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YOL. XVIII.
THE TEMPERANCE BANNER.
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Organ of the Sons of Temperance’
AND OF THE
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MORAL AND REhItUOUS.
The Elixir of Life. —In all ages
and countries the search for an Elixir
of life has consumed the time of philos
ophers and impoverished their weal
thiest patrons. And yet few persons,
even if they could, would choose to live
forever on earth. Our happiness here
is so involved with that of others, that
he who survives his family and friends,
has little left for which to live. Could
•a man’s existence be protracted to five
hundred years, he would spend at least
four hundred years, alone in the world,
with no companionship of wife or chil
dren to alleviate care, or sweeten pleas
ure. The legend of the •‘Wandering
Jew” is regarded, and among all na
tions, as typifying the most awful pen
alty which it is possible to suffer in this
world. The desire for an Elixir ot
Life is a weak feeling, opposed to all
•experience and to all correct reasoning.
It springs from that instinctive love of
existence which belongs to the mere
animal nature, and is not sanctioned
in this its excess bv either the soul
or the intellect. To live for centuries,
yet grow old at three score and ten,
would he a purgatory on earth. To
survive all our friends, even if we pre
served our youth, would bo like living
several lives, and enduring all their
griefs, when the sorrows of one life are
enough generally to bear down the
stoutest heart.
The happiest lot, perhaps, is to fill
the usual term of life, unci die in a
green old age before we are left entire
ly alone. Few, however, do this.
But the fault is theirs, not Nature’s.
If all would live according to the laws
of their being, human life would nearly
always extend to seventy. But wo
scourge ourselves to death with our
passions, or wear our existence out with
anxieties about wealth, or consume our
physical powers in the fire of intemper,
ate living; and then, when death draws
nigh, we reproach heaven with not giv
ing us protracted days. There are
some cases, it is true, in which a week
ly constitution is inherited from parents;
with this exception, we all have as it
were, a long orshort life at our disposal.
A cheerful mind, methodical habits,
and steady occupation are nearly cer
tain to produce long life. But dissipa
tion, excessive ambition, a passionate
temper, and all other causes which wear
out the human machine inevitably shor
ten existence.
The true Elixir of Life is not to be
sought in medicine, therefore, hut in
the proper ordering of our days.
There is not an hour in our whole ca
reer, when we mav not do something,
either to lengthen or shorten our lives.
Yet how rarely do we reflect on this!
llow little when engaged in the pur
suits of pleasure, do we regard this
great truth ? To live long we must
avoid excesses, whether of the body or
mind; do our duty to our fellows & take
air and exercise; and thus, with n mind
at ease, and regular mode of life, we
may boast of having found the true
Elixir . —Philadelphia Bul/etin.
He is a Christian u ho lives like one. ]
The Prisoner’s Friend.
John M. Spear, who has been known
in Boston for many years as a benevo-1
lent friend of the destitute prisoner, has
published a history ofhis philanthropic;
labors tor the year last past. In this |
we find the following episode :
Last August, a young man was con-;
victed in the city of Boston of the ciime
of highway robbery, and for that of
fence was liable to imprisonment lor
life. When ho was brought into court
for sentence, ho said *.o me, “Mr.
Spear, 1 am innocent of (lie crime of
which I have been convicted. My fa
ther was formerly high sheriffof Pehoh
scotl county. My mother is dead. 1
am now without money, and have no
friends.”
Deeply moved by Iris touching story,)
I said to. the judge, (Wells,) “The
piisoiier claims to he innocent. He;
says he is from Bangor, and that when
he left there he had many friends and a
good character. He may he innocent,”
I added, “if the court will postpone his
sentence until next month, I will go to i
Bangor to obtain a history of him, and I
will bring to the court just such infor
mation as 1 obtain, whether favorable or
unfavorable to the prisoner.” The
judge consented to niv proposal, and
the prisoner was sent back to jail.
