Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1893-10-27

COOTEASXOWN I. W. Y.
Miss Bertha Zimmerman, President.
Miss Emma johnson, Miss Nellie Brown,
vice-Presidents.
Miss Nellie Newbery, Recording Secretary.
Miss Mabel Newbery, Corresponding Secre-
tary.
Miss May johnson, Treasurer.
"Knew ye not that your bodies are
the temple Of the Holy Ghost: Whose.
ever delleth the temple of God, him
will God destroy.
Alcohol is q universal poison, which
is not true, so far as we know, of any
other substance. Other things injuri-
Gus to man can be swallowed by some
animals with impunity. For example,
Il pigeon can take. without harm,
quantity Of opium sufficient to kill sew.
eral men; rabbit will swallow bella
don;. ia like proportions with similar
results; and goat will eat with i'm
punity enough tobacco to kiln several
men. But neither pigeon. rabbit nor
goat can swallow alcohol without in
jury"
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zone Of the most dangerous things
about alcohol, distinguishing it from :,
natural drink, is the fact that it never
assuages thirst, but creates u craving
for Itself"
1t is encouraging to know that the
temperance cause does not suffer ia all
the towns of North Dakota rs it does IN
our own little town. In many places
the "blind pigs" are being closed aud
their owners are made to suffer fol
their violation of the law. Silent watch
ing sometimes brings much good; ever
the liquor ira ffic does not like to b,
silently watched.
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How many of our readers know that
one of the national enterprises that il
fast becoming an important factor il
the w. c. I. U. work, is their hos pita
or sanitarium, if you choose. This il
located at Chicago, but three block
from Lincoln Park, one of the mos
famous of Chicago's parks. Its werl
is 70 secure the use of non. alcoholic
substitutes in cases where il has no
seemed possible before to get aloni
without alcohol. A patient from thi
hospital says. doctors recognize col
lapse from typhoid fever rs one of tn
cases in which physicians have reliee
on the use of alcoholics 10 tide over tn
ericis. Severe cases of this kind kav,
been treated most successfully in tn
hospital, and absolutely without the us
of alcohol. 1t Is hardly within my pro
vince to name remedies to the medica
, profession, but l would urge our doc
tors to write to the members of tn,
medical staff, or to the superintendent
of the training school, asking definite
information. l assure you they viii
gladly give it. As w. C. T. u
!. women it is our business to deman
familiarity with these substitutes on tn
part of the medical fraternity, and the
insist upon their use. But not unit
the doctors to whom we intrust oul
best loved in the time of their sores
need, understand the use of other than
alcoholic mixtures, will some of us, a
least, risk demanding the substitutes
So the hospitals stands as an object
lesson aud in educator, and should b.
so sustained by all temperance people
} as to make it possible for it to do it!
work and de it WE'LL"
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"Physicians affirm that the cocaine
habit, when once firmly settled, is one
of the very worst to overcome, for il
creates desire for all kinds of stimu-
lahts.''
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In speaking of giving every child in
our schools a temperance education
Hon. Byron NJ. Cutcheon said: ''It is
a remedy peaceable, philosophical,
radical, far reaching. 1t trenches On
no mans rights, proscribes no mans
business, confiscates no mans proper
Ity, dictates 40 mans habits, restricts
no mans liberty. 1t appeals only to
: the power of truth. 1t is the echo o1
Gods primordial decree, Let there be
light"
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The friends and promoters of the
temperance education movement are
to be congratulated upon The recent