p. 31 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 2. (1/13/1888)

Health and Temperance.

THE PLEA OF DRUNKENNESS.

THE London Observer, commenting upon the sentence pronounced on Daniel Doherty, the American who shot and killed Graham, pronounces it monstrous, and declares that the judgment of Justice Stephen was biased by the opinion he has often expressed that drunkenness increases instead of lessening the gravity of offenses, a sentiment, says the Observer, which is contrary to common sense.

It is very easy to settle a question by such authoritative expression of opinion. It seems to preclude all argument, and to leave no room for debate. To say that a sentiment is contrary to common sense makes it necessary for one who entertains that sentiment to show that he is not a fool, and changes the issue from the original question to something entirely different. In this case, however, Justice Stephen, one of the ablest of the English Judges, needs no defense upon the question of his sanity or his intellectual ability, and the question of whether drunkenness should be held to aggravate or mitigate the guilt of an offender may be fairly considered an open one, in spite of the London Observer's opinion of Justice Stephen.

If a man is responsible for a criminal act, he is equally responsible for the successive steps which lead up to that act. It is true that the law takes cognizance chiefly of the ultimate act, but at the same time it is always the legitimate object of inquiry what were the moving causes to that act; what was the mental attitude of the offender before the commission of the crime, and what was its purpose. This being so, it is surely the weakest of pleas for an offender to urge in his own behalf that he had voluntarily delivered himself up to the domination of the demon of drunkenness, and that the demon, and not he, is responsible for the unlawful act.

An oriental apologue relates that a djinn, or geni, once got a mortal into his power, and gave him his choice whether he would commit murder, or be guilty of adultery, or get drunk. The unwise mortal, thinking to choose the least of the three evils, elected to get drunk; but, says the legend, after he had got drunk, he committed both the other crimes.

The modern drunkard who commits a crime while intoxicated has not the excuse which the oriental sinner might have offered—that of being subject to the control of a supernatural being. His choice is not among three different offenses, but between guilt and innocence of any offense, and if he willfully and deliberately puts into his mouth the enemy which steals away his brains, he has no moral right, and should have no legal right, to plead one fault in mitigation of another.

Modern science, which runs largely to nomenclature, has invented a name, if not the disease, which is dipsomania. Properly understood, dipsomania is an unconquerable and wholly irresistible impulse for intoxicants; but it has become common to call an ordinary drunkard a dipsomaniac. Never was a term more misapplied. The ordinary drunkard is no more a dipsomaniac than is the usual pickpocket a kleptomaniac, or the man who sets fire to a house in order to plunder it and rob its inhabitants a pyromaniac. He is a drunkard because he wants to be a drunkard, and that is all there is of it, and to dignify his vice with a long name, and to seek to shield him from responsibility for his criminal acts behind his own evil conduct, is utter and ridiculous nonsense. Justice Stephen is right. Drunkenness does add to the gravity of an offense, and the law should so consider it.—San Francisco Chronicle.

REDEEMING MUTILATED MONEY.

I AM often asked whether this or that piece of mutilated money is redeemable. It is safe to say, unless the money's identity is entirely gone, that it is redeemable. In fact, one may say that money in the shape of ashes can be restored. It is a fact that after the Chicago fire ashes were redeemed. It came about in this way: It is customary in banks to do money up in packages, say of $10,000 each, and in the big fire of course hundreds and hundreds of these packages were reduced to ashes. But the shape of the packages remained, and wherever the package could be sent on to Washington without crumbling to ashes, the money was sure to be replaced. It was done by nimble-fingered women in the Treasury Department, whose trained touch and sight are wonderfully acute. It is well known that the ashes of a newspaper, if dampened, will show traces of the printing. So it was with the bills. These women would moisten the package of apparently useless ashes, and to their experienced eye the number and character of the bill would at once appear as if they had touched it with a magic wand. So thousands and thousands of dollars were redeemed by these patient women. A friend of mine, a country merchant, afraid of banks, placed a large sum of money in bills in a stone jar on a shelf in his store, where he thought it would be quite safe. When he went to look at it one day some time after, it was a mass of fragments. Mice had got into the jar and chewed the bills into the minutest parts. Then they had mixed them all up, and together it was a fearful-looking mess. He sent a cigar box full of it. I forwarded it to Washington, and what do you think? Out of the $1,145 originally in the pile, a little over $1,000 was redeemed, the parts beyond recall being only the merest fibers of the bills. So the man lost only $100 by his foolishness. The reclamation of such money is done entirely by women, whose patience especially fits them for the monotonous work.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN AMERICA.

