Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 3

has beewidely published and is one of most remarkable illustrations of value of careful marshalling and dysis of facts in presenting a sub- j to the public. LEVELERS. + Mission of Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee. he Creator made all things, we be- Ie. So, He must have made these. ‘e know what He made food and ¥®r for, and air and sunshine, but ¥ Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee? sey are here sure enough and e performing its work. *re must be some great plan be- hit all; the thoughtful man seeks toderstand something of that plan anhereby to judge these articles foneir true wrth. © us not say “bad” or “good” mout taking testimony. tere are times and conditions Pn it certainly seems to the casual \ Tver that these stimulant narcot- ‘Were real blessings. at there is the ambush that con- a “killing” enemy. } © can slip into the habit of either y, tobacco or coffee easy enough, ) “untangle” is often a fearful i F . { seems plain that there are cir- ances when the narcotic effect jfhese poisons is for the moment icial, but the fearful argument iF | st them is that seldom ever does ind a steady user of either whis- »ffee or tobacco free from disease ne kind. nly powerful elements in their t on the human race. of daily history, testi- rally millions of people, Tobacco and Coffee are promising, beguiling friends > start, but always false as hell [i in the ena. “Once they get firm ough to show their strength, ‘ st upon governing and drive tim steadily towards ill health nie form; if permitted to continue to-, they will not let up until phys- id mental ruin sets in. nan under that spell (and “under F pell” is correct) of any one of | lrugs frequently assures himself ‘ais friends, “Why, I can leave off agme I want to. I did quit for a gust to show I could.” It is a swark of the slave when one gets of stage. He wiggled through a ting every day to break the spas finally whipped, and began higvery all over again. slave (Coffee slave as well as Téo and Whisky) daily reviews his don, sees perfectly plain the & encroachments of disease, how Brves get weaker day by day and @d the drug that seems to smile ner relief for a few minutes and héeave’ the diseased condition aito view than ever and grow- ». Many times the Coffee slave lthat he is hetween two fires. ie bad if he leaves off and a ttbrse if he drinks and allows hect to wear off. t es on from day to day. ht the struggling victim es himself that he will break bit and next day when he feels > bad (as he is quite sure to), , not the habit, but his own res- 1. It is nearly always a tough with disaster ahead sure if the t wins. re haye been hundreds of thou- s of people driven to their graves ‘ugh disease brought on by coffee <ing alone, and it is quite certain tf more human misery is caused by © and tobacco than by whisky, for two first are more widely used, more hidden and insidious in the he on nerves, heart and other vital I and are thus unsuspected un- h of the dangerous work is fow, Reader, what is your opinion io the real use the Creator has for \° things? Take a look at the ition from this point of view. ,ere is a law of Nature and of ire’s God that things slowly evolve ) lower planes to higher, a sturdy, dy and dignified advance toward le perfect things in both the Physi- and Spiritual world. The ponder- tread of evolutionary development <ed by the Infinite and will not be ned out of natural law by any _jan’s methods. ,erefore we see many illustrations sing how nature checks too rapid nee. Illinois raises phenomenal : of corn for two or three years. e continued to do so every year armers would advance in wealth yond those of other sections or s. So Nature interposes a bar ‘, three or four years and brings § “bad year.” re we see the leveling influence ork. fore. is properous in his business } number of years and grows rich. Nature sets the “leveling influ- ©. at work on him. Some of his ments lose, he becomes luxuri- nd lazy. Perhaps it is whisky, o, coffee, women, gambling or other form. The intent and pur- \ s to level him—keep him from Ing too far ahead of the masses. ation becomes prosperous and jlike ancient Rome. If no level- ifuence set in she would domi- he world perhaps for all time. same Nature sets her army of rs” at work—luxury, overeat- i drinking, licentiousness, waste travagance, indulgences of all then comes the wreck. Sure, Sure. law of the unit is the law of ss. Man goes through the same Weakness (in childhood), growth of strength, energy, srobity, prosperity, wealth, com- ase, relaxation, self-indulgence, idleness, waste, debauchery, “leyelers” are in the bushes along