NOTE.— The following article has
been widely published a.ml is one of
the most remarkable illustrations of the
value of careful marshalling and analy
sis of facts in presenting a. subject to the
public.
LEVELERS
The Mission of Whiskey, Tobacco nnil
Coffee.
The Creator made all things, we be
lieve.
If so. He must Lave made these.
We know wliat He made food and
water for, and air t.nd sunshine, but why
Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee?
They are here sure enoug> and each
performing Its work.
There must be some great plan behind
it all; the thoughtful man seeks to un
derstand something of that plan and
thereby to judge these articles for their
true worth.
IA-.I us not say "had" or "good" with
out taking testimony.
There are, times an(4 conditions when
It certainly seems to the casual observer
that these stimulant narcotics are rea!
blessings.
Right there is the ambush that con
ceals a "killing" enemy.
One can slip into the habit of either
whiskey, tobacco or coffee easy enough,
but to "untangle" is often a fearful
struggle.
It seems plain that there are circum
stances when the narcotic effect of these
poisons is for the moment beneficial, but
the fearful argument against them is
that seldom ever does one find a steady
user 01 either whiskey, coffee or tobacco
free from disease of some kind.
Certainly powerful elements in their
effect on the human race.
It is a matter of daily history testified
to by literally millions of people that
Whiskey. Tobacco and Coffee are smil
ing, promising, beguiling friends on the
start, but always false as hell itself in
the end. Once they get firm hold enough
to show their strength, they insist, upon
governing and drive the victim steadily
towards ill health in some form; if per
mitted to continue to rule, they will not
let up until physical and mental ruin
sets in.
A man under that spell (and "under
the spell" is correct) of any one of these
drugs frequently assures himself and
his friends: "Why. I can leave off any
time I want to. I did quit for a week
just to show I could." It is a sure mark
of the slave when one gets to that stage.
He wiggled through a week fighting
every day to break the spell, was finally
whipped and began his slavery all over
Kcain.
The slave (Coffee slave as well as To
baceo and Whiskey) daily reviews his
condition, sees perfectly plain the steady
encroachments of disease, how ihe
nerves get weaker day by day and de
mand the drug that seems to smile and
offer relief for a few minutes and then
leave the diseased condition plainer to
view than ever and growing worse.
Many times the Coffee slave realizes that
he is between two fires. He feels bad
Jf he leaves off and a little worse if he
drinks and allows the effect tr> wear off.
Ho it. goes on from day today. Kvery
night the struggling victim promises
himself that he will break the habit and
next day when he feels a little bad (as
he is quite sure to) breaks, not the habit,
but his own resolution. It is nearly al
ways a tough fight, with disaster ahead
* ||r '' if the habit wins.
Tbere have been hundreds of thou
sands of people driven to their graves
through disease brought. 011 by coffee
drinking alone, ami it is quite certain
that more human misery is caused by
toffee and tobacco than by whiskey, for
the two first are more widely used, anu
more hidden and insidious in the effect
on nerves, heart and other vital organs,
«nd are thus unsuspected until much of
tiie dangerous work is done.
Now, Reader, what is your opinion as
to the real use the Creator has for these
things? Take a look at the question
Irom this point of view.
There is a law of Nature and of Na
ture's God that things slowly evolve
from lower planes to higher, a sturdy,
steady and dignified advance toward
more perfect tilings in both the Phys
ical and Spiritual world. The ponderous
tread of evolutionary development is
fixed by the Infinite and will not be
quickened out of natural law by any of
man's methods.
Therefore we see many illustrations
showing how nature checks too rapid ad
vance. Illinois raises phenomenal crops
•if corn for two or three years, if she
continued to do so every year her farm
ers would advance in wealth far beyond
those ot other sections or countries. So
Nature interposes a liar every three or
four years and brings 011 a "bad year."
Here we see the leveling influence at
work.
A man is prosperous in his business
for a number of years and grows rich.
Then Nature sets the "leveling influ
ence" at work on him. Some of his in
vestments lose, he becomes luxurious
and lazy. Perhaps it is whiskey, to
bacco, coffee, women, gambling, or some
other form. The intent and purpose is
to level him. Keep him from evolving
too far ahead of the masses.
A nation becomes prosperous and
Kreat like ancient Rome, if no leveling
influence set in she would dominate the
world perhaps for all time, nut Dame
Nature sets her army of "levelers" at
work. Luxury, over-eating and drink
ing, licentiousness, waste and extrav
agance, indulgences of all kinds, then
comes the wreck. Sore. Sure. Sure.
