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THE
RIGHT AND DUTY
OF
EVERY STATE
TO ENFORCE SOBRIETY
ON ITS CITIZENS.
BY
F. W. NEWMAN, M.E.A.S.,
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE, LONDON. -
NOTTINGHAM :
PRINTED BY STEVENSON, BAILEY, AND SMITH, LISTER GATE.
1882.
��THE RIGHT AND DUTY OF EVERY STATE
TO ENFORCE SOBRIETY
ON ITS CITIZENS.
No human community can be so small as not to involve
duties from each member to the rest; duties to which a
sound human mind is requisite. Neither an idiot nor a
madman can be a normal citizen. The former ranks
as in permanent childhood; the latter, being generally
dangerous, must be classed with criminals. A de
humanized brain impairs a citizen’s rights because it
unmans him,—disabling him from duty, even making him
dangerous. In India, such a one now and then runs
amuck, stabbing every one whom he meets: in England,
he beats and tramples down those nearest to him,—those
whom he is most bound to protect. A human community
cannot be constituted out of men and brutes, nor ought
civilized men to be forced to carry arms or armour for selfdefence. For all these reasons, to be drunk is in itself
an offence against the community, prior to any statute
forbidding it, prior to any misdemeanor superinduced by
it. In the State it is both a right and a duty to enforce
(as far as its means reach) sobriety in every citizen, rich
or poor, in private or in public; and with a view to this,
to use such methods as will best prevent, discourage, or
deter from intoxication.
When a national religion totally forbids the use of
intoxicating drugs, vigilance in the State is less needful:
public opinion, or even public show of disgust and violence,
effectively stifles the evil. But if the national religion
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does not forbid the use, but solely enjoins moderation (a
word which every one interprets for himself), a far heavier
task falls on the State, whose right and duty nevertheless
in this matter several causes have concurred to obscure,
not least in England and Scotland. Out of the teachings
of Rome, our forefathers very ill learned the rights of the
State or the distinction of Morals from Religion. Although
even men not highly educated must have known that
Moral truth is far older than any special system of Religious
beliefs, yet in the popular idea morals have no other basis
than religion. Hence, the demand for freedom of con
science against an oppressive State Policy (besides the
vices of Courts and Courtiers) led to a vehement jealousy
of State power even in moral concerns. Many generous
minds feared, that to concede to the State a right of
enforcing morality, covertly allowed religious persecution.
Who first uttered the formula,—“The only duty of the State
is, to protect persons and property ”—is unknown to the
present writer; but certainly 50, 40, even 30 years ago,
this principle was widely accepted by radical politicians
and active-minded dissenters. The late Dr. Arnold of
Rugby regarded this denial of the State’s moral character
as a wide-spread, untractable and mischievous delusion.
After long torpor the prohibition of Lotteries showed
that Parliament was waking to its moral duties. Little by
little, the mass of the middle classes and the gentry imbibed
nobler views of human life, and have discovered, that of
all the powers which make a nation immoral the State is
the most influential. One day of licensed debauch undoes
the work of the Clergy on 52 Sundays. No wonder that
in the past the State collectively has been our worst cor
rupter : but to open this whole question space does not
here allow. A long struggle has gone on, to implore
public men not to connive at drunkenness,—a national pest
which for more than a century was greeted with merriment,
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though politically avowed to be criminal. None dare now
to laugh at it, except the depraved men who laugh at
bribery, and use drunkenness as a trump-card at Elections,
and, if in office, rejoice in the vast revenue sucked by the
Exchequer out of the vice and misery of the people.
Earnest religionists of every creed have happily rallied to
a common conviction, that the State has grievously failed
of its duty and must now turn over a new leaf. Our worst
opponents are men who cannot be reckoned in any reli
gious body, men who find nothing so sacred as Liberty to
buy and sell and indulge appetite; generally eccentric
“Liberals,” who are in many respects too good not to
esteem, and too intellectual to despise.
One of these some years ago opened attack on me in a
private letter, which summed up the arguments decisive
with this class of “ advanced Liberals in whose hatred
of Over Legislation I heartily share. He taunted me for
thinking that the State ought to concern itself about the
drinks of citizens more than about their dress; saying that I
could not hold the State to have a control of public morals,
without, in logical consistency, admitting the right of
Parliament to forbid dancing and card-playing ; or to
command my attendance at any Church worship, or to fine
and imprison me for heresy. The double confusion here
involved is wonderful from an educated man, and lowers
his reputation for good sense. Eeligion is a topic on
which eminent persons and foremost nations widely differ :
concerning Moral Duty there is more agreement in man
kind than perhaps on anything that is beyond the five
senses. To argue that in claiming of the State an enforce
ment of duties cardinal to citizenship, we admit its right
to dictate in religion, is a pestilent anachronism; it
confounds Morals with Eeligion just as did the ancient
world, Pagan and Hebrew.—Again: the test of soundness
in Morals is found in the agreement of the human race.
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There is no nation, no elementary tribe of men, so ignorantor so besotted, as not to condemn drunkenness as immoral
and utterly evil. In justifying penalties against a vice
condemned by all mankind, we justify (forsooth!) the
punishing of amusements thought harmless by a great
majority everywhere.
Such an assertion is not the less
silly, even in the mouth of a disciple of John Stuart Mill.
Of course we all know that Law cannot be made a,gain at
every misuse of time, or of energy, or of money. There is
certainly no danger whatever that a modern Parliament,
elected from very different circles and representing widely
different elements, will ever adopt as its measure of sound
morals the special opinions of any historical sect, however
virtuous and wise.
Neither of an individual nor of a community does the
highest interest consist in Liberty, but in soundness of
morals; without which Liberty only means licence to be
vicious ; licence to ruin oneself, and diffuse misery to
others. To a man not proof against the omnipresent,
drinkshop, high wages are a curse; days called holy and
short hours of work do but more quickly engulf him in
ruin. But he pulls others too down in his fall. That
nearly every Vice tends to waste, and preeminently intoxi
cation by liquors or drugs, certain Economists are strangely
slow to learn. Moreover, nearly every wide-spread vice
makes wealth andlifeless enjoyable to the whole community.
