Genius And Intemperance

The remtrk ia frequeotly beard ihal it i tlit' most gifted, "gcniiruus" Icllows who are the most apt to fUI into intern perance. The sayinc is Deither truc nor useful. Flowever it ïuay havo boen lornx'rly, it kM tNU to pass now that, a L'rofeWOT Swiaf mij:nests, the teuiperanoe reform has reacbed tirst the miad tliat aro most gifted. lic Mjrt, " Muy yi'ars a;o, it was my good fortune to serve my country by Ixini; mvit tiiry ol a temptnuoe nota?, and in that official Jisuity I adiliessci! ol'iuiuiry to presidenta oleollefTCM and profMMn, to -k wliaf n s tho iualitv ot'tlir youiiK uien who in the daya nñrred ifccir ooIUgc eourse by the ase of' rd Bt ilrink.-. LoDf letters oatbe from 1 'resident Wuulsoy, of' 'ale, and (rom IIonUM Mann. then of Busion, anJ from I'ri'tcsMir Moffat, of' I'rioeeton, and they all bure testiinony tbat H'-nius ia their ooltegoi and chools drank lesa ihau itupidity , that whiiky vw pawing away trom the higher order of wind, and was to Le fouod only in pnssession of thp venaual and leas bright."