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TO YOU SHALL I 1'radically every young man is so licited at some lime to drink wine or beer, or some stronger) drink. What sbf.ll bis attitude be on this question? Ought he to be a teetotaler, or should bc take what he will be told is a mod erate view, and drink a little for the sake of sociability and good fellow ship? If the question ie put in the -??treine form, "Shall I become a ?j-unkard, orbe a temperate man, even to the extent of abstinence?" every young nian will choose abstinence. But many hold that a middle course is much more manly, that to decline' to drink for fear of becoming a drunk ard or losing control of one's appetite ie an evidence of weakness or cowar dice. Some men allege that to refrain from touching drink because its abuse' is evil, is no more necessary or admira ble than to refrain from using lan guage because it is often put to evil service, or fire because it is dangerous, cr any food whioh can be overused with harmful effect. One principle may be set fortAx clearly at the outset-namely, that it is within any man's right to refrain -from the use of all intoxicating drink. It is no man's duty to use it as a bev erage. Every man is within his Christian liberty in refusing to touch it. If any man moves in a society that curtails this liberty or denies it, his suspioion ought to he aroused, for the next step will be the abridgment of other liberties as well. But I am going farther than this. It is not only a man's right to let liquor alone, it is his duty. He owes it to society and to himeelf as a worker. He cannot do his best work except as a sober, eiear-mmded, steady-nerved man. The railroads will not employ men who are net geber, and aro coming more and more to prefer total abstainers. Even bar tenders are often required to let drink alone. The idea that it brightens the intellect and sharpens the faculties is purely fallacious. This defense comes, as a rule, from men upon whoa* thc habit has fastened itself, and who seek a. justification of it, and who ob viously disprove their own contention. "I have never used liquor," Mr. John G. Johnson, aleading lawyer of Phila delphia, WSB recently reported to have said, "because I don't like it. Bat I know men who have used it, and I don't think it ever brightened their intellects." Net only does drinking not brighten the intellect.and increase its working poweii, but it breaks down the integ rity <? nature and the vitality of the mea who drink. "Alcohol is inju rious," ?Dr.. J. -Solis-Cohen. of Phila delphia, is.reported by the same paper which quoted Mr. Johnson's state ment to have said: "A man may drink it te deaden his sorrow, but the pendulum will always swing as far one way as it -does the ? other. If he finds happiness er Joy in intoxication, he will pay for it Inconsequential misery when he gets ?ober. It might stimu late the minde of -some men tempo trily. bat it would-eoon kill their in ellecis and skorlen their lives. Phy iciaus agree that it is a had thing, ll siimuluutB ase injurious. A few ears ago we stopped the nee of liqnor n the Home for Gonaumptives. Since hat time there has ?been a marked de cease in the number ?rf ihemorrhages. t ?B bad in every way." Of o ourse the young man who be ns to drink does net intend to drink cough to be injured by at. He be eves he can control himself, and he .pises the drunkard ..he has sur eadered his manhood and Iiis self on ir ol as thoroughly as any abstainer oes. But what evidence lias any oung man that he can retain control f this appetite? Let any young man ho thinks he can, look up the family .story of the people whom he knows eat, his own family history, even, o few cases will he be able to recall o generations without meeting a uakard, who meant to be only a oderate drinker when he began. No 'unkard meant to he a drunkard when e began. He did not intend to ac aire the habit of drink. Bat a habit "es itself upon the man who does tho ts ?a which the roots of the habit .ide. Even if the habit is but one moderate drinking, that is the only ?d to the habit of immoderate drink s' And it ie a road that is surer to n that way than the other. "Twenty-five years ago," Mr. De :* said, recently, in an1 address to ?hoad men, "I knew every man, oman and child, ia Peekskill. It * been a study with me to mark the irse of the boys, in every grade of e. who started with myself-.to see bat has become of them. Last fall Wa- up there, and began to count tm over, and tho lesson was most Mructive*. Some of them became R*8, some merchants, manufactur lawyers, or doctors. It is rc I NG MEN. DRINKS tuarkable that every one of them that had drinking .habits is now dead-not a single one of my age now living. Except -a -few who were taken off by sickness, everyone has proved a wreck, and has wrecked his family, and 'Sid it from mm and whiskey and no other cans?. Of ?hose who were church going ?people, who were steady, indus trious and hard-working men, and frugal and thrifty, evsry one, without exception, owns the house