THE highest mountain in the western hemisphere is Aconcagua, which rises 22,415 feet above the sea, and is in plain view from both Valparaiso and Santiago when the weather is clear. Chimborazo was until recently supposed to be the king of the Andes, and in geographies published thirty years ago was described as the highest mountain in the world. No one has ever reached the summit of either monster, but by triangulation Aconcagua has been determined to have an advantage in stature of 2,000 feet over old "Chimbo."—Harper's Magazine.

SUBSTITUTES FOR MEATS.

IN all ages and countries farinaceous foods have formed the principal part of the human diet. Lentils contain nearly as much heat food as wheat, and twice as much flesh food. Although they have been used extensively in other countries for thousands of years, they are not so well known here as they deserve to be. One quart of lentils when cooked furnishes four pounds of hearty food. Of the two varieties in the market the little flat, brown seed is called lentil a la reine, the other variety is about the size of a pea, and a greenish color.—Rural New Yorker.

ORANGE SEEDS.

Now that oranges are plentiful again it may be well to speak of the danger resulting from swallowing the seeds. The cæcum or "blind intestine" is at the extremity of the small intestine, where it terminates in the colon. It has but one opening, and hence is called "the death-trap," as seeds lodged here find no way out, and cause inflammation and death. A man prominent in business in New York a few years ago died of the inflammation that followed one grape seed lodged in the cæcum. A lad of our acquaintance died of two or three orange seeds lodged in the cæcum. In the herbivorous animals the cæcum is large and secretes an acid fluid which assists digestion. In man the use of the cæcum is unknown. It is an outrage upon the stomach to swallow anything that it cannot readily digest. Whatever goes through the œsophagus should first be thoroughly ground in the ivory mill, placed at the entrance of the alimentary canal. Those who will swallow orange seeds should first chew them fine.—Selected.

The Dangers of Cigarette Smoking

SEVERAL deaths, attributed by physicians to cigarette smoking, have recently been reported from various Eastern cities. Commenting upon this fact the Tribune of this city says: "If boys don't learn wisdom in this matter it will not be the fault of the energetic protests nature is making, or of the severe lessons she is teaching. Pale-faced, nervous boys are becoming the rule instead of the exception, and it all comes from this evil habit. There is death in it—let it alone."

SECULAR.

—Liquor license in Atlanta, Ga., has been fixed at $10,000.

—About 11,000 flint-glass workers are now out on a strike in the United States.

—Hon. Eugene Semple has been appointed Governor of Washington Territory.

—A large deposit of excellent coal has been discovered near San Antonio, Texas.

—During the year 1887 there were landed at Castle Garden 371,619 immigrants.

—According to the calendar of the Russo-Greek Church, January 6 was Christmas.

—Parties in the East are being swindled into buying lots in bogus towns in California.

—Ex-Governor Joel Parker, war Governor of New Jersey, died of paralysis on the 1st inst.

—A Russian spy with maps and other papers in his possession, has been arrested in Austria.

—A fire in the Brooklyn Navy Yard January 6 destroyed property to the amount of $200,000.

—Twenty-six persons were killed in a railroad collision near Meppel, Holland, on the 4th inst.

—An institution is to be founded in London for the education of nurses to work among the poor.

—It is said that Gladstone, who is now in Italy, will confer with the Pope relative to Irish affairs.

—The Servian Skupshtina has voted a loan of $4,000,000 to pay off the floating debt of that country.

—The bursting of a canal near Dudley, England, a few days since, rendered hundreds of families homeless.

—The New Year was ushered in by violent storms on the Atlantic Coast, and numerous wrecks are reported.

—January 5 the English steamer Maude foundered in the Black Sea, and twelve persons were drowned.

—A saloon for the sale of beer has been opened in the National Soldiers' Home west of Milwaukee, Wis.

—Four Mormon postmasters are now under indictment in Southern Utah for defrauding the Government.

—It is stated that the Southern Pacific Company has not a sufficient number of locomotives to handle its immense business.

—The great Lick telescope has at last been successfully mounted at the Mount Hamilton observatory, near San Jose, Cal.