the pathway of every successful man and woman, and they bag the majority. Only now and then can a man stand out against these “levelers” and hold | his fortune, fame and health to the end. So the Creator has use for Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee to level down the successful ones and those who show signs of being suecessful, and keep them back im the race, so that the great “field” (the masses) may not be left too far behind. And yet we must admit that same all-wise Creator has placed it in the power of man to stand upright, clothed in the armor of a clean-cut, steady mind, and say unto himself, “I decline to exchange my birthright for a mess of pottage. “T will not deaden my senses, weak- en my grip on affairs and keep my- self cheap, common and behind in for- tune and fame by drugging with whis- ky, tobacco or coffee. Life is too short. It is hard enough to win the good things without any sort of handi- cap, so a man is certainly a ‘fool trad- er’ when he trades strength, health, money and the good things that come -with power for the half-asleep condi- tion of the ‘drugger,’ with the certain- ty of sickness and disease ahead.” It is a matter each individual must decide for himself. He can be a lead- er and semi-god if he will, or he can go along through life a drugged clown, a cheap “hewer of wood or carrier of water.” Certain it is that while the Great Father of us all does not séem to “mind” if some of his children are foolish and stupid, he seems to select others (perhaps those he intends for some special work) and allows them to be threshed and castigated most fearfully by these “levelers.” If a man tries flirting with these lev- elers a while, and gets a few slaps as a hint, he had better take the hint, or a good solid blow will follow. When a man tries to live upright, cleah, thrifty, sober and undrugged, manifesting as near as he knows what the Creator intends he should, happi- ness, health and peace seem to come to him. Does it pay? This article was written to set peo- ple thinking, to rouse the “God with- in,” for every highly-organized man and woman has times when they feel a something calling from within for them to press to the front and “be about the Father’s business.”\ Don’t mistake it; the spark of the Infinite is there and it pays in every way— health, happiness, peace and even worldly prosperity—to break off the habits and strip clean for the work eut out for us. It has been the business of the writer to provide a practical and easy way for people to break away from the coffee habit and be assured of a return to health and all of the good things that brings, provided the abuse has not gone too far, and even then the cases where the body has been re- built on a basis of strength and health run into the thousands. It is an easy and comfortable step to stop coffee instantly by having well- made Postum Food Coffee served rich and hot with good cream, for the color and flavor is there, but none of the caffeine or other nerve-destroying ele- ments of ordinary coffee. On the contrary, the most powerful rebuilding elements furnished by Na- ture are in Postum and they quickly set about repairing the damage. Sel- dom is it more than two days after the change is made before the old stomach or bowel troubles or com- plaints of kidneys, heart, head or nerves show unmistakable evidence of getting better, and ten days’ time changes things wonderfully. Literally millions of brain-working Americans to-day use Postum, having found the value and common sense in the change. Cc. W. POST. Generous Deed of Elks. Through the generosity of the Bridgeport lodge of Elks, Peter Mar koon of Wallingford, Conn., will profit by the unfortunate accident which he met with while witnessing the Elks’ banner raising. A runaway horse ran him down and dislocated his collar bone. The bone was not fractured as at first reported. Markoon was here looking for work, and when the Elks heard that he had a wife and family dependent upon him for support they sent a committee out to investigate. Markoon, as a result, was sent back to Wallingford to-day, after the Bridge- port lodge of Elks had paid his medical expenses, secured his ticket, given him money for incidental expenses, and told him to calculate upon $8 per week for the next four weeks. The Elks went further. They noti- fied the Wallingford lodge to take care of Markoon and help him to get em- ployment. Markoon is not a member of the order, never was, and the Elks were not in any way liable for the ac- cident.