The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-08-31
rur sr,AtrIHTER OF THE 1NNoCENTS,

The Herald of Health gives the following
startling result of study Of the posterity in
ten families Of drinkers and ten families OF
non-irinkers.
THE direct posterity Of the ten families Of
drinkers included ffty-seven Children. or
these twenty five died in the hrst weeks ana
months Of their life. six were idiots, In five
children striking backwardness OF their
longitudinal growth was observed, five
were effected with epilepsy, five with lnborn
diseases. One boy was taken with cholera
and became idiotic. Thus Of the hfty-seven
children OF drinkers only ten, or l7.5 per
cent. showed a normal constitution and de-
velopnent. The ten sober families had
si1ty-one children, five only dying in the
first weeks; four were affected with durable
diseases Of the nervous system; two only
presented Unborn defects. The remaining
fifty-Sl.9 per cent.-were normal IN tnelr
constitution and development"
This Is striking revelation. Out of fifty
seven children in ten families Of drinkers
only ten showed a normal constitution, the
rest revealing epilepsy, idiocy, inborn dis
eases OF various kinds. while out ot Sixty
one children OF non thinkers there were but
eleven that did not show normal develop
ment. Think Of what this means for the
nation, for the world. We do not need 10
assume that these statistics, CLEANED from
comparison or twenty families only. would
hold precisely true if a careful investigation
were made on an extensive scale; but we
know that the conditions revealed in this
COMPARISON do hold true. in an appalling
degree, wherever the drink habit has nxeo
itself.
If there is living outrage anywhere up
ON Gods green earth it is a child born with
such heritage. 1t is an afPront to nature
a libel upon God. Nothing more pititul, no
iniu stice more cruel is known among the
among the children Of men. The custom OF
the Hiudoo women who threw their children
into the Ganges to be devoured BY croco.
diles was almost like har Mess clViizeo
pastime compared to this widespread Gus:
tom OF transmitting epilepsy, lolocy ana
general constitutional depravity to the chill
dren of Christian America.-The Voice.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Elizabeth, N. j., has one saloon for every
100 persons there.
1t is because young men drink tnat tnere
are so many old drunkards.
TEMPERANCE means thu right use OF right
tbings' There can be no right uss OF wrong
things.
The Nova Scotia Baptists have not one
church where fermented wine Is used at con'
munion.
The last yestige OF the State debt of Iowa
has recently been liquidate1. Iowa, It Will
be remembered, is a Prohibition State.
Out of the 2TJO Congregational ministers
in En- ,land and Wales at least l6U are ao-
stainers: Of 35l stu ients 32) are aostalners'
TEMPERANCE reform has now been made
plank in the platform OF the omans
Liberal League OF England. ana Lazy
Henry Somerset is a member OF its cen1ra'
council.
"I know a man." said Eli Perkins, who
was meaner than a dog. This man AMI dog
went into a saloon together, but the man got
beastly drunk while the dog went home ike
a gentleman"
The figures of the license vote OF 1881 IN
Boston reveal many interesting 1aces. ol.y
preciucts voted no license, ana IN seventy
two Others the majority for license was less
than ten per cent. OF the registratlon.
There is said to be an abstinence society
in 81 Petarsburg with go mem osrs whose
activity has consisted in esta abllsning no less
than EIGHT tea houses in that part OF the
city where drinking places mo'S aooun L.
Aninebrares' asylu is also contemplated.
Tho Msthojist ministers Of Iowa have
orcaniz I'd a Haddock Temperance League
with headquarters at Jefferson, Iowa. Ina
object is to raise tunds for the enforcement
of the prohbitory law, and to apply part
OF the money to the erection OF a monument
to the memory Of the Rev. George =. dao.
dock who was murdered by saloon men at
Sioux City.