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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-07-15, Page 6`tw±�xa-�efa�t?arrr�tsrw The Huron Nates -etas 1.50 s Yens•—$1.ee to advance Wednesdnix. July 1Stlt, 1891, THE ANTAGONISM OF ALCOHOL WHAT ALCOHOL DORS. (From Canada Health Journal) The following extracts from an ad. dress by Dr. Leslie Keeley, publish- ed in the Chicago Tribune of gay 16, 1891, are of practical value at the present bine and in full accord with what this JOURNAL has long contend. ed. We respectfully ask our prohib ition friends to consider it well. and "come over and help us" in the work of PUBLIC HYGIENE, us of the first imp. portance. In the first plane, Dr. Keeley says, people drink because they have other diseases. Ever since the landing of Noah after the flood ani the Cana wedding alcohol has stood by the sick bed and has held the lamp for feasters and revel- ers. It has waited upon birth, sick . miss, injury, pain, joy, marriage, re- velry, and death alike. If drinking is a vine only, then the prescription is a crime. Alcohol is the instinct- ive remedy for injury, for sudden ill- ness, for pain. It is not the least among the remedies used by'physic. ians, and is acknowledged to he ben- efical and an antidote to disease and disease infection. As a medicine al- cohol antagonizes disease poieuns which depress the action of the heart. It antagonizes the physio- logical effects of the ptomaines o1' pathogenic microbes. It antagonizes the poison of sewer gas in the physi- ological perversions. Itantagouizni fatigue, it antagonizes body waste, due either to labor or disease. It furnishes heat force which is conver- ted into work, labor, and other phy- dialogical force. It anmsthetizes sor- row, it stimulates joy, it kills microbes it destroys ptomaines, it prevents theoverformation of poisonous leuco- maines during labor and during fever. Why, then, need we try to account further for the drink habit? Alcohol is medicine for rich and poor. It takes fatigue on its own shoulders and climbs the hills of toil with the workman. It sits up late with the genius and is consumed along with the midnight oil while dramas and poetry are written, machines are in yented, fortunes are discovered, and campaigns are planned, If alcohol bootee the arm of the murderer, it also nerves the heart of the fever patient. If alcohol is the genius of the gambling den it ;s also the em- blem of the blood in the commemor- ation of the Lord's Supper. If it is crime it it also medicine. If it mur- ders it also saves. If it causes dis- ease it also Beals. If it is a law- breaker it makes the law. wusN PROHIBITION WILL SUCCEED Dr. Keeley continues : But, now, to conclude our argument on the vice or disease relations of the drink- ing habit, let us further consider our same individual who can resist both the poison of the microbe of tubercle and the poisoning of alcohol. Is it a vice for this pian to swallow tubercle germs and whisky with his breakfast or not ? In ane sense it is, perhaps, but in another, it is not- So long as tubercle germs and alcohol exist the only method of acquir'ng an immuns ity and keeping it up must be by more or less continual exposure to both poisons; unless a substitute cure is discovered. If this man is no longer exposed to consumption poi- son, and his children are exempt, in time they will again begin to have the disease. The same rule will hold with alcohol. The question will come up now: If there were no alco- hol in the world, and no consumps tion microbes, then all this trouble could be avoided. Most certainly it could, but shortsighted people are the prohibitionists. The reason is easy to give. The poisone of this world are antagonistic to each other: the poisons of disease are antagoniz- ed byoso-called remedies which are also poisons. They forget that though alcohol is a poisn, it is also a remedy for the poison of disease. The difficulty of prohibition arises from the fact that the public will not be deprived of a remedy which' is so convenient and easily manufactured. Call it a charm and delusion, and drunkeness a vice and indulgence, if you will, but the fact remains that if prohibition ever succeeds it will be after the banishrnentof the infections of disease and their poisons. If the good people who ate agitating pro- hibition would turn their attention to sanitation and probibitelisease in- fection, the question ofalcohol pro• hibition would take care of itself. A MAN'S LIFE FOIL A DOG. A sequel to the terrible shooting affair which took place at Oliphant, near .'Wiarton, Bruce county, on Thursday evening, June 4th, occurred on Tuesday evening of last week, when Johnston Abercrombie, the victim, breathed his last. Amputee tion of the leg was performed the Sunday following the shooting and it was hoped for a time Abercrombie would recover, but he had become much worse the past week until