The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-02
Temperance Talk.

1t is evening, the close of a brief
january day, acros the bare bleak
forest are flying the mellow golden
rays of the departing day god. All the
western arch of sky is aglow with
clouds of purple splendor, softly splash
ed with pillows of rose hued light, In
every direction we behold the grand
range OF mountains, clad with acres of
forest, lifting their bleak and bare
branches upward toward the sky an
evidence hat winter has again visited
our fair south land. A Holy calm is in
the air. Family across the forest
comes the drOoning voice of some honest
country-man singing a hymn of 'rejoic-
ing as he turns his footsteps homeward.
This, with the sound of the lowing kline
as they "wend slowly DER the lea" are
the only sounds that break the peace
full stiffness. What a time for dreams it
is! what's sweet thoughts of other days
arise in The hushed and holy calm!
Perhaps the face of a sainted mother
who has been sleeping out yonder on
"Gods acre. to? These many years
crosses for a moment our mental vision.
~saddening, yet bringing us more in
touch with the things mot of earth:''
or p~erchance the thought of another
home IN another cline awakes sweet
memories of a day long since fed At
such a time as this, when mother nature
has wrapped her magic spell all about
one, awakening a train of thoughts in
my brain ! wish to say a few words to
the moth ers, wives, daughters, and
sisters, of u beautiful town. In the
last issue of u grand and eIevating
Hustler noticed a piece on the
subject of ~''dispensary" for our town we
the w. G. L. U. have united IN the at
tempt to eradicate the curse of rum,
and the liquor traffic from our country,
and with the help of God we expect sue
cess. Our pledge calls US to abstain
from the use of matted ~fermented, or
distilled liquors, as a beverage" Some
may say 1 do not fully comprehend the
meaning OI GnIS plouSe.
We know that matted liquors include
all of those liquors into the composition
of which malt has entered. Beer ale,
porter. The proportion of alcohol in
these liquors varies greatly. In beer,
it is from =. 5 per cent. In Edinburg
ale it amounts to 6 per cent. In Porter
it is usually from 4 to + per cent. In ad-
dition to alcohol and water, the matted
liquors contain from 5 to IA per cent, of
the extract of malt and from O.16 to O.60
per cent of carbonie acid, and if taken
largely of will intoxicate.
Fermented liquors are cider and wine
Cider contains alcohol to the amount of
from five to ten per cent saccharine
matter, Tactics, acid, and other substanc.
New cider will not induce intoxication,
but old cider is quite as intoxicating as
ale, or porter. The composition of
wine is very complex, the peculiar
qualitieswhich characterize the differnt
varieties a not be ascertai1ed by
chemical analysis, wine is a solution of
alcohol and water, combined with
various constituents of the grape.
The amount of alcohol in wines
range from 6 to 40 per cent as beverages
these r open to the. same objections,
as those manufactured from malt. Dis
titled liquors are whiskey, brandy, and
the kindred production of the still.
Whisky is a solution of alcohol and
water mixed with various other prin-
ciples which impart to it peculiar
physiceI properties The amount of
alcohol which it contains varies from
4S to 56 per cent. We object to their
use as a beverage, because these arti-
cles + either pure or adultterated. In