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MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. |
‘■l See a Light.-I’m Almost 1J me.” j
The following beautifully touching
incident is related of a young lady,
whose journey was near its on *:
“About her chamber glided gently j
the loved forms oi lier parents, and only |
sister. She silently noted their move-’
ments with a mild expression of herdy- j
ing eye, turning it from side to side.
Arrested by her peculiar looks, so ex-,
ipressive of affliction and patient suffer-;
ing, they paused to look upoifher whom
they only now saw hut dimly through
their tears; and so soon should see no j
more.
A feeble effort to speak, a quivering ‘
voiceless movement of the lips, dicv\ |
closely around her the loving hearts j
of that sorrowing circle. Mother, fath- j
or, sister, all came closer to her side, j
A playful smile lit up her countenance, j
She laid her little pulseless hand within :
her mother’s palin, then closed her |
eyelids to to the light of the eaith, and
sank away. The cold damp air of;
death’s shadowy valleys seemed cir-1
cling over her. Slowly sinking down,
she glided towards the river s shore,
which like a narrow stream divides the
spirit land from ours. But see the
quivering lips essay to speak ! “Moth-;
cr,” Old how each heart throbbed now,,
and then each pulse stood still. 1 hen j
list! “Mother!” the dying girl breaths,
f ar _l_ see —a-light-l’m almost home!” j
Blessed thought! Light is sown foi
the righteous even amid the gloom and ,
the darkness of the grave.
FORGET-ME-NOT.
“Grandmother,” said little Gretchen,
“why do you call this beautiful flower,
blue as the sky, growing by this brook,
‘Forget ine-not ?”
“My child,” said the grandomther,
“I once acccompained your father, who
was going on a journey, to this brook,
lie told me, when I saw this little
flower, l must think of him; and so
we have always called it “Forget-me
not ”
Said the happy little Gretchen, “1
have neither parents, nor sisters, nor
friends from whom lam parted. 1
don’t know who I can think of when I
seethe ‘Forget-me-not.”
“1 will tell you,” said her grand
mother, “someone of whom this flower
may remind you—Him who made it.
Every flower in the meadow says, ‘Re
member God;’ every flower in the gar
den and the held says to us, of its Cre
ator “Forget-me-not.”
The Burning of Moscow.
When Napoleon entered Moscow, the
capitol of Russia, lie found it abandoned
by its inhabitants, and nothing was
heard but the heavy tramp oi his splen
did cavalry, all was solitude. Mortier,
who commanded the young guard in
that celebrated eampain, was appointed
Governor o-f the city. The description
which follows, relating to that signal
event in history, (taken from “Napole
on and his Marshals” byJ. T. lleadly)
is a graphic sketch of the tragical
‘J.ratna • B.
Mortier, as governoi ot'tlie city, iin-!
| mediately issued his orders and was
j putting forth every exertion, when at
daylight Napoleon hastened to him.—
! Affecting to disbelieve the reports that
the inhabitants were firing their own
■ city, he pot more rigid commands on
Mortier, to keep the soldiers from the t
! work of destruction. The marshal
I simply pointed to some iron covered
| houses that had not yet been opened,!
from every crevice of which smoke was
issuing like steam from the sides ofa
pent-up volcanoe. Sad and thought
ful, Napoleon turned towards the Krcm
, 1 in, the ancient palace of the Czars,
whose huge structure rose high above
i the surrounding edifices.
lo the morning Mortier, by great ex
ertions, was enabled to subdue the fire.
But the next night, Sept. 15th, at mid
’ night, the sentinels on watch upon the
lofty Kremlin saw below them the
flames bursting through the houses and
palaces, and the cry of “fire ! fire !”
passed through the city. The dtead
j scene had now fairly opened. Fiery
balloons were soon dropping from the
air and lighting upon the houses-—dull
explosions were heard on every side!
i from the shut up dwellings, and the!
! next moment a bright light burst forth,
! and the flames were raging through
i the apartments. All was uproar and!