—It is proposed to reserve the two principal canyons in New Mexico, once inhabited by cave-dwellers, as national parks.

—During a portion of a recent storm, snow fell on "the Switchback" on the Northern Pacific Railroad, at the rate of a foot per hour.

—Recent heavy storms of rain and snow have to some extent interfered with the work of the transcontinental railroad and telegraph lines.

—A decree has been published in Roumania, fixing the number of recruits for 1888 at 44,500. This is a large increase for the Roumanian army.

—Copious showers have recently visited every portion of California. Thus far this season the rainfall for the State has been above the average.

—On the 1st inst. the San Francisco express from Portland ran into a landslide in Southern Oregon, and two of the train men were instantly killed.

—It is stated that a syndicate has been organized with headquarters at Chicago, to purchase 20,000,000 acres of land in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

—An attempt will be made to secure in England the capital necessary to build the Eads ship railway. Fifty millions of dollars will be required to build the road.

—The premature explosion of a blast a few days since, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, in Pennsylvania, killed four men and seriously wounded seven others.

—In a recent storm on the Oregon coast, the waves dashed over Tillamook lighthouse, 190 feet above the sea level. The glass in the tower was broken.

—The continent of Europe has recently been visited by very heavy snow-storms. Railroads have been blockaded, and a number of people have been frozen to death.

—During the last three months, earthquake shocks have been of frequent occurrence in Mexico. The last one reported occurred only a few days since at the City of Mexico.

—Heavy rains in Southern California have recently interfered seriously with the running of trains. Washouts have been numerous, and some accidents have resulted.

—A sad state of affairs still continues in Ireland. Evictions are of frequent occurrence, and at this inclement season much suffering is, in many cases, experienced by ousted tenants.

—In the collapse of a colored Baptist Church building at Torytown, Ala., on New Year's eve, three persons were killed outright, and about thirty were more or less seriously injured.

—The bark Alfred D. Snow, a wheat ship from San Francisco, was wrecked a few days since, on the coast of Ireland, and the twenty-nine men who constituted her crew were all drowned.

—On the night of January 1 the engine house of a New York gas company was mysteriously blown up, and recent investigations lead to the belief that dynamite was the cause of the wreck.

—San Diego, Cal., is probably growing more rapidly than any other city in the United States. The amount of freight arriving there during 1887, was 145,000 tons as against 43,000 tons in 1886.

—In 1881, California produced 90,000 boxes of raisins, and 1,036,794 boxes were imported into the United States from Malaga; but in 1887, California produced 1,000,000 boxes and only 452,000 were imported.

—In Alleghany City, Pa., a few days since, about fifty boys ranging in age from 8 to 14 years, engaged in a free fight in which stones, knives, and revolvers were freely used. One boy was fatally wounded by a bullet.

—At Fulton, Ky., a few evenings since, two unruly white boys were ejected from a house where a company of colored people were dancing. One of the boys procured a shot-gun and fired two charges of buckshot into the crowd in the house, seriously wounding seven persons.

—About forty Catholic Poles in attendance at a christening party at Alden, Pa., on the 5th inst., became intoxicated and the party was transformed into a drunken mob. One man was fatally and eight seriously injured.

—Last week exceeding cold weather was experienced throughout a large portion of the United States. The cold was most severe in Montana and Dakota. At Belgrade, Montana, the spirit thermometer registered 52° below zero.

—An explosion in a beer-hall in New York on the morning of the 1st inst., seriously injured six waiters. A large number of people had left the hall only a few moments before the catastrophe. The cause of the explosion is not known.

—Galveston, Texas, proposes to repudiate a debt of $1,000,000 saddled upon the city by carpet-baggers twenty years ago. The courts have ordered the payment of the debt, but the city will, if necessary, surrender its charter rather than pay it.

—They must have queer ideas of reform in some parts of Texas. On the 4th inst. a body of armed citizens, styling themselves "Reformers," shot one man and hanged two others. It is to be hoped that such reform as that will not become general.

—Political affairs in the Hawaiian Kingdom are in a very unsettled condition. The so-called reform party now in power have not met the public expectation, and their overthrow at almost any time would not, it is said, be a matter of surprise.

—During the past year the volume of mail matter passing between this country and some of the Central and South American republics, has increased more than two hundred per cent. In the case of Venezuela the increase was two hundred and thirty per cent.

