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demonstrate the presence of alcohol by the exhalations from the 

 skin and lungs, as you can the presence of arsenic in the body of a 

 person who has been poisoned by it. Food is that which is decom- 

 posed in the body and supplies it with the forces which the body 

 afterwards gives out. If your horse is tired by its journey, you can 

 give him a feed of corn and time to digest it, and he goes into har- 

 ness again as vigorous as ever and ready for the next stage. What 

 is it that has taken him along through the second stage? It is the 

 corn which has served as food to the animal, and has become de- 

 composed in its tissues, just as the coal would be put into a loco- 

 motive furnace when the fire was going down. Now, suppose, 

 instead of giving a horse a measure of corn, you give him a liberal 

 allowance of whip, which is a stimulant ? The horse goes on and 

 works until more compbtely exhausted; and just so with a man. It 

 should be recollected that food puts strength into a man by giving 

 substance to supply waste; but alcoholic stimulants abstract strength 

 from a man; they excite but to exhaust. Then recollect that when 

 you employ stimulant, you are using that which will exhaust the 

 last particle of strength with which your body otherwise would not 

 part. That is what we always do when we work on stimulants ; it 

 is obviously unnatural, and therefore injurious. The foregoing 

 statement being true that alcoholic liquors furnish neither nutri- 

 ment nor muscular strength it must logically follow that their use 

 is unnatural and injurious. 



Alcohol an Enemy to Prosperity To illustrate the 

 beneficial effects that flow from curtailment of the use of alcoholic 

 liquors, we give the following facts which were submitted by the 

 clerk of the circuit court of Edwards County, in the State of Illinois, 

 some time since: 



" There has not been a licensed saloon in this county for over 

 twenty -five years. During that time our jail has not averaged an 

 occupant. This county never sent but one person to the peniten- 

 tiary, and that man was sent up for killing his wife, while drunk on 

 whisky obtained from a licensed saloon in an adjoining county. 



" We have but very few paupers in our poor house, sometimes 

 only three or four. Our taxes are thirty-two per cent, lower than 

 they are in adjoining counties, where saloons are licensed. Our 

 people are prosperous, peaceable and sober, there being very little 

 drinking, except near Grayville, a licensed town of White County, 

 near our border. The different terms of our circuit court occupy 

 three or four days each year, and then the dockets are cleared." 



Treatment of the Alcohol Habit Dr. W. F. Waugh, of 

 Philadelphia, has devoted considerable time to the study of the al- 

 cohol habit. In seeking the causes for the return of the drunkard 

 to his habits of intoxication, he has noted the following : 



"1. PREVIOUSLY EXISTING DISEASE which had led to drink. It 

 is a misfortune to a neuralgic when the relief afforded by alcohol is 