; confusion. The serene air and moon- j
| light of the night before, had given
! way to driving clouds, and a wild
i tempest that swept with the roar of the j
j sea over the city. Flames arose on
! every side, blazing and crackling in ,
! the storm, while clouds of smoke and
| sparks iu an incessant shower went
j driving towards the Kremlin. The j
; clords themselves seemed turned into)
| tire, rolling in wrath over devoted Mas-1
I cow. Mortier, crushed with the re- j
sjionsibility thus thrown upon his.shoul-1
dors, moved with.hip young guard amid •
this desolation, blowing up the houses
and facing the tempest and the flames—
struggling nobly lo arrest the conlla
| gration.
| lie hastened from place to place amid
the blazing ruins, his face blackened
with the smoke, and his hair and eye
brows singed with the tierce heat-. At J
j length the day dawned,, a day of temp ,
est and of.flame; and Mortier, who
j hud strained every nerve for thirty-six 1
j hours, entered a palace and dropped
| down from fatigue. The manly form J
) and stalwart arm that had so often car-!
! ried death into the ranks ofthe enemy,
at length gave way, and the gloomy!
) Marshal lay and panted in utter ex
] haustion. But the night of tempests
! had been succeeded by a day of temp
| osts ; and when night again, enveloped
the city, it was one broad flame waver
ing to and fro in the blast. The wind
had increased lo a perfect hurricane,
and shifted from quarter to quarter as:
if on purpose to swell, the sea of fire 1
and extinguish the last hope. The fire
was approaching the Kremlin, and al
ready the roar of the flames and the j
crusii of falling houses, and the crack- ,
ling of burning timbers were borne to )
the ears of the startled Emperor. Te j
arose and walked to and fro, stopping !
convulsively and gazing on the terrific
scene. Murat, Eugene, and Berthur!
rushed into his presence, and on their i
knees besought him to the; but lie still j
clung to that haughty palace, as if it;
were his Empire.
But at length the shout, “the Krem
lin is on fire!” was heard above the:
roar ofthe conflagration, and Napoleon!
| reluctantly consented to leave. He de
scended into the streets with his siaff
j and looked about for a way of egress,
but the flames blocked every passage.
!At length they discovered a pastern
! gate, leading to the Moskwa, and en
! tered it, hut they had only entered still
farther into danger.
1 As Napoleon cast his eyes around the
! open space, girdled and arched with
lire, smoke and cinders, he saw one sin
gle street yet open, but all on lire.—
i Into this he rushed, and amid the crash
of falling liouses, and raging of the
flames—over burning ruins, through
clouds ot rolling smoke, and between
walls of fire, lie pressed on, and at
length, half suffocated, emerged in safe
ty from the heated city, and took up
his quarters in the imperial palace of
Petrowsky, nearly three miles distant.
Mortier, relieved from his anxiety for
the Emperor, redoubled his ellbrts to
arrest the conflagration. His men
cheerfully rushed into every danger. —
: Breathing nothing but smoke and ash
es—canopied by flame, and sparks, and
cinders—surrounded by walls of lire
that rocked to and fro and fell with a
crash amid tire blazing ruins, carying
| down with them red hot roofs of iron ;
he struggled against an enemy that no
boldness could awe, or courage over
come. Those brave troops had heard
the tramp of thousands of cavalry
sweeping to battle without fear; hut
now they stood in still terror before
the march of the conflagration, under
whose burning footsteps was heard the
incessant crush of tailing houses, and
palaces, and churrhes. The continu
ous roar of the iaging hurricane, nin-
PENFIELD, GA. JULY 3, 1852.
‘gled with that of the plans, was morel
terrible than the thunders of artillery; j
and before this new foe, in the midst of
this battle of the elements, the awe
struct army stood powerless and af
frighted.
When night again descended on the 1
i city, it presented a spectacle the like of
! which was never seen before, and which
: baflles all description. The streets*
* were streets of fire —the heavens a j
| canopy of fire, and the entire body of
the city a mass of fire, fed by a hurri
cane that whirled the blazing fragments
in a constant stream through the air ;
incessant explosions from the blowing
up of stores of oil, and tar, and spirits,
shook the very foundations of the city,
and sent volumes of smoke rolling furi
ously towards tiie sky. Huge sheets
of canvass on fire came floating like
messengers of death through the flames
—the towers and domes of churches
and palaces—glowed with a red heat
over the wild sea below, then tottering
a moment on their basis were hurled
bv the tempest into the common ruin.
