Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-03-31

week Attending The funeral of the late
DIR. Hover
Miss Mary Watson, OF Jefferson
county, has been here on visit 10 her
brother, A. L. Watson, and family on
West King street.
Attorney j. o. Henson, now assist
ant attorney general, is here on Wis I
to his mother and incidentally TO ,ote
last Monday.
Mrs Charles James Faulkner, Who
mas been travelling through the fsr
South has returned home The greater
portion of her time since esrly in jan
uary has been spent In Washia gIon
and Louisville but the last four weeks
have been spent IN Cuba.
August Thuss, B. d o. b-akem. n
was struck by the overhead bridge at
Z. V. crossing on the outskirts of thls
city while standing in his train last
Wednesday and was Knocked oil re
eeiving some serious injuries. He was
taken 20 the Kings Daughters hos
pital.
Rev. w f. Locke and Mr.. a. C.
Nadenboush left on Tuesday for Clifton
Forge, Virginia, to attend the meeting
Of the conference of the NJ. f. church,
South, which is now in session at that
place. Our people hope TO see Rev.
Mr.. Locke returned for the next year
to the church in this city. He. has
been faithful and loving pastor and
is very popular with the people OF the
town in general.
Rev. w. F. Gruver, the faithful
pastor of the U. b. church in this city,
has been returned by his conference TO
his old charge. Mr.. Gruver is a man
Of remarkable energy and efficiency
and withal a good pastor. The church
has grown as no other church in the
city has grown. The congregation has
undertaken to build fine new church
on Queen street just South Of Penn.
ave. and a:seco1d U. b. Gnu ch has
been organized in the first wan!, know
as the boom with consideraui3 mem
bership and besides this another church
has been established at Shoop, the
station on the b. & o. just east of the
Opequon, on the line of the B. & o.
where the Blair Quarries are located.
The work has SO grown that the con-
ference has appointed an assistant to
tue pastor.
DR.. Howard A. Kelley, of John Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, says:
Had never been discovered, and were
it then in my power to portray the eff
fects of such discovery all men, with
out exception, would declare it impos
S ,ble for the very fiends of he'll to con-
eeive any more dlabolical plan for the
degradation and destruction Of the hu-
man race. Our greatest foes are the
manufacturers and the distributors of
alcohol. The story of injuries done by
drink are SO written 10 the sad life his
tory of many of our greatest men; are
SO evident throughout our land in
squalor, poverty, misery, and crime,
and replete in prisons, warehouses,
and asylums, as well as in domestic
infelicity, learned i'll the confessional
and by the physician, that it is incon-
ceivable that any intelligent, rational
man can deny the necessity for strong,
united action to rid the land Of both
manufacturer and distributor.
| have no .further arguments, still
less new ones. simply leave the pal
pable appalling facts to him who
would defend the traffic, and for him
can entertain only feeling of aston
ishment and pity.
These conclusions are, | believe, in the
light of experience, unassailable:-
Alcohol is non-efficent as food, a
most condemnabie, wasteful substi-
tate.
1t may be classed as drug and a
poison, all the more dangerous because
inslduous and often delayed in its Wis
IDLE effects.
1t has no recognized position as
medicine; there is no disease Of all the
thousand known of which He can say
that alcohol or an alcoholic beverage
will cure it. IL destroys individuality,
domestic and civic felicity.
1t increases taxation by filling pris-
ons, madhouses, and poorhouses.
1t is The greatest foe toclvilization at
home and in heather lands, by cor
rupting the higher spiritual pe.cap-
tons. If Christianity is the ideal OF
our modern life, then alcohol IS It's
deadly foe.