The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-24

and Drs. Seys and Harding, we pick 4
ed up the man and found that he ]
had. fallen over in a fit OF intoxica-
ton, and broke his neck. was sum-
moned as a witness before the coro-
ner's jury and saw the post mortem
examination performed by those two |.
physicians. After removing the top
OF the skull for the purpose Of exam
lining the brain. they tested it for al
cohol by holding a lighted match
near it: and Immediately the brain
took fire and burned with a blue
flame like an alcohol lamp"
Scientists have solved the great
problem at last that alcohol is not
needed in the continuance and pres
ervation of life. All along the line
since temperance reforms and doc
tors have been making a close study
of the effects of alcohol upon the
| human frame, and investigating the |
chemistry of strong drink many Curl
Gus things have been brought out in |
| the manufacture of beverages under |
! fancy names, out of cheap liquors, |
and mixture of drugs, some of which |
are poisonous and others by the use
of acids, the whole together produc-
| ing a mixture scarcely better than
the witch's broth of Shakspere.
Way back in the early days of
scientific investigation DR.. Charles
Jewett said, Rum is alcohol and
water, brandy is alcohol and dirty
water The latter definition will
apply to the two hundred and twenty
or more different drinks concocted
for the human stomach. What for?
Evidnetly to SATISFY the greed for
power obtained thru the accumula-
ton of wealth. At what cost: The
destruction of home and happiness.
This same DIR. Jewett, of Connect
cut, who was so prominent in the
Washingtonian movement, and who
said of himself, 81 did not come in at
the back door of my profession" and
whose medical opinions, therefore,
on questions connected with the use
of intoxicating liquors, are entitled
to respectful attention. In volume
of his speeches, poems and miscel-
laneous articles, the latter chiefly for
the temperance journals, he says at
the conclusion of his preface, 81 will
say to the public concerning this
book, as / have often said of dose
of medicine to a sick friend, IF you
can only manage to swallow it, be-
lieve it will do you good. .
' He settles one fact in his research
a and it is this, chat the law of arti-
e fetal appetites is the law of increase.
\ The demand is for more, more II
? is the law which, when man has
$ heedlessly formed an appetite for in
V toxicating stimulants, drags him
e down thru a, course of indescribable
n sufferings, to grave of infamy. AS
d l have gone back to the Washington
- ian movement and introduced q
r strong champion of temperance al
e that time, it might be we'll to men
e tion the year and place of its birth
:, to refreshen your minds. ITS origin
: was in tipping house in the city Of
n Baltimore, in the year 1910, with &
:, company of hard drinkers who haC
j formed themselves into a club, and
5 who used to meet for drinking bouts
l. at Chase's tvern. One night Rev
l. Mathew Hale Smith lectured on tenn
n perance in church and two of these
" clubmen went, and were walked up
rcf oil fn hot hn
d discussion followed, and the result
le caused a Temperance organization
e. which did good work in its day, callet
J. Washington Total Abstinence So
l. ciety.''
s, Pardon my going back to the earl
1t days Of temperance reform. Perhap
IS by this time you have concluded tina
a. l am in my dotage-an old fossil
IS and should be laid on the shelf. Per
TO haps l should. l have often felt tina
t way myself, and have sometime
N thought myself justified in retiring
~ fro inactive work, but as yet whel
N asked to aid in any way, don't dar
ID to fatty refuse, for | do not want tn
a stigma of being called a deserteI
D. My object in turning your thought
s. backward in this article is, that a
e. we contemplate the mighty stride
le forward in this goth century alOna
le the lines of my subject by the w.
r. T. T., some younger members Nigh
J. forget that other temperance organi
D. cations have existed and have dom
D. good work along this line of investi
IS cation. They were good agitator
le and did good foundation work, but
ID ladies, are any of these organization
ic in existence now except the GooC
w Templars? Will it seem egotistica