Thousands of wretches, before unseen,
* were driven by the heat from, the eel
! lurs and hovels, and streamed in an in
; cessunt throng through, the streets. —
Children were seen carrying their par
ents—the strong, the weak—while thou
! sands more were staggering u.nder the
i loads of plunder they had snatched
from.the {fames- This, too, would fre
quently take lire in the falling shower,
I and the miserable creatures would ho
compelled to drop it anil flee tor their
j lives ! Oh, it. was a scene of woe and
fear inconceivable, and indescribable.
A mighty and close packed city ofliou
| ses, uud churches and palaces, wrapped
! from limit to limit in flames which are
I fed by a fierce hurricane, is a sight this
world will seldom see.
Bui this was all within the city. To
Napoleon without, the spectacle was!
sti.il more sublime and terrific. When
the (fames hud overcome all obstacles, j
and wrapped every thing in their red |
mantle, that great city looked like a sea j
of routing (ire, swept by a tempest that
drove it into vast billows. Hugo domes!
and towers, throwing olf sparks like
j blazing tire brands, now towered above
j these waves, and now disappeared in
! I Weir maddening flow, as they rushed
I and broke high over the tops, scattering
j their spray of fire against the clouds.:
j Th,e heavens themselves seemed to have
j caught the conflagration, and the angry j
I masses that swept them, rolled over a[
! bosom of fire. Columns of flame |
would rise and sink along the surface
of this sea, and huge volumes of black
smoke suddenly shoot into the air as if
volcanoes were working below. The
black form of the Kremlin alone, tow
ered above the chaos, now wrapped in
flame and smoke, and again emerging
into view—standing amid this scene of
desolation and terror, like virtue in the
midst of a burning world, enveloped
but unscathed by the devouring ele
ments. Napoleon stood and gazed on
this scene in silent awe. Though near
ly three miles distant, the windows and
walls of his apartment were so hot that
he could scarely bear his hand against
them. Said he, years afterward : “//
was the speclable of a sea and billows of
lire, a sky and clouds of fame, mouu
; tains of red rolling fame, like immense
i leaves of the sea, alternately bursting
and elevating themselves to skies of fire
and then sinking into the ocean of fame
I below. Oh !it was the most grand, the
\ most sublime and the most terrific sight
the world ever beheld
When the conflagration subsided,
Mortier found himself governor of a city
of ashes. Nine-tenths of Moscow had
! sunk in the flames, and the gorgeous
capital, with its oriental magnificence
—its palaces, and towers, and gardens,
| was a heap of smoking ruins, amid
I which wandered half-naked,, starving
wretches, like specties around the
place of the dead. Napoleon returned;
:to the Kremlin, but the spectacle tiio
camps of the soldiers presented as he
passed through them, was one hi., eye
| had never rested on before. ‘Die sold
iers had there thrown together a few
i boards to shelter them from the vveath
j cr, an 1 sprinkled over the soft, wet
ground with straw to keep oft'the damp
ness, und there, reclining under silken
| canopies, or sitting in elegant chairs,
I with cashmere shawls and the costliest
| furs, and all the apparel of the noble
: and wealthy strewed around them, they
i fed their camp-fires with mahogany
furniture and ornamental work, which
I had a few days before decorated the
palaces of the noble.”
As the army withdrew from the city
the Cossacks began to swarm uround
it, and finally drove Mortier and his
feble hand into the Kremlin. These
were followed by ten thousand Russi
ans, wlto pressed around the French
Marshal. To perform the double task
assigned him of defending the city and
blowing up the Kremlin; ho was com
polled, even while he occupied it, to
gather immense quantities of powder
within it, a single touch of which would
send that massive structure broken and I
shattered towards the heavens, i Ie!
placed a hundred and eighuj-lhrec \
thousand pounds in the vaults below.;
while he scattered barrels of it through 1
the different aparatments above. Over
tins volcano of bis own creation he j
stood and fought for four days, when
the slighest ignition from one of the 1
enemy’s guns would have buried him
and his soldiers in one wild grave to-:
gether.
At length, uftor he had kindled a i
‘slow lire-work whose combustion could
be nicely calculated, he led his weary
’ troops out of that ancient structure.—
But while lie marched with rapid steps
: from the scene of danger, several
Cossucks and Russians, finding the
imperial palace deserted, rushed into
it after plunder. The next moment,
the massive pile wavered to and fro like
a column of sand, and seeming to rise
from the earth, fell with a crash that
was heard thirty miles distant. The
earth shook under Mortier as if an
eartiiqua.ke was on the march. Huge
stones —fragments ofthe wall—thirty
thousand stand of arms, and mangled
bodies and limbs were burled in one
fierce shower heavenward together,
, and then sunk over the ruined city.—
The second act in the great tragedy
\vs now ended, ui.d the last was about
commence.
