Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-20

ache the unfortunate victim of inebriety striy
with all the feeble moral powers left him TO
free himself from the giant grasp of this mon
ster, but In vain. 1t seems generally to be be-
yond the inebriate's unaided human effort. 1t
requires the power of Omnipotence to cast out
this demon, whose grasp, like that of the hun
CRY anaconda, that clasps it's victim closer and
closer in the death struggle and devours him.
That persistent Unsuitable craving of the poor
drunkard for alcoholic portations is madden
ing thirst indeed. A mere habit at the begin
ming, but soon become, like other habits, SEQ
ond nature. and continues to grow by repeated
indulgences.
That proud youth or young man hardly i'm
AGNES he is fast becoming a drunkard when he
commences to sip the sweetened toddy flavor
ed so nicely, but soon he is whirled into the
vortex of intoxication and finds resistless de-
sire for this enchanting and delicious bever-
age. He feels insulted at the mentioning of
the mere possibility of his becoming that poor
drunken outcast whom he sees in the filth and
dirt of the city every day. But such is the en-
chanting power Of this fatal beverage, ere the
drunkard is aware. its fascinating errors and
delusions seem to cling to him like barnacles
to the huh of a ship.
The inebriate, for the most part soon be-
comes the victim of a long chain of painful
physical evils or disorders, from which he suf-
fers until death passes him over to the unseen
horrors of drunkard's hell
Inebrlety stands out now as the greatest evil
of this age and should engage the attention of
our most philosophic minds. It's evil infiuen-
ces are wide; its blghting THOUGH has left its
whitening curse upon every civilized nation
Inc chronic fppler who takes his daily porta-
lions, hourly or semi-hOurly, as the case may
be. but in quantities insufficient to produce in
toxication, hoping thereby to escape its evil
consequences, will sooner or later, find chang
es In the entire digestive and nervous systems
There is a tendency to fatty degeneration of
the heart, liver and other organs Changes in
the capi1aries of the skin take place; they be-
come very much dilated, producing the char
acteristic pink face and red nose, as a result
Of an excess of blood accommodating in the con-
nective tissue interfering with its physioiog-
teal function. organic changes take place in
the liver. bringing about that pathological con-
ditfon known as "drurkards liver" Organic
changes of the kidney may also be concomi-
tant result. The nervous system is soon in
yaoed; the mental powers become impaired:
the temper irritable. and the tongue and hands
become tremulous.
Should the subject become stricken with any
acute disease, or receive a wound, he is more
liable to delirium tremens
Indigestion intervenes interfering with nu.
triton. lowering the inebriate's resisting pow
ers, so that he more readily contracts any dis.
ease that may prevail in his community The
imagination grows painfully acute-monkeys.
horrible snakes, writing and wriggling or he
Is haunted by ghosts or demons; in fact the
doors of pandemonium are opened and the
lmps and horrible blue devils of inferno float
before his diseased vision in most horrible
forms.
Ihis mania potu, or delirum tremens, may
subs1de or permanent mania may be the rasuIt