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ting in debt and borrowing, and mortgaging their crops or 

 their stock or their homes. There are many such people, 

 and there are just as many who cannot store up any of that 

 precious capital consisting of bodily health and strength. If 

 they feel buoyant and strong, they will not economize their 

 strength, but work or go until they are worn out, and then 

 take tobacco or alcohol to deaden the tired feeling. If a 

 man is weary, it is not to his interest to feel rested until he 

 is rested. Such feelings are a cheating of nature, a break- 

 ing down of the protective barriers around life's citadel. 

 Such a one deceives himself. One who deceives another 

 is called a liar ; one who habitually deceives himself brings 

 the same destruction upon himself as the fool. 



497. C. F. Hodge, Professor of Physiology in Clark 

 University, made a series of experiments upon four 

 kittens and four spaniels. Moderate non-intoxicant doses 

 of alcohol were given daily to two of each. 



(Dogs could be killed in a few minutes or a few days or 

 months by sufficiently large doses of alcohol. While such 

 experiments might have some interest to toxicology, they 

 could not have much to physiology.) 



498. At the end of ten days, the two kittens dosed with 

 alcohol took severe colds. Up to this time, purring and 

 playfulness had been disappearing from their lives. They 

 were dwarfed in growth to 63 and 39 per cent, respec- 

 tively, as compared with the others. 



499. Of the two pairs of spaniels, the pair treated with 

 alcohol weighed less, and developed only 71 and 57 per 

 cent of the activity of the other pair, as shown by the pe- 

 dometer. The dogs treated with alcohol also developed 

 strange symptoms of timidity and fear, suggesting the ter- 

 rible fears of delirium tremens and alcoholic insanity. 



500. In Dr. Hodge's opinion the experiments above 

 described have direct bearing on the question of the effect 

 of alcohol on the human system. The experiments proved 



