In many homes wine is on the table daily, and the children see it drank before them, and some are even allowed to taste it.

I think the whole country suffers from it. and it should be put down as it has in some places. Attempts have been made in Boston, but the prohibitionists have not succeeded. Some of the business men say it will hurt business, but I should like to have it tried.

THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

Alcohol is a kind of ardent spirit. It will paralyze the nerves when taken as a drink. Alcohol is generally used to put in drinks, such as rum, ale, and lager. When once a man begins to drink things in which alcohol is put, it is very hard for him to stop. A man who drinks, almost invariably, is robbing his family of the money which they aught to have and which he is spending for his cravings of liquor.

It is one of the great topics of the day whether or not drinks, which contain alcohol shall be sold, made or imported into this country.

Young men who begin to drink do it because they think it a smart thing They do not look forward to what will become of them when they grow up to be men. They perhaps do not think or know that nations have been ruined by this

cur-e.

Every day this curse is getting a stronger hold on our nation. Every day it is growing larger and larger. Shall we allow this curse to ruin our nation. No! Somehow it must be stopped but how.

THE USE OF ALCOHOL.

The pure alcohol is a liquid of about the color of water. The Bible says "It biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder."

It is mixed with wine and sold to people as a beverage. To such people the ordinary food is not strong enough to satisfy their appetites. They sometimes eat garlic with their food.

A liquor saloon is a very poor thing to have in a community. It is generally brilliantly lighted in the evening to attract the young men. They will stay away from home for the sake of being in this gay company. They may loose their position in business if found intoxicated. It is the ruin of a man to take liquor as a beverage.

Drunkenness leads to many evils. When intoxicated murder may be com-
mitted, rash acts, stealing, and sometimes suicide.

A large part of the money spent in the Union is for liquor, wines, and tobacco.
Good could be done in every way with the money spent for these purposes.

In the effort to have the pupils receive their information in more definite
form and retain it, some teachers arrange the leading physiological facts in
form and order and require the pupils to memorize the statements. In classes
where this practice obtains, the papers are essentially alike:

Alchohol is a drug of very great power It weakens the nervous system and often leads to paralysis. It causes a disease of the liver, stomach and kidneys, and often leads to dyspepsia, which is caused by indigestion. It lessens the

mental powers, so, that a child using would not be able to learn or think as quick as be otherwise would. It often dwarfs the body.

It weakens the whole nervous system and often causes paralysis, epilepsy or insanity. When used in small quantities it is a stimulant, when used in large quantities it is a narcotic.

The higher faculties are first paralyzed leaving the victim under his lower and

meaner nature.

Alchohol weakens the muscles of the heart causing it to beat more rapidly, distending the blood-vessels, and overcharging them with blood.

Alcohol, irritates, weakens, and inflames the stomach, liver, and kidneys and often causes fatal diseases in these organs.

Alcohol weakens the muscle of the heart causing the blood to flow too rapidly and thus distending the blood-vessels. By use of alcohol the brain is first excited, then paralyzed. The higher faculties are first paralyzed leaving the victim under control of his lower and meaner nature. It weakens and exhausts the nervous system and sometimes causes paralysis, epilepsy and insanity.

EFFECTS OF TOBACCO ON THE SYSTEM.

Tobacco is very injurious to the young and no child which uses it good scholar. It dwarfs the body and lessens the mental power when by the young it makes them feel sick, stupid and drowsy, and gives t lowish or sallow look. It hurts the action of the heart, persons us hardly ever if ever healthy. Tobacco is a drug of very great power, extracted from it placed on a dogs tongue will kill him nearly as qui cid asic.

EVIL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO.

Tobacco is a drug of very great power a drop of oil exacted from it a dog's tongue would kill him nearly as prusic asid.

Tobacco when used by young is always injurious. It oftens duarf and always lessens the mental powers. No child usuing it is ever scholar as he otherwise would be.

Tobacco also causes diseases of mouth and throat.

Passing to consider the schools where text-books are used for a shorter time, the character of the papers presented seems to depen the general character of the school and the ability of the pupil than o ber of years spent in the study of alcohol.

If we select a number of schools in which the subject is studied from one, two, three, or more years, we shall find the best papers presented essentially the same facts in all the schools. On the other hand, t papers, after one year's use of the book, may be better than others furnish after five or six years' study. For example:

A.-Text-book one year; two lessons a week.

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

Alcohol at first acts as a stimulant, but when the stimulant has spe it leaves the body in a very weak condition It paralyzes the nerve c causes a fatty deposit around the heart and enlargement of the liv alcohol is first taken into the system it quickens the action of the afterwards leaves it very weak so that it cannot perform its wor Continued use of alcohol produces delirium tremens which someti death. The appetite for alcohol may be inherited In persons wh nerves are so weak that they cannot resist the temptation to drink. B.-Text-book one year; four lessons a week.

