The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-01

ment. A DSolSe, a cut. a PRICK or D
sting, which in healthy person would
be scarcely noticed. is the starting
point for Inflammation of an erysipela-
tous character. so that it sello.n hap
pens that the coffee inebriate is long
lived.
Coffee drunkards are more common
among people of nervous temperament
than in the ranks of the stolid, phley-
matte folks, not easily moved by any
stimulus, or who, like many Germans,
prefer eating to inking.-London
Standard.
FATAL S1iMULANT3.
The Dangers of Alcohol in an Arctic Ike
peditiOn.
The idea that one gains by stimulat-
ing body and mind by artificial means
betrays, in my opinion, not only ignor-
ance of the simplest physiological laws,
but also a want of experience, or, per-
haps want of capacity to learn from
experience by observation. II seems,
indeed. quite simple and obvious that
one can get nothing in this life without
paying for it in one way or another.
and that artificial stimulants, even If
they had not the directly injurious eff
feet which they undoubtedly have, can
produce nothing but temporary ex-
element, followed by corresponding
reaction.
Stimulants of this kind with the ex-
ception of chocolate, which is mild in
its effect and at the same time nourish-
ing, bring practically no nutritive sub
stance into the body, and the energy
which one obtains in anticipation BY
their use at the moment must be paid
for by a corresponding exhaustion at
the next. 1t may, no doubt, he adj
| vaqced that there are occasions when
momentary supply is necessary: but
to this would answer that I cannot
imagine such state of things arising
in the course of a protracted sledge ex-
petition, when, ON the contrary, as
regular and steady work as possible is
generally the main thing to be aimed at
To many this will no doubt appear SO
plain and obvious that it is scarcely
necessary for me to touch upon the
subject. But at the same time it must
be remembered that even in recent
years Arctic expeditions have set out
from home with large supplies not
! only of tobacco but of such fatal stimu-
lants as alcoholic drinks. For the most
! characteristic example of this tendency
! one need only turn to the list of drink
ables taken by the second German
polar expedition on the two ships Ger
mania and Hansa. 1t is sad indeed
when a wrong principle of this kind
leads to such terrible consequences AZ
it did in the Greedy expedition, the
last great tragedy in the history of
Arctic exploration. When one reads,
for instance, how the plucky Sergeant
Rice, famished, frozen and tired to
death, imagincs he can save himself by
a dose of rum. to which he has even
added ammonia, the very worst thing
he could have hit upon. aud then dies
shortly afterwards in the arms of his
friend Frederick, who is meanwhile
stripping himself of his own clothes,
! down to his very shirt, in his attempt
to thaw his comrades stiffening
limbs, one cannot but be moved to the
very heart at the thought of so much
energy, courage and noble self-sacri-
fee being thus uselessly thrown away.
DR.. Nansen.
WINE IS A MockER.
Tn" Insidious Growth of the Liquor APP
| petite.
The drink habit is often quickly and
easily formed. How insidiously it
grows upon men. 1t steals in upon
| men as slyly as the fox, and when it
gets a man in its full power how it
losses him about like a strong lion.
We once read of a young rabbit that
slipped into garden of cabbages The
garden was inclosed with a wire fence
The young rabbit had good and jolly
time in that garden as he feasted daily
on the luscious cabbage. He had heard
of the danger of traps and wire fences,
but he did not seem to see any imme-
date danger around him, so he con-
cluded to remain all summer in that
delightful place. The more he ate #
the cabbages the larger he grew He
never dreamed that he might grow to-
large to get out through the hole he
came in at But that was just pre-
cisely the danger that was soon 20
overtake him. He fattened daily upon
the delicious food. He soon became as
large rs grown rabbit, but the only
hole of escape didn't grow bit larger.
One day he heard the football of a man
coming into his garden and he con-
cluded he would slip out and disappear
In the bushy swamp. So he ran tC the
hole he came in at, and 10! and behold,
his body had grown entirely too large
to squeeze out through it. Now what:
Alb, he is so surrounded by the wire net
as to fall an easy prey to the owner of
the garden. He was caught and killed.
The APPLICATION to the dram drinkcr
IS easy. Every dram he drinks is put
ting up the wire fence of the confirmed
habit Of drunkenness. Ills appetite is
growing insensibly. Like the rabbit,
~. has a jolly time for awhile and sees
- sign of danger. After awhile some
thing occurs which alarms him about
his safety. He resolves to get out of
his wire fence of ram-drinking, but
10! he finds that his liquor appetite has
grown from babe to a giant. holding
him firmly in the grasp. This simple
parable tells the story of thousands
who are to-day passive slaves to the
wine cup. ''Wine is a mocker and
cunning decciver. Rams Horn
SHORT SPECIALS.
WOULD that the drink habit, dcvel.
oped by meat-eating and peppery food.
might he antagonized by scientific
cooking in every wOman's kitchen in