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system has become habituated to alcohol, as in some rare intances of habit- 

 ual topers and in some wasting diseases. 



This substitution should be a matter of necessity and not of choice. 



2. The healthy man, with a full and varied supply of food, needs absolutely 

 no alcohol. Wine with food sometimes assists digestion ; but the diges- 

 tion which needs the aid is either enfeebled or overburdened. The most 

 severe and long continued labor can be carried on better without alcohol 

 than with it. This is in most cases especially true of mental labor. 



3. In the few cases in which this is not true, and where a small quantity 

 of alcohol suffices merely to restore the normal vigor without excitement, the 

 previous condition is probably one of somewhat impaired vitality, perhaps 

 more especially affecting the heart. As an addition to a diet already suffi- 

 cient, alcohol is to say the least, useless in perfect health, 



4. An occasional use of light wine or beer is a luxury and not a neces- 

 sity. Experience shows that such a use cannot be regarded as seriously 

 detrimental either to bodily or mental vigor. 



5. After a fatiguing day's work, as a relaxation and agreeable change, or 

 as a prelude and assistance to the digestion of more appropriate food, alco- 

 hol may be looked upon as approaching more nearly to a true stimulant or 

 restorative action than under any other circumstances in health. We theit 

 expect from it neither intoxication nor reaction. 



6. An habitual overdose of alcohol leads to degeneration of important 

 organs and undermines the vital powers. 



7. There may be moral reasons for total abstinence entirely distinct from 

 the physiological. 



8. The introduction of the use of light wine and beer, though not de- 

 sirable in a community already in a state of ideal physical and moral per- 

 fection, is highly desirable as a substitute for the use of stronger liquors. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



FRUIT LISTS AND FOREST TREES FOR KANSAS. 



The following fruit list was prepared some three years ago with the aid 

 of Prof. S. T. Kelsey, then a resident of the State, and one of the most 

 practical fruit growers in the West. It has in the main stood the test since 

 that time. It was then prepared to answer the many questions relating to 

 fruit growing in the State, and is now reproduced for the same reason : 



GENERAL LIST. 



Summer Varieties, in the Order of Ripening. — Carolina Eed June, Early 

 Harvest, June Sweet, Cooper's Early White. 



