Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-26
ALCOHOL IN AeAf o. cole,
Faess and Testimonies Gathered b.
Prof, A. A. Phelps, AN.

Men who like alcoholic drink, find
plenty of excuses for using it. When
sick, they take ii as a medicine; when
tired, they take it to rest them; when
weak, they take 1t to strengthen
them; when hungry, they take il as a
food; when thirsty, they take il as
drink: when too hot. they take II TO
cool them on, and when too cold, they
take il to warm them up.
/ have covered all these points by
giving positive statements from medi-
cal and scientific authorities. Let me
now give few pertinent facts and
testimonies touching the relation OF
alcohol to heat:
l. The most successful explorers IN
Africa, notably Rev. David Living
stone. have been total abstainers.
2. OF 100 cases of sun-stroke in st.
Louis, few years ago, five were abb
stainers and ninety-five were drink
ers.
3. DR.. Jackson, an authority on the
hygiene OF armies isists that alcoholic
liquors do not benefit soldiers on
hot and fatiguing march. He says;
Il have always found that the strong
est LIQUORS were the most eneryating;
and this, in whatever quantity they
were consumed"
A. Prof. James Miller OF Glasgow
Scotland, says: 'In warm climate
alcohol can never be of service, ex'
cept in purely medicinal use: and
even thus the tropical practitioner
will find but little occasion for its
services; while the man that uses II
daily and freely, as food. is literally
with both his hands knocking nails
into his coffin"
5. Some years ago Edward Q. Della
van made the following statement;
"out of caravan Of eighty-two per
sons who crossed the great desert
from Algiers to Timbuctoo, all but
fifteen used wine and other liquors
as a preventive against African dis.
eases. Soon after reaching Timbuctoo,
these all died save one; while of the
fifteen who abstained. all survived"
When all other excuses are ex-
hausted, the drink-slave feels sure
| that he has one entrenchment LETT
| from which he cannot be driven. He
is certain that hot whisky is good
for cold weather. But this is only one
| of the many drink-delusions. When
a man takes a glass of alcoholic fire
water. he feels warmer, but he is not
warmer In fact. The internal heat is
| simply driven to the surface, so that
| the external nerves report warmth
which does not belong to the body az
| a whole. Indeed. the vital organs
have been compelled to part with a
portion Of the heat which they pre-
viously possessed. Alcohol has COM
mitted a robbery, and now tries to
conceal the fact by diverting atten-
ton to the pleasing sensations pro
duced by a little abnormal surface
heat. So much for the philosophy OF
the case. Let us have few clinch.
ing testimonies:
l. DR.. Kae, an arctic explorer, says:
at was absolutely necessary that the
rule of total abstinence should be
rigidly enforced, if we would accom-
plish our days task Any use of liquor,
as a beverage when we had work on
hand, in that terrific cold, was out
of the question"
2. DR.. Hayes, another arctic ex-
plorer, says: while fat is absolutely
essential to the inhabitants and trav-
elers in arctic countries, alcohol is
In almost any shape-not only com
pletely useless, but positively injuri-
GUS"
3. DR.. N. S. Davis, the eminent ply
stefan of Chicago, has made many ex.
perlments bearing on the temperature
of the human body He says: Dur
ing the digestion of all kinds OF food
the temperature of fthe body is in
creased; but when alcohol is taken,
the temperature begins to fall, within
half an hour, and continues to de-
crease for two or three hours, and is
I'm exact proportion to the quantity
Of alcohol taken"
4. DR.. Carpenter says: "The Hud-
son Bay Company have for many
years entirely excluded spirits from
the fur countries of the North, over
which they have exclusive control
to the great improvement of the
health and morals of their servants
5. 1t Is a fact that Adam Ayles, and
other abstainers, endured the cold OF
the polar regions better than mod
crate drinkers, and much better than
hard drinkers.
g. A young lady in England got upon
a stage-coach on a cold night, and
started to visit her sick mother in
London. The passengers spared hel
some extra wrappings. and a trades
man procured some brandy, which
she drank with considerable reluct
ance. Drink 1t down." he said, "ii
won't hurt you on such bitter night.
She drank repeatedly, fell asleep, and
when the poor girl reached her desti
nation she was cold and stiff in death!
The coroner's verdict was, "Killed by
brandy"
| Z. On one of the great western
plains, twenty-six men were overtaker
by cold and night. They had food
clothing and whisky. but no fire. Re
suit:
Three did not drink drop, felt colo