What Alcohol Will Do

It may seem gtrange, but it is neverthe Ie88 true, that alcohol, regularly applied to a thrifty farmer's Btomach, will remove the boarda from the fences, let cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees, inortage his farm, and sow his fields with wild oats and thistles. It will take tho paint off his buildings, break the glass out of the windows, and fill them with rags. It will take the glosa from his clothes and polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passion, bring sorrow and disgrace upon his family, and topple him into a drunkard's gave. It will do this to the artisan and the capitalist, the matron and the naaiden, as well as to the farmer ; for in its deadly enmity to the human race, alcohol is no respecter of persons. -