Confining remark to the vice of drunkards, it suffices to
point in brief to the enormous extension which it gives to
Violent Crime, to Orphanhood, to Pauperism, to Prostitu
tion, to disease in Children, and to Insanity. Hence comes
an enormous expense for Police and Criminal Courts, for
Jails and Jail-officers, for Magistrates and Judges, for
Insane Asylums, and Poor Rates. Hence also endless
suffering to the victims of crime and to the families of
criminals, and a grave lessening of happiness to innocent
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persons by the ribaldry of drunkards planted at their side,
with fear lest their children be corrupted ; fear also of
personal outrage. Our daily comfort largely depends on
homely virtue in our neighbours. In every great organi
zation of industry the drunkenness of workmen is a firstrate mischief to others, crippling enterprize by increased
expense and risk. From sailors fond of grog and tobacco,
proceed fire in ships out at sea; and on foreign coasts,
broils that disgrace England and Christendom, and lay a
train which sometimes explodes in war. The drunkenness
of a captain has before now stranded a noble ship. On a
railroad, access of the engine driver to drink is a prime
danger; and shall we say that there is no danger in
Parliament legislating when half asleep with wine, and
hereby open to the intrigue of any scheming clique, who
may wish to fasten suddenly on the nation fraudulent or
wicked law ? Wisely does the American Congress forbid
to its members wine in its own dining room, because those
who have to make sacred law are bound to deliberate and
vote with clear heads. Evil law is of all tyrannies the
most hateful, and makes a State contemptible to its own
citizens,—thus preparing Revolution.
English Statesmen have yet to learn Yankee wisdom ;
but no one who is, or hopes to be, in high office dares to
speak lightly of drunkenness. The celebrated Committee
of 1834 advised Parliament to reverse its course, with a
view to the ultimate extinction of the trade in ardentspirits.
The advice was disgracefully spurned; yet neither the
legislature nor the executive has ever dared to deny that
drunkenness is a civil offence. Our opponents plead only
for the use, not for the abuse of intoxicating drink.
No doubt, teetotallers maintain that all use of such
liquors for drink is an abuse.
The avowals of Dr.
William Gull, who calls our view extreme, beside those of
Sir Henry Thompson and Dr. Benjamin Richardson, seem
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to justify the extreme view: so do the Parisian experi
ments of 1860-1. Yet it is not necessary to go so far in a
political argument. I desire to obtain common ground
with such men as my friend Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P. for
Leicester, and waive our difference with him as to moderate
use. Let us admit (that is, temporarily) that as Prussic
Acid is fatal in ever so small a draught, yet is safe as well
as delicious in extract of almonds and in custard flavored
by bay-leaf, so alcohol is harmless, not only in Plum
Pudding and Tipsy Cake, but also in one tumbler of Table
Beer and one wineglass of pure Claret. Let us further
concede that the propensity of very many to excess makes
out no case for State-interference against the man whose
use of the dangerous drink is so sparing, that no one can
discover any ill effect of it on
Nevertheless, irrefu
table reasons remain, why we should claim new legislation,
and a transference of control over the trade from the
magistrates who do not suffer from it to the local public
who do.
First of all, let me speak of undeniable excess. At one
time perhaps it was punished by exposure in the pillory
or stocks; but for a long time past, the penalty (when not
aggravated by other offences) has been at most a pecuniary
fine : five shillings used often to be inflicted. A “ gentle
man ” who could pay, was let off: a more destitute man
might fare worse. Inevitably, the vices of the eighteenth
century affected national opinion. The wealthier classes
were so addicted to wine, that to be “as drunk as a lord”
became a current phrase. From highest to lowest the
drunkard was an object more of merriment than of pity,
and scarcely at all of censure, unless he were a soldier or
sailor on duty. When a host intoxicated his guests, it
was called hospitality; to refuse the proffered glass was
in many a club an offence to good company. Peers and
Members of Parliament, officers of Army and Navy,
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Clergymen and Fellows of Colleges,—nay, some Royal
Princes—loved wine, often too much. Who then could
be earnest and eager to punish poorer men for love of
strong beer ? The preaching of Whitefield and Wesley
began the awakening of the nation. A very able Spaniard
despondingly said of his country : “ A profligate individual
may be converted, but a debased nation never; ” and the
recovery no doubt is arduous, when the national taste has
been depraved and vicious customs have fixed themselves
in society. Even now, few indeed are able to rejoice in
the punishment of mere drunkenness; for, the only
penalty imagined is a pecuniary fine, which never can
prevent repetition nor deter others : when most severe, it
does but aggravate suffering to an innocent wife and
children. To be “drunk and disorderly” is now the
general imputation before a magistrate. Unless molesta
tion of others can be charged, the drunkard is very seldom’
made to feel the hand of the law. Hereby many persons
seem to believe (as apparently does one bishop) that, as a
part of English liberty, every one has a right to be drunk.
While we complain that authorities are negligent and
connive at vice, after accepting and assuming the duty to
prevent it; the sellers of the drink are open to a severer
charge. A man too poor to keep a servant is glad to get
a wife to serve him. She is to him housemaid and cook
and nurse of his children. For all these functions she
has a clear right to full wages, besides careful nurture
during motherly weakness. The husband manifestly is
bound to supply to his wife more than all she might have
earned in serving others, before he spends a sixpence on
his own needless indulgences: and the publican knows it;
knows, sometimes in definite certainty, always in broad
suspicion, that he is receiving money which does not in
right belong to his customer. Of course he cannot be
convicted by law; but in a moral estimate he is com
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parable to a lottery-keeper who accepts from shopmen
money which he suspects is taken from their master’s
till, or to a receiver of goods which he ought to suspect to
be stolen. Such is the immoral aspect of traders, who
now claim 11 compensation,” if the twelve-month licences
granted to them as privilege, for no merit of their own,
be, in the interest of public morality, terminated at the end
of the twelve months. In the interest and at the will of
landlord magistrates such traders have borne extinction
meekly, over a very wide rural area. What made them
then so meek and unpretending? Apparently because
against powerful Peers and Squires impudence was not
elicited in them by the encouragement of a John Bright
and a Gladstone.
How then ought the State to deal with a drunkard ?
Obviously by the most merciful, kind and effective of all
punishments,— by forbidding to him the fatal liquor.