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE HUMAN SYSTEM.

When a person first tastes any alcoholic liquor, as a rule, they do but they often try it again just to see if they don't like it. Gradually to like it. Some persons drink to such excess that their whole sy urated with liquor and it would kill them to go without. Alcohol weakens the muscles and makes them flabby. When ale taken into the system it exhilarates the person and makes them li soon produces a stupor. Alcohol weakens the heart, so that it is perform its work thoroughly. It eats out the coats of the stomach, a the stomach is not able to perform its work of digesting the food thus causing indigestion. Nothing will quench the thirst of a man alcohol but alcohol.

C.-Text-book two years; two or three lessons a week, with writte

tions.

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE HUMAN SYSTEM.

Alcohol drys the blood, weakens the mind, deadens the nerves. ness, sores, cancers and in every way weakens and poisons the bod great craving for water and therefore it takes the most necessary our body. It weakens the blood-vessels so much that the blood, with much force when alcohol has been taken into it, burst them, death. The blood often stagnates in the blood-vessels near the skin to have a red appearance.

It weakens the mind, causing the victim to stagger. It also puts one in such a way as to murder, steal and to even worse things. The man does know he is doing anything because the alcohol has weakened his mind so much that he does not think.

The liver, stomach, lungs, and intestines are weakened and poisoned more or less.

The teeth have a soiled appearance, and the gums are spungy. The breath also has a disagreeable odor.

The habit of drinking alcoholic drinks often leads to insanity.

D.-Text-book five years; two lessons a week during last two years.

PHYSIOLOGY.

Alcohol in any form, is very injurious to the body. Young children should never use it, because it checks their groath. It weakens the brain, and makes them seem very stupid at times.

People who begin to use it, and think it will do them no harm, find out in after years that it has power over them, and they cannot control their appetite. It also makes them have an uncontrolable temper.

Alcohol hurts the stomach very much. Without realy giving strength, they give a feeling of strength and confidence. Their sensibilities become lively Alcohol often causes paralysis and insanity, and often enlarges the small bloodves-els. People who use alcohol have very impure blood.

E-Text-book three years; two lessons a week; written examinations.

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE SYSTEM.

Alcohol is the fermentation of fruits and grains. The different liquors made from it are cider, beer, wine, whisky, brandy, and gin. Alcohol is a clear colorless fluid and is lighter than water. Alcohol could not be a food for the body because it does not nourish the body. The alcohol makes the person dry and want to drink a good deal after using it. It also takes water from other parts of the body where it is needed. It turns the blood to water, and it does not satisfy the hunger because hunger needs solid food to satisfy that, and it does not help to digest the food. It does not keep the body warm as some persons think it does It flushes the face, deadens the body and makes the face red and bloated. Alcohol poisons the stomach and bowels. When the person first commences to use this for a drink it makes him sick to his stomach, and the food does not agree with them. And after awhile the stomach gets discased and flamed and the person dies. Alcohol might be looked upon as a medicine and never should be used for any other use. It is a real poison and if persons regarded it so the better their health would be. It is a cause of thousands of peoples death and nervous diseases. And children inherit bad habits, and are likely to be weak minded.

F.-Text-book three years; weekly lessons.

THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE HUMAN SYSTEM.

When alcohol is first taken, it goes first to the stomach, where it does its first harm. It begins to absorb the gastric juice, so that there will not be enough to mix the food. Then it is carried into the blood, which it poisens. Then it does a great harm in the brain. It destroys the nerves centered there, and so the person that takes the poisen, does not feel the cold or heat as he ought. The alcohol in the blood, makes the flesh look bloated and discolored. Sometimes persons grow crazy from the effect of strong drink. So, we see what a great

harm it does.

G.-Text-book five years; semiannual written examinations.

THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE HUMAN BODY.

Alcohol is a stimulant and narotic. It causes disease of stomach and congests the blood-vessels. It impairs the appetite for food It delays and impairs digestion. It thins or coagulates the blood It collects in the brain and causes death. It affects men of all temperments It causes delirium-tremens if taken into the system frequently

Alcohol makes you lose your self-control. It draws water from the injures them It quickens the beating of the heart and wears it out. circulation. It leads to crime of all sorts. It injures the thought power. It causes paralysis. It causes insanity.

H.-Text-book five or six years; two or three lessons a we

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON THE BODY.

Alcohol is a poison, which has great effect upon the body. It brain so it cannot think properly, it burns the stomach, so that it car the food, it makes the heart beat faster, and if it is drank continu finally kill a person, it also poisons the blood.

