The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-12-25
TEMPERANCE.


NOTHING TO ME-.
" IT'S nothing to me-" the beauty said,
With careless toss Of her pretty head;
1.-THE man is weak who can't refrain
From the cup you say Is fraught with pain,
IL was something 10 her In after wears,
When her eyes were drenched with burning
tears,
And she watched, in lonely grief and dread,
And started to hear staggering tread.
"It's nothing to me-" The mother said;
~ have no fear that my boy will tread
The downward path OF sin and sname
And crush my heart and darken my name"
II was something to her when her only son
From the path OF life was early won,
And madly quafrei fthe flowing bowl.
Then--a ruined body and shipwrocked soul.
"Its nothing to me-" the young man cried;
In his eye was a flash OF scorn and pride.
81 heed not the dreadful things you tell
can rule myself, know full we'll !"
Twas something TO him when in prison he
lay.
The victim Of drink, life ebbing away,
As he thought OF his wretohed child aud wife
And the mournful wreck Of his wasted life.
INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL on MANS LONGEVITY.
DR.. Crothers, OF Hartford, who has had
long experience in the management OF insti-
tutions for the inebriate and insane, says
that "inebrlety is the active cause OF from
fifteen to fifty per cent, of all insanity; from
thirty to eighty per cent. Of all idiocy; from
sixty TO ninety per cent OF all pauperism,
and from fifty to eighty-hve per cent of all
crime," then asks the question, "Who can
estimate the relief of the taxpayers by the
removal OF the perils to both property and
life from drunkenness?"
DR.. Day, OF Boston, in his late annual re-
port OF the Washington Home for the Treat
ment of Inebriates, says; "On the individ-
ual the effect of vicious alcoholic indulgence
is disease Of the body. Sooner or later 1t
must succumb Disease Of the mind Is not
far OF. 1t may be delirium or insanity"
DR.. Formad found in the dead house au-
topsies Of the Phila 'elphia Hospital that in
$50 chronic alcohohsts nearly ninety per
cent had fatty degeneration OF the liver, six
ty per cent. had congestion or a dropsical
state of the brain, the same number an in
famed or dogonereted stomach, while not
quite enc per cent. had normal kidneys.
To be convinced OF tho cause Of 90 much
pauperism in the country, we have only to
examine the statistics OF the liquor traffic in
the United States. According to the re-
port of Internal Revenue Commissioner
ldills. for the year 1892, the patrons of the
saloons paid $600,000,00O for whisky and
SG17, 25S i60 for beer. q total of 81 ,236, ,25g,-
400, the interest of which for one minute at
six per cent. per annum is SS5l5.6S." This
would more than pay of the National debt,
and would feed and clothe all the poor of tho
country.
When we look abroad over the world and
take a birds eye view Of the evil effects Of
intemperance in its various aspects, its pro-
duction OF disease and death, the destruction
Of happiness and home pauperism and
crimes innumerable. with general demorali-
zation, we are astonished that any thinking
man, much less a physician, should come to
the conclusion that drinking men and drunk
ards enjoy greater longevity than total ab.
stainers.-Medical Progress.