I went to Bangor, learned that the
young man had told the truth in respect
to Lis relatives, and that when he left
there, two years before, he hail a good
character. His father was now ab
sent from Bangor, and being poor, was
unable to aid his imprisoned son. I
also learned that the young man had
kept a provision store a short time in
Boston. Failing in business, and out
of employment, he had become asso
ciated with gamblers.
On my return from Maine, I con
versed will) some of the jurymen who
convicted the prisoner. From them 1
learned that gamblers testified in his
favor, and that had they believed them,
they would not have convicted him.—
From them and from the prisoner 1 then
learned more perfectly the nature nf
the case. It appeared that on the morn
ing following the Fourth of July, be
tween two and three o’clock, the pris
oner was standing with some ofhis as
sociates in the street, when he was in
formed that a man was lying near by
drunk, lie went to him to do an act
of humanity—to raise up the fallen.—
The drunkard turned upon him, and
accused him of stealing his watch ami
money. He was arrested, imprisoned,
and the gamblers who saw the whole
transaction came into court, and testi
fied in his behalf; hut being known as
gamblers, they were not believed.
I had now become most deeply inter
ested in the case, and determined to
leave nothing undone on my part to j
help him. 1 requested that sentence |
might be postponed another month.— |
The judge (Mellen) consented, lie
was again sent back to prison.
1 now went back to the town where
the man lived who had said that the
prisoner robbed him, and the facts
which I gathered there led me to the
belief that the witness had sworn false
ly. Returning back to Boston, l now
went toConcord to see Judge Hoar, who
tried the case. He gave me a test by
which the truthfulness of the witness
might bo tried. My investigations in
dial direction, aided by kind friends,)
satisfied the prosecuting officer that the
prisoner ought not have been convicted;
and in the month of October, after lie j
had been in prison more than a ban- )
dred days, l enjoyed the privilege of 1
hailing him, and of returning him to)
his friends at Bangor. Application
was made for anew trial. It was I
granted, and the case was settled, nev
er to be again called up. The young!
man is now in Bangor, and is doim> :
well.
This case cost me much time, labor 1
and money; but I do not regret the es- )
fort, and I know my fiiends who aid
me in rny labors w ill not, when they
consider that, for doing an act of hu
manity, this young man was liable to
be pi isoned for life.
What tho Times Demand.
We agree with the Penfield. Ga.,
Banner, in its veiws ot the character of
tho men the times demand to carry on
and through, to triumphant completion,
the Great Temperance Work—the
Reform of Reforms. We have been
clogged and retarded with poor materi
;al long enough. We want, first, men
’ who are acting from principle. It is
| one thing to act from mere feeling or
impulse, und it is quite another thing
to he impelled by deep convictions of j
duty und truth. Efforts which spring
fro ii the former cause tnay for a time |
be zealous; they may be productive
of many valuable results; and so long j
as they last they may prove quite as!
useful as those which are prompted
by any other motives. We say so long
as they last, for unfortunately such
zeal is but transient. It is necessarily;
so. They spring from particular frames!
or ft dings, and flies' 1 ,- depending ns;
PENFIELD, GA. MAY 22, 1852-
they do upon a thousand contingencies,
are most variable in their nature. Any
mental agitation which diverts the at
tention, a derangement of health, or
an ebullition of temper, may change
the whole current of the feeling. Not j
so is it with the man of principle. He;
has made up his mind that the enter- !
prize in which he has embarked is one ‘
to which the high and sacred claims)
of duty bid him devote his most earnest I
exeitions. Thus actuated by a motive
which is exempt from those casualties
that affect the mere feelings, lie is con
stantly engaged in the proseuction ofhis
purpose.
One reason why the temperance
cause does not achieve more rapid and
brighter triumphs, is owing, we have
no doubt, to the fact that the majority
of its advocates are swayed rather bv
feeling than by reason. Under some
powerful appeal, or with a living illus
tration o( the horrors of intemperance
before them, they have declared war
against the monster and joined the ranks
ot the reformers. For a season,
they are found at every meeting, and
oflen heard warning their friends of
the peril of indulgence. But presently
their zeal subsides. The impression
of the appeal is effaced, and they lose
the vivid picture ofthe woes which first
impelled them to do battle in the cause.