—Boston Globe. The Eternal Feminine. He—Will you—O, will you be mine forever? She—Mercy, no! I just accepted Cholly Saphedde last night. He—What! Has all your encour- agement to me meant nothing of af- fection? She—Oh, I assure you it has meant a good deal. In fact, I don’t know how I’d have managed without you. You see, until you came along and I began to be so nice to you, Cholly didn’t seem to have any serious in- tentions at all—Baltimore American. This One of the Years. Johnny—Pa, when was the year of the big wind? Father—Any year when there was an election. Tidbits of News epra Scandinavians DANE MAKES LIFE BOAT. Craft Is Collapsible and Carries Enor mous Load. All the problems involved in the construction of a life boat are said to be satisfactorily met in the Engel- hardt collapsible life boat, patented In Denmark and to be manufactured in Denmark, the United States, Eng- land and Germany. The boat com- bines the maximum carrying capacity with a minimum of weight and size, and is non-sinkable to a greater ex- ;tent than any similar device. A re- cent number of the Danish Export Re- view gives a full account of the con- struction of this remarkable vessel. |The main feature is a_ boat-shaped | pontoon or raft of wood or iron, made up of a number of water-tight com- partments filled with kapok. This ka- | pok is what carries the boat. It is a vegetable product obtained from Java and Sumatra, and is so buoyant that it will carry thirty-five times its own weight in water. In addition to the pontoon, there is a superstructure of wood, which can be folded when stowed away or raised in a short time | when required for use, by very simple |mechanism. The boat can be lowered without davits, will not overturn, and even if badly damaged will continue to float on account of the arrange- ments of compartments. In comparison with the ordinary life boat, the Engelhardt boat, twenty-one feet long, will carry thirty-five pas- sengers, while an ordinary life boat of the same size will carry but eighteen. When folded four Engelhardt boats will not take any more deck room than one life boat, so that safety for 140 persons can be provided in a space hitherto provided for only eighteen persons. Several of these boats have been supplied to the United States navy and have been given the _ severest tests. They have also been supplied to the big German steamship lines, and of course to all the Danish lines. “NORWAY IS DOOMED.” Loud Calamity Howler Attacks the Rule of Farmers. Norwegian farmers are accused by one Assessor Meier of being the ene- mies to progress and commercial de- velopment. In a recent address he said: “The farmer rules the country at present. And when the farmer rules, the cities are kept down and indus- tries are maintained on a starvation basis. This is self-evident. Hence the chief question which now confronts this nation is: Shall we have an in- dustrial country, or a country ruined by the farmers? That is the issue,” he said, with purple cheeks, knock- ing teeth and palpitating hand. “This little matter of right and left—non- sense! They are merely the Kilkenny eats all over again. They are busy about nothing but biting each other to pieces til] nothing shall be left. Mean- time the country is in the grasp of the farmer. He has entirely too much to say in the nation. Here the country must look to save herself from de- struction. I tell you, while the farm- er continues in his present ascend- ancy we are doomed to destruction.” HONORS FOR THE DEAD. Monument Raised Commemorating Fight at Magersfontein. A monument to the memory of the Scandinavian volunteers who lost | their lives at the battle of Magersfon- tein on Dec. 11, 1899, will soon be un- veiled. It is a massive monolith more than twenty feet high. The design is simple, a drapery, and the only words are Magersfontein, MDCCCXIX., in imitation of Runic characters. The monument has been secured by the Scandinavian colony in South Africa. It was the Scandinavian volunteers fighting on the side of the Boers who bore the brunt of the British attack jon the bloody field of Magersfontein. In the Scandinavian corps were Nor- wegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns. RIKSDAG IN DANGER. Swedish Papers Deplore Influence of the Money Power. Swedish newspapers are calling at- tention to the danger that the Swedish riksdag, and especially the first cham- ber, will fell in the control of the large corporations, if it has not al- ready done so. Many of the big cor. porations are already dominated by foreign capital, and there is, of course, not one that is not for sale if the for- eign capitalists have the price. This State of affairs is due to the restric. tion of the electoral] franchise, and the only way to make the riksdag thor- oughly Swedish is to extend the fran. 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