The law of the unit is the law of the
mass. Man goes through the same proc
ess. Weakness (in childhood), grad
ual growth of strength, energy, thrift,
probity, prosperity, wealth, comfort,
i*ase, relaxation, self-indulgence, lux
ury, idleness, waste, debauchery, dis
ease, and the wreck follows. The "lev
elers" are in the bushes along the path
way of every successful man and woman
mid they bag the majority.
Only now and then can a mart\gtand
out against these "levelers" andXheld
fcis fortune, fame and health to thelipd-
So the Creator has use for Whiskey,
Tobacco and Coffee to level down the
successful ones and those who show
signs of being successful, and keep them
back in the race, so that the great "Held"
(the masses) may not be left too far be
hind.
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 ex
change my birthright for a mess of
potage."
"1 will not deaden my senses, weaken
my grip 011 affairs and keep myself
cheap, common and behind in fortune
ami fame by drugging with whiskey,
tobacco or coffee, life i c . too short. It
is hard enough to win the good things,
without any sort of handicap, so a man
is certainly a 'fool trailer' when he
trades strength, health, money, and the
good things that come with power, for
the half-asleep condition of the 'drug
ger' with the certainty of sickness aud
disease ahead."
It is a matter each Individual must de
cide for himself. He can be a leader and
semi-god if he will, or h-" «"an 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 seem to "mind"
if some of his children are foolish and
stupid, he seems to select others (per
haps 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 awhile, 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,
clean, 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 people
thinking, to rouse the "God within"
for every highly organized man and
woman has times when they feel a some
thing 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, ar.d even worldly prosperity, to
break off the habits and strip clean for
the work cut 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 rebuilt 011 a basis .>£
strength and health run into the thou
sands.
j It is an easy and comfortable step to
I stop coffee instantly by having wcll
j made Pus turn Food Coffee served rich
j and hot with good cream, for the color
j and flavor is there, but none of the caf
feine or other nerve-destroying elements
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. Seldom
is it more than 2 days after the change
is made before the old stomach or bowel
troubles or complaints of kidneys, heart,
head or nerves show unmistakable evi
dence of getting better and ten days
time changes things wonderfully.
Literally millions of brain-working
Americans today use Postum, having
found the value and common sense in
the change.
C. W. POST.
TALKS WITHOUT TONGUE.
Bobbed of Organ by Surgical Opera
tion, New Jersey Man Articulates
Better Than Before.
Tongucless, yet able to talk better
] than when in possession of His organ
I of speech—that is the remarkable con
; dition of William Bunting, a wealthy
bachelor of ISimer, N. J.. who received
treatment recently in Philadelphia.
Mr. Hunting came 10 the Hahnemann
hospital to have his throat treated for
| what he believed to be inflammation,
! caused by a severe cold. Upon investi
j gation the doctors found the disease to
Lie much more serious than the patient
had suspected, and that in order to
save his life his tongue must be re
moved. It was swollen to twice its
normal si/.e, so that Mr. Bunting was
unable to articulate plainly.
After the operation the first words
the patient spoke, "Is it all over?"
were the plainest, he bad spoken since
his trouble began, several years ago.
Those in attendance were able to un
derstand everything lie said.
Wrong Department.
A prominent physician (ells this
story at the expense of the modern
craze for specialization in the medical
profession. A poor woman went to a
dispensary lo ask for aid for her little
son, who had had one of his fingers
smashed. At the first room where she
applied she was told by a curt attend
ant that the boy could not be treated
there.
"Wrong place," he explained, "this
is the eye and ear department."
"Vcre is der thumb and finger de
partment?" inquired the woman, sim
ply.—Tit-Bits.
Where the Sin Lay.
A rather plain lady asked the opin
ion of her minister:
"Is it a sin to feel .1 trifle of vanity
when 1 am called handsome by a gen
-1 leman?"
"Not a sin for you. my child, but a
terrible responsibility hangs upon the
gentleman."— Tit-Bits.
Not Too Fast.
Mrs. Weeds—l suppose the law in this
state gives the widow her third.
■lawyer—Oh! yes; but you've got to
get rid of your tecond first— Chicago
Journal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1904.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN A MINE
"
TERCIO, COL., THE SCENE OF
THE DISASTER.