Lhe most elfectual method of guarding
against this evanescent interest, is to
lix in the mind an abiding conviction
of the great importance of the cause.
Ibis will induce action from a fixed
and uniform principle.
Second, in addition to men of prin
ciple, we need those who iove tfieir
species, and who for their sakes are
willing to he self-denying. One great
object which we have in view, is to re
claim the intemperate. We must bring,
at the same time, the moral influence
of the sober to hear upon them, or this
result cannot he attained. The sober
must be willing to forego the indul
gence of a glass of wine, which thev
may be in the habit of occasionally
taking, for the sake of example. He
must invite the poor inebriate to follow
him in the total abstinence to which he
has pledged himself. Unless a man
have philanthropy enough to practice
self-denial, lie can do us hut little
good.
Third, we need urn who are more
anxious for the popularity of temper
; anen principles, and the success of our
measures, than for the advancement
ot their own private interest. The
two sometimes seem to clash. Men
who wish to succeed in politics are
unwilling to prejudice against themsel
ves the proprietors of establishments to
which large numbers are constantly
resorting for stimulus. These venders
control not untrequently many votes,
and their influence is never exerted in
behalf of an advocate of temperance.
Nor can he expect the patronage of
those who are addicted to a practice lie
reprobates. It is on this account that
some are deterred from co-operating;
with us. VV edo not want such men.
We need men who arc not afraid to)
jeopard their popularity, if need he, in !
a good cause, —men who will eschew!
every unworthy consideration, and pros-1
ecute that which conscience approves,!
unawed by enemies and unseduced by ,
friends.— Penn. Olive Branch-
Who Oppose the Maine Liquor Law?
The following we extract from the
Boston Watchman and Reflector.
1. Not wives whose husbands come !
to their'homes, infuriated by the cup,!
to beat and bruise them and their help
less children.
2. Not sisters whose brothers are!
brought to tiieir homes at midnight, and !
rolled in upon the hall floor besotted j
and insensible.
3. Not whose sons, just en-j
to ring upon manhood, begin to find
pleasure in the cup, and meet tempta
tions at every corner in our cities and
large towns.
4. Not sober and virtuous citizens,!
who look with -sympathy and dismay!
upon domestic peace destroyed, talents
and reputation thrown away, estates!
wasted, jails, prisons, alms-houses and
hospitals filled, by the monster iritem
peianco with no returned;
to society.
5. Not drunkards, themselves, who
desire to reform, who know their
weakness, and dread temptation
as tke cutting off-of their last hope of!
deliverance from the chains which hind !
them.
These do not oppose the Maine Li-’
quor Law. Who ure the opo, users ?
1. Manufacturers of the poison, who,
to increase their wealth, would roll a
stream of liquid fire over the whole!
earth.
2. Liquor dealers, of every stamp,
from the wholesale vender to the retail- ’
ers of,every form; from the keepers of
fashionable hotels and elegant saloons, !
down to the haunts where poor day la
borers are swindled out of earnings
which are needed bv their suffering
-n |
families.
These all oppposo the liquor law,
and with a zeal which would not be ex
) celled if they were the very pillars of
’ society, and the only friends of “the
I largest liberty,” as they boast them
jsolves to be.
But these men, we are sorry to say
’ it, have some better company in their
! opposition to the Maine Liquor Law.
| They have
1. Those who drink moderately, and )
! do not like to have their habit tabooed , j
!by legislation which assumes as its
! basis, that the use of intoxicating liquors )
Uv n beverage, is dangerous to society.
! i’tiis class overlook two important con- 1
! siderations,—first, that they cannot’
change the fact that such a use is dan
gerous, and second, that every citizen
owes it to society to surrender art indul
gence which threatens the public
nood.
O I
2- Those who are afraid the law can
not he sustained. Lot all such stop
croaking, and come up to the work of
sustaining tho law, and there will not
he opposition enough in the State to ut
: ter one peep.
3. Those who make politics a trade,
—who ask not what do the people de
mand, but what will be the consequen
ces to our party. Sucli men are found
in all parties, and the bane of politics.
