Arizona republican., 1906-10-12

Byron is said to have been a wine
 bibber; his early death and less taste
 ful rhymes in his later days imply both
 the physical and the mental wrecks.
 But, on the other hand. Longfellow
 and Whittier and Bryant all abstain
 CTS, not only lived a prolonging life
 but also could arrange stanzas in their
 poetic works with more skill and deep
 CT thoughts according as their age was advancing It is known that many of
 the inmates of an insane asylum owe
 their derangement to the former habit Alcohol carried from the stomach
 through the arteries, to the brain
 creates a wildering sensation because of the stimulated nerves so a carous-
 CT plays a foolish but abomnible role
 while his intoXication lasts. Vice thus appears A criminal census tells up
 that a greater part of crime is due
 to the bar of a saloon. Wu. a great ancient king of China and contempora-
 ry of Abraham. the remotest ruler over the Israelites. drank the first liquor
 made by a courties named Giteki and exclaimed: Tn the future age will
 some one cause the fall of the king dom,' and estranged the brewer. St Paul said that man should not be drunk. From the olden time they have used the deadly thing with which wicked betting and vain pleasures are associated. speeding their financial wreck.
 Wines and liquors contain pure al- cohol ranging from 20 to 90 per cent Give a teaspoonful of pure alcohol to a eat and you will be surprised to see her die of it on the spot Half a cup of the same given to a dog will kill him. giving him few cries in agony. The tongue owns three parts: the tiT receives things. the center tastes them and the rott judges whether or not they be worth going down into the stomach. As alcoholic drink is once taken much against the vigilant tongue. then the adversary gets full sway over the sentinel. so the captain of the stomach yields the very assaiI- ant that demands draught upon draught till man drinks sake and gobbles sake upon sake but finally tho sake swallows the man. as the Jap anese saying is. is enacted. Buzzards live on carcass, and not on grain. even on the verge Of starvation. because the latter does not fit the stomach Yet much better creatures do swallow the insipid stuff against the natural use or the tongue!
 Some of them say that if used by Q fixed measure. any spurious drink does no harm. but good to its users; how ever, it is hard to follow the same one measure. it is rather easy to quit altogether: besides the least part of d thing ought or is to bring the least merit of its>own. The alcoholic naturc in but few good ways is for the utn- ity of whisky by a person who nas been bitten by a snake. in order to disperse the poison. which coaguIates . in the blood, through the pores of the skin, and for the application of an alcoholic medicine upon a patient by an experienced physician, who can prescribe it. knowing of the formers ] ailment and characteristic system.
 The Americans laugh at the poor . Chinese who are being fumigated to l. slow death by opium, while they them selves are suffering amid a sea of !. whisky.
 An admirable incident took place in ! connection with a New Years feast. l celebrated at the White House. under 1. the administration of President Hayes. !. The guests consisting of home off ! cials and foreign representatives when l they sat down at the grand table deck | ed with relishable attractions looked ! at one another with inquiring eyes. for ! there was no strong berevage of years ] custom to be seen before them, but 1 presently they all learned that the first 1 lady of the United States being a i member of the Temperance Society of 1 America, which had been initiated over | a score of years ago achieved her l duty on the occasion, and inwardly ! praised her much for her determina- tiOn.
 This nobIe exaD,nIe has sDread ]