The Springdale news., 1906-10-26

As proof thereof the stronger alco- hol applied to the skin becomes an irritant: taken into the mouth or stomach 1t will blister the mucous membrane. The weaker or diluted alcohol produces the same effects. only In lesser degree. Two ounces, how ever, will kill dog.
 Bishop Muldoon cannot claim that spirituouS liuuors can supply anything which is essential in the nutrition of the system, since we find multitudeS of | individuals maintaining the highest vigor and activity both of body and mind, without ever employing any one of these liquors as an article of diet while those who indulge Tn it Ire always ailing
 That splrituous liquors are incapab ble of forming any part of the body is ad- mitted by all intelligent phYSiologistS. l They cannot be converted into blood | brain. bone or muscle.
 will admit they are stimulants. Their first effects are to arouse the system and for a brief season give 1t tone and vigor. You fec stronger, the mind is frightened and eheered: : such IS called stimulation, but it is only temporary for the stimulation has become depressant, and that, too, just in proportion to the stimu- lation, so that nothing is gained in the end.
 | While the habitual use of liquors, in even the most moderate quantities, might seem to have no injurious ef- fleets, yet 1t is these very moderate doses that create the craving, the morbid craving, for increasing quan- titles, and which in time makes of the moderate drinkera habitual drunkard. l While some acquire the drink habit from frequent daily tippling to keep up Stimulation, others, unfortunately. inherit 1t from law of heredity by which the appetite for it is transmit ted from parent to child. It Is fact, the drunken mother will generally have drunken children, like herself. and the drunken father will have drunken children, like himself
 Spiritu0us liquors. then, being d powerful mental excitant and intoxi- cant, it is therefore surely within the truth to say that half the existing cases of pauperism, insanity ana crime, and especially matrimonial dis orders, are due directly to this very alleged gift of God.
 It is estimated that 5,o0O wives are annually sent to untimely graves by the cruelty of drunken, brutal hus- l bands.
 But why did the good bishop not know that such endorsement of this Satanic element would only tend to encourage whole nation of the uni verse, especially old s0tS, to double and treble and duadruple their cups, thinking that if little of the alleged divine is good, much must be better: and so many now may be unwsely tempted to go from bad to worse.
 Better the high church dignitary had said, "'Touch not, taste not, handle not, so as to avold all appearance of evil
 Hear the wisdom of the wise King Solomon
 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and he who is deceaved there by is not wise. "
 No spiritual journal or other news paper can give space sufficient to tell the amount of sin and shame and sui fering entailed by this social curse. All addicted to its allurementS are cursed, dsgraced and ruined by 1t. It intlames and maddens the brain: 1t kills reputation and character: 1t makes feolS of men and idiots of wo- men, leading them into every manner of disorder and crime
 In conclusion, God pity the wives of drunken husbands.
 God pity too, the offspring of drunken parents.
 Total abStainers are among the hap piest on earth.
 To them there is no Salntliness in strong drink: to them the cold pressed sap and juices of luscious fruits, together with pure milk and | cold living water as beverages, are in- deed, the true gift of God. No ecclesiastic should ever pro- nounce liquor, the drunkard's drink, ''the gift of Godah Such is libel upon God and a sort of blasphemy
 Haywood, III. DR. R. GREER.