The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-24

addition to the usual damaging effects
consequent upon drinking distilled spir'
| it's they also get the wearing effects
upon the heart caused by this deiuglne
practice, which overloads the blood
vessels and so often leads to diseases Of
the heart from the over labor thrust
upon it, increasing its functional duties
in the way of eoualizing the redun,
dancy.
| DR.. Albert Day, superintendent Of
Washington Home, Boston, tells US he
has treated nearly seven thousand eases
of inebriety, and eight-tenths of them
were the products of wine and mali
liquor drinking.
| Men are strange creatures and are II.
genious in inventipg excuses for evil
practices. Were they as diligen5 in
seeking for reasons for living abstem-
ious, respectable, honorable and virtu-
Gus lives, what different home this
old world would be to US.
But 10, men drink for Joy when the
little rudy young sGueaker is born into
the world, drink over the baptismal
rites, drink over the marriage feStivl-
ties. drink over the funeral obSequies,
drink to keep out cold, drink to ward
off heat, drink at the fountain of politi-
cal success, drink over political defeat,
drink to ward off disease, drink to
drown sorrow, drink to stimulate to
deeds Of darkness, drink for socSabllty,
drink when they meet, drink when
they part, drink privately, drink pub
licly, drink to arouse the animal pas
sions, and God alone knows for what
reasons the knight of the bottle does
not drink.
DR.. BENJAMIN Rush says he has known
many persons destroyed by ardent
spirits who were never completely in
toxicated during the whole course OF
their lives.
Every time one person treats another
to drink of alcoholics he is tempting
him to become a topper. a guzzler. a
drunkard. No one ever became a
drunkard without taking his first glass,
which led on to occasional drinking
called moderation, then to inebriation.
Show me the drunkard of today and
I will show you the boastful moderate
drinker of the not long ago. The mod
crate use of alcohol never rescued any
one from the habit of drunkenness, but
it has led myriads through the dark
pathway down the road TO ruin and
damnation.
Drink ruins character, blunts intel
lect, changes industry into Incidence.
destroys family ties, makes wives wild
ows and children paupers. incites SEN
suality and moral corruption, poisons
the blood, degenerates the uo5y, i'm
poverishes the mind and damns the
soul, and there is no canyon black
enough to picture the darkness of the
deeds that follow in its wake as the di-
rect results of this worldwide diabol-
ical curse, which destroys more men
and women in this country in every
half decade than our civil war did dur
ing its continuance.
Horace Mann once said: That some
live longer in spite of moderate drink
ing. no more proves the practice safe
and healthful than the fact that some
soldiers who fought through all Napo-
Icons wars are still alive, proves fight
ing to be a vocation conducive to lon
gevity.
1t is a statistical fact that about one
fourth Of the insanity of the present
day is the outgrowth Of uhe-lrink habit.
Again, if there be any one common
result of the tap worship among the
loungers of the groegeries it is lazi-
ness, both mental and bodily.
Where in the wide, wide world can
be found more Incidence and stupidity
than among the daily guzzlers who
loiter around the miserable licensed
grog shops of the day: They are no
places in which to look for brilliancy,
they never brighten ones ideas, but
the contra effect is produced. AS well
might you look for a horn from a Wall
street bull. or feature from the face Of
nature, as 70 look among such a COM
pany of loungers for increasing intel
lect, morals, refinement, purity OF