Exact Number of Men Killed Is Not
Known, but It Is Believed that
at Least 30 and Maybe 60
Lives Were LosL
Trinidad, Col., Oct. 2i l. —From "0 to
1 60 men lost their lives in a terrific ex
plision which occurred at mine No. 3
! of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. at
| Tercio, 10 miles west of Trinidad,
1 Friday afternoon. The exact number
of dead may never be known, as the
! mine is burning and in all likelihood
i the bodies will be consumed. A large
! number of mine officials left here as
: soon as word of the accident was re
ceived Company doctors were pick
ed up all along the line, as well as all
other available physicians. F. J. Fore
man. a government stock inspector,
was at Tercio when the explosion oc
curred. He returned here last night
and gave the following account of the
affair:
"I was standing not more than 300
j yards from the mouth of the tunnel
I when the explosion occurred. The
1 explosion was preceded by a low
I rumbling sound, resembling an earth
; quake, which made the earth tremble
and startled the whole camp.
"1 looked toward the mine and out
| of the mouth of the tunnel and two air
shafts came a great volume of smoke
and dust, which continued for nearly
! a minute. Out of the two air shafts,
each of which are seven feet in diame
ter, timbers fully three feet in diame
! ter were shot into the air and broken
it.to splinters. Rocks were thrown
over the camp for a distance of a
quarter of a mile. In fact, it rained
rocks, broken timbers and all kinds
of debris for fully a minute and many
people were injured by being struck
| with these missiles.
"The explosion, which resembled a
volcanic eruption, caused the wildest
excitement. Men, women and chil
; dreu rushed to the mouth of the tun
: nel, and women whose husbands were
!in the mine had to be brought
away by miners to prevent their being
killed by the fumes coming from the
1 mouth of the tunnel."
The mine in which the explosion
| occurred employed SO men and it is
believed that at least. 00 were in the
mine at the time. News of the explo
sion brought assistance from the ad
jacent camps and last night hundreds
of men were trying to enter the mine.
Deadly fumes overcame the rescuers
frequently, but their places immedi
ately were taken by others ready to
risk their lives. It was not thought
possible that any one in the mine
could escape death,
j Nearly all the miners employed are
Slavs. The mine was opened only a
year ago and extended 2,000 feet into
the bill. The explosion is supposed
to have been caused by dust. Hut one
body has been recovered, that of T.
Duran. a driver who was just entering
the tunnel when the explosion oc
curred. He was torn and bruised al
most beyond recognition. All the
mines within a radius of 20 miles have
been shut down and the miners are on
the way to assist in the rescue of the
bodies.
DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
Manufacturing Plants are Making
Steady Gains, Particularly in the
Leading Industries.
New York, Oct. 29. R. O. Dun's
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Mild weather early in the week
checked the distribution of seasonable
goods, but had a permanent value in
facilitating the harvesting of cotton
and late grain. Subsequently the I
i temperature fell, restoring retail 1
trade in wearing apparel, fuel and
similar products to greater activity
than was experienced a year ago.
! Building operations are active,
strengthening the markets for lumber
and materials.
Manufacturing plants are making
steady gains, particularly in the lead- j
ing industries, and it is significant
that reluctance to do business has
shifted from the buyers to sellers,
eliminating largely the concessions in
prices that prevented stability. Labor
is unusually well employed, judging
iby the official compilation of the
| unions. Railway freight blockades ,
cause some complaint, which is re
markable in view of the restricted
grain movement, and earnings in the
three weeks of October were 9.2 pei
cent, larger than in 1903.
; In the iron and steel industry new
cars and ships are requiring very
large tonnage of plates, and praetic- j
ally every department except stee!
rails has aroused from the dull con
dition so long prevalent. Improve
ment is emphasized by the large or.
j ders for pig Iron.
Failures this week numbered 233 in
the United States, against 253 last
j year, and 2S in Canada, compared <
with 15 a year ago.
Almshouse Is a Fire Trap.
New York, Oct. 29.—The Kingi
; county grand jury yesterday con
: demned Raymond street jail and the
Kings county almshouse in its pre
! sentment to Judge Aspinall, of the |
: county court in Brooklyn. The alms- j
| house, In which are 1,200 old men and i
women, was declared to be a fire trap.
; The jail was described as a dungeon. |
Mother and Son Asphyxiated.
Pittsburg, Oct. 29. —What was first ,
j thought to be a double suicide of
j mother and son is novr believed to !
! have been the result of asphyxiation- j
When Anthony Dix returned home i
! from his work yesterday he found the !
