Contracts Of Inebriates

Aléohol clearly predisposes to crimiiiidity by lowering and paralyzing the higher brain centers which preside over consdousness of right and wrong. Tlie immediate effect of spirits is to cause impulsivo, petty acts. For the present moment sueh acts might materialize into serious crime, but it would depend upon favorable conditions and surroundiugs. The uustable condition of tlie brain made so by alchol, i.s inore or less incapable of sustaiuing a preconeeived idea and carrying it out, especially iï time and continuons drinking follow. ïhis is the rule to which there are exceptions, but these exceptions clearly follow certain circumstances which ar ■ easily traced. Often it is claimed that spirits are given for the purpose of obtaining undue influence in tlie making of a will or signing a contract. This is conflrmed by a clinical study of cases, and l'acts indícate the impulsiveness of the act, with absence of deliberation or forethotight. Delusions and misconceptions of acts and motives are very coinmon in all inebriates. Faulty reasoning, childish credulity, and general failure of capacity to discrimínate and adjust himself to the conditions and suiioundings, must of necessity result in wrongdoing; althougu in many cases this condition is covered up, and only when the person acts along unusual lines is it apparent. All contracta and wilis written by ine briates should be subjected to carefu scrutiny. Not infrequently sucli acts display sound judgment, and it is fouud that they are the culmination of previous conceptions. Where they manifest imbecility and stransje motives, it is clearly the workings of au amesthetic brain, acting from suggestions from witliout or deranged impulses formed witliin. While a very large nuinber of inebriates act rationally in ordinary aííairs of society and business, and do uot commit overt acts that come under legal recognition, it is a question if this is not the result of accident and condi tions. There are strong reasons for lieving that a süght change of surroundings both mental and physical would explode the degeneration which exists and bring to light naanity, criminality, or idiocy. Instances are not infrequent of acts of lawlessness and crime in inebriates previously law-abiding aml houest citizens. It was uot the last use of spirits which provoked the act ; this only exploded a condition which had been gathering like a storm long before. The direction and form which this disturbance would take could not always be foreseeu.- From New Questions in Medical Jurisprudence, by Dr. T. D. Crothers, in Appletona Popular Science Monthly for August. The Ooiwity Fair dates ure tëept. 28, 29, 30, and O et. lst. Please paste this in ycuur bat. Uu1 P-i'SÏ i' States. There n ' èoantry la the wortd. su proüttcÈvo h' .-ai thïnga n ■filiul tor th ■ e i Á lii'e a.s In TrtMch li? vUutüie Jamous Brttlsh b1 rtïstleiM, Mtebaei ï. Mulhal!, describes .■!- "the prairie Bt&tes "f Yinorioa." Tlvy aio ültaols, Ohio, Ini, Missouri, Miclifea.n. WiaeonBin, i wa, Mlmiesot-i. Xebraeka, ,-;ii(l the twa Dakotas. Taldng the grein cnops oí tliose Btatas iu,' nggvcgftite, -tlicy of late have averaged 118 Imshols for eacli' man, woraau and child. In all the prairie stateB 3,060,000 hands are employed in agriculture, and the average product of tQiree yeaxs has been .19,700,000 trans oí gróin and 2,190,OOJ tons ol mea.t, or 050 bushels of graln and 1,610 pounds oí mea to eacn hand i-iuploij-ed. Mr. Muïhnll, in an article publistoea in the cnrremt nomber oí the North, American Keview, Btates that, the grain erop of the3e Btates is tem times ttue usual EüWJpean averu age. During the last loirty years t'here has been an lacrease oi aeres eultivati;a amountlns to 157000,000; Wliich is r eay that 13,000 acres daily have b-a added to tlio a.i'ea in tilla;-. a.re the fanms "i thi - i ily mioctg-aged. except in Kansas, where ;!''