death resulted. J. C. Cook who fired the fatal shot, is now in Welker - ton gaol. The particulars of the case, as near as can be learned, are that Cook bad a dug which Abercrombie claimed was worrying his cattle continually. He went to Cook's house on the night before the shooting took place and told Cook unless he kept his dog away from the cattle he would shoot him. On Thursday Aberorombiecame to Wiarton to see if he could not get law to prevent the continuance of the offence. On his return home he found that in bis absence a repetition of the worryingofhis cattle by Cook's dog had taken place. In a fit of passion he grabbed his gun and went in search of the offending brute. His little son Oliver, a bo of about fourteen yetWe hf ft`gd`; "fall d trirrt They went to Cook's house, which ie : nee Matthew xii., 17; that he wrote nealdy a mita from Abeyerowblea, Ana there fotln,tl the dog to his own er'e yard, 4.berorofz'bie rested his gun on the fence and 111'e1(4 but the distaece being so great and baying only fine allot in the Sun it injured the dog but little. THE FATAL SHOT. As soon as Abercrombie shot he turned to walk away, when his boy warned him that Cook was going to shoot him, and immediately the re, port of another gun was heard and Abercrombie fell to the ground wounded. Ile was taken home and a messenger sent to Wiarton for a doctor. Dr. R. M. Fisher and Mr. B. B. Cooper were soon at the scene of the tragedy. On arriving at Aber- crombie's house they found the vio- tim of the shooting suffering terribly. On examination they found a terrible wound just above the knee. The bone was shattered for seven or eight inches from the knee joint up, and the flesh mangled in a shocking manner. The wound was dressed as best it could he under the circum- stances, but it was apparent from the first that the leg would have to be amputated as soon as the poor man recovered from the shock. The next day Dr. Fisher returned accom- panied by Dr. Wigle and held a eon• sulcation over the matter, and ampu- tation was found unavoidable and decided upon for the next day. WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF ISAIAH. DR. MIJNHALL'S REASONS FOR BE- LIEVING THAT IT HAD BUT ONE AUTHOR. Dr. Munhali read this question, which has been asked ofttimes by some of the studouts : 'What proof can be given that Isaiah wrote the entire prophecy bearing his narue 4" "The so-called higher critics teach that the last twenty-seven chapters were writtten by another than he who wrote the first thirty-nine chap- ters." In answer he submitted these eighteen points : 1. Find this is en assumption. It has not been proven, nor can it be by their methods of criticism. 2. Their conclueions make it im- possible for a man to have rnore then ane @V,0 of writing. 3. It insists that a man's style of composition at 60 must be the same as it was at 25 years of age. . 4. It is the same style of criticism that cheap editors gave to Homer during the time of Pericles, and medieval men gave to Virgil, or that you give to Shakespeare and Dante. It degrades the Bible to a level of other books, and God says Hie words are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discern- ed. 5. Even from their own stand• .point their conclusions are ditprov- ed. Put on your literary spectacles ; it will do you no harm to wear them it the Iloly Spirit has enlightened the eyes of your understanding. Reading the book carefully one must be struck by very great similar- ity of style between two portions of the book. Such expressions as : "The mouth of the Lord has spoken it,""Drunken, but not with wine." "The lion shall eat straw like the ox," "Wilderness blossoming." Professor Dolitizch calls attention to the interlacing of the name of Jacob with Israel in both parts of the book, and the sententiousness of expression and the came breath- less haste in the movement of thought are everywhere discernible. Who- competent to judge can doubt that the thirty-fifth chapter is the prelude to the majestic harmonies in the fortieth and sixty-sixth chap• tars inclusive. 6, Josephus, mentions Isaac, the prophet, as one who lived in the days of Uezektah. Ile also gives the remarkable story of Cyrus bring- ing help to tho people, an explana- tion of which is said to be "His reading the book which Isaiah held behind him in his prophecies." Josephus then adds this was fore- told by Isaiah 140 years before the temple was destroyed. 7. The wording of the decree of Cyrus orderiug the erection of the Temple of Jerusalem is taken from that part of the prophecy written, as the higher critics tell, us after the days of Cyrus. 