St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-02-27

at property. The priceless power OF sci
nd control is gone. The man is 'tipsy" c
drunk"
A. In the fourth stage the unhapp
victim is "dead-drunk." The paralysi
or ofthe brain is practically complete. H
lies helpless, and breathes with lahore
al breaths. A few of the larger brain center
carry on part of their work automat
IS. cally, but the peril is imminent that thes
too may cease activity, and death ensue
OF from which there isno awaking. Terrible
completed work of this relentless enefn,
n of the brain.
Sc But" some one objects, "these ar,
N mainly the effects ofexcessive alcoholism
', which must be conceded to be injurious
le It's moderate use is different thing, anC
d may beeven beneficial" Now not to dwell
d upon the appalling fact that every i'm
e moderate user of alcoholic liquors began
If with the smallest quantity, and that the
craving grows with indulgence and its
4 use tends steadily toward its abuse, it
e should be clearly understood that all
r authorities agree in CHASING alcohol
among the poisons. 1t is the distinguish
ing mark of poison that its effect upon
healthy organism is injurious, and may
become deadly; poison is poisonous
whether the quantity is large or small.
This poisonous quality of alcohol is
Illustrated by the results of beer drinking.
Small as is the percentage of alcohol in
beer, and healthful as some of its ingredi-
ents may be, it cannot be used regularly
with IMMUNITY. 1t tends to an unwhole-
some deposit of fat among the tissues.
or to fatty degeneration which is in
durable Those who drink much beer
usually have a glazed face which is a
sign OF inner deterioration, and they
often succumb quickly to injuries or dis
eases which are not serious to abstainers. !
A diseased liver is frequent malady of
the beer-drlnker. Shakespeare, three
hundred years ago, makes one Of his
characters speak of heating his liver
with drinking" The state agent ofone
OF the largest life insurance companies in
the world, and one eager to maintain its
enormous list of policy holders, told me
that he had been instructed by the main
office that he must not regard as a first
class risk any man, however satisfactory
in other respects, who drank three or
tour glasses of beer daily When | was
IN Germany it was acknow-
edged to me by very intelligent Ger I
nan, not a total abstainer, that beer
thinking shortened the lives of many able
Germans, often cutting off University {
professors in their prime. While waiting
or train at the railroad station in
4Ontainebleau, France in 1902, my eve q
vas caught by large placard, issued $
lot by temperance society but by the t
al b,, f.1. !,
warning the public against the deadly
fleets of strong alcoholic beverages, and !,
ldvsing the use of tea and coffee instead t
If wine and beer c
AS tor the bogus zone per cent" or two e
'er cent beers no one who uses them n
an tell what adulterants he is taking a
nto his system; but any one who has
deserved the effects of the stuff knows W
hat it creates abnormal appetite, de- Fl
anges the bodily functions, and has an e. e.
larmlngly paralyzing effect upon some l."
i the BRAIN centers, resembling the terri D
lie malady known as ''locomotor VI
taxa" OF
1t used to be thought that in extreme :,
old 1t was necessary to drink LIQUOR; n,
ut 1t has been proved that alcohol low
RS the vitality which needs to be at the u
ighest efficiency to withstand the cold. .,
he great Arctic explorers are total alb tc
tanners 1t used to be imagined that IL pr
uor was OF advantage in hot climates; "a
is now known that it is peculiarly dan w
erous there where cool head and de
-eady heart are essential 1t used to be IL,
lven regularly to soldiers and sailors, o,
ut enlightened governments have stop. AZ
ed doing that. The great railroads W
lake the sweeping requirement that CT
one OF their employees shall drink. Hun in
reds OF great business corporations re- w
Use to employ drinking men; they are AZ
1tal abstinence societies from purely m
lsness motives. Ia
1t is clearly most unwise, then, in
outh, when life's habits are forming, to ize
'ntract the perilous drink habit. 1t is !"
anliestly not good business" to drink mi
middle life, when a clear head and
'und body will make all the difference
tween success and failure. But how
)out old age' Sir Henry Thompson, ar
le OF the most eminent of English scien- of
he physicians in the new edition of his
'ok on Diet, published a few months ,,
20, says that, in view Of the prevalent re
ca that little wine is good for elderly -
ople. he thought he might wisely use it
being over eighty years of
e. But he found that even very G
oderate use of good wine once a day
tn his dinner caused stiffening of the
nts, which disappeared when he gave
the wine; and he believes his case NAV -
considered fair indication of the eff
t OF wine on persons in advancing !
ars. 1t is good to keep clear of the
ison to the end. -
the most experienced states
IN OF our day, who ruled longest and ~
'st widely of any man in the nineteenth
ltury, gave it as his Judgment that
'oholic liquors had caused more misery
the world than the three awful evils
ar pestilence and famine, combined
mted as our experience is compared
It'll his, we have all of us seen enouoh
make us sure that it pays to keen
cohol out of that most delicate and
eclous motor mechanism, the human
'dy. ''' ''D
EDWARD d. EATON.