The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898, October 07, 1894, Image 9

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Newspaper Page Textts C. T. B. Eo pnd Home and Native D ' Land. THE S COMffIITEE = Noble Order is Do- ’ ,R °?«e S Xe Missionary * e Young Man Reclaimed From the ■ Evil of his Life. w C T. U. Jail Tbe Rome W. u. is doing valuable work, r the fruits of which are Lathered from time to ’’.ter-till »iH be >e harvest (“heir f.itbhd efforte “when an- Jgconie to reap. \vwklv visits to the pneenora pnuiilr, religious literature d.s 'tart pr«»s offered with and irt he prisenors, earnest conver sions are held in which the Sin ers are pointed to Hun who ime “to proclaim liberty to the mtives, and the opening of the risen doors to them that are ound.” An incident which occurred re jntly, illustrates the value of such forts’and encourages those who IV e been so faithfully and pa rtly sowing the precious seed of !uth. A prisoner, a young man reeog jzed among .the visiting ladies, ae who had formerly been his jaeher, and she, expressing her jrrow in finding him in such a lace, she sympathized with him id promised to pray for him at a irtain hour every day, and re lated him to lift up his heart in ie same hour, assuring him that led would hear and answer the raver of faith. Not long after this, the young lan was brought to trial and ac uitted. Hastening to the house fills friend he told her that he iae not only a free man, bi._ God ad pardoned his sins, and hence orth he expected to serve Him nd forsake his former evil com anions and sinful life. At the hne time with tears in his eyes nd a tremor of thankfulness in is voice he said: “I owe it all to tiuMissF—,”A great wave of iaukf illness crept over the heart of lis Christian woman, and as she peated the story to her co-work is they rejoiced together over the tirade God had wrought through leni. and renewed their vows to bor more faithfully than ever r God and humanity. falls fruitless, none can tell, "°'v'■*i*s pow r tn ty be Nnrwha- results enfolded lie it silently." AM) MISSIONARIES. dip the following from an change; 1“" ''aptain of a ship which o Liiita cargo of missionaries 1 ru >n to Africa has returned to *• According to the report 111,1 b that he stopped at thir -ri and wherever he unload rUmit ' vas received with enthu mby the natives, while the when they landed re Reived coldly. This is a l>f ' n /hy missionaries should go , : !rica aud r,lln should not. The ' me not to blame for not ? a t. to distinguish between r *end s and foeg> The m . B _ , leß have not only the barba ioftmorance and degraded hab ’'ati'es to contend against of those men of send rum -X-Xi hasa in it. ■putti We 89ndin g the rum sat cur?’ lliemselves under a I^Pla t ; a H rSe t f T rfUl tO rful hoc 18 all the more “ ftlw f ‘ ot ,le oftha' 111 a gospel land and sos ci r n, ’ " e hear ’ are n -em- I Ltd f * nrohM - ill the str *° r nUßß ionaries the sendir"^ 1 ° n Us because m °ur g h( ° Ut th o rum II ° Ur peonl* 6 ou ght to have admit of „ ’ trained than Mailed thlng8 l but as we I 1 " OUr power t’ We Bhould do ltha tou r to coun teract the «• HU citizens are missionary work at home, and we must be in a hurry to meet the de mands abroad.—Wesleyan Advo cate. “ rbere was a tim said John B Finch, ‘‘a Leu the lempsrunce largely the struggle ct a few poor victims of the tralHj to iroe i hemsel ves. That day has passed the reform has becom” a reli .mn, faith of this nation, and in spite of all the »' plii-tri< s and the drunkard makers »nd their aiders and ahetor-’, the day is not far distant when a State will no sooner license a man to carry on business to debauch the loved ones of th“ women of the land than it will license a man to steal the jewels from their jewel ca»-es.” Chicago Ladies Shocked. Chicago, 111., October 6. —The Women’s Christian Temperance Union has entered upon a crusade against objectionable theatrica bill boards, and the exposure be fore the footlights of scantily cloth women. GOT DRUNK. To Convince Her Husband That it Was a Disgusting Habit. Indianapolis, October 6.