8. The author of the first part of the hook wrote in the reign of Hezekiab L, and the author of the secoud part of the book speaks of Hezekiah'e wife as a type of Testa -- ed Israel, see Isaiah lxii., 4 and 2. Kings xxi., I. -9. The Book of Ecleeiasticus identifies Isaiah with the titnee of King Hezekinh and the authorship of but.h parts of the book. 10. The entire book of Isaiah was attributed to the son of Amos by the great synagogue composed of such men as Ezra, Nehemiah, Zebariah, and Haggar five hundred years before Christ's advent. I1. The latter synagogue used it every Sabbath day as the Book of Isaiah, and fifteen out of sixteen of its prophetic readings are taken from chaptera 40 to 60. 12. The Talmud and Targum ascribe the whole book to Isaiah. 13. John the Baptist, said Ieaiah, wrote Isaiah 40-3. 14. Jesus Christ, said Isaiah, wrote Ieaiah ilii., 4, see Matcher villi, 3.7.4,that,-11er� whole chapter-x1ii, -:I,. 1144,. ollapter 1t akin LIui#o iv„ 17;, and that be wrote chapter liii., 1, sec John 15. Luke stays in Acte xxviii., 26 and 27, that Isaiah wrote chapter 6.9 and 10, and he also says in Ants 28 and 30, that Isaiah wrote chapter liii., 7 and 8; so knew but one, Lettish. 16. Paul says Isaiah write chap ter 65, I and 2; see Romana x., and 21. He also quotes from chap- ters 1, 10, 11, and 53, or all from the same inspired penman. 17, The four evangelists' and the apostles believed the one great pro- phet to be the writer of the entire book and quotes 125 verses arum it, and refers to the whole book 162 times. 18. The concennus of the church in all. days has been this : Isaiah wrote the entire prophecy of Isaiah. KILLED BY A PANTHER. That was a horrible death the other day in the backwoods of Ten• nessee, of Millie McCoy. MissMc- Coy and two girl friends, Mary Fly and Myra Johns, left home Wednes- day morning on a blackberry hunt. They proceeded to the woods, about six miles awey where the fruit was found in abundance. The vines and foliage wets very thick, and, in a lonely place Miss McCoy wander- ed oft from the others some bemired yards to a place where the fruit grow in profusion. Suddenly a wild scream blood- eurdiulg in its keenness, rang out. The girls were terrified beyond measure, not knowing what kind of a wild animal was in the vicinity. Again the terrifying shriek sound- ed and the two girls together shrank down behind some bushes. Mies McCoy started toward thew at a rapid walk, when a panther appear- ed directly behind her. The frigh- tened girl screamed and started to run, but she could not escape. The beast seized her and she was torn to pieces. In many places the flesh was literally stripped from the bones. '!'!:b other girls, seeing the ani- mal attack their friend, ran scream- ing from .the scene, never stopping unit they reached home, when a party of men organized and, with shot guns, hurriedly went to the scene of the attack. The panther was still at the body and was shot by the hunters. The beast measur- ed seven feot seven inches from tip to tip. It had escaped from a cir- cus. "WHO WAS DE GEMMAN4" The sleeping -car porter faithfully gathers his "50 cents all round," But as faithfully carries out his orders when the money is in sight. The Hartford Poet tells how scene man found it out by bitter ex- perience. "The President of one of our in- surance companies, juet returned from a Western trip relates the following good story : On the train going from Chicago to Dubuque, Iowa, was a passenger in one of the sleeping -care who had been drink• ing heavily, but realized the fact that he was intoxicated. As lie was about to retire without disrobing he called a porter to him and, hand- ing out a dollar, requested to be waked up at Rockford, Ill., and, said he: `Be sure and put me off, Whether want to or not. I know I'm pretty full and when I am in this condition I'ni likely to fight, but don't mind that, just put me off and it will be all right." "The colored porter promised to do so, and the man was soon asleep in hie berth. "Early next morning, as the train was nearing Dubuque and the pass- engers were hurriedly dressing, the colored porter was attending to his duties with his head bandaged, one eye closed and hie, face showing hard usage. "Just then the Rockford passen- ger crawled out of his berth, looked out to get hie bearings and then went for the porter : 'Look here, you---, what does this mean 4 Didu't I tell you to put nee off at Rockford, you -4' "Tint darky [coked at hire a mom- ent and said : 'Is.you de gammen what wanted to be put off 4' "'Yes, I'm the one, you --- --, and I gave you a dollar to nee to it !' " 'Well, if you's do -gemmae what give me dat dollar, what I minter know ie die yer, who was de gemman dat I put offet Rockford?" THE NEW TAY BRIDGE. The new Tay bridge is about two miles long and has eighty five piers. Seven piers ou land connect the bridge railway with tbo North Brit- ish system running into Dundee. The trains are run on the lower por- tion of the big opaus and the upper boom of the others, and the bridge is built with the double lines on a steel floor. The average height above high-water mark is seventy- seven foot clear in the center of the