The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-05-12

adult makes IS beats a minute multi
ply it by so for one hour, and 81 for a
day. and allow for the slowing of the
pulse during sleep, and we make an
average of 100000 beats per day; at
each of these strokes, the heart lifts
six ounces of blood into the vessels lead
ing from it, which equals for the actual
work done by the heart, the lifting lie
foot-tons; the alcohol so quickened the
beat of the heart that it had TO do extra
work equal to lifting "a foot-tons. on
the last two days, and the sphygmo-
graphic tracings taken aft5rward
showed the feebleness of comparative
exhaustion in the muscles of the over
worked heart itself.
There are those who imagine that it
is a quickener of the mental faculties.
Rev. Stopford A. Brooke says:
at has been said that moderate doses Of
alcohol stimulate work into create activ-
ity, and make life happier ard brighter.
My experience since l became a total alb
stainer has been exactly opposite. The
fact Is that alcohol, even in the small guam
titles I took it. while 1t did not seem to
injure health, mi ured the fneness of that
physical balance which means state OF
health in which all the world seems pleas
ant My power Of work is now in
creased, and it is not much to say that the
work of the world would be one-third bet
ter and more swiftly done, and the en-
joyment of life increased by one-half If no
one took a drop of alcohol. Let the young
man make the experiment of working on
water only"
Sir Andrew Clarke testifies:
For all purposes Of sustained. enduring,
faithful work. it is my experience that al
cohoi does not help but binders it. I
am bound to say that for all honest work
alcohol never helps human soul. Never,
never"
In 1898 body of gentlemen, known as
the committee of so, and which includ-
ed such representative men as DR.. John
S. Billings. President Eliot and Mr. Seth
Low, undertook an investigation of the
liquor problem; and, authorized by
them, Prof. o. T. Hodge, of Clark uni
versity, undertook a series of expert
ments to demonstrate the effect of al
cohol, administered in small recurring
doses (the toper's Style, TO dogs and
cats. If anyone still has doubts of it's
destructive effects upon the animal It's
sues, let him look at the unerringly
honest, unprecedented testimony of the
photographs of these creatures, where
the dosed and healthy are shown side
by side. He will understand the phrase,
alcoholic dissolution, and perhaps be
restrained from beginning to taste that,
the lend whereof is death" They are
to be found, showing the wasted and
degenerated animals, side by side with
their healthy control" brothers and
sisters, in the Popular Science Monthly
for March and April, 1897.
Since the day when William and Mary
stimulated the production of intoxicat.
ing liquors, under the idea of thus ZEN
couraging agriculture" there has been
a large body of people who honestly be.
heve that breweries and distilleries,
with the immense capital invested, and
the large number of men employed in
the work, are an important element in
national prosperity; but those who can
look below surface Indications know
better; and realize that if the enormous
sums spent for intoXicants were spent
in good food, warm clothing and com.
Portable homes, it would do much to
eradicate the misery and consequent
discomfort among the very poor. This
is the dark side of the picture; but the
hopeful signs of what can be done will
show that even in the matter of intern.
perance there is great and growing i'm.
proyement.-N. Y. Independent.