, bodies of his wife and son in the son's 1
room which adjoins the kitchen. The j
j kitchen stove was throwing out foul |
tins and it is believed the mother !
when she found herself becoming uf
fected by the fumes went to the boy's i
room to arouse him, but succumbed to i
the poisoned air before either could
| escape.
Business Announcement.
j Among the oddities in the »moke room of '
I Clyde Fitch's country house at North Cos- I
| cob there is * notice of the dissolution of
I * partnership between two colored barbers.
The notice, three feet square, is written in
I red ink on yellow paper. It occupies a cor-I
) ner between two crossed canoe paddles, and
it reads:
"de Dissolution of co-parsnips heretofo ;
1 resisting Betwix Mc and mo/.e Jones in de
j barber profession «n heretofo disolvcd.
j pussons Who O must pay to de subscriber,
j J)cm what de firm Os must call on Jones,
j as de firm is insolved."—N. Y. Sun.
Why He Studies Lftw.
Wall Street—So your son is studying l»w.
Do you expect that he will slick to it r
i Speculator Oh, no: I just want him to
know enough about it so that he will be
able to evade it successfully.—Detroit Free
j l'ress.
Six Doctors Failed.
| South Uend, Ind., Oct. 24 (Special).—
I After suffering from Kidney Disease for
three years; ufter taking treatment from
! six different doctors without getting re-
J lief, Air. J. O. Laudeman, of this place,
j found not only relief but a speedy and
! complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Fills.
Speaking of his cure, Mr. I.audeman says:
"Yes, I suffered from Kidney Trouble
! for three years arul tried six doctors to no
1 good. Then 1 took just two boxes of Dodd's
I Kidney Fills and they not only cured my
kidneys, but gave me better health in gen
eral. Of course 1 recommended Dodd's
Kidney Fills to others and I known number
now who are using them with good results."
Mr. I.audeman a ease is not an excep
tion. Thousands give similar experiences.
For there never yet was a ease of Kidney
Trouble from Backache to Fright's Disease
that Dodd's Kidney Fills could not cure.
They are the only remedy that ever cured
Fright's Disease.
"Some of your opponents, Colonel, are
accusing you of putting money into politics,"
said the plain citizen. "Well, some of the
others have been accusing me of taking
money out of it," replied the colonel, "so
things are about even up."—Philadelphia
Press.
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
•s a cough cure. —J. W. O'Brien", Third
Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. l>, liiOO.
The Chiropodists' society, of Chicago, has
been incorporated. Hooray for tho corn
crop!— Chicago Journal.
A fdl growi: elephant can carry ihrri ton*
•ii its back.
Being eloquently silent is a gilt bejond
the reach of art.—Bovee.
He m;ikes little out of life who i.» always
on the make.—Chicago Tribune.
A slender income is said to be an excellent
remedy for obesity.—Chicago Daily News.
Life isn't a dream to the man with the
silver dollars in iiis pocket it's a jingling
reality!— Atlanta Constitution.
Boiled microbes may not be any rtior®
palatable than raw ones, but they are not
naif si> dangerous to the average human be
ing.—Chicago t ,'hronicle.
At the entrance of a little provincial
restaurant on wiiieh the sun pours down,
there has been this sign all summer: "On
hot days the veranda i- inside."- Le Kigaro.
Face patches are coming into style again.
Tiiis is mighty good news at a time when
almost any of us are liable t" get into a
political discussion.— Indianapolis News.
"I'm «o glad t <• boys of your company
gave you that handsome revolver," said the
militia's captain's wife. "Wo need nave no
fear now of tii.- burglars infesting this neigh*
borhood." "That's what,!" replied the gal
lant captain. "I've got it locked up in the
office safo where they can't get at it."—
Philadelphia Fublie Ledger.
The Chauffeur's Idea.
"What," asked the license board of the
chauffeur, "is a pedestrian?"
"1 have never see one altogezzer. mon
sieur," said the chauffeur, "but /c pieces,
zey look like he was someziisg ali\t licit.re
we hit him."—-St. Paul lllobe.
Confirming' an Old Theory.
"A lot o" people was killed n New ork
from drinkin' wood alcohol," -aid Bronco
Bob, who gets the only paper that comes
to Crimson tluleh.
"Well," answered Three-Finger Sam, "it's
terrible to think of what weak stomachs us
Americans have.l guess those seientilic
sharps are right when they -ay He are
getting to be .t nation oi dyspeptics."—
Washington Star.
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