—Mrs. Kate Mann, a well-dressed, intelli gent and respectable looking wo man, helplessly intoxicated, was arrested to-day. After she had so bered up she ci nfided to the police matron a strange story . She said that her busband had recently caused her much trouble by his dissipated habits. She had prayed for his reformation and had pleas ed with him, with the only result that he was rapidly growing irrita- I ble as well us indifferent t > her wishes. Then she decided upon he roic measures and concluded to get drunk herself that she might shame him into doing better. She was permited to go home with a warning to try some other kind of poison as a counter-irritant. ALCOHOL IN HEREDITY. Evidence In Proof of the Inherited Thirst Theory. The part which heredity plays in •-rime has been so clearly demonstrated I that any argument is superfluous. • hildren inherit aptitudes and tenden cies which sometimes begin their fatal ■work at once, or which age. sex, tem perament, hygiene, surrounding condi tions, develop into morbid activity. The history of the largest family of criminals known in America—the Jukes—has been graphically written by Mr. R. L. Dugdale. The ancestors of “the Jukes” is thus described: "A hunter and fisher, a hard drinker.” (the italics are mine), “jolly and com panionable, averse to steady toil.” There is ample evidence to prove that the preponderating influence in criminal heredity is alcohol. Os course there is some difficulty in shading the line between heredity and environment. A child born of a drunken parent is very likely to have surroundings that promote pauperism and crime, but that alcoholism has a definite place in heredity criminality is demonstrate* beyond a question. Even the ancients understood the danger. The physical results of drunken heredity are pointed out by them in the myth of Vulcan, whose deformity was attributed to the drunkenness of Jupiter when the lame Lemnian was conceived. Ribot, who is generally regarded as an authority concerning heredity, affirms: “The passion known as dip somania, or alcoholism, is so frequent ly transmitted that all are agreed in considering its heredity as a rule. Not that the passion for drink is always transmitted in that identical form, for it often degenerates into mania, idiocy, or hallucination.” Ribot further quotes Dr. Morel, who examined one hundred and fifty children, from ten to seven teen years of age, who had been taken from behind the barricades during the trouble with the commune. “This ex amination,” says Morel, “hasconfirmed me in my previous convictions as to the baneful effects produced by alcohol, not only in individuals who use this detest able drink to excess, but also in their descendants. On their depraved physi ognomy is impressed the threefold stamp of physical, intellectual and moral degeneracy.” Os the 4,000 criminals who have passed through the Elmira reformatory, 38.7 per cent, were the children of drunken parents, with the probability fairly es tablished of 11.1 per cent, to be added, making 49.8 per cent, of the criminals who had been prisoners there the vic tims of hereditary alcoholism. Marro found that 41 per cent, of criminals which he studied were chil dren of alcoholized parents, and Rossi, out of 71, found 31 percent, of the same hereditary taint. This includes those who were criminals from direct intem perance only in so far as they were children of drunken heredity. “Nor is it necessary,” says Havelock Ellis, “that the alcoholism should be carried so far as to produce great ob vious injury to the parent. Ihe action of the poison may be slow, and carried on from generation to generation. Ihe fathers have eaten sour grapes; the children's teeth are set on edge. The relation of alcohol to crime is much more involved than many have suspected. The cumulative result of a few generations of moderate drinking v. ill oi - - -'. jiii ia a ■ THE HUSTLER OF ROME SUNDAY OCTOBER,7 1894. sooner or later prove injurious to the human constitution withoi/ any excep tion. Among the signatories were Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir James Clarke, Dr. Marshall Hall and other physicians to the queen, the document having been drafted by the well-kno *n surgeon, Mr. Julius Jeffreys, F. R. S. 1 he second, signed by more than two thousand physicians and surgeons, among whom were Sir Benjamin Bro die, Sir James Clarke. Sir William Bur nett, Sir Henry Holland. Sir John l orbes, Sir Robert Christison (the great authority on poisons), W. B. Carpenter, b. R. S. (author of tin*celebrated prize eSkay on ‘The Physiology ->f Temper ance and 1 otal Abstinence”), and a large number of university professors, was drawn up and issued by Mr. John Dunlop in 1847. This declaration set forth that perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all in toxicating beverages; that all such beverages can be discontinued sudden ly or gradually with with perfect safe ty; that total and universal abstinence from alcoholic liquors and intoxicating beverages of all sorts would greatly contribute to the health, the morality, and the happiness of the human race. The third declaration, suggested by Mr. Robert Rae and Mr. Earnest Hart, and drafted by Prof. Parkes, the fa mous physiologist and expert in hy giene, was signed by nearly all the principal members of English hospital