THE KI NG’ S BUSINESS almost instantly. The frog was full grown and average size. A boy smok ing 20 cigarettes in a day inhales enough poison to kill 40 frogs.” A chemist took the tobacco used in an average cigarette and soaked it in several teaspoonfuls of water, and in jected a portion of it under the skin of a cat. The cat almost immediately went into convulsions and died m 15 minutes. Dogs have been killed with a single drop of nicotine. In prepar ing a culture bed for vice germs, do not omit the cigarette. They stupify the conscience, deaden the brain, place the affections in abeyance, and bring the beast to the surface. Do not apply all intemperance to alco hol and tobacco. To look at the average person is to behold a sign board in life size of the intemperance of the individ ual. Some have been intemperant in drugs, some in food, some in sexual matters, some in drink, some in intellec tual dissipation and some in religious dissipation. At present the people are intemperate in the use of the automo bile, intemperate in pleasure seeking. Temperate in all things is the ideal. Golden Text Illustration. In the United States in 1910 there were about 88,319 paupers. If all the states had been dry like Kansas, there would have been only 22,819 paupers. Statisticians tell us that 37 per cent of all pauperism and a much larger per cent of “ poverty” is due to drink. A straw vote of nearly 2 0 ,0 0 0 destitute and homeless men, taken by the Charity Organization on the'streets of New York City, showed that 60 per cent of these men ascribe their destitution to intem perance, only 17 per cent to sickness and injury, and 23 per cent to old age and slack work. v\!£. m Rather than treat this lesson in the regular way, it has occurred to us that many of our readers might value a re view of the temperance work that has
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LESSON upon marriage and ILLUSTRATIONS divorce issued by W. H. Pike the Census Bureau in 1909. This num ber of such divorces constitutes 19.5 per cent of all cases of divorce. And be it remembered that drunkenness is not a ground for divorce in Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Texas. Judge Wm. M. Gemmill, former judge of the Court of Domestic Rela tions, declares that at least 75 per cent of all family desertions are due either directly or indirectly to the use of in toxicating drinks, and that by record 46 per cent of all the cases coming to that court are due directly to drink. In Ohio on June 20, 1913, there were 772 divorce cases pending in 45 dry counties, and 4,803 pending in 43 wet counties. Intemperance causes disease. “ Drunk enness and its consequent degeneracy explains 35 per cent of epilepsy,” says Dr. Matthew Woods. “ Alcohol is not a medicine,” -says Dr. DeWitt G. Wilcox. “ It aggravates dis ease and hastens death; it is productive of physical and mental degeneracy. It is the best possible persuader of dis eases and damaging even in small quantities.” “ Twenty-eight per cent of the men admitted to this hospital dur ing the past year were alcoholized. This does not include alcohol-caused insan ity,” says Dr. H. C. Eyman of the Mas- silon, Ohio, Asylum. The surgeon to King Edward, Sir Frederick Treves, says, “ Alcohol is dis tinctly a poison, and the limitation of its use should be as strict as that of any other kind of poison.” The Evil of Cigarettes. Dr. J. J. Kellogg- says, “ I had all the nicotine removed from a cigarette and made a solution of it. I injected half of it into a frog and the frog died
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