How much better than asylums for drunkards 1 asylums
which make a job for medical men, take the drunkard
•away from his family and business, without anything to
guarantee that on his release from prison he will have a
Will strong enough to resist the old temptation. Such
asylums please medical philanthropy ; nor is any animosity
■displayed against them in Parliament. How can we
account for the fact, that M.P.’s who strongly oppose
interference with the existing shops, and avow as much
distress and grief at drunkenness as is possible to any
teetotaller, have never proposed to withhold the baneful
drink from a convicted drunkard ? Did it never come into
their heads ? Had they never heard of it ? This would
convict them of ignorance disgraceful in an M.P., still
more so in a Minister. Perhaps some one charitably
suggests : “ They think the prohibition never could be
enforced.” To this pretence General Neal Dow makes
reply: “ What we Yankees have done, you English cer
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tainly can do, whenever you have the Will.” Nothing
is easier, when anyone has been convicted of drunkenness,
than to send official notice to all licensed shops (say,
within five miles) forbidding them to supply him, under
penalty of forfeiting their licences. At the same time it
should be made a misdemeanour in anyone else to supply
him gratuitously. (It would be pedantic here to suggest
after how long probation, and under what conditions, this
stigma should be effaceable.)
The misery which husband can inflict on wife, or wife
on husband, by drunkenness, has led many Yankees
further, and—to our shame—we have as yet refused to
learn from them. If a wife (with certain legal formalities)
forbid the drinkshops to supply her husband, this should
be of the same avail, as if the husband were convicted of
drunkenness before a magistrate. Of course a husband
ought to have the same right against a wife, and either
parent against a son or daughter under age. Such an
enactment, as it seems to me, ought to be at once passed,
as a law for all the Queen’s realms, not as matter for
local option. Passed over the heads of existing magis
trates, it would remain valid over whatever authority may
succeed them.
This is no place to dwell on any details of horrors
inflicted on the country by the present imbecile control.
Of course it is far better than the free trade in drink,
towards which Liverpool twenty years back took a long
stride, with results most wretched and justly repented of.
How deadly is now the propensity of the country, will
sufficiently appear from an experience of the late Sir
Titus Salt in his little kingdom of Saltaire.
For a single year he made trial of granting to four
select shops a licence to supply table beer in bottles, de
livered at the houses in quantity proportioned to the
number of inmates;—a more severe limitation than any
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previously heard of. Yet in the course of some months
evil grew up and multiplied. Something stronger than
table beer (apparently) had been substituted. The liquor
was smuggled into his works. Disobedience and disorders
arose ; and at length a deputation of his own men com
plained to him that their women at home were getting too
much of the drink. At the year’s end he cancelled the
licences, and to the general content and benefit restored
absolute prohibition. Nothing short of this extinguishes
the unnatural taste. Female drunkenness is a new vice,
at least in any but the most debased of the sex : yet alas !
courtly physicians now tell us that it has invaded the
boudoirs of great ladies. Such has been the mischief of
Confectioners’ and Grocers’ Licences.
Unsatisfactory as has been the control of the drink trade
by the magistrates, their neglect has never been resented
in higher quarters, ever since, by gift of the Excise, Par
liament made the Exchequer a sleeping partner in the
gains of the Drink Trade. The Queen’s Exchequer has
hence a revenue of about thirty-three millions a year, of
which probably two-thirds, say twenty-two millions, is
from excess: a formidable sum as hush-money. No
earnest reformer expects the leopard to change his spots.
A transference of power is claimed, chiefly under the title
of Local Option. To give the power to town councils has
been proved wholly insufficient in Scotland ; though the
Right Hon. John Bright seems obstinately to shut eyes
and ears to the fact.
Again and again in crowded meetings the Resolution
has been affirmed : “ The people who suffer by the trade
ought to have a veto against it.”—Those who seem re
solved to oppose every scheme which seeks to break down
and restrict this horrible vice, tauntingly reply, that this
measure would ensure its continuance in its worst centres.
They do but show their own unwisdom herein. The
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Publicans know far better, and they avow, there is nothing
they so much dread as local option. In Maine itself, a
State frightfully drunken in the first half of the century,
the opponents of Neal Dow in the State Legislature scorn
fully allowed him to carry a Bill which gave to each parish
Permission to accept his measure as law. They expected
that the drunkards would out-vote it: but to their dis
comfiture found that the drunkards were glad of his law,
and nailed it firm. Let all sound-hearted Englishmen
trust our suffering population to use their own remedy.
Under Local Option we now embrace two systems which
have been already discussed in Parliament,—that of
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and that upon the outlines of
Mr. Joseph Cowen’s Bill.
Personally I yield to Sir Wilfrid Lawson the highest
honour. Beyond all other men he is the hero in this long
battle. If I account his Bill defective, he will not blame
me : for in its original form, which he would be glad to
carry, it closely resembled the Maine Law, and superseded
the Magistrates. He has simplified it by making it only
a half measure. After Parliament has been teazed by the
drink question for more than twenty-five years, (one
might almost say, ever since 1834)—after candidates at
every election have been made anxious by it, we must
calculate that all public men will desire to make a final
settlement and get rid of the topic in Parliament. But
Sir Wilfrid’s Bill, whatever its other merits (and I think
them great) will not set Parliament free. For so soon as
any district adopts his permission to stop the Drink Trade,
an outcry must arise from local medical men and chemists
and varnishers, demanding new shops for their needs :
and intense jealousy will follow, lest the new sellers,
though called chemists or grocers or oilmen, presently
become purveyors of drink ; hence a fresh struggle must
continue in our overworked Legislature concerning the
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new and necessary regulations. Sir Wilfrid’s half measure
supersedes neither the Magistrates nor the Parliament,
though for two hundred years the Nation has suffered
through the laxity of both. Surely we chiefly need real
Provincial Legislatures, and, until we get them, Local Folk
Motes and Local Elective Boards are our best substitutes.
This is the other and the complete measure: yet some
thing remains to be said on it. The great evil is, that by
reason of competition, a trade cannot live, except by
pushing its sales. The Americans have wisely seen that
the necessary sales must be effected by Agents publicly
appointed, with a fixed salary and nothing to gain by an
increase of sales. Such Agents must receive public in
structions. This was in fact Sir Wilfrid’s original scheme,
only that it forbad absolutely the selling wine or beer for
drink, unless by medical order: and the last condition
would involve in Parliament endless contention. It is
simpler, and I think far better, to give to an Elective
Board a general free discretion. Parliament might indeed
dictate that sales should go on through a public officer only.
