Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-12-18

rnce of alcohol would doubt the state
meut that he was torpid, bat when
person has taken small quantity it
seems TO act as stimulant aud the
question might arise does it have the
effect of a narcartic ON all. All civiliz d /
ueings exercise to greater or less ex-
cent self-restraint over their actions and |
words, bu; let person drink a small
quantity of alcohol, and the dulling
effect of tine narcartic acts first upon
this self-restraint, and the person grows
takative and noisy. If he continues to
drink, this dulling effect goes on, aud he
is not clear il his thoughts. Lat'r 1t
affects his muscles, causing him to reel
aud stagger, and at last his whole body
becomes torpid.
The thing about wine and cider
which is hard for person to understand
is why there is any harm in anything
made from apples or grapes which are
both healthful fruits. When first pressed
from the fruit, the juice is harmless aud
refreshing; but it remains so but short
time, after which it contains alcohol
which increases day by day. Some
think there is no harm in drinking cider,
and beer which contains so small
quantity of alcohol, but all the lighter
alcoholic drinks cultivate a taste for
stronger liquors. Any one denying this
fact must either be ignorant or do so in
order to apologize for their own drink
ing habit Others think alcoholic drinks
may be INDUCED in moderately, but
every drunkard was once a moderate
drinker. Many pathetic story could
be told OF great and good men, the in
tellectual, high minded, and moral, who
confident in their power of knowing
when to stop have at last helplessly sue
cumbed to this evil and been disgraced.
The effect of alcohol on grown person
is bad enough, but it is even worse on a
child, for it is very harmful to the pro-
per development of body and mind, and
the appetite is much more easily ac-
quired.
Allbut's System of Medicine says
"alcohol acts directly on the nerves as a
functional poison, and Professor Flick
of the University of Wurzburg, Ger
many, calls attention to the fact that
"the English language appropriately
calls the disturbance caused by alcoholic
drinks, intoxication, which by derivation
means poisoning"
The nation that drinks the most alco
hol is the nation that,is decreasing in
population and in brain powers. Franc
the great country of wines, whose people
use it freely, with its beautiful climate
and it's many material advantages, is de
pendent on immigration to keep up it,
population, and the people that descended
from race of gigantic Gauls are nov
below the average height of other civil
lized nations: The Consular Report Of
1895 says "that France will be changed
into nation of brutes by this ignobl
vice." Not only does it have this de
grading effect on the person who in
dulges but it bequeaths to their chill
dren defective conditions of mind an,
body and weak will with which to re
sist temptation.
There are other narcartics that have
medicinal value, that have also the powe
of creating a desire for the drug whic
in it's increasing use is fatal such drug
are Opium, Morphine, and Laudanuu
Paregoric is weak form of Opium i
alcohol. Soothing Syrup also contain
opium and should not be given to chi
dren. The habit of using any of thes
narcartics is almost impossible to break
The secret of their power over a perso
r, is that they destroy part of the will
power and that is the very thing re
quired to break the habit. ''Habit is
blessing if good one, but curse if
bad one" Tobacco is marc artic whic
i because of its common use among your
men and boys is to me very formidabl
1t contains quick acting and dead
. poison called nicotine, and because
this poison the juice of tobacco is neve
purposely swallowed. acne tenth of
- grain will kill dog in three moment
s other animals in correspondingly sho
time" But in chewing, the saliva di
solves the nicotine, and a part of it
absorbed into the system while i
:. smoking, the nicotine in the smoke all
=, vapor is absorbed by the saliva and tt
moist membranes of the mouth and no!
!. and taken into the system where it e.
: erts all of it's harmful effects. But tt
narcartic dulls the sense of feeling
that the irritation is not felt. Tn
y poison makes one less able to throw q
disease. One young man of my a
b quaintance, who was great cigaret
- smoker, while at college was taken sic
=, He was brought home and for three
four months rested, hoping to be able