be temper
ate Physicians say the same thing.
t You go to physician and ask for mcdi-
! cine to correct your habit. He says,
1 stop your drinking, no medicine viii
c cure you; abstain, abstain totally. You
say to him, Il can't Then he will say
t there is no help for you. This is motto
t room of this broad land: The tcndenc!
d of alcohol is to make demand for lit
! tie more One must resist the first
d fancy of temptation. He must not coun
tenance the first moment of vacillation
G 1t was a wise physician who advised
0 some men as they applied to him for re
S lief from their alcoholic appetites. Ill
L said stop three months, abstain totally.
G He knew that he who can rule himself
t for three months can rule himself fol
0 thirty years.
:. 81 call attention to the three founda
# ton principles again. ! wish to appl!
o them: on Drinkers do lose Judgment; G.
S they do become diseased; (3) they dc
y transmit disease. In order to clear thu
It way. let us make distinction that i
= very clear and easy to appreciate. APP
It pctites are of two kinds, natural ant
/ artificial. They are very different. Z
i natural appetite is one that does no
If grow on qualification. An artificial ap
a petite is one that does grow on gratiiica
c ton. The appetite for water is natura
a one. One quenchcs his thirst but hi
3. appetite is not, by so doing. whetted TO
e more. 1t will take no more to satisf,
II him next time than it did this. Witt
s alcohol it is not so. Alcohol has fish
is hook barb Drink little now and NOR
is is wanted soon. The appetite for alec
|. hol is an artificial one. Appetites shoul'
lie never grow uncomfortable. An appetite
n that grows in that direction is arti
Us fetal and not natural. The rul
l. necessary to apply is a very sim
le pie one. Nothing is surer than tina
he an appetite that grows on qualification
&c ought never to be gratied. 1t is tru
n that hcredity affects the standard o
st natural appetite. A number of year
lc ago lcctured in Boston and had the as
st sstance of two expert physicians, Dr.
10 Hartman and DR.. Cutler. BY the aid o
)t microscope, which was at that time tn
II finest in the world it was one-seventy
OF fifth objective; since that time it ha
Sc been the subject of scientific description
Oh they cast upon a screen the magnitic
o, forms of healthy and diseased bloc
&c corpusclcs. The views thus produc
t. cd l had photographed, and had
I, known three weeks ago that l was
II speak OH this subject, l should have ha
ne the photographs here, but not KNOWN
II it, | shall endcavor to represent on
Or blackboard, roughly, what / might hav
al shown you by them exactly"
Here Mr.. Cook went to a blackboar
re which he had, and drew the circula
G. form of healthy, red-blood corpuscle
Sc 1t was a round, plump disc. Beside
I'd he drew one that was wi1hered, and be
Id You'd that he drew one crumpled out c
Or all shape. Beyond that he drew on
ne with a hideous spore growing out of il
as Here he reverted to visit he once mad
On to Jerusalem, where he came very nea
IN shaking hands with leper, and enioye