Lumpkin, May 25th, 1852.
Dr.J. F. Stevens—Dear Sir:—Un
-1 der a resolution of llovvchitka Division,
we were appointed a committee to re
| quest u copy of your essay upon alco
! holic drinks for tlio purpose of publica
tion.
We hope sir, that this request will
meet with your sanction, and a copy be
forwarded.
Yours respectfuly.
J. CLARK, )
J. L. WIMBERLY, ‘ Com.
C. A. EVANS. )
Lumpkin, June Oth, 1852.
Gentlemen : —-Circumstances have
[compelled me to defer until now, ale
, ply to your note of the 25th ult., expres
! sing a desire to obtain for publication a 1
copy of the address 1 had the honor to
deliver before the Division.
Conscious of its defects, yet as it was !
prepared at the solicitation of the Divis- j
ion, l cheerfully return them a copy to!
be disposed of in any manner that will
in their judgment best promote the
cause of Temperance.
Very respectfully,
J. P. STEVENS.
Messrs. James Clakk, J. L. Wimberly, I
C. A. Evans, Com.
Mr. Editor : —lt is the desire of;
llovvchitka Division, No. 2i, that the
enclosed address of Dr. J. 1\ Stevens, |
should be published in your paper.— i
We hope that you will comply with!
that desire since, we believe, that the j
great cause of temperance will be;
signajly promoted by leading die people j
to reflect upon, the physical as well as j
moral evil cf intemperance.
Yours in L. P. & F.
J. CLARK, )
J. L. WIMBERLY, } Com.
C. A. EVANS. )
Gentlemen of the Howchitka Division ;;
When we contemplate the gigantic ef
forts of the human mind as displayed
in the powers of the orator and states
man in controlling the turbulent pas
sions of our nature, unravelling the in
tricate meshes of the law, and render
ing lucid and clear to the most ordinary
perceptions apparent metaphysical ab
stractions; when we observe the inven
tive genius, indefatigable energy, and
inimitable skill, of the searcher after
treasures that lie concealed far beyond
the vision of the ordinary observer, as
he resolves matter into its original ele
ments, recombines, aerial substances
into solid materials, harmonizes appa
j rent discrepances in the operation of j
physical laws, renders available to the t
utilitarian demands of the age those |
subtle and intangible agents which rival
thought iu the celerity of their move-!
nieiits, almost annihilating space and
time, we ure amazed at the resour- j
; cos of the human intellect. Each of
these actors upon the arena of life is j
cheered by the prospectof pecuniary
: emolument, individual preferment, or
lofoneday listening to the outbursts ol
a nation’s gratitude as in clarion notes
: his praises are wadied upon the breeze, •
to find a response from tile hill-side to
’ the mountain, from the hamlet to the
i palace. But how much louder is the
call upon our admiration and sympathy,
I when we contemplate the self-sacrifi
cing energy and zeal of the true hearted
, philanthropist, who, like the immortal
Howard, penetrates the abodes of pliysi
| cal and moral contagion, explores the
dens of vice and iniquity, and perils!
his own life in magnanimous endeavors j
i to alleviate the woes und ills which arc
I the natural heritage of man.
“We spend our. life as a tale that is told.’ i
We look within us, and even under,
the most salutary condition of the vital j
; functions, we behold the continual war
fare that is maintained between the vis
! vilm, and the powers that combine to*
reduce all unimal substances to decay
and putrifuction. We look without us,
and the cheering carpet that is spread
out upon the lap of our mother earth,
the luxuriant fields of waving grain,
the massive oak and modest violet, and
the endless and beautiful variety ofthe
floral kingdom that delight our eyes
and enrapture our hearts, have each
their short-lived cycle of germination,
maturation, and decay. In what be.
seeching miles then does the voice of
benevolence invoke our etlbrts towards
the exposition of the nature of that
deadly upas, which not only contami
nates the moral atmosphere, hut diffu
ses its letiiean influence through the
fountain ot life,, and by a gradual,
though unerring process, saps the foun
dation ot the noblest fabric reared by
the mandate of Omnipotence.