in which he lives, and hts something laid by, the interest on which, with his house, would oarry him through many a rainy .day. When a man becomes debased with .gambling, ram, or drink, ho seems to care for nothing; all his finer feelings are stifled, and ruin only is his end." .T?ven men who themselves drink will give this sort of advice to others; and when they have to employ others, will prefer, without hesitation, the man who is known to abstain. Suoh a man is more trusted beoavse he can trust himself. He has acquired the habit of self-control, and no tempta tion can allure him. Many young men drink because it .seems to them to be a brave thing to do. They feel a manly independence in it. As a matter of fact, it is not courage, but cowardice, that leads many of them to take a drink, and .they-are afraid to refuse, or there is a crowd about them, and they do not want to seem timid. They think that ito retain the respectif the crowd they must do as the crowd is doing. But .probably the whole orowd is just fol lowing one or two leaders, and the real heart of the leaders may be only a coward's heart. These are the very ?times when principles are worth some-. thing, and when the man who says, "I will not," stands out as the man .of true courage. The habit of drink, whether regular or not, is a wasteful habit. The American Grocer estimated the ex penditure of the people of th? United States for beverages in the year 1900 as follows: Alcoholic drinks.$1,059,563,787 Coffee . 125,798,530 Tea. 37,312,608 'Cocea... 6,000,000 $1,228,674,925 Vibe .men .and women who spent this snore (than a billion dollars for strong drink ?have nothing left to show for the expenditure . bot some weakness hidden Away somewhere as the sole ooaoegueace. ?Tho beer habit, whioh is the easiest > habit for yoang men to foam, ia as had .as any in this. It can be indulged anywhere, and its inno cence ie imaginary. "I think beer kills quicker than, any other liquor," saya aa eld .physician. "My attention was first called to its insidious effects, when I began examining for life in surance. I passed as unusually good risks five .Germans, young business men, who -seemed,in .the best health, and to have superb constitutions.' In a few years I was amazed to seo the whole five drop off, one after another, with what ought to have been mild and easily curable diseases. On corn parin.*; my exp?rience w:lh that of other phyeiciaap, 1 found they were all having similar lack with.confirmed beer-drinkers, and my practice has since heaped confirmation on.confirma tion." At a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Medioine, the .ques tion of the effects of alcoholism was discussed, and Dr. Charles L. liana spoke of having studied carefully threchundred and fifty ease? of alco holism at Bellevue Hospital, of which the most frequent form was dipsoma nia and the next pseudo-dipsomania. Over two-thirds of the whole had be gan drinking before the age of twenty years, and all before thirty years. As a rule the drunkard did not live more than fifteen years after his habit had, become confirmed. Whether beer or ?pirita, the effects of their use are bad. Why should f man begin a wasteful habit whioh is so easily car ried to exoess, which even if not car ried to excess, does him no good, and does do him positive harm? It ie trae that ia some associations it is hard for a yonog man to refrain from drinking. Many young men grow up in homeB where wine is alway s on the table. They are in business relations where His regarded as the natural thing to drink and peculiar to abstain. But coneoienticas principles are respected everywhere, when they aro pleasantly bat firmly adhered to; and even if the principles are not con seientiocs, but merely prudential, they will be offensive to no one to whom they aro not made offensive by some personal unpleasantness,r?n the ! part of the ono holding them. The principle of abstinence should bo with us a conscientious, not morely a prudential, principle. Our morai judgment should so revolt from the terrible abuso of liquor and the liquor business, that it will refrain from the uso of drink as the only effective pro test. The terrible risk of ooo aot issuing in a second act, and that in a third, and that in the birth of a habit with all the possible consequences, should make us fear fer ourselves, while what we see of wreck and ruin round us should lead ma to abstain for our brother's sake. This is the high, religious ground. Drinking keeps us back from the best in ourselves, and it hinders us from the best helpful ness toward others, lt is religious principle alone that will really stand all the tests ia this matter, as reli gious principle alone can effect what needs to be effected when men have gone too far. At the meeting of the New York Aoademy of Medicine re ferred to, Dr. Allen Starr confessed "that the only reformed drunkards of whom he had knowledge, were those who had been saved, not through, medical, but through religious influ ence." He declared his belief that periodical drinking was chiefly a mat ter of moral obliquity. The great word for the young man is "liberty." He wants to be free. Oftentimes he begins to drink in the idea that this is a sign of his indepen dence. But this is the use of liberty for the purpose of enslavement. He only is free who is master of his tastes and appetites, and can look tho temp tation to drink oalmly in the face, and say, without wavering, "No." The maa who says: ''That is no liberty. That is slavery to hard asceticism, and is cowardly. I am frea because I can say 'Tes' or 'No' as I please," may be telling the truth about him self once in many limes, but for the rest, he thinks he can say "No" when he wants to do so, because he never wants to do so.