The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-24
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.
the DRINKING MANN.

Statistics show that among Intent
peTate persons between the ages OF
twenty and thirty the mortality is FIVE
times greater than among temperate
persons. From thirty To tifrv the
mortality is tOur times greater with
the incorporate. and from fifty to sixty
it is three times greater, while from
sixty TO eighty it is twice as great.
These are figures that do not lie. and
old tOpers and moderate drinkers
should take a hint. in a group of
total ahstaiueTs, aged twenty. the
average of life left Is forty four and
tWO-tenths years, while with moderate
drinkers the average would Ice fifteen
and siX-tenths years. That Is to say
a total abstaineT, on an average, would
live to be siXty-fOuT, while moderate
dTinksr wOulH be cut off a thirty-Gve.
A dTinker is more liable to accidental
death than a sober man is, and in
addition to that he is steadily breaking
down his Halls Journal
OF Health.
My Brother: You are a man Of
strength, morally; you possess the
power OF self-cOntrOl to great degree.
7 our parents lived clean. pure lives
and gave to you this strong nature.
Y on have UOt0 the power of taking a
glass of wine or beer and not becoming
greatly Influenced by it; you say the
glass of beer satisfies you during the
heated days as no food or drink does,
and that it is not q habit with you;
that you can let it alone if yOu want
to, but you are free to do as you please.
just over there is Il man whose nature
is not like yours, in his blood is the
faint OF alcoholism. His father
thought as you do. He only took the
glass wine of as you do. He was not q
drunkard, but wine in winter and beer
in summer was found on their table.
70 his boy he gave the taste by IuheT-
itance, and that boy, seeing his father
q gentleman and a man of culture in
many ways, took his wine; but tie
power to resist the growing appetite
was not as strong with him and hc
| fell. He broke away from old assoCid-
tiOns hoping to be able among strangers
/ to be a new man. But one day when
greatly Perplexed he sees beer Gnloaded
/ at your door, he hears of your use OF
/ wine at dinner and it madcens him
! that he too cannot do the same. For
| hours following, he tries to resist,
/ knowing how low he may fail, and his
: viii power is not strong enough His
/ little boy, face downward sObbiug My
| papa is drunk Wife and daughter
/ live in crushed hopes. Have you
/ nothing 10 90 WIN LulSs are you not
| responsible for the influence your life
/ has upon that man.
| There is the boy of another neighbOr
! He looks upon You as his idea Of
| gentleman. lie follows your life more
! closely than you know, and when lac
hears of your taking that which is
| curse to so many and yet is not as yet
! a curse to you, he thinks he viii do the
! same. He viii use liquor in the right
| wdy-as he hears yOu sIy-but there is
no right way for him, and his life is a
! failure. You censure him, but in part
you are his tempter. Are yOu sure
that this taste viii not grow upon you.
and that when financial on deeper
! troubles come upon you, you viii not
as thousands have done before. drown
your trouble in drink? Can you say
that your boy is safe? Remember the
law of these subtle pOisOus.
For the sake of your boy and your
| neighbours, for the sake OF the men
all about yOU who have inherited "a
/ taste for alcohol; for the sake of those
who would rise from their darkeued
! lives to a better 1ife-give up this
I wine and beer. Be able To help the
weak as you cannot so long as You use
/ that which is poison to them.
n. E. p
You are III. a Bad Fix.