staffs, including Sir Thomas Watson, the nestor of British medicine; Sir Wil liam Ferguson, Sir James Paget, Sir Henery Thompson, the great surgeons; Sir Henry Holland, Sir Ranald Martin, and Sir James Bardsley. This declara tion, noting the widespread belief that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic fluids by medical mer had given rise to intem perance, urged the need for medical practitioners to prescribe these liquors only under a sense of grave responsi bility; that alcohol in any form should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug, and that the direc tions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess, or necessarily for the continu ance of its use when the occasion had passed. Against the objection that most ol the signers of these trenchant declara tions did not put their belief into practice by continuing non-abstainers may be put the consideration that this very inconsistency showed the unprej udiced character of their opinion, as the fact of drinking would rather oper ate to give them a bias in favor oi strong drink. London Temperance Record. The Cause of Crime. In his opening address at the late Na tional prison congress, held at St. Paul, Minn., President Brinkerhofl made the statement that in the United States “crime is on the increase out ol proportion to population, and that the tide of criminality is becoming highei steadily and rapidly.” He supported his statement by statistics of a start ling character. According to the offi cial returns of the United States cen sus there were in 1850 a total ol 6,737 prisoners, 1 out of 3,443 ol the population; in 1860 there were 19,086 1 out of 1,644; ia 1870, 32,901 prisoners. 1 out of 1,177; ir 1880, 58,609 prisoners, 1 out of 855; and in 1890 the total number of prisoners had reached the large aggregate of 82,- 329, or 1 out of 757 of the entire popu lation. It is notorious that intoxicat ing beverages are a chief cause ol crime; and it is noteworthy, also, that this large increase of crime in the United States since 1850 has been ac companied by, if not caused by, a cor responding increase in the consu up tion of beer and fermented liquors.— National Temperance Advocate. VARIOUS NOTES. Canada dc<js not allow a liquor-dealei or saloon-keeper to hold a municipal office. The political programme of the pro gressive party of South Africa includes a clause demanding “further restric tions on liquor.” The earl of Carlisle has given a prac tical illustration of his belief in the drink evil by destroying the contents of his famous wine cellar. I dread the arrival of an Americar ship, for though she may have more missionaries in her cabin, she brings in her hold the death waters of damna tion. —Rev. John Williams, Pacific Islands. The largest death rate of any city ir the world, from the use of alcohol, is recorded in Stockholm, the Swedish capital. The number of deaths from this cause is ninety in one thousand. Experiments have been made by Dr Buchner in submitting working bees tc a regimen of alcoholized honey. The effect is astonishing. They revolt against their queen and give themselvei over to idleness, brigandage and pillage until they are cast out by their fellows. No one can deny that there is a great deal too much drink in this country, and that much of the crime, and much of the pauperism, and al most all the degradation prevalent in this country is attributable to the curse of drink. —Lord Roseberry. In Great Britain some fifteen lectures go forth every day, into the day schools of the country, teaching the principles of physiology and temper ance, and within the past four years nc less than ten thousand of the ele mentary schools of that great country have been reached with this subject. A very curious temperance society exists in the Siberian village of Ash- Iyka. Every year in September the members meet in the church and make a solemn promise to abstain from wine and spirits for a whole year. They also sign an agreement that any person breaking the pledge shall pay a fine oi twenty-five rubles to the church and submit to lie spat upon by his more con tinent fellows. The most peculiar featr ure of the whole business, however, is that the members on the one day of the year when the pledge expires allow themselves wine and brandy during the few hours which intervene before the pledge for the ensuing year is made. No. 21 Broad bt. No. 1 9 Broad St. Dry goos, Shoes ——Groceries, Feed Hats&Clothing. & farm supplies. W. H. COKER & CO. t SELLS SH2ES; If you dont believe it, Bring your feet to No. 21 Broad Bt, and we will show yon what we can do. Biggest Stock Lowest Prices, / We can fit both feet and pocket book. New goods arriving daily. W.H.COKER SCO.