We will commence the investigation
of the subject before us, viz : the effects
ot alcoholic stimulants upon the human
■ system, by lulling u slight glance at the
nature of those substances which are
generally regarded as possessing intcixi
l eating properties.
“Alcohol is an inflammable liquor,
lighter than water, of a warm, acrid
taste, colorless, transparent, und of u
pungent, aromatic smell. It is the pro
uuct of the distillation of vinous liquors.”
Ihe juices of almost all fruits and
grains, when subjected to the vinous
fermentation, produce alcohol. Thus
tiic fermented juice ofthe grupe, when
distilled, is culled brandy ; that obtain- ;
ed from molasses is ruin; from corn
are manufactured gin, uud the various
kinds of whiskey flavored ; from cider,
fermented, is apple-brandy. The vari
ous kinds of wine and malt liquors have
each their relative proportion of alco
hol. The popular notion then that the
use of eidar and malt liquors is innocu
ous, upon the assumption that they are
destitute of this poisonous agent, is erro.
neous. According to chemical analy
sis, the different kinds of wine among
them, Lissa, Fort, Medeira, Cape Mus
chut, Alba Flora, Malaga, Current,
Hock und Bliumpane, each exhibit from
12 to 24 per cent of ulcohol. Cidar
has 0, London l’orter 4, ale 8, brandy
53, whiskey 54, and gin 57 per cent.
Malt liquors differ from what ure usual
ly denominated as alcoholic and vinous
preparations in their possessing un in
tensely bitter, somewhat nutritious, anil
narcotic principle, derived from the
hop which is employed for the purpose
of preserving them. The ustringency of
this agent, if is said, precipitates the
vegetable mucilage, and prevents the
fermentation which necessarily ensues
when subjected to the influence ofu
warm climate.
According to the quantity which is
introduced mto the stomach, within a
limited time, alcohol acts as a virulent
poison, or a local and diffusible stimu-;
lant. When taken frr large quantities,
its sedative influence is as certain and
analogous to that which Prussic acid j
displays. It expendsits force upon the j
nervous system, creating scarcely any;
appreciable antecedent stimulation, but;
it exhausts nervous sensibility, and j
thereby completely extinguishes tile
innate life-principle. The constant use ;
of the same agent in smaller quantities,
if persisted in for a sufficient length of)
time, w ill result as disastrously, though \
by slow and certain gradations. Who;
has not observed the turgid veins, the
bounding pulse, and the swollen features;
of the inebriate during a fit of debauch; j
his whole muscular system relaxed,
and unable to obey the guidance of his!
will. This is the consequence, not
merely of the local stimulation ofanin-l
dividual organ, but the fiery fluid is ah- ’
sorbed into the circulation, its hydro
carbon unites with the oxigen of the
blood, and thereby a slow combustion
is maintained the arterial blood is in
some measure deprived of its vivifying
influence, the brain suffers from the
want of its accustomed stimulus, und
comparative insensibility, sooner or la
ter supervenes. During this state of
apparent suspension of animation, the
recuperative energies of the system ure
taxed to their utmost capacity in making
u concentration of effort to muintuin the
wheels of the machinery in motion,
while sustaining the weight of such a
prostrating incubus. At length, nature
proves adequate to her task. By’ the
support of certain pliysiologicul laws,
the blood regains its purity, reason re
sumes tier seat upon the throne, and
the miserable, self-criminating, self
abhorring bipod, parching with thirst,
and prostrated in mind and body, not
unfrequently execrates the day of his
birth. Again, we see him the victim
of an imaginary demon which pursues
him with double-edged sword, or blood
thirsty knife, and suffering all the tor
ments of the apostate fiend, he passes
off'from the realities of time into the
fathomless abyss of the unseen future.
Let us inquire, for a few moments,
into the validity of the opinion usually
entertained by the habitual toper, that
alcohol increases his strength, and af
fords him substantial aid in cold as well j
as warm weather. It is a proposition j
weil sustained by philosophical reason-]
j ing, that the albuminous tissues are.
maintained solely by those alimentary
substances which contain the elements
| similar to those which enter into their
own composition. B-y tlm albuminous
tissue 1 mean that which constitutes
the bones, muscles, tendons and liga
ments, which give strength and solidity
to our bodies, l'atly substances, (on
the most part, are devoid of albumen.