I, for one, should rejoice in this. But the most eager
teetotaller will not hope that in the present generation any
English Parliament will be more severe against a wine
loving gentry, and more dictatorial to medical men, than
is the law of Maine. If therefore it did command that sales
should be without gain, it certainly would not allow an
entire prohibition of selling alcohol as beverage to be imposed
on the Agent for sale. It is not so in Maine: and this
fact occasioned Mr. Plimsoll’s stupendous blunder, who
declared in Parliament that the Maine Law was a dead
letter in Maine itself. The fact on which he built this
outrageously false assertion, was, that when Mr. Plimsoll
asked for Whiskey, the Agent instantly sold it to him without
a moment’s hesitation.—But why ? “ Because he knew
that Mr. Plimsoll was an English M. P. and a teetotaller,”
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such was the Agent’s reply when interrogated afterwards.—
Again, any richer man, or any club of poorer men in
Maine is allowed to order from abroad a cask of wine or
porter : but it must reach the house to which it is addressed
in package unbroken. Thus the Maine Law does not
set itself against the man who, resolute in sobriety, has yet
a fixed purpose to drink alcoholic liquor. An Agent is
selected who is earnest to check excess, and has no motive
to be lax; but he is not shackled in his discretion, nor
forbidden (where he trusts the applicant) to sell for
medical use, that is, for drink. If English teetotallers
choose to be indignant at the thought, I make sure that
they waste their energy. It will be a vast advantage to
sobriety, if Parliament give absolute discretion to a Local
Elective Board, with the sole proviso, that the purchase
of these liquors shall not be made impossible nor vexatiously difficult, to an applicant against whom no primd
facie note of excess can be pleaded.
The power must be placed somewhere of giving wine or
ale to persons who think they need it, or to whom physi
cians recommend it. A nation may be led, but cannot be
forced, into wisdom of drinking or eating. Moreover, as
soon as the problem is opened, of lessening the number of
shops (which all allow to be the most urgent matter,
only many of us wish the number to be zero) an outcry
is sure to arise of partiality and unfairness, and a new
bonus will be given to the shops that remain. The in
crease in the number of shops has done mischief; but a
lessening of the number will but very slowly undo the
mischief. Out of these difficulties a trial of the American
scheme is sure to arise in some town where local knowknowledge is ripest; and each place will quickly learn
from the experience of other places. Every local popula
tion desires relief from the evils of intoxication. I cannot
understand how any who profess to trust those who suffer
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from the trade, can be terrified at the transfer of full
power from the magistrates to the local public.
Finally, I must express my conviction, that if by the
over-occupation of Parliament, or by any other cause, it be
impossible to effect in the present Session the general and
final settlement concerning the control of sales, great good
would arise from a short and simple Act to which there
ought to be no jealous opposition;—an Act in which
philanthropic Brewers would (we may hope) concur—to
give to husband and wife and parents a direct veto such as
was named above, as also to command a withholding of
supply to one convicted of drunkenness. How can an
M.P. with any face pretend that he sorrows over the effects
of this deadly vice, if he oppose this reasonable veto ?
P.S. — A friend in Manchester, minutely acquainted
with the history of the Maine Law, assures me that the
statement in p. 13, (which I make as heard, by me from
Neal Dow,) confounds the original law of 1851 with a
law of 1858, which was sanctioned by a Plebiscite of the
whole State.—This, if more correct, in no respect alters
the moral meaning and weight of my argument.
Another friend wishes me to explain, that by Sir
Wilfrid’s Bill, I mean the Permissive Bill, and not his naked
resolution ; and by its “original form” I allude to a paper
privately circulated in order to gather opinions before
hand.
F. W. N.
STEVENSON, BAILEY AND SMITH, PRINTERS. LISTER GATE, NOTTINGHAM.
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH,
AND
JOURNAL OF THE TRUE HEALING ART.
Volume n.]
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1867.
[For the Gospel of Health.]
PHYSIOLOGICAL TRANSGRESSION
IN HIGH PLACES.
[Number 8.
Until we learn to know aright,
And knowing, care to do,
Transgression, in the bud will blight
The Noble and the True.
BY MONTADELPHOS.
How foolish are the ways of man !
Since Adam sinned at first,
To kill himself because he can,
By wickedness the worst.
The Parent wonders at the Youth,
Because he’s heedless growD ;
When he, himself, to tell the truth,
Has sins still worse his own.
The Minister, he wonders why
The World he cannot save ;
Whilst his own conduct gives the lie
To the Profession grave.
The Son of Temperance wonders too,
And raves about the same,
Because “ Old Sots” at times get “blue,”
When he’s as much to blame.
He's tipsy, too, from morn till night—
Tobacco’s all the rage ;
And coffee ’s just the thing that’s right
To make him feel so sage.
The Doctor, too, he wonders why
Mankind, so premature,
' Will still get sick, lie down and die,
In spite of Physic-Cure ?
If men transgress the Laws of Life,
And sickness comes at last,
Why should the Doctor, then, in strife.
Their hopes with poisons blast ? ,
[Written for the Gospel ofHealth.J
FIRST PRINCIPLES, NO. I.
BY J. F. SANBORN, M. D.
Many of the readers of the Health journals
know that certain articles in common use in
bread-making, as bi-carbonate of soda, salt,
yeast, cream-of-tartar, are not proper articles for
food. They know that alcoholic liquors, tea,
coffee, and even hard water, are not proper for
drink ; that impure air is improper for us to
breathe : But why they are so, is not generally
understood ; and one reason is, it ig easier to
write an article, that will please even the read
ers of a Health journal, stating that this or that,
is thus and so, than it is to explain why they
are so. The enlargement of the Gospel of
Health will enable us to elucidate some of
these first principles, somewhat at length.
That matter which is endowed with life, is
called organic matter. To sustain life, organs
are furnished ; to animals, lungs, heart, bowels,
kidneys, arteries, veins, nerves, etc.
