Man's Deadly Foe

the Psychological Journal states that the amouut of mortality among persons of intemperato habits from twenty to thirty years ot age, is fi ve timet grcater than that of the community generally; and from thirty to forty years of age, it is four times grealer. He aays, "If there be anything in the usagos oi society ealcülated to destroy life, the most powerful Í3 certainly theinordinate US8 of strong drink." The diseases incurred by snch habits are mostly of the head and stomach. m „■ I JjC Major Jack Downing once said to Gen. Jaekson : " Gin'ral, I have alwajg observed that thofio persons who have a great deal to aay about being ready to shcd their last drop of blood, ' are amazia purtic'lar about the first j drop." I