I.-Toxt-book six years; weekly lessons; class marking; term exa

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE HUMAN SYSTEM.

Alcohol is very injurious to the human system. It effects every pa stops the growth of the bones. It makes unhealthy fat on the mus they cannot work with much force and are not so elastic. It enters t and does great harm there. It separates the pepsin from the gastric makes sores all over the stomach. It gets into the blood and makes and also injures the blood vessels. In the lungs it injures the thin or lining to the them and makes the breath smell bad. The heart so that it injures that in much the same way as other muscles and als work harder.

The nerves and brain are also injured. Alcohol deadens the nerve people will do things when intoxicated that they would think very w sober. Alcohol also causes consumption instead of curing it as s think. If children have drinking parent they often weak and idiots. Alcohol is used by some people because they think that it them but it does not only for a little while then they are colder than has been found that people can work better without alcohol than wit

THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL.

(a) The effect of alcohol is that of a narcotic; it destroys characte the vital functions of the body & has the effect of a slow poison. (b) The action of the heart is increased & "fatty heart" is often th (c) The lungs are affected by having more work & the influence roundings.

(d) The bones are affected by having their growth stunted by poor i injuring of the pieroistum.

(e) The blood as the life fluid is affected by a loss of red corpuscles, bodies which carry oxygen, & from this loss comes a disease known a Of course there is a large increase of fat which is entirely useless.

(f) The effect upon the brain in slight does; as a glass or two at a ball, is to increase or stimulate the action of the cerebrum. In large nerves are deadened or the person is hateful & finally sleeps it off. spree Delirum Tremins is often the result.

(g) All the senses are deadened.

(h) The pepsin in the gastric juice is separated from it, & sinks to of the stomach, stopping digestion till more can be thrown in & dige pleted. The lining is also irrated to the extent of cancers & sores. (i) The liver becomes of an immense size, swollen, or hob-naile bad secretion of bile.

(j) An extra growth of the connective tissue is caused in the musc

The last two papers are from a school where the instruction ha thorough and systematic, and continued through the longest period in no town in the State has more time been given to the subject.

These are specimens of the best papers; from them the others sha almost zero: for example, in schools where a text-book has been stud years many of the pupils can write but two or three lines:

ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ON THE SYSTEM.

Alcohol has a bad effect on the system. It makes the head feel thick and heavy and also stupefies.

ALCOHOL.

Alcohol is a stimulant and narcotic, it interfers with digestion, causes congestion of the blood vessels, and if you once take it you will want it all the time. Food is delayed by Alcohol.

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

Alcohol weakens the muscles. Alcohol affects the nerves. Alcohol affects the brain.

TOBACCO.

Tobacco injures the spinal cord. Tobacco injures the brain. Tobacco injures the blood.

In many of the country schools the amount of information retained and ready for use is very small. The poorer scholars, whose deficiency is marked by faulty English, are often stronger in their expressions than the more cultivated pupils:

ALCORHALL.

All liquor contanes alcharhall. It poisions the syliava and the gastrit juice when it mixes withe the food it stops the works and the food layes in the stomacke, which causes it to ache. When the juice mixes with the blood it poisons it. Next the man is sick with blood poison and dies and the people wonder what made him have that.

THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

Alcohol is another very injurious thing to the body. It is very injurious to the heart especially and there are a great many men that die from the use of alcohol sooner than those that don't. Some men go crazy from the use of alcohol or they are called delireum tremans, and a great many men the have used alcohol have become ministers and their advice to boys or anybody not to use alcoholic drink's.

Alcohol is very bad for the stomach and is good for the head ack and it is a strong smell and It will stop any one from fainting.

THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL.

It will gradually eat away the flesh. If any one drinks it, it will pickel the inside of the body.

THE EFFECT OF TOBACCO ON THE HUMAN SISTEM.

The effect of tobacco on the sistem it deadens the brain and the user it is said to have a sore heart which in the gets clogded and they die quicker than if they did not use it. it softens the brain.

In schools where the text-book is begun early, I have sometimes called for papers from the sixth grade, a class which has used books for two or three years. Here the amount of information retained is usually scanty, and in crude form. The following are the best papers from school I, sixth grade:

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.

Alcohol weakens the body and makes the heart beat too fast, it also makes the blood-vessels enlarge and weakens the walls of the blood-vessels.

Alcohol makes a man have a red face because when the blood-vessels enlarge they show out.

When alcohol is taken into the system it makes poor circulation. The brain wants good blood but when alcohol is taken it does not receive it. When alcohol is taken the brain cannot send the messages so well. Livinstone found that

in Africa that the men could do better without it and could endure more heat. And in the Artic Regions the explorers can do better without it because when they take alcohol they do not know so much and can do great deal better with