Vegetables have organs as rootlets, roots
trunks, branches leaves, etc.
Inorganic matter has no life—it has no need of
organs to support its existence, for it exists from
age to age ; it may be subject to change of form
and place, but does not grow old as domen, ani
mals, trees, and all matter endowed with life.
Life must at some time cease, and the organic
matter ot which living bodies are composed,
must return to the earth from which it came—
the organic dies—decays, and becomes inorganic
matter.
The vegetable kingdom subsists on inorganic
matter, and by a process of vitality peculiar to
its organization, changes the inorganic into or
ganic matter.
In animal life there is a continual change of
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substance, nutritious matter becoming a part of
the living body ; and while this addition is be
ing made, other parts are broken down and re
moved.
This change in animals, and growth in vegeta
bles, are carried on by small structures known
as cells, somewhat analogous to an egg that has
no shell ; their size is very minute, and tlieir
form varies by the pressure of surrounding
cells.
In animals, the materials of these cells are
formed from the food eaten.
Now, can animals take the inorganic ele
ments of earth, and organize them into cells,
form and structure, and add them to their
bodies? Can an animal eat clay or soil, and be
nourished thereby? No one will claim that
such materials are food for “ man or beast
and if one should eat it, it could not be so
changed as to make anything organic.
Vegetables, on the contrary, do subsist on the
inorganic, elements of earth, and decayed or
broken-down cell-structure of plants and ani
mals ; changing them into their own structure,
by cell formation ; adding cells to the end of previ
ously-formed cells, thus increasing in length, or
by placing several around on the outside of others
and thus increasing in size. Thus has God made
the vegetable kingdom to prepare the inorganic
materials of earth, and organize them for food
for the animal kingdom. Animals take of the
cell-formation of the vegetable kingdom, and
build up their own solid structure. Vegetables
furnish food for animals by their growth ; and
animals furnish food for plants by decay, or the
breaking down of their cell-structure.
It is a fundamental law of animal life that it
can in no wise add to its cell-structure any matter
that is not cell-structure. If cell-structure is
broken down, be it animal or vegetable, it can in
no wise become a part of the cell-structure of
animal life. Inorganic matters cannot be digest
ed—they are not cell-structure—they are the
same when they leave the body that they are
when they enter it ; which is not the case with
an apple, or bread, or anything that is food.
Food is digested and by assimilation becomes
a part of the body—a part of the cell-structure
of the living, moving body ; and when it leaves
the body, it does so as broken-down or waste
matter, which is food for plants.
This principle is not generally understood ; if
it was, all matter not of cell-structure would
sedulously be excluded from the vital domain, as
bearing an abnormal relation to the Jiving
tissues.
A statement was made in alate number of the
Dental Cosmos, that a man died for want of phos
phate of lime in his bones, and yet he had taken
large quantities of the phosphates as a medi
cine.
The statement was a part of the report of the
doings of one of the most learned Dental Socie
ties in the United States ; yet no one explained
the mystery. All mineral medicines are inor- 1
ganic matter ; iron, of which such large quanti- i
ties are used as a “ tonic,” by the very learned
Allopathic M. Ds., is an inorganic substance, and
as a consequence, it can never become a part of
the cell-structure of the blood, or of any other
part of the body; but in common with all other
inorganic matters, bears an abnormal relation to
the living system. This is a sufficient reason
why we, as Hygienists, should not use it.
As soon as the cell-structure of our bodies be
comes broken down, it becomes as repugnant ^o
the living system, as dead bodies are to a living,
refined, civilized community ; and if it is retained
in the body, or becomes absorbed from without,
it must be expelled, or death must soon follow.
Broken down cell-structure, taken as food,
bears an abnormal relation to the living tissues,
so that it matters not how good food a substance
may be, in its natural state of perfect develop
ment ; as soon as it becomes decayed or broken
down in its structure, by fermentation, so far as
the change has taken place, so far has the arti
cle of food deviated from its perfect adaptation
to the wants of the system ; and the part sc
changed is no longer food ; it cannot become a
part of the cell-structure of the living body, but
is a poison to be expelled.
Fermented articles, either as food or drink,
are more or less broken down cell-structure,
and bear an abnormal relation to the living
system.
Disease is the effort of the system to rid itself
of obstructing materials.
These obstructing materials are—first, the
broken down cell-structure of the system itself,
and not depurated or removed from the body ;
or, second, those which are received into the sys
tem by absorption, or as inorganic substances in
food, as bi-carbonate of soda, or bi carbonate of
potassa, or common salt used in making biscuit.
Hard water contains carbonate of lime, which is
an inorganic substance, and bearsan abnormal re
lation to the living system. Fermented bread
is made by decomposing the sugar in the meal
or flour, as the case may be, converting it into
carbonic acid gas and alcohol, thus destroying
at least one sixteenth of the nutriment there
was in the flour, and breaking down the cell
structure so that so much of the flour as has
undergone the change by fermentation, not only
does not nourish, but thereby becomes a source
of disease. Alcohol is broken down cell-struc
ture. There is no alcohol in any of the grains
in their natural degree of perfection, but they
all contain both sugar and starch ; the sugar is
first decomposed; then the starch is changed
into sugar, and both sugars are changed into
carbonic acid gas and alcohol. The carbonic
acid gas is used in n aking carbonate of soda
and potassa, which are used in making bread
which the good temperance people use, while
those who make no pretensions to being tem
perate, use the alcohol itself. All of these brokendown cell-structures are poisons to the living
tissues, because being broken-down matter,
they bear an abnormal relation to it. Many
substances that are of cell-structure bear an ab
normal relation to the living system, which it
is not proposed to discuss at this time
Chemical action invariably destroys the cell
structure of all organic matter on which the
action takes place, so that in the chemical prep
aration of medicines from vegetables that are
good for food, as soon as the chemical change
has taken place, they are no longer tolerated by
the vital powers, because their cell-structure
being destroyed, they bear an abnormal relation
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to vitality. All medicines are poisons. They
all bear an abnormal relation to the living sys
tem, and almost without exception, are, when
taken, but adding inorganic matter or broken
down cell-structure to that already the cause of
the disease ; so that it matters not according to
what school of practice the medicine is adminis
tered, it is but adding broken-down cell structure,
which is obstructing matter, to that already the
cause of the disease, and is but carrying out
the principle of “ like cures like and we read
the “ blind lead the blind, and both fall into the
ditch,” alias the grave.