bridge and gradually grows lees to- ward the ends. Thu piers are built ,pfgy_lipders to 1oly-water level, filled with concrete after being inhecfded - iu lila river bottom; i ia!it fol brickwork AO .atkperatlrltota malleable iron, the 404! being ncotttd by various atop and Or and the whole aupoiatruoturo brought into one iufniediatel Heath the girders, The girder 500 tune each in weight, sang forty-five feet high. The b was opened to traflie in June, WHY PEOPLE MARRY. arcuate, write, "sizort tfu#o ASA Kidney Complaint and J 'opeP8iar b. Bnely a in fact, t! Wa4 iconnlrletely se pain. While to Mt:: state eifr leltr tie. of Aho rtlarop Lytxtroa's Ttvge r bottle, and the pes'zaariox manned' ache a new math out of me is such the proprietors this oxpressioaa of The reasons come men give marrying some women are on be surpassed by the reason s women give for marrying some n There was the man who married wife because she was left-hau and it amueed him to an caw with the off hand, se said. There was the young We who married her husband beta ho was fat, and was "ea handy nit on her,baoke and press the Then there was another woman, p euntably not so young, who fine married e man who had courted I faithfully for eleven years, becau as she afterward accounted -for "he had worn his chair in their du' room plumb out a settiu' in i many years, an' since the' bed to a new one bought, she though might as well be fur themselves, on their own account. a f, to it , u it a Agra. L. Fera.tr•e, On tern:: Steam Dye, ar a.: -.)out thirty yearsL t a.ve doctored. " yspepsidf without getting. any Cure. aaa'e t'e cholate Bfiieaovery, and rem this medicine are such that I n of in gratitude. It s.ctn inane-• good effects are noticed at once, think it can be gqu..116Q." ANTIQUITY OF FREE M O N RY. A writer in the Chicago ,Int-Sx Ocean :—While listening to the lec- tures recently that constitute the moat interesting part of many of the ceremonies in a Masonic body, it oc- curred to me that it could not have existed as a society anterior to Chris- tianity. Masonry is not anti Chris- tian, notwithstanding. The Jew and the gentile can consistently stand at its altar, yet we can see that the lectures in the Blue Lodge are really founded upon the Christian religion. The earliest system of lec- tures known date back to the year 1720. Those Iectures alluding to the "Blazing Star" is explained by illustrating that star as the one guid- ing the wise men to Bethlehem, The Hutchison lecttwes, used Ewen ty years later (Sharp's Mugcrzine, vol. vii. p. 48), explained the three lights as the great epochs of Mas- onry, "The knowledge and worship of God, tho service under the Mosa• fc law, and the Christian revelation," Again we find in the old English lectures the five steps of the winding stair were represented as indicating "the birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Sav- ior Jesus Christ." Again the degree was opened by a passage from St. Paul's epistle to the Thessalonians : "Now we command you, brethren,in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from evey brother that walketh disorder- ly." Every member of a lodge knows that St. John the Baptist or St. John the Evangelist were emin- ent patrons of Masonry. Historical facts show that these apostles were undoubtedly the first to organize a society for the purpose of aiding to spread the new religion ; that Wraa the parent of the present system of Masonry. \Vhile the traditions of Christianity, protected by a supreme power, came down through the dif- ferent ages, Masonry in its travels front one part of the world to an- other partook of the romance and ideality of the people of the East and the West; yet always, though apparently hidden from the many, taught through its ritual the Fublime truths of Christianity. IN PRAISE OF THE SMITHS. An orator, named Smith, thus held forth to an amused audience in praise of hie cognomen :—"Gentle- men, my name is Smith, and I am proud to say I am not ashamed of it. It may be that no person in in this crowd owns this very uncom- mon name. If, however, there be one such, lot him hold up his head, pull up his dickey, turu out his toes, take courage, and thank his stars that there are a few more of the sante sort. 'Smith, gentlemen, ie au illustrious name, And stands very high iu the annals of fame ; Let White, Brown, and Jones increase lie they will, Relieve .no, that Smith will outnumber them still. 'Gentlemen I am proud of being an original Smith—not a Smiths, nor a Smyth, but a regular, natural S m -i t h, Smith. Putting a 'y' in the middle or an '8' to the end won't do, gentlemen, Who ever heard of a great man of the name of Smyth or Smithe 4 echo answers Who 1 and everybody says nobody. But as for Smith, plain Sam -i -t h, Smith, why the pillars of fame are covered with that honored and revered na1n0. 