. per iv.it'. :' all real estáte is iinder mortgage. ratio ■of miortgaged property throughout t!h.e twelve prairie states i U per cemt., -whk-h is less i-i the ratio in tlie Eastern states. T 88 ". tfcje wealfh oí these sta 1860 a.nd 1890 has been few i and a half times as great as fehat oi Great Bi'itain. Th,s ac gtaads thus : Toibal wealth of the ptairie states in T8"60, $3,906,000,000 ; in 1890, $22,256,000,000; the yearly increase, $709,000000, whlcto is a yearly addition. of to the wealth of each inhabitant. The toüal wealth. of Great Britain in 1860 was $34,590,000,000 ; in 1890 it was $53,090,000,000 ; the yearly i:icrease bei'iig $617,000,000, Otf akout $19 to each. inhaibitiant. Illifflois is chief of the prairie states In point of liabitatioii and of wealth. Tlie wealtli of this Ktate in 1890 was estimated at $5.067,000,000, Off fit Uhe rate of $1,325 to fae'.i m.haliitant. Ohio stands next, wltb $3,952, 000,000, o:1 $1,077 per ínliaíbi■ÜEuat. Ttree prairie farmers, eays Muïhall, own as much wealth as iour Prenth, six Gre ' thlrteen Austria n. The g::uvt!i of agTieulture !ias been Sollo-ed hy a cocresponding growth o; ma-nujattu e ■;. In 1850 Uu-to were 111,000 operaives in milis and "ac,i. les In the prairie uta tes ; their avfc yearly earnings were $-70, and tke average m ie product oí each u.knian was $1,324. In 1890 there were 1,407,000 pers ins employed in manufactures, tlie average wage was $478 per year, and tlw average valué oí the output oi eac!h operator w;.s $2,247. Thus, while, ly :easaoia miainly of improvement.s in mat'hiiuery. the output of each operative was imcr'eaeed 70 percent., the wages were increased 77 per cent ; the advantage being Aith the Wu'-kman . 'Tbere are rnoire miles of rallway in th.a prairie states than in Fraaae, Russia, üennany and Austria put togetlier. Taxatiwn is low in ïhe prairie states, the anxount of vevenue collected in the twelve otates being 1si,000,000 in 1889; tliat is at the rato of $8 por liead ; the average ríate fhroulgliout the Uaion i-i $9.10 per in'habitant. One-thr.-d af the 6axea oí tHiese sbatea a v spant upon public schools, which ave the best in tlio warld. These Üguires, dispassioiaately compilert by a distiaiA'iiisiiOíl S ireigne-r, are camforttog. The people of tlic p:,ii-ie state have a )■,■ Uy herifcage. Iu no oblnv:' regbóii afe wo jiKiif.v oí tlie eoïnSorts of llfe wit'iin :i'. ('.i o; the haaesi nul ludust w) rkman. - ínter Ocean. A plan which is popular in the wesern states has ljeen introduced into outhern Michigan tliis season. A hresher, equipped witli tents and a fia.ll ïousekeeping ontflt, and accompanied jy a full complement of men, campe on i farmer's premises, and for a trifliog additional sum does the entire work, bus relieving the farmer's fainily of all culinary responsibility, including the requent anxiety lest their table should ïot be as luxuriously supplied as that of their neighbors. Such au outflt bas a good many points to recommend it, aud might find favor amoují a certain class of farmers iu this country. - Plvinmouth Mail. It may take a wide expants of brain to comprehend tuis : I anta are matte tor nen and not ior woinen. Women are aade for men and not for pants. AVhen a man pants for a woman and a woman jants for a man, they area pair of pants. 3uch pants don't last. Men are often nistaken in pants. Hucli mistakes are reeches of promise. There has been nucli discussion as to whether pants is singular ör plural. Seems tome when nen wear pants it's plural, and when [bey don't wear pants it's singular. Men go on a tear in their pauts, and it's all right. When pants go on a tear it is all wrong. MeClure'a Magazine for September will con tai n a thoroughly practical and useful article on "Life inKlondike Gold Fields." It embodies the personal ibservations of a pioneer who has lately coine out, bringing a fair fortune witb iiim, and it tells how the miners enter and work their claims, how they live, :iow they govern themselves, what kind of men they are, and how they pass their leisui-e time. It tells also what is ;he best way to the Klondike, what the :)est equipment for the journey and a year's residence there, and what promise of prosperity the country actual ly oííYtís. Che article will be fully illustrated from recent photographs.