[to be continued.]
WHAT IS TEMPERANCE?
BY HYGEALTnEUS.
There is probably no subject upon which
less perfect views are entertained, than that of
Temperance. Some persons hold that abstinence
from alcoholic liquors is temperance, whilst
others maintain that the moderate drinking of
the same constitutes temperance ; and upon the
one or the other of these two propositions the
majority of the people are stationed.
Now, to my mind, both positions are, in re
ality, wrong. Temperance is moderation, no
matter to what it be applied; and intemper
ance, immoderation. Persons, too, may be as
truly intemperate in not using enough of a thing,
as in using too much ; as it is the proper quan
tity, or degree, which constitutes temperance—
degree or quantity always entering in as an
element—and not total abstinence, as some sup
pose.
“Well,” says one, “you believe, then, that
the moderate drinking of alcoholic liquors is
temperance, do you not ?” Not by any means.
If they are right who contend against absti
nence because temperance implies moderation,
then it is evident that we would all be justified
in doing what is manifestly wrong; for St.
Paul admonishes us to be “ temperate in all
things,” and as “ all things,” as this class of
persons would have it, necessarily includes a
great many wrong things, therefore we would
be advised to do many wrong things, moder
ately, however. This, though, is too absurd to
be admitted. There must, therefore, be some
other criterion whereby we are to be governed
in our eating and drinking habits, which is sub
stantially the relation existing between our
selves and the universe of matter around us.
Nothing having an unhealthful relation to
man can ever be a subject of temperance. The
use of all such things is qualitatively an evil,
as was the eating of the forbidden fruit by our
first parents; whereas, the use of thingshaving a i
physiological or healthful relation, can only be
an evil quantitively—because of an improper
quantity or degree. Who would ever think of
swearing, lying, or stealing temperately ? Or
who would for a moment contend that fornica
tion and adultery could be committed in mode
ration ? Or where is the individual to be found
who would call the performance of one or all of I
these deeds intemperance ? I venture to say
that no person of intelligence can be found en !
tertaining such an idea, from the simple fact
that all such conduct is wrong in its very na
ture. and hence can have nothing to do with
temperance. Why, then, should we contend
that other things may be done temperately,
which are, in their very nature, wrong or unpliysiological ? Or why should we call absti
nence from the same temperance ? The fact is,
the imbibition of alcohol, and all other poisons,
is a violation of physiological law, because of
the chemically incompatible relation existing
between them and the tissues of the organism,
and hence can have no more to do with temper
ance or intemperance, than stealing or commit
ting murder has.
It may be said, however, that St. Paul would
have you «“ eat and drink whatsoever is set be
fore you, and ask no questions for conscience’
sake but if the “ whatsoever” is not restricted
to such things as bear a physiological relation
to the body, then of course the injunction is
equivalent to a command of self-destruction ;
and we would be entirely excusable for »uicism,
should “ mine kost” chance temptingly to pre
sent a poison.
Temperance, then, is the moderate, use of
things having a physiological or healthful rela
tion to our being ; whilst intemperance is the
immoderate use of these same agencies, and the
immoderation may be because of either excess
or deficiency. The imbibition of things, how
ever, having an unhealthful relation to the or
ganism, is physiological transgression, from the
infinitesimal nothingness of the Homeopath,
up through the ponderous doses of the heroic
Allopath, to the practice of the Suicide, who
takes the same for the purpose of separating the
soul from its tenement of clay.
[For the Gospel of Health.]
DRUG MEDICATION THE CHIEF
CAUSE OF OUR PRESENT PHYS
ICAL DEGENERACY.
NO. I.
BY THOS. W. ORGAN, M. D., CHALFANT, OHIO.
Radical and revolutionary ideas are of slow
growth. The human mind, in its perversion
and depravity, will grasp error quickly, while
truth and right may be unnoticed, or if noticed
at all, only to be opposed and persecuted. The
subject on which I propose to write a series of
articles, is the most radically and aggressively
reformatory in its bearing of any of which I can
now conceive. It anticipates, as the grand re
sults of an enlightenment of the people, the
overthrow of drug-shops, dram-shops, and to
bacco-shops. Could a nobler or grander reform
occupy the human mind, or engage the labors
of the’ philanthropist ? It more deeply involves
both our individual and collective weal or woe ;
our future felicity and destiny, physically, mor
ally, and socially, than any other that can be
named, except the Gospel of Christianity. If
not Christianity itself, it is essentially a part or
element of it. It is not Christianity either to
give drugs or to take drugs. True science
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
based on the unerring laws of Nature, and all
LETTER FROM A SCAVENGER.
experience, properly interpreted, demonstrate
that the administration of drugs is fearfully
destructive of human health, of human life, and
Dr. Trall—Dear Sir: In the December
of human happiness. And if destructive and
detrimental to human interests, is not their use number of the Gospel I asked, in substance,
a fearful wrong ? If wrong, can their adminis the question: Why cannot man be, safely al
tration be in consonance with Christianity ? lowed the same freedom in diet as other ani
True science and Christianity can never conflict. mals that mix their food, without detriment to
The fact that nine tenths of the physicians of health or longevity ? to which you replied : you
our land do not take their own medicines when could not see the pertinency of my reasoning,
sick, is sufficient evidence of another very im- ' and that if the devil could change his habits,
portant fact, “ They do not do unto others as he would become a better being.
Very “pertinent” “if” indeed. An if style
they wish to be done by.” If physicians would
apply the golden rule in all cases, drugging of argument is pardonable when founded on
would soon be extinct. There can scarcely be something within the bounds of possibility;
found an intelligent physician that would not but, when a debater resorts to an assumption,
prefer to risk his life to the efforts of nature, (to illustrate a point at issue) that is utterly
rather than to the remedies of a physician of inconsistent with nature, illogicalyand impossi
his own school. He would also do so with his ble as yours was in “ raising the devil,” it por
patients, but for one “ small consideration.” tends an extreme want of something real or
“ There is not much money in such a course.” | reasonable on which to base an argument.