When such considerations determine
our legislation, God save the Province
of Canada ! Canada Paper.
Curious facts for Moderate Drink
ers.—.Some object that they drink
but a small portion of alcoholic drink,
and therefore cannot be injured by it.
This remurk arises from ignorance.—
One drop of alcohol would fill a tube
whose length and diameter are the
eighth of an inch. If you decrease
the diameter one-half, you must prolong
the tube four times, if you wish it to
I contain the same quantity of liquid.—
This is a mathematical fact, aud there
fore no conjecture. Well then, go on
decreasing the diameter of the tube in
question, and prolonging it until you
get a capillary as small as the smallest
blood vessel in the human body, the
; tube will be of an astonishing length,
demonstrating that one single drop of
alcohol, when pass,2d into the minute
vessels of the human frame, will he suf-
I ficient to cover nearly the whole sur.
| Dice ot the body, and, consequently, as
[art inflammatory poison, capable of de
i ranging our health to a very great de
; gree. What then must be the mischief
effected by taking daily a wine-glass
or more of this pernicious spirit 1 To
talk of moderation in the use of alcohol
is absurd ; the only moderation is ab
stinence.—Exchange.
A Chapter of Absurdities.—l. To
desire to have men sober, and vote a
license to make them drunk.
2. To mourn over drunkards, and
vote a license to make more.
8. To pity a drunkard’s family, and
vote for the chief means of their misery.
4. To expect to restrain men from
j evil by telling some of them they may
, lawfully do it.
3. To think that authorizing a busi
ness will discourage it.
fj. To suppose that making the sale
!of intoxicating drinks legal will not
i make it respectable in the estimation of
, most people.
7. To suppose that making the sale
of them respectable, will not encourage
the use of them.
8. To regret the growth of the upas,
and keep watering the main root.
9. To believe that we should not do
evil that good may come, and license
men to sell poison for the sake of having
orderly (?) houses to drink it in.
10. To think that drinking intoxica
ting liquors in orderly houses will not
promote intemperance.
11. To profess benevolence to our
fellow men, and vote fir a chief cause
of idleness, quarreling, poverty, and
misery among them.
12. To pray fora blessing on our
neighbors with our lips, and seek
curse with our voices.
13. A government instituted and
sustaineii for the goad of the people, li
censing a trade that brings upon them.
—Lutheran Ob.
Effects of Nioht Ant. —An error
which exerts a most pernicious influ
ence, is the belief that the night air is
injurious; this opinion hinders the in
troduction of the ventilation more than
all oilier errors together. Now there I
is not a particle of proof, nor have we
any reason whatever to believe, that
the atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen 1
undergoes any change during the
night. But there are certain causes
in operation at night which are known
to exercise oAer us an injurious influ- j
ence. We will investigate them to see \
D
if closed doors and windows will shut,
them out or slop their operation. First,
it is known that there is a slight increase
of carbonic acid from plants during the
night, hut this poison is generated in
much larger quantity from the lungs of;
animals, arid accumulated immensely I
niore in close rooms than in the open I
air. It is therefore certain, nothing
is gained in this respect by refusing ven-
Illation. The next difl’eience between
night and day, to he noticed, is tin
fact, that sunlight exercises a most im
portant influence on plants and also on
animals; but it is evident, that shutting
out tresh air will not restore his rays.
Another fact is, that all In,firs, ani-j
I mate or inanimate, exposed m night to
! the direct rays of a dear sky, radiate!
heat with great rapidity, and (lieir tein
) peratu re is quickly and grout! v reduced;
; and it is well known that it i.; liungci--
1 ous to the health of men for the temper
! ature of their bodies to be greatly and
| rapidly reduced. But persons deep
j ingin a ventilated room, even if the
windows are open, are not exposed to
the direct rays of a clear sky, (and tho
I law does not apply toanv other coinbi-
I nation of circumstances,) therefore, this
) frequent source of injury to persons ex
posed does not reach those in a shelter
ed house. As to the injury to be feared
from u cold current of air* I would sav
it is gross carelessness for any one to j
expose himself to this danger, night or!
day, whether the house is ventilated or!
unventilated. I believe there is not)
known any other cause which can be j
supposed to produce any special inju- \
rious effect at night, and tho least re
flection Will show that not any one of
those mentioned can by any possibility
injure a person more in a ventilated
than in an unventilated Imuso. It
therefore follows that the objection of’
the night air being injurious is utterly
futile.