-Robert E. Speer, in Forward. The (Difference In Animals. "I've worked around animals more or lees all my life until the trolleys did away with horses," said the mo torman, and I have noticed particu larly the effect drunken men has on them. A horse hates a man with a jag worse than the devil hates holy water, but a dog seems to feel that a drunkard isn't responsible for himself and acts accordingly. ? dog, no matter bow fierce he is, will never bite a drunken man. He seems to know by instinct when a man is under the weather and treats him much as he would treat a child. But with a horse it's different. A horse treats a drunken man with contempt-doesn't want to have anything to do with him. There need to be an old barn who loafed ??round the car stables, and who somehow or other always managed to keep leaded np ito the nozzle. 8ome nights be would creep into a o tall and go to sleep iu the-straw. The horses, when tkey hau "finished the last ran at night, would always be ready to drop in their stalk, bat il never new a horse that would sleep with the barn. Bath er tsss !c? down alongside him the horse would ;>tand up all night." Wbj (be Sealsfter ?Wss Galled. The Bishop of Bath and Wella, who ia to figure so prominently at the cor onation standing to the left of the throne of the king throughout the greater portion of the ceremony, ia not ezaetly noted for hie good looks, saya the Marquise de Fontenoy, in the Philadelphia Press. In faot, he ia rather homely. He ie <qudte aware of the faot, however, and telll a' good atory in this connection at Ilia own expense. It f>eems that one day as he waa riding in an omnibus io ?Lon don he waa annoyed by the persistent staring of a workingman on the op posite seat. The man presently ad dressed himself Co him aa follows: ?'You're a parson, ain't you?" "Well, yes, that is so." "Look 'ere, parson," exclaimed the man, "would you mind comi?* 'orne with me to see my wife?" Imagining the wife was sick and needing spiritual assistance the bish op at much inconvenience to him self, went wich the man. On arriving at the house the man shouted to his wife to oome downstairs, and pointing to the astonished prelate, cried with w grin of delight: "Look'e 'ere, Sairry. Yer said thia mornin' aa I wur the hugliest chap in England. Now, just yer look at this bloke!" ?let tte GOLD DOST twins do your wotfcW BOLD DUST soires tho problem of easy dish washing. It cuts grease and cleans dishes better than anything- elsa. Does its work quickly, well and economical. Blade only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CbJc?ffO. New York, Boston, St Louis. Makers ol OVAL FAIRY SOAP. Joe Hallan!mil" s Horse. Senator Oarinack's comparison of President KOOBOVOU to a Tennessee horse whoso "natural gait was running away/' has touched the risibles of tho nation. The st?nographie report of Senator Car mack's remarks in The Congressional Record shows his exact language to have been: "He resembles in his habits of speech my friend Joe Ballanfant's horse, of which ! remarkable animal it was said that running away was his natural gait." The Columbia Herald says the inci dent upon which the witticism was founded occurred while Senator Car mack was a schoolboy at Gulleoka. Joe Ballanfant was then a dashing young oavalier and an ex-Confederate soldier, and was very muoh admired among the ladies. He rode in those days what The Herald describes as "a crazy gray horse," and one day, it is related, "he came oareering down the road in a cloud of dust." AP he pass ed the school the boys, among whom was the future Senator, wtaohed with glowing admiration the gallant eques trian and his caracoling steed, and one of them shouted: "Is he running away, Joef" 1 "Running wayr" replied Joe. i "Thunder! Running away is his nat ural gait." The story has survived all these years in Maury County, but it remained for Carmack to tell it to the nation and thus immortalize that re markable steed.