ts 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.
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