—Santa Rosa's (Cal.) City Council has instructed the city attorney to draw up an ordinance prohibiting dealers from selling cigarettes to youths under 10 years of age, and also making it a penal offense for children under that age to smoke the same. A leading San Francisco daily advocates a similar ordinance for that city.

—A Bismarck, D. T. dispatch of the 7th inst. says: "The terrific snow-storm which has been raging throughout the Northwest for a week past shows no signs of abatement. It is the heaviest storm known in the history of the Territory. Small houses on the outskirts of the city are completely covered with snow. Traffic is rendered entirely out of the question."

—Further details of the overflow of the Hoang-Ho reveal a terrible state of suffering as the result of the inundation. The overflowed territory embraced nearly 10,000 square miles of territory in what has been called the Garden of China, and has a population of nearly 4,000,000 souls. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost by drowning, and now famine threatens thousands more.

—January 3, a riot occurred at Jefferson barracks, Mo., between white and colored United States troops. The men were more or less intoxicated, and though disarmed by the officer of the day refused to retire to their quarters, and, leaving the barracks, engaged in a terrible battle with knives, sticks, and stones, till compelled to desist by sheer exhaustion. Several of the belligerents were mortally wounded.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—In Ceylon many high-class Buddhists have joined the Salvation Army, and two stations have been formed.

—A band of Franciscan nuns have taken vows to devote their lives to missionary work among the negroes of the United States, particularly those of the South.

—Dr. John Hall said, in a recent sermon on city missions, that there are 100,000 more inhabitants, and eleven fewer churches, south of Fourteenth Street, New York City, than there were ten years ago.

—The Independent says: "The Baptists are making rapid progress in Russia. Their views respecting baptism are quite acceptable." Russian officers and people are reported as saying: "These Baptists are all right, because their baptism is not sprinkling, but immersion."

—The Baptist Mission in the Shantung Province, China, have in the single district of Tsing-chen Fu, fifty-five churches, all being self-supporting, ministered to by five native pastors and teachers, maintaining themselves entirely, and not drawing any of their support from the funds of the society.

—It is stated that the new Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, New York, is to be between 110th and 113th Streets, on the west side of the island. The grounds purchased for it, at the cost of $850,000, include 162 city lots. It embraces one of the most elevated positions on the island, and work will be speedily begun on the grounds.

—In a recent encyclical letter to the Bavarian Bishop, the Pope says: "The church has observed her pledges, while the State has neglected its pledges. It is necessary to guard the religious education of youth. The secular schools are a danger to the State itself." The letter demands the extension of the rights of priests to regulate schools.

—In an article in the Independent, Henry W. Hulbert, of Beyrut, Syria, says: "In the long future, when the 'science of missions' comes to be written, we shall find that our enemies have a thing or two to teach us. After making a wide margin for all the exaggerated account of Roman Catholic missions, we must surely be able to see that the Papacy is to-day as never before winning the millions over to its system." He says that Protestant missions in Syria are like missions in strictly Roman Catholic countries, and that "out of the 700,000 people open to missionary labor, over one-half are Roman Catholics, or at least recognize the Pope as their lord."

Obituary.

SCAZIGHINI.—Died, at Grangerville, Cal., December 15, 1887, of anæmia of the brain, Andrew, eldest child of Peter and Elizabeth Scazighini, aged 8 years.

Andrew was one of our brightest Sabbath-school scholars, and the light and joy of his home. His sickness was of short duration, and he fell peacefully asleep in Jesus. Father, mother, one brother, and sister are called to mourn, but not without hope, for we are sure it is well with him, and that we shall meet him, if faithful, in the glad resurrection morning. Funeral services conducted by Elder E. P. Daniels.

CARRIE KNIGHT.

FORD.—Died, at Los Angeles, December 17, 1887, Emma Ford, aged 23 years and 4 months.

Sister Ford was born at Wright, Mich., but came to this coast with her parents six years ago. Four years ago she was converted and united with the church at Oakland, but subsequently was for a time in a somewhat backslidden condition. At the camp-meeting at Oakland last fall she consecrated herself anew to the Lord and was rebaptized. She died in the triumphs of a living faith, and full of hope.

Funeral services were at the home of her parents in Los Angeles, where many of her near and dear friends met to mourn their loss.

Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Col. 3:3, 4.

L. K. GIBSON.

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