In the animal economy this f’utly deposit
is made tor the purpose of supportim’
respiration, and maintaining ihe due
proportion ot umirml heat under circuni
i stances where an adequate supply of
i bus been withheld. Hence we
1 see, that those hybemating animals, the
I ‘’b* l bear, for instance, which remain,
1 doimaiit in winter become excessively
fat during the autumnal months, and*
this supply of fuel keeps the lungs in
motion, und propels the current of the
circulation during ihe protracted period
of their apparent tit of inebriation.
W hem tlie warm spring months impart
their genial influence, bis amount of
tuel having been nearly consumed, he
creeps out ol his den, a poor, lean, decre
pid creature, the mere shudow of his,
former self.
“Currie mentions the case of an indi-.
viduul who was unable to swallow, and
whose body lost one hundred pounds in
weight during a month; uud according
to \Vartel.l, a fat pig, overwhelmed in a
slip of earth, lived sixteen days without
lbod, und was 1 ‘und to have diminished
in weight, in that time, more than one
hundred and twenty pounds,” —(Lei
hig’s Animal Ohem. p. 24.) Alcohol;
is noil-nitrogenous, as the chemists call
it. Its primary effect is an. exaltation
of nervous sensibility, but it enfeebles
muscular activity tor it is incapable of
affording muscular tissue. An individ
ual in the enjoyment of health, requires
no aid from this despotic sovereign to
the performance ofthe most protracted
and laborious demands upon Isis physi
cal and mental energies. Temperance
in diet, properly regulated exercise,
and nature’s sweet restorer, “balmy
sleep, and libations and draughts, from
the sparkling fountain unadulterated as
it issues from the bosom ofthe earth,
ahbrd the motive und sustaining power
by which the most complex yet tlio
most perfect of all machinery is main
tained in a state ol perfect integrity.
This position is corroborated by the
well known fuel that the athletic,, about
to perform feats which makes an, exces
sive demand upon his muscular power,
avoids the use of alcoholic drinks, and
subjects himself to u rigid system of ex
ercise, and indulges ill that kind of food
which is known to be most nutritious,
being aware that stimulation from exci
ting drinks is neccessariiy followed by
1 a corresponding degree of languor and
dejection. As u familiar illustration of
the influence of those substances, like
alcohol which are deficient in strength
producing elements, let us observe
phenomena that occur iu every day life
among some of the lower order of ani-
mals. Who that was about to com.
j iriencw a long journey would subject
; bis horse to u preparatory diet of pota
j toes or ground nuts, or would continue
j this food during the progress of his
journey ? liis animal wouJd probably
| soon become sleek and rotund,, and
] beautiful to behold, while iu a state of
idleness, but after a short period of la
■ bor his fatly deposit would melt away
j like embankments of snow beneath a
; meridian sun, he would become dull
and sluggish, and incapable of further
i exertion. Experience directs tiiat his
| manger shall he supplied with corn,
hay and. oats. The materials first men
lioncd are rich in fat-producing ele
| ments; those of the latter afford those
: constituents which impart strength to
the body, and by a slow process of as
similation to the different tissues, they
keep the due proportion of heat without
interfering with known physiological
laws that control the healthy condition
of the different functions. But let us
appeui to the testimony. Facts speak
authoritatively. Experiment is the ba
! sis upon which all scientific deductions
ate made. In an extensive brick-mak
ing establishment, which employment
is regarded us being sufficiently labori
to test the capability of physical endu
rance, we have the following statistics :
Suye a gentleman, residing iu Uxbridge,.
England, “in the year 1841, 1. obtained
the amount of bricks made by the lar
: gest maker and the result in favor of
the teetotaller was very satisfactory.
Out of 23,000,000 of bricks made, thu
average per man, made by the beei
drinker, in the season, was 760,269,
while for the teetotaller was 793,400,
which is 35,131 iu fuvor of the latter.
The highest number made by a beei*.
drinker was 880,000 ; the liigest num.
ber made by u teetotaller was 890,000;.
the lowest number made by a beer
drinker was 659,000; the lowest num.
ber made by a teetotaller was 746,000,
leaving 87,000 in favor of the teetotal
ler. (British and Foreign Medical Re.
view.” Equally striking comparisons
are made in an extensile machine shop,
in the report of itic reporter, where be
tween one and two thousand workmen
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