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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.
Here Are Few OF the Hideoas Gifts OF
whisky to Man: Lack OF Friends, Lack
Of VIII. lack OF Self Respect, Lack Of
Nervous Force.

OF Wlus LACK OF ocst nosP0ess ASSS "
Nervous Force.
How should q whisky drinker talk to
his son? IL he talked as he feels, he would
hold up the Hat. brown bottle and say:
MY boy. you know that l am poo;
man and have nothing to leave to you
or your mother
'The difference between myself and the
successful men who have passed me n
this:
II nave gone through life with TINS
bottle in my hand or in my pocket They
have not" =, :,
A man comes into the world prepared
70 do his share of the worlds work well
or i'll, as his brain and his physical
strength may decide. OF all his qualities
the most important practically Is balance.
The whisky in that bottle destroys the
balance, both mental and physical.
It substitutes dreaming and foolish self
confidence for real effort. .,
Il presents all Of life's problems and
duties in q false light. It makes those
things seem unimportant which are most
Il dulIs the conscience, which alone can
make men do their duty, in spite OF tempt
alton, and, struggle ON to success IN spite
Of exhaustion.
Keep away from this bottle. and keep
away from those who praise It. de who
hands it to his fellow man 70 criminal,
and he who hands it to Q young man 70
worse criminal and . villain. -.
at is impossible but that offences wia
come. but woe unto him, through whom
they come."-St. Luke. xvii. !.
Il il 4 well-estab!ished fact that in the
usual order of events drunkenness would
be handed down from father to son, and
hundreds Of thousands of families would
be ultimately wiped out by whisky,
1t is not true, fortunately, that the son
of a drunkard actually inherits drunken;
ness fully developed; But a drunkard
gives to his son weakened nerves and a
diminished will power, which tend to
make him q drunkard more easily, than
his father was made Irunkard before
him. .,
The great safeguard of drunkard'a q
children undoubtedly lies in the warning
which they see every day in their home
and in the earnest advice which the man
who drinks will give to all young people
II he have any conscience left.
II the man who drinks would save his
own children from the same danger he can
do 80 better than any other. He need not
lose their respect by telling them OF his
own mistakes, il these mistakes have been
hidden from them. Let him simply tell
them without personal reference what he
knows abont whisky, its effects on z
mars happiness, success, self-respect and
physical comfort. -.
Whisky gives q great many things e
men-negative gifts most OF them. "
these gifts here are few: -.
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respect, lack of nervous foFce-!ack OF
everything save the hideous craving that
can end only with Inconsistencies. and
that begins again with increased suffering
when conscioasness is restored.
With the fear Of whisky there should
be impressed upon children sympathy and
sorrow for the unfortunate drunkard:
One OF the ablest men, and one of the
most earnest in America, said to hn
friends very recently:
az never drink, as you know. But when
I see o man lying drunk in the gutter,
know that he has probably made that
very day harder effort at self.eoutrol, 2
nobier struggle to control himself, than !
ever made in my life. He has yielded
and fallen at last, but only because all OF
the disease that possesses him..
Teach your children that drunkenness
Il a horrible disease, as bad as leprosy.
Teach them that it can be avoided; that
the disease Is contracted in youth through
carelessness, and that it il spread by those
who encourage drinking in others. Iell
them that the avoiding OF whisky Is not
merely a question of morals or obedience
TO parents. but q question involving men
tai and physical salvation, success IN LIE,
happiness, and the respect of others.-New
York American and Journal.
sHigh Life" Shocks . Temperance Worker
Ten minutes was the time allowed
speakers at a recent session OF the Won
ems Christian Temperance Union Con:
yentior, because Of the large number Of
reports to be made. Only once did the
timekeeper fail Ito sound the gong. The
EXCEPTION was made in favor Of Mrs. u. j.
Annable, Of Brooklyn, State Superiu'
tendent of the Unions rescue work, who
told some interesting experiences.
mo one" she said, In beginning her
address. ..is always under his or her self
control unless he or she Is total ao'
stainer.
"Only a few days ago." she went on,
after telling some more OF the eviis OF
drink, Il was invited to q reception gwen
to a young bride who had just returned
from a wedding trip OF nine months: Inc
reception was at the house OF her fatner.
in.law, in Brooklyn. He Is Christian
man and his wife is well known as 4 pnil'
anthrooist. could not 60 to the recep,,
tion. and I am glad that could not. !
learned afterwards that the beautiful
young bride became so boisterous that
her father.in.law had to take her to task:
That provoked so much bad Language that
it was necessary for the butler and hall
n dozen of the male guests to carry her
shrieking from the room.
"a few days later / received a card
I believe one was sent to each guest--ex'
pressing the brides regret at the occur
renee, and declaring that she had no
memory of having used the language a.
tributcd to her"
The moral OF that story OF an event 10
"hish life" Mrs Annable said. is that the
evils OF intemperance are not conhned 20
the lower classes. She gave several lh'
stances OF successful effort in rescue WORK,
and declared that the work Is made douD!y
hard by "well dressed women OF certain
class"
Speaking of the need for rescue work,
Mrs. Annable said she has the record
of eight hundred descendants OF woman
who died in Brooklyn in 1927 at the age
OF lifty.one. Of her descendants, 'oo have
been in jai.. 3la were confirmed drunkarrds
and thirty.seven paid the laws penalty for
murder.
Mrs. Annable declined to give the, name
OF the erring bride on the ground tha'
she did not thlEk to do so would he ~
line with her department OF rescue "orE; .
Ths nam. OF the woman who died in 1897
she also refused to divu,se for the sake
Of the hundred descendants who were
never in Jail.