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the subject of alcohol, as also in his open ing address, when he urged that the ques tion should be scientifically studied. Here are some of the statements made by these British M. D.’s in their addresses; “Alcohol does not quench thirst, but causes it.” “Alcohol lowers the quality and quantity of work, both manual and intellectual.” “Alcohol impairs perception and feeling, and blunts moral sense.” “Alcohol is a narcotic poison, to be class ed with chloroform and ether.” “Alcohol disposes to infectious fevers and tuberculosis.” “Alcohol in pneumonia and typhoid fever does more harm than good.” “Alcohol hastens- the end in fatal cases, and retards recovery in curable ones.” “Alcohol is one of the predisposing causes in heart failure and apoplexy.” “Alcohol predisposes to sunstroke, fatty degenerations, and rapid aging.” Mr. D. L. Moody used to tell of a man who’ dreamed he died and weni to heaven. One day an angel came and lifted him up- and told him to look through a window. He looked out and the angel said to him: ‘«What do you see?” “I see a great, dark world.” “Look again, and see if you do not see something else.” He looked again, and he saw not only the great, dark world, but he saw the great city. “Look again.” He looked again, and saw in the great city the place where he had lived. “Look again.” He looked again, and the angel said: “What do you see?” “I see people right around my home blindfolded, falling over precipices.” “Do you want to stay here and enjoy heaven, or do you want to go back and take the band off their eyes and let them see their doom?” “I want to*go back.” Then he awoke. But that dream made him a soul saver.
stove holds the warmth through the night— on through the nights of my life.” “I find in the cities and countries where the prohibitory law is well enforced, crime and police expenses fall off wonderfully. Not a saloon is open in this, the largest city in the state. The sheriff of this county told me a few. days since that he had spoiled his business by enforcing the law. He also stated that he was glad of it. Several of the judges have recently told me that there was a marked falling off in criminal business in their courts in conse quence of the enforcement of the law. There are several judicial districts without a sin gle open saloon. If our courts and .sheriffs and constables would do their duty prop erly the saloon would soon be completely driven out.”—From the G overnor o f a P ro hibition State. We have repeatedly hitter illustrations of the pass to which drink brings men and women. Thus in a German exchange we read recently of a Silesian laborer who actually cut the hair from his dead wife’s head before the funeral and sold it for spirits! But even this case is surpassed by one which Mile, de Laveleye related at one of the sections of the international Anti- Alcohol Congress in Milan last September. Mile, de Laveleye, who is the daughter of the famous Belgium political economist of the past generation, M. Emile de Laveleye, is, as her father, an earnest Protestant. She is also active in anti-alcohol propaganda. In speaking of the lengths to which those bound in the chains of alcoholism will go to get "drink she narrated the story of a woman in Liege whose child had been op erated on by tracheotomy. A silver tube was placed in the throat. This the mother abstracted and bartered for gin. Her child died.
At a late meeting of the British Medical Association thirty-two spoke on alcohol. Sir Thomas Barlow spoke earnestly on
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