The pure atmosphere bus nothing
whatever to do with causing the death
ol persons exposed at night with the
tropics; nob does it produce the cough
ofthe consumptive and asthmatic, nor
tho languor and misery which tho sick
so frequently experience.
These and pther sufferings experi
enced more particularly at night, are
caused by carbonic acid, absence of
sun-light, rapid reduction nf tempera
ture, tin-air being saturated with mois
ture, Arc., and not by that air without
which we cannot live three minutes.
It is absurd to suppose that fresh air
supports our life and destroys our
health at one and the same time. The
same thing cunnot possess the utterly
incompatible character of good and evil,
of supporting life and destroying it.
[ Appleton's Mechanic’s Magazine.
Cure for Rheumatism.— A Parisian
correspondent of an English paper
says: “I picked up the other dav,
i from one of the most eminent and intel
ligent physicians in France, the favor
ite pupil of Dupuytren, some curious
scraps of medical lore, that perhaps
may amuse you ; and coming from a
man whose liberality of opinion is one
equalled by his own skill and intellect,*
they are certainly worthy of perusal, 6z,
might afibrd valuable hints to sc’cnce.,
| A lady wiio had formerly been a patient !
| of his, hut whom in consequence of her’
removal from Paris, he had not seen for
some time, came to him lately to say
that her daughter was afflicted with vi
olent rheumatic pains. As she still re- (
sided in the country, however, Hr. C. !
I could not do more than give her some
general counsel, deferring the actual
treatment till site could bring her |
daughter to Paris. In a few days she
returned, telling him that her sufter
ittgs were completely removed, in the
following singular manner : One night
! being seized witli an attack, the vio
: leuce of which was intolerable, tbo rno
| tiler in despair, sent to the only modi
;cal practitioner of which the village!
j boasted—a man who, by the help of a
little self-taught lore, and a certain!
I knowledge of simples und old woman’s 1
remedies, treated the peasants satisl’ac-
I torily enough.
No sooner did our Galen arrive, than
j lie directed that all the empty buttles!
i that could he collected should lie placed i
jon the floor, the mattresses laid over!
j them, and the sufferer extended there-]
lon. The effect was magical. In u
few minutes the patient experienced
the greatest relief, and finally a com-j
plete cessation of suffering; und though
the attacks had afterwords returned,
they never failed lo yield to this singu
lar remedy. The solution of the mys
tery (of which the village doctor was!
quite ignorant) Dr. C. found at once. ]
Electricity, it appears, is the great ag- 1
gngvalor of all such maladies; and of
mis force,glass is a non-conductor. It’
then, the electric current is cut off
from contact with the patient, immedi-.
ale relief is the con sequencer. Profit
ing by the hint, Dr. (J. has since, in all
such eases, caused thick glass cylin
ders to be under the feet of the maludoV
bed, and with a success the most com- :
plete.
Another case was a cure v. bore con-1
sumption had actually commenced, and !
had made some progress by passing
five or six hours a day in a butcher’s
sliop. A thirl, where what was con
sidered a fatal affection of the spinal
marrow in a young girl, completely i
yielded to the process of sun-burning
the patient being stripped to the waist
and placed facing a south wall during
the hotest part ofthe day.
Ihe Weather and Earthquakes
—A correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce makes the follow,
ing observations with regard - to the
weather and the recent eurtbquake :
“ At 1 a. in on Thursday, April 29,
the temperature was down to 37 de
grees, or within 5 degrees ofthe freez
mg point. At 7u. m. the atmosphere
u rn unusual! v bright; temperature 4-i.