Why, sir, it is worse than falling back to the
His patient would doubtless recover more speed
ily without his drugs than with them, vet that “last ditch” (for in that there is still hope.) It
would involve him in another fundamental dif is, in fact, going beyond, over the verge, into
ficulty. “ They would quickly perceive that his dark and empty space for impossibilities as
services irere not necessary.” It is therefore ne weapons to defend a one-sided, fanatical theory.
cessary for the existence of the drug medical And, even then, in his blindness, to say he
profession that its practitioners continue the “fails to seethe pertinency” of the logic that
business of dosing and drugging, (no matter I drove him to so extreme a measure, is decidedly
how.) behind an array of technical jargon which cool indeed.
Apropos to your “pertinent” style of reason
they cannot understand, which the people can
not understand, and which, I think, never was > ing and to follow out its absurdity, wonder if it
wouldn’t be better for the rattlesnake to rid
intended to be understood.
This subject not only interests us as individu itself of its venom in some possible way, and be
als, but as a nation. The aggregate of indi come as harmless as a dove.
Wonder if it would n’t be better for God,
vidual existences constitutes a nation. It con man, and the Devd, if the “ Old Nick” had n’t
cerns also the physical and moral growth or
decline, development or decay, of our national been created at all ? Or, if the “ Old Fellow”
existence. It is therefore self-evident that the would commit suicide and thus tempt man, no
destiny of the race is involved in the discussion ! longer to pervert his mind, injure his health,
of this subject. A nation’s character is read by and shorten his life by sinful flesh-eating. Oh,
the health or vigor of its people. If the indi the “ permitted" monster ! why mil he persist in
viduals constituting this nation become dis acting so unnatural a part toward God’s crea
eased and effeminate, the inevitable result must I tures ?
Wonder if it wouldn’t be better for the lion,
be that the nation will be deteriorated in a pro
portionate degree. Whatever affects our indi tiger, Esquimaux, etc., to quit flesh-eating in
vidual existence must, in an exact ratio, modify ■ favor exclusively of corn, potatoes, grass, etc.,
our nationality. The constitutional vigor of and thus hasten on the glorious coming (?) mil
the people determines the physical and moral | lennium ?
condition of our nation. Although we are nu- | By your permission, I would ask a few more
merically strong, yet, comparatively speaking, | questions on this important subject, so vital to
in physical vigor and vital force, we are depio- I the welfare of man immortal.
You claim that all constituted flesh-eaters
rably deficient. It is estimated that fully threefourths of our people are in some way diseased. , were calculated by the wise Creator as scaven
gers to rid the earth of obnoxious offal, and ren
All forms of disease tend to physical degeneracy. I
The average of human life in boasted America der the air more wholesome for the decent por
is scarcely thirty years. Why should it not be tion of animation and man. Now, the Esqui
one century ? One-half of the children born die maux are considered men, and why did God in
before they are five years old. Scarcely one- his goodness consign man to so low an office,
half of tlu' remainder reach manhood or woman- I they being obliged to scavenge, the earth in the
hood. Never was there a time in our nation’s absence of anything else to sustain life ? or are
an exception to Nature s plan?
history when there were more dyspeptics, liver they is fair to presume that ’Mary, the mother of
It
disorders, scrofula, and consumptives, than now. Jesus, was a meat-eater. How do you make
Wherever I go, I see too plainly the evidence of
that compatible
these conditions impressed on those around. ■ her offspring? with the great purity of Christ,
Pale faces, sunken, hollow cheeks, bloodless
And, why
not Christ, the most
extremities, sunken eyes on one hand, or on the ! dipped bread didsop, and divided fishes holy, (who
in
to the mul
other, bloated faces, bloodshot eyes, eczemated : titude,) strike at a prominent root of evil, and by
6kins. Each set of symptoms indicates the his divine precept and example, try to abate the
physical depravity of our people.
sinful practice of flesh-eating ? Or, was he un-
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53
So stands the common human opinion upon
one of the greatest of all the moral and social
questions which agitate the world. It is easy
to see that prejudice and ignorance are at the
bottom of this ridiculous and cliildish estimate
of woman. The young maiden grows to woman’s
estate under the eye of her mother, who still
persists in treating her as a child, and so it is in
the other case. ’The day has gone by when
woman could be speculated upon as merchan
dise, or treated as one of the effects of the house
hold. She has enfranchised herself by her in
telligence, education, and virtue, and holds the
foremost and topmost rank in the modern civ
ilization. Our literature, -which appeals alike
to both sexes ; our newspapers, which are read
by all. educate all. Slowly 'but surely has the
female element come to a great recognition in
these times. We are beginning to ask ourselves
why she who includes within the boundaries of
her own nature so many noble virtues, and half
the intellect of the world, should be held in
subjection, because one strong-minded female
without a tooth in her .head, has put herself
forward to advocate, in a somewhat unwomanly
manner perhaps, the rights of her sex !
We are proud to own that-we claim for woman
all that she can ask or think, in the direction of
Elkader, Iowa, Dec. 28, 1866.
mental, moral, and social freedom. We claim
it as a right, not at all as a privilege, that she
shall have an equal vote with men upon all sub
jects and upon all occasions. We are ashamed
WOMAN’S RIGHTS QUESTION.
of man’s injustice, and astonished also, at the
One would think, to hear the crusty old bach short-sightedness, that he will give a vote to
every ignorant and degraded serf of Ireland and
elors talk of politics, that womankind lias no the other European countries, and deny it to his
rights at all which mankind has any right to own educated and refined mother, wife, and
respect. Woman, according to their estimate
of her, is a mere appendage to man—is here sister.
upon sufferance and ought to be kept well un I If we are to have a manhood suffrage, and
der. They do not quite sanction the ancient I extend its latitudes and longitudes until it take
traditions of her social status, which record her ' in also the refuse of the colored belts of the
as little better than a household drudge, who tropics who may chance to be “ round” at voting
was cuffed and abused at pleasure by the lords time, including the African, who, poor fellow,
paramount of the family : but they think she is is only two generations removed from the bar
by no means entitled to the same rights and barism and fetishism of his native forests, then
privileges which they possess, or so much as a in God’s name let the suffrage be universal, and
tithe of them. What, they ask, has a woman put it into the power of American women to
to do with the great emprises of human thought, save, by their wisdom and fervid patriotism,
or the affairs of society ? Her proper sphere is this great Republic from being swamped like
the household, and her higher right is the right old Rome by the inflooding of the barbarians.
of doing her duty to her husband and her chil We do not expect to see women in Congress
dren. As to her meddling with politics—they during the next dozen years, although far more
laugh that proposition to scorn. Politics are impossible things have happened in the lifetime
for rough, strong men, not for weak, tender of all now living. But this is one of the great
women. What should they know about the questions which has to be met. It is society’s
functions of office, the business of the state, or biggest egg, and she must hatch it. Already,
the diplomacy of governments ? These are mat we are happy to say, this Woman’s Rights ques
ters beyond the reach of her intellect, and which, tion has received the consideration of some of
even were they not so, would unsex her if she our greatest modern thinkers, and they have
lent their sanction to the fact that woman has
interfered with them.
