The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-28

Y n yHEN the poet Byron, whom your mother has
NM read and does not wish you to read, had ex-
w hausted all the lesser vices that make us un-
comfortable, he looked around Tor new nades 10 DC
conquered by and remarked
$50, for good old fashioned vice.
think will take up with avarice.
This is the remark of poet. No tightwad
look upon himself as avarcious Rather ne regards
himself practicing these noble Spartan virtues OF
economy, low living and high thinking that made the
fathers of the republic great His is OF the saw
ing examples of thrift and industry that stands out
like lighthouse on the rocky coast OF extravaganza,
pecuniary carousal and financial shpWreck. This is
very comfortable feeling.
Emerson has pointed out that for all right think
ING people, economy has it's pleasures. This is doubt
less true And economy carried to the nth power,
which is the avarice practiced by the ghtwad doubt
less pleasures that the free pender never guesses
temporarily comfortable feeling arises from having
it roped, baled and hidden away in the cellar, great
bales of government bonds, Stocks securities, notes,
promisesto-pay and the RICH luxurious greenback in
bales with brown paper pinned around punches OF
thousands.
night and felt that he had put out several millions the
day before and that call money was from 30 to 126
ner cent YOU can guess the cheerful feeling that
drove the rich red blood thru his withered old heart
in purple riot and made him smile happily TO himself
as he dropped off sleep again like child with his
hand under his cheek. h
But the sturdy old figure has gone from Its
customed haunts From this world Of sorrow and
seven per cent, ~,
Bears all her away
think with chuces of joy of the stuff baled in the
cellar to be from it's cheerful presence "untimely
ripped.''
ing and to teach the lesson Of attachment to
things that quit just beg inning to have
fun If we could this world process and conform
ourselves to It's AIM, perhaps ght be really happy
who knowsg
Flies might be all right in the house If they would
wipe their feet.
49,
Golfers Weekly recently made up list Of thirty
two cases of death from the of ''headache pow
ucts The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal de-
olares that Of these thirty only eleven died.
In any coal tar products are mighty poor sub
stitute FOR right living
The VermIion s. D.. Republican is strongly op-
posed to beer. ''Beer,' says the Republican, CTS
Sluggish corrosive persistent demon that rests nei-
Their day night. Whisky has the vicousness of a
rattlesnake; beer the Shiny, noisome, unshakable
grasp Of devfsh. It is deadening, Supplying, cal
lousing finally paralyzing This submit is pretty
bad but the worst to come The article continues:
'"An physicians say that of all their patients they
most dread habitual beer-drinker. He has no re.
serve, stock of vitality upon which to draw, and
when disease that healthy would throw off
with little trouble sets its fangs him he is marked
for the grave.
''There are good reasons for this. The alcohol in
the beer is grossly impure There is from to l2 pc,
cent Of alcohol in BEER and it Is polluted with all the
vicious substances resulting from the decomposition
rotting of the starchy and other vegetable matters
used in brewing. Undoubtedly in the process u
brewing there numerous and little known vege
table poisons of a deadly nature developed in the
Of the rotting of the grains There must b.
actual decay and change of matter in the process Of
brewing and this must necessarily develop things
which prejudicial to health. When the product
is distilled, these are left behind.
s'Unless the beer evil is checked by decisive meas
ures, whole manhood and womanhood is in DANCE
of rotting away under the awful curse of the cold
clammy, rotting Beer Devil, which is to the human
body what the mildew is to the grape.''
This is escape for us. We nea
having small glass Of the stuff the other day witt
lunch, but finally compromised water A J. R.