The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-29
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
TIE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.

Jnlian Hawthorne Says There Ia One Way
Only to Destroy the Microbe Of Drunk
enness, and That Is to Stop Drinking
and Never Resume.
Many specifies have been offered to
stop the craving for alcohol; but none
If them has proved effective. A drug
may leaden for 4 time the thirst foI
drink; but the deafness is not death;
tie thirst sooner or later rcvives; anu
when, as otter happens, the remedy is
Itself IL preparation of alcohol, the pa
lient is stabbed in the house OF his
pretended friends. There is one way
MY to destroy the microbe Of drunk
pHnGsS If there be such Il mlcrobc),
and that is, to stop drinking, and never
resume it.. But how shall this be done,
wien the man feels that lis very life
las we'll as, ultimately, Il d~runEards
.leath) depends oil his getting his dose:
As long as lie continues to want AGO.
ECl, he will continue 10 take it: or at
ANY rate, he will always be liable to
take if, even after an abstention oil
scmc years. l knew a maj who, Iii
order to cure himself Of the habit, I'M
IeTtook q voyage i'll 4 sailing Vessel
from New York to San Francisco,
round Cape Horn. He was rich man,
and he chartered the ship at his OWL
expense. He ladc farewell. to his
friends. and semeed quite cheerful ut
;Lc prospect Of his emancipation. 1t
was an heroic remedy, no doubt; but,
he said. IF ] can be where Ican't get
the stuff for three months, ! can man.
age to keep from ever touching 1t
afterward." So off he sailed; and his
friends congratulated him Oh his pluck.
Eut, incredible rs it may seem, this
man had all along been playing 0
double game, which bad so little "a
~tionallty in it that ii appears the de-
vice Of q maniac. While his ship was
gettiEg ready for her voyage. be secret
" hired a carpenter to build a tank
into tire wall Of his stateroon1, with l
small opening close to The head OF lis
bunk. Before the ship sailed. lie had
this tank filed with whisky. II ar
ranged a tap which could be fitted 10
tie hole, enabling him 70 draw out the
stuff at will. Al! this he kept a pro-
found secret. lie bad his voyage, and
was loaded with whisky from the first
day of il TO the last; and reached San
Francisco in doiirium treIGens. There
is 4 psychological puzzle for the ex-
perts. .
The craving for drink is purely q
physical craving; and you have got to
DEPEND uEon the spirit in you TO stop
Il. If the spirit were Z distinct thing
from the body this might not be so
hard: but spirit and body are inter-
woven in US in q mysterious manner,
and 10 man can mark the boundary
between them. Nevertheless, the spirit
is one thing and the body is another.
That in you which wishes to be free
is the spirit: and that which wishes to
continue in slavery is tie body. The
spirit can be made to rule the body; II
has done so in many instances, IS DONG
so at this moment, ard can 10 so III the
future. 1t is for you and every otner
man. of us to decide whether it shall
not do so in our instance. What You
must do, if you wish to stop, is not
simply to resist the craving heh II
attacks you, for if you wait for that II
will be too late, and you will be over
come. What you must do is to be be-
forchand with yourself and keep your.
self above the temptation: refuse 10
be approached by it Or to have any
IL with it. Do not say, won't
drink whisky today: but Danish the
subject of whisky altogether from
your thoughts; carry or the fight Oh
the higher plane; ill your mind With
other things.
The short Of it is that nobody can
resist temptation; but we can, II we
| will. rise above temptation, and SO,
literally, overcome it. No ore can be
tempted without yielding; but he car
| avoid being tempted. 1t might posi-
bly, assist you in the fight to get some
other man to make it with you; you
would then have your obligation to
! him. as we'll as that to yourself; you
would feel that perhaps his salvation
| depended on your strength. But in the
end it is on yourself that yoa must
rely: neither l nor any other man, nor
the Almighty Himself, can save you
except through yourself. But yon can
do it if you will; and you best know
whether you really will. or whether,
like the nal who sailed round Cape
| Horn, you are only making believe
| Julian Hawthorne, il the New YORK.
American.
Arc Bound to Abstain.
A very large number of the wage