At 0,50 and, ere os north and south, beiim
a most extraordinary rise of 14 degrees
in (Id minutes. At Ip. m. it reached
bo, uml at 2, 67 degrees, which is tho
highest except on the 13th of March
since tho 21st October, 1851. About
6 p. m. a most powerful electric cur
rent streamed up to the zenith and be
yond it, from below the horizon so the
southwest—the streamers diverged, and
the. moment a cloud came in contact
with tin's current it became crystalized.
At I<> minutes to I p. m. a severe earth
quake was felt at Raleigh, North Gar
olina; about 1 p. in. two shocks were
felt at Washington City; and about
the same hour the scholars in one of
the schools on Brooklyn Heights felt
a shock of earthquake. A similar state
id existed on the 13th of
March lust. The temperature at 2 and
3 p. in. wasatf)B and 69 degrees north;
on that day a shock of earthquake was
felt at Guanajuato, Mexico. On tho
21st of October, 1851, the temperature
aas at /0 degrees for five consecutive
hours, attended by a lightning storm at
Newburyport, Mass, and proceeded by
severe earthquakes at Stagne Piccoli,
Dalmatia. Thus l present the
three greatly-heated periods within the
last six months, and each connected with
the samo cause—earthquakes.”
A Word to Young Men.
Os the three modes of using tobacco,
, smoking is that which seems to Iravo
insinuated itself most extensively a
mong the youth of our community.
Tobacco imployed in this way, being
drawn in with the vital breath, conveys
its poisonous influence into every part
i of the lungs.
i here the noxious fluid is untangled
, in the minute spongy air-cells, and iias
time to exert its pernicious influence
on the blood—not in vivifying, but in
vitiating it. The blood imbibes the
stimulant narcotic principle and circu
lates it through tiro whole system. It
[ produces, in consequence, a febrile ao-
I tion in those ofdelicato habits. Where
there is any tendency to phthisic and
I the tuberculin deposit in the lungs :
i debility of those organs, consequent on
’ the use of tobacco in this way, must
j favor the deposit of tuberculous maf
i ter, and thus sow the seeds of consump
tion. This practice impairs the catur
•d taste und relish for food, lessens the
appetite, and weak ns tire powers of
! the stomach.—JV. Y. Tribune.
Grattfitno of Curiosity. Tho Bur
lington Free Press is responsible fur
the fellownur :
Last Saturday, the 3d ins!., ns the
Express train from Montreal was run
ning at great speed, to make up lost
time between St. John’s and Rouse’s
Point, the engine man discovered a wo
man standing in the centre of lire track,
frantically swinging a basket, evident
ly with tire intention of stopping the
train. The whistle was immediately
sounded for “down brakes hard,” and
with great exertion the train was
bro iglit to rest within a few feet of the
woman, who never stirred from tho
track, or evinced the slightest fear.—
The engine-man, fireman, brukeman,
and superintendent (who happened to
be on the train) ran up to tire woman to
find out w hat horrible accident had hap
petted ahead to call forth such strong
demonstrations’ ou her part. Each
asked eagerly the cause for her signals.
“Lawful sukes !” said sire, “f never
seed one of them machine before in mv
life, and I dodoelurc it’s the funniest
filing I ever did see.”
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Salem, Ala., May Ist, 1852.
Bro. Brantly, Dear Sir. —Crescent
Division, No. 78, S. of T. at its last
regular meeting, being desirous of in
forming your numerous readers that
she still stands out as one of the unfa
ding stars in the gallaxy of temperance,
ut the same time adding another link to
the chain of distinction, that has marked
the course of our distinguished grand
lecturer, S. M. Hewlett, have in pu..
suance of the same, appointed the an
dersigned a committee to inform you of
the signal triumph that burst upon the
Sons of Temperance on the 241 h of
April lust.
It was tho day appointed for our Bro.
Hewlett to address us. And on tho
morning of the same the Sons convened
a: the Division Room at 9 o’clock, and
ntrer lire transaction of some business
for the government of the day. After
while Bros. John Dawson, R. D. Thorn-
NO. 21.