Passaic City record., 1891-09-19

which fosters vice for prOtt, and educates
in wickedness for gain. Drunkenness means
murder, for it leads to all these Crimes
Irish 1enlplar.
WHAT IS DRUEKARD?
What is drunkards / have gone through
the whole creation that lives and l find
nothing in it like the drunkard. There is
no other thing In nature to which he can be
ikened. The drunkard is the seif-made
wretch who has depraved and has gratified
depraved cravings of the throat and body,
until he has sunk his soul so far that it Is
lost in his flesh and has sunk his very flesh
lower, lower down beyond comparison than
that OF the very animals which serve him.
He is self-degraded creature, whose degra-
dation is made manifest to every one but
himself; self-made miserable being who,
while he is insensible to his own misery,
af1icts every one else around or belonging TO
him with misery. The drunkard is let loose
upon mankind like some foul, illbodlng and
noxious animal, tc poster, torment and dis
gust everything that reasons or feels, while
the curse of God hangs over his place, and
the gates of heaven are closed against him.
Drunkenness is never to be found alone,
never unaccompanied by some horrid crime,
If not by wicked crowd of them. Go to
the house of the drunkard, consider bis fam
lily, look on his affairs, listen to the sound
that proceeds from the house of drunken
ness as you pass, survey the insecurity OF the
public ways and of the night streets. Go to
the hospital, to the house of charity and the
bed of wretchedness. Enter the courts or
justice, the prison and condemned cell. Look
at the haggard features of the ironed Grim
inal. Ask all these why they exist to dis
tress, and you will everywhere be answered
by tales and recitals of drunkenness. And
the miseries, and the vices, and the sorrow,
ON Of sniff hat hav Harrnvrad
up your soul were almost without exception
either prepared by drinking, or were under
gone for procuring the means for satisfying
this vice which sprang from it.-Archbishop
UlIdthorpe.
ALCOHOL AND THB CARE OF CHILDREN.
Very many people, and among them not
the least well educated, think that alcohol
is cure for different sickneESes and lndlS-
positions, and in such cases even children are
frequently compelled to make use of it. II
it is still aquestion as to whether the use OF
alcohol produces the wished for and expected
results in the case of men who feel indis-
posed, there is not the slightest doubt that
for children alcohol is poison in every case,
whose after effects may be inexpressibly far
reaching. Professor Demme cites note
worthy case of the injurious effects of alco-
hol ON boy, which should serve as warn
ing. For the purpose of Strengthening his
ten year old son, who was very intelligent,
but physically weak, an anxious father adj
ministered daily, at first glass, then several
glasses of strong malaga wine. After some
weeks the parents noticed that the memory
of the boy was steadily declining. Finally,
by order of the physician the supply was
entirely discontinued, and, in the course or
six or eight weeks the boy recovered. His
mental powers had become SO weak that at
times he did not know his own name, failed
to recognize his relatives, and could scarcely
point ont the simplest objects in daily use.
But as is often the case with fathers who
believe in using alcohol, tbs one could not
allow himself TO be convinced OF its lnjur-
ious effects. He could not bear to withhold
this supposed strengthening article and be
again staked his sons life and health on this
belief. This time be experimented with
beer and gave the boy wine glass full every
noon and evening. In few weeks he OBJ
served the same significant decline OF menu
ory aud the same dwindhng OF his sons
mental powers, which were again recovered
when the use of alcohol was at last forever
ended Reasonable thinkers can scarcely
understand how well informed peo-
pie are able to deny this and
similar effects of alcohol. This destructive
influence upon thought and the mental pow
ers Is self-evfdent, and every one, who does
brain work, will be proof OF this, II he al
lows himself to be led to use alcohol That
this effect will become greater by continued
use need not be mentioned. And now the
same result has been found In the delicate
unused faculties Of child. 1t is inexcusa-
ble for any parent to allow his children to
have even a taste OF alcohol. How many
sicknesses for which one has vainly sought
an explanation would be understood if the
carelessness of pareLts, in this respect were
known. A child should be taught to fear
alcohol as it breads the fire. 1t is sad that
this is SO seldom the case. There are even
frivolous fathers who give their children
strong drink for ..joke." instead of becom-
ing acquainted with the spectacle afforded
by the play of the child's natural inclina-
tions.-Neiu Yorl; Beiletrsstisches journal.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES
A woman was recently arrested in Boston
for the ninetieth time for drunkenness
Mrs. Julia A. Chase has been doing splendid
work in the military prison at Fort Leayen-
worth, Kansas Four hundred men have
taken the pledge.
1t is ascertained that nearly one-haif OF
the criminals in the German prisons were ar
rested for crimes committed when they were
under the influence of Intoxicating drinks
A recent advertisement in the Derry Tire
lanei) Signal reads: WANTED: A man and
his wife as caretakers for a gentleman's