'Who were the most racy and witty and the most popular authors of this century 1 Horace and Albert Smith. Who the most original, pithy, and humorous preacher? The Rev. Sydney Smith. And who, I ask—and I ask the question most aeriously and soberly—who, I soy, ie that man and what is his name, who has fought the most battles, made the most speeches, preached the mors sermons, held the moot Ofii '@if, aaYYg-tha• moat: songs, written norLD *.s.,Hall, "Fcr } e..... ? } ;•o 1. 'r troubled with Liver Complaint. The doctors said my Liver was hardened and enlarged. 1 vwaz trcu,_le,l N.',!Y.: ;L-risss, Pain in my Right Shoulder, Constipation, ah_'- vrat ueily lo iicg flesh all the time. All food soured on my stomach. even wide the closest attention to diet. I was under the care of three y,:iysicians, but did not get any relief. A friend sent r:e a bcttla of Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable a:se/every, and it affords me much pleasure to inform you that the benefit I have received from it is far beyond nay expectation. I feel better noesr than I have done for years." the most poems, courted the moat women, kissed the most girls, mar- ried the most widows ? History says, I say, you say, and everybody nays, John Smith.' THE INNOCENT SUMMER GIRL. The summer girl is a sweet, inno- cent, demure little creature, or she contrives to make the men think so, and that's all she wants. Her chief sorrow in life is her bang. Not that she undervalues that fluffy beau- tifier, but because she knowe she looks so fearfully haggard when it's stringy and because it can't be made stay in curl this sweltering weather. Happy the damsel who has naturally curly hair. She can dance, play tennis, ewim, boat flirt and "spoon," all unmindful of her bang. But alas for the girl who owes her bang- ful charm to a curling iron! In vain she tries vaseline, bandoline, "curlette" and pomades. They are a delusion and a snare. So that iu the end she of the straight hair set- tles down to a cunning little false "fringe" sewed in the rim of her hat. One of the sammer girls who wears one is spending the summer at a windy point on Lake Michigan, and thereby hangs a tale. She had been flirting desperately and success- fully with a Chicago man off spend- ing his vacation. "He was just on the roint of proposing," said she af- terward, "He was holding both of my little hands in his, and as the moon went under a cloud then I'm sure I'd have had him hooked, but there came the most tremendous and diabolical gust of wind. I didn't have a hand free to hold my hat on with, and away went hat and bang into the lake. We couldn't get them and 1 had to go back to the lights ofthe hotel bangless ? And my forehead is two inches high anrt I am a perfect fright with it bare. Of course it spoilt all the romance and my chances with that follow," and she sighed heavily over the "alight have been." REZEKIAH'S SU PRISE. "Wal. Hitam, if this don't beat till 1 The old way for doctors was 'kill er cure,' but here I ve bund a piece in this hero newspaper where a doctor offers `cash or cure.Its fer catarrh ! I wish we had it—I'd hits to try him 1 Jest listen, Hir- am ! 'Ttte proprietors of Dr. S,ge's Ca- tarrh Remedy offer a reward of $500 for any case of ca'arrh which they cannot curs,' That beats all lotteries hollow I The medioinelcscte 50 cents—youreatarrh is cored, er you get $500 ! Where's my hat! 1'rn going right over to neighbor Brown's, to show him. I never wanted to get within ten foot of him before, but if it is the cure of his catarrh, I guess 1 can stand it ono'e' Sold by druggists. TOO LATE. The old roan did not want Jim Smithers to marry hie daughter. Jim did marry her and her father was just in time to drop into the minister's parlor after the young couple had been hitched together. The old man immediately on his arrival turned to the bridegroom and said : "I'rn too late, ain't II" "Ef you mean that we're married, there ain't no doubt but what we air," replied the youth who was also recovering firmness. "An' I mus' say," he went on with a smile at his own sarcasm, "ns how we hain't got you to thank for help much, neither." 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Leaded ye money. and everything ; didn't I?" "Yes." "An' I done my best to keep yes from marryin' that gal, didn't I ?" "You did, sure." "Why 1" and he made a rhetori- cal pause. " 'Cause I knowed her. I brung her up an' it was all me an' her mother an' all the rest of the frtn'ly could do to manage her."' The girl tossed her head Bald sniffed. "And I tell you," the old man went oil, "11151 without no one to help you but yourself, you've got a mighty big contract on your hands. I'd uv saved you if I could, ancl- now, things bein' as they air, I'll. stand by you best I kin." He extended his hand to the young loan and after the grim sem- blauco of congratulations the party passed down the street toward the depot. 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