The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-14
TESTIMONY AT HALIFAX.

Before the Prohibition Commission in
Halifax the other day the governor Of Rock
head prison said that in his twelve years ex-
perience he never knew case OF vagrancy,
disorderly conduct or assault that was
caused otherwise than by liquor, in fact,
liquor was the cause Of about every prisoner
being sent to prison. There would be no
trouble if not for drink-no crime, no poor
asylums, no prisons or any such institu-
tions. He thoug hit prohibition desirable,
and that it could be carried out In Nova
Scotia, except in Halifax. The reason it
could not be carri ed out in Halifax was be.
cause Halifax was the Gibraltar Of rum.
PROTECTION" AGAINST TIE LAWS.
The liquor dealers of Chicago have . pro.
tectiye association. In g recsnt report made
by the Secretary the association is congrat-
ulated on the fact that it has so successfully
defended its members against prosecution
sixteen has been molestei by the Citizens
League, while among the outside dealers one
in every eight has been prosecuted. This in
the last year. The Secretary boasts that
this fact indicates that the agents Of the
Citizens League do not relish the idea Of at.
tacking man who has this association at
his back" He adds
cit is the strongest recommendation to
those engaged in the trade who have not as
YET joined our ranks 70 come IN OUT OF Cn2
rain at once"
Think Of it! An ssociation of trades,nen
openly boasting before the world of the
success with which they have terrorized the
community 80 that they can violate lnws
with comparative immunity: In the
Worlds Fair city. too.-Ths Voice.
STARTLING FACTS.
DR.. B. W. Richardson. the noted ply
sicap, SAYS that he was once enabled to
preach an etfectual temperance lecture by
means of a scientific experiment. An
acquaintance was singing the praises Of
wine, and declared that he could not get
through the day without it.
"Will you be good enough to feel my
pulse as l stand hereg' asked Doctor
Richardson.
The man did SO.
"Count it carefully. What does it say"
"Seventy-four.
The physician then went and laid dowp
on q sofa, and asked the gentleman to count
his pulse again.
1T has gone down to sixty four" he said,
in astonishment. What an extraordinary
thing" 49,,
"When you lie down at night" said the
physician, THAT is the way nature takes to
give your heart rest. You may know moth
ing aoout it, but the organ is resting to that
extent; and II you recRoo tne rabe, IL in-
wolves good deal Of rest, because. in lying
down, the heart is doing ten strokes less
minute.
Multiply that by sixty. and it is six hun.
dreo; multiply it py eight hours and, within
fraction, there is a difference Of five thou
sand strokes; and as the heart is throwing
six ornces OF blood at every stroke it
makes difference of thirty thousand ounces
of life during the night. When lie down
at night without any alcohol, that is the
rest mJ heart gets.
but when take wine or grog, I do not
allow that rest, for the influence OF alcohol
Is to increase the number Of strokes. Instead
of getting rspose, the man who uses alcohol
nut on something like fifteen thousand extra
strokes, and he rises quite unfit for the next
days work, until he has taken a little more
of that 'ruddy bumper which hs calls the
soul of man below"