Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-17
TIE ALABAMA CHAUTAUQUA Mrs. Beauchamp on Alcohol
 PhySiologieaIIy IIyConsidered." A STRONG, STIRRING TALK
Mir. Laverty and His Wonderful Children Give
 Delightful Concert.
DR. BLACK TALKS ON "GoD IN NATURE
He Dubs Ingersoll Prince of Simpletons The Round Table-Thursday and Fri day Are Lanier and Recogni-
 tion Days-Programr1e

TallaGega. July 15.-The teachers in- stitute, conducted at Isbell college by
 Principal J. B. Cunningham, assisted by
 Dr. ieorge R. McNeill Misses Catherine Gardner, Mary E. Bostick, Amy Braun
 and Vivian May, is a great success, seN-
 enty teachers having already enrolled. The work is systematic, practical and
 thorough and of incalculable benefit to
 the young and inexperienced, as well as very pleasant to those of maturer years
 and riper experience
 This morning at 10 o'clock Mrs Fran
 cs Beauchamp of Lexington Ky, opened the Womans Christian Temperance un- ion school Of methods with an able ad dress upon Alcohol Physiologically Con- sidered. The basis Of her remarl.s was Proverbs, "N inc is a moeker, and this
 she asserted is not only revelation, but Q revelation of a scientific nature. Con sulting the dictionary we find that a
 mocker is a deceiver, and a. deceiver ons who makes us believe that which is false or untrue. The highest medical author ity in this country and in Europe say that the action of alcohol stimulates stim- ulation but never stimulates. Now do not these two declarations exactly CO., incide, even though the first was made
 more than 4000 years ago? By the obser- vation actually made in the famous case of Rlexis St. Martin, who became ad- dicted to the drink habit, we know the effects of alcohol upon the living human stomach-ulceration and drunkard's s dys-
 pepsia-an incurable disease. Alcohol is neither heat producer nor a food Corpuscles have been called the life boat of the body, and we know that the shape of the boat is very essential to it's usefulness, When alcohol lays hold upon the corpuscles it changes their color and cho Ina Jtit1 1ly0r q quire healthy flesh, but the waste mat ter of the body is stored up in the form of inert fat The mother of a young child, under the advice of her physician, takes beer and the lacteal fluid charged with alcohol fixes the drink habit upon her baby. In the hospitals for babes in our great cities children not more than weeks old are often found so cursed, and it is not infrequently that physician is called to administer to babies whose parents think tiley-s sAs-- -hsaaii aiisses--eoBvul- sions, when really the poor innocen.s are suffering from delirium trenens. The hbrine, that part Of the blood whose office it is to heat any wounds
 that may occur, is by alcohol thinned out, or unequally distributed. collecting often times in the heart or brain. When this happens the man drops dead of heart failure or apoplexy.and the world won ders why Q mysterious Providence has so robbed us. If it had been Pat Elan agan he would have died of alcoholism, but the difference in position lowers the veil of responsibility, and the euphem- ism is employed.
 But the queen tissue of the body, the nerve tissue, is also injured by the use of alcohol. An eminent surgeon has said that in the darkest room on the darkest night he could tell whether his scalpel was encountering the brain of even moderate thinker, the nerve tissue of such persons being transformed from the soft, jelly-like substance into a tough mass.
 Alcohol is the only universal poison A pigeon can with impunity eat enough opium to kill seven men, 0 rabbit sui ficient belladona to prostrate several per sons, and gcat will actually chew to- bacco. Fortunately, however, a goat and man are the only animals which in dulge in the last-named poison. But pigeon, rabbit, goat and man all go down before the universal poison which, strange to say, has no antidote.
 Mrs. Beauchamp here related in a most impressive manner several storleS of al- cohol poison which had come under her own notice in the state of Kentucky. The liver. as well as the stomach. blood and nerves. is affected by the terrible poison, which hardcns it and cn,argss it, some times to more than four times its normal size. The kidneys are often wasted away to one-third their proper size. A yellow fat of waste matter &C., cumulateS around them aud the uric acid is reabsorbed by the system
 Alcohol has no place in the human body. It destroys and never preserves living tissue.
 Intelligent motherhood must grapple with this mighty question, and the
 teacher, next to the mother, holds the key to the solution of the problem. Teach
 our boys and girls that they must have
 clean bodies in which the spirit may
 dwell. and unclouded brains to think out
 high thoughts.
 The open saloon, the open beer garden
 and the Sunday excursion, which means
 beer. are emptyng our churches Isn't
 1t time for the motherhood for the
 churches of this land to enter their
 solemn protest against these things?
 Mrs. Beauchamp closed her lecture with
 beautiful little poem,- showing how
 plastic youth is to receive impressions
 and how like marble to retain them
 MT Percy Meredith Reese added a few
 words to emphasize the evils of the treat
 ing habit, and the custom of ladies offer
 ing wine to their guests
 Mir. Layerty and his wonderful children
 this afternoon gave delightful concert,
 after which the grandest discourse of the
 season was delivered by pr. w. C. Black
 of New Orleans, upon the subject of
 God in Nature" Beginning with as-
 tronomy,. which he considers the most
 exact of sciences, he carried us through
 the solar system and spoke of the won
 derful immensity of space and its count
 less creatures, all showing such adapta-
 tion. Asking where motion originates, he
 said "Gravitation is not a sufficient an-
 swer. That is merely the high sounding
 word to cover the ignorance of the scien-
 tist. If I were to assert that gravitation
 is but another name for the right hand of
 God, I'd have certainly as much authori-
 ty as he who asserts that 1t is only a
 dead materalistic force. Gravity cannot
 possibly be a primary force, for the unI-
 versal property of intertia forbids that
 anybody by any combination of atoms
 can put itself in motion. The motion of
 my own body originates in an invisible
 intangible something within the mind; and just so the infinite mind of God takes