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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1049, 2 December 1909, Page 3

Auction (sale of assigned stock o.i crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc., in Sandilands' buildings on 3rd and 4th. Temperance News. HOW MY BOY WENT DOWN. It was not on the field of battle, It was not with a ship at sea, But a fate far worse than either, That stole him away from me. 'Twas the death in the tempting wine cup That the reason and senses drown ; He drank the alluring poison, And thus my boy went down. Down from the heights of manhood, To the depths of disgrace and sin; Down to a worthless being, From the hope of what might have been. For the brand of a beast besotted, He bartered his manhood' 6 crown; Through the gate of a sinful pleasure, My poor, weak boy went down. CHAMPION RUNNER GIVES UP ALCOHOL. Dorando Pietri, the champion runner, who has just roturned to Italy from the United States with seven gold medals and £4000, won in 23 races, has given up intoxicating drinks. He finds he does best on a diet of meat, broth, and eggs, with coffee. It will be remembered that Dorando Pietiu blamed champagne for his failure in the great Marathon race in London last year. DRINK LOSING FAVOUR AS A MEDICINE. The evolution of temperance in London its fully demonstrated by the Board of Guardians of Lamßeth, who in the year 1874 spent no fewer than £872 9s 2d in intoxicating liquors for the use of inmates and officials. Last year the expenditure was confined to 18s, this being for medicinal purposes only. So says Rev. W. Hobbs, one of the guardians. ALCOHOL AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC. That alcohol has an affinity for protoplasm, the "physical basis of life" itself, and that this is the reason for the widely varied injuries that it may inflict on the body, as asserted by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, in a semes of articles contributed to McOlure's Magazine (New York). In the first, entitled "Alcohol and the Individual," Dr. Williams shows that the .tissues of the brain, the nerves the heart and blood-vessels, the stomach and intestinal tract, the lymphatic system, the kidneys, and the liver, may each and all becomo diseased by the habitual drinking of even small quantities of alcohol. He notes also that these consequences are not confined to^ the drinker, but are passed on to his descendants of successive generations. "All this, Dr. Williams tells us, may be compared to the eroding effect of a flowing stream, which has its greatest action on the part of its banks that is least resistant. So alcohol, circulating- in the blood, tends to attack whatever organ or tissue may be weakest and most susceptible. Dr. Williams agrees with those who tend to class alcohol as a poison, and discards "the pernicious theory" that it "gives any persistent increase of mußcular power." He g^oes on: "It is even questionable whether the energy derived from the oxidation of alcohol in the body can be directly used at all as a source of muscular energy. Such competent observers ac Sohumberg and Scheffer independently reached the conclusion that it can nob. Dr. Abel inclines to the same opinion. He suggests that 'alcohol is not a food in the sense in which fate and carbohydrates are food ; it should be defined as an easily oxidizable drug with numerous untoward effects which inevitably appear when a certain minimum dose (is exceeded.' He thinke that- alcohol should be classed 'with the mare or less dangerous stimulants and narcotics, such as hasheesh, tobacco, etc., rather than with truly sustaining foodstuffs/ " — Advt. FEILDING BOWLING CLUB. /■^.ENERAL Meeting of Bowling Club in Pavilion FRIDAY next, 8 p.m. BARRY and 00. have 12 acres and 6 roomed house close to railway, Price £550. £140 cash required. GIEBEN and GO. h»7e a great repotation for working exohuigM