-Nashville Banner. Sal? 446 Wes sc Speaker. William Alden Smith, of Michigan, illustrating the value of honesty in politics, told a story (he other day of an old governor of Michigan, who be came a candidate on condition that he should not bo asked <to make speeches. An occasion soon arose, however, when the regular orators were absent from a meeting, and the crowd insisted on bearing from the candidate himself. He walked to the front and bravely announced that he was no speaker, with considerable repetition, and after a little halting proceeded to talk.for three-quarters of an hour. When the meeting ?was over the candidate had quite come to thc conclusion that he was a speaker af tar all, and especially did he feel so whenan oldf armer came up to him to say that, although a life long democrat, he had decided as a re sult of what he had heard, te vote this time for the republican candidate. Before the latter, in f-.isblushes, could stammer out a response, the farmer continued: "What we want ae govern ors is honest men. You are one. You said -you were no speaker. You told the truth. I shall vote for you." ^^^^^_ For biliousness use Chamberlain's Stomach & Liver Tablets. They cleanse the stomach and regulate the liver and bowels, effecting a quick and Sirmaneat cure. For sale by Orr ray & Co. rr In nearly every street in Japan* ese cities is a public ooo? wfeera fer a small fee housewives may have their dinners and suppers cooked for them. Nothing equal to Prickly Ash Bit ters for removing the sluggish bilious feeling, so common in **ot weather. It creates strength, vigor, appetite and cheerful spirits. Evans Phar macy. - A boy with a , frail developed tooth in his lower jaw was bern to a oouple in Wisconsin. The child is healthy, and weighed ten and cue half pounds. To Care a Cold In OM Bay. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the mone if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove'y signature on every box. 25c. - The longest alphtbet in Eurone is that of the Slavonic language. It has forty-two letters. Harrows, Cultiva Ai (Seasonable Goods for thi -www WE aie prepared to furnish the 1 mente as he needs at this season of the You will always find our stock of There is no way that the Farmer < our UNIVERSAL GUANO DISTR puta in the Fertilizer at the same time, ER8, and run it over the cotton field j hard crust that forms on the bedded ro that never fails to come. Come in and Keystone Weeder-the great labor sav Don't fcrget that we are Head HARROWS, CULTIVATORS and : -the greatest Corn and Cotton Cultiva of these Harrows you cannot afford to Roman and Terrel that star." first on 1 HOES !-Just received a Our Load < are low enough. Big stock of Garden Rakes and ot Builders' Hardware, Nails and Ba BROCK HARDW Successors to C Some Useful Ideas. Do good and then do it agaiu. Diet cures moro than thc lancet. - Medicine? are not meant to live on Pride is the sworn euctuy of eon tent. Punctuality is the soul of business. By others' faults wise men correct their own. Provide for the worst; the best will save itself. Do all that you eau tobe good, and you'll be so. There is great force hidden in a sweet command. Friendship that flames often goes out in a flash. Spend not all you have, believe not all you hear, and tell not all you know. The world is a ladder, for some to go up and some to go doxa. Proud looks lose hearts, but cour teous words win them. Prosperity gets followers, but ad versity distinguishes them. - mm ? -? - - There is a timo in every girl's life when she hesitates to take any man in the world, and there is a time, if she has passed tho other time with out being married, when she would take any man who asked her. - Sometimes a inau's ??ins find him out-but he is more apt to be found out by his wife._ BAD DIGESTION Inperfect digeitio? li mote serious and far-reaching ia Its effect than ia generally understood. Thia itate of health is like an open gate Tray to disease because germs that moy be in the air we breathe at once selzo such an opportunity to attack the vital organs. They slowly undermine the strength and energy, and a collapse comes-usually at a time when a strong healthy body is most needed. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS Xs a fine regulating tonic which filters through thc body, casting oat injurious matter, stimulating th* digestion and nourishing and strengthening every weihen rd paru. It abo vili fies the blood, sharpen* tho appetite and creates energy. In this way lt' restores the system to perfect order. Tor Irregular bowel CWT*. . ratet?, chroDlc, conniption, flo tul m CP, bel ch ID jj, foul ??rcatb, and other trouble* dna to Indigestion or ob ctructlon in the bowel?. Prickly Atb Ditter? ii ci .speedy cure. SOLD AT DRUGGISTS. $ woo Per Bottle. Srans Pharmacy, Special Agents. tors, id Weeders. ?Farmers, ww farmer with just wen Farm Imple year. STEEL PLOWS complete, jan economise moro than.to use one of [BUTORS, that open? the furrow and unless it is to get one of our WEED ust as it is trying to break through the w just after one of th cae Spring rains let us tell you about our Adjustable er and cotton raiser, quarters for COTTON PLANTERA HOES. Our PERFECT HARROW tor on the market-once you get one do without them. We also sell the iho list. )f Hoes, all sizes and kinds, and prices her toola for tho gardener, rb Wire always on hand. 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