But the climax of all absurdities in their re inalienable rights, and that the right to vote is
gard, is the idea of giving a vote to women. It one of them. She, being born out of the loins
.so completely upsets all their preconceived no of this great Commonwealth, is fully armed and
tions of public and private decorum, that they equipped for service, and can assuredly as well
are driven almost to their wits’ end at the bare be trusted with the destiny of the country which
thought of it. It is not so long ago that woman she loves, as those ignorant foreigners who go
was a mere chattel ; and even to this day both to the polls like oxen to the market, in obedi
the laws of England and the canon of the ence to the whipper-in of their party. Twenty
Church, recognize her only as the property of years will not elapse before this voting phase of
her husband, whom she is sworn to love, honor, the Woman’s Rights question will be brought
before the whole male people for issue, and itj
and obey.
luckily ignorant (?) of its evil effects on the
bodies and morals of men, and thus failed to put
in His holy and timely protest against its use ?
And, how could He remain so pure and good,
while partaking of so pernicious an article of
fo< >d ?
In sickness, you say, allow the patient to eat
whatever he naturally craves; and why make
meat an exception ? Perhaps you would answer
“ the taste is abnormal!” Then why object in
cases of babes ? Here, again, you would assume
the taste inherited ; Very well, follow the mat
ter back, and, pray tell us, where in the world’s
history did the taste begin ? Who knows, per
haps at the “ fall of Adam thus accounting for
our consequent misery. Perhaps these sugges
tions may lead you to solve the mystery of the
“ Fall of Man
if so, you are welcome to
them.
How do you make your Gospel teachings, on
this question, harmonize with the Holy but
flesh-polluted Bible?
Hoping you may, philanthropically, enlighten
my flesh-polluted mind (?) by answering these
questions, I close, and,
With respect, remain,
Your Purifying Scavenger,
J. M. Snedigar.
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
will be carried in the affirmative. Then we may
hope to see a more Christian courtesy in the
conduct of affairs, and a new public morality
and decorum. Woman, who refines and ele
vates whatsoever she touches, will create an at
mosphere of purity around the foul places where
legislators and aidermen most do congregate.
Her beauty will grow into their manners, and
her wisdom into their work ; ^nd with this new
element infused into the executive of the coun
try, we may look for a new development of our
civilization.—The New Republic.
ITEMS FROM ILLINOIS.
I
with those who would rather help me up than
pull me down. Still I rejoice that you have suc
ceeded in securing a territory where the pros
pect is favorable for a much better life, tho’ I
may never participate in it.
“ The Kingdom of God cometh not with obser
vation, but is within you!” How consoling.
Heaven is a condition. The happiest man I ever
saw, was blind and poor. The wisest man I ever
saw, was the most permanently happy. As to
smartness—we are all about alike, we are like
measures of the same size, (pint tin cups if you
please.) The man that is full of party politics,
is not of necessity or generally, full to overflow
ing of a broad and comprehensive philanthro
py. He who is racking his brain to get up a
perpetual motion, is not the most successful agri
culturist. The great mathematician is often a
great fool, (in a horse trade.} “But the mind
expands by culture and education.” Aye, and
like most other things, becomes thinner by the
operation. Education is the father of pedantry,
and the foe to progress. He who fools away his
time in rummaging over the musty thoughts of
the past, to be consistent, ought to live on
“ hash,” and wear his grandfather’s hat.
The more I think of it, the more I regard the
stomach the citadel of life.
Parents, I see many of your children with
sore eyes, and raw, running sores on their
hands and faces, and I hear them complain of
ear-ache, tooth-ache, stomach-ache ; and I see
that they have a pinched, shrivelled, and some
times a flushed face ; and some of the little ones
lay down and moan, refuse to eat or play. Then
you hunt up the pill-box or phial of worm med
icine, or send post haste for the doctor. In this,
or all of these, it seems to me you are unwise.
You had much better do nothing, let the child
CONSISTENCY.
rest, and for mercy’s ■•sake, let its stomach rest,
Consistency, fudge ! If one should practise it
for here is where the trouble lies. Over-eating,
and eating too nutritious or concentrated food, in any community, Jje would be ridiculed as a
are filling the world with disease and premature dolt, and justly too.
Suppose a doctor, after giving his patient a
death.
dose of physic, should order him to mount a mill
CONFIDENTIAL, SUGGESTIVE, AND BUSINESS.
saw lathe, so as to have it well shook up. This
Friend Trail & Co.: I find that accidentally I seems to me both logical and analogical, and
do once in a while write on both sides of a consistency here would be a jewel (in a hog’s
sheet, and am inclined to all the time, and don’t nose) very much out of place. If I advocate a
see why I may not, for you see it is much more more natural life, must I throw off my clothes,
economical, and I believe in economy, in fact, run to the woods, and climb a tree ?
seem to have been compelled to practise it all
Check any evil, as well as any heavy body
my life. The December number of the Gwspel suddenly, while in rapid motion, or under full
has just come to hand, so the suggestions I headway, and the result is more or less destruc
thought of making are impracticable, or rather tive. *
*
*
uncalled for. I am so glad that you are able or
I hardly dare say there is evil in the world,
encouraged to increase the size of the paper. would rather prefer to use such terms as misfor
I like your decision to have it issued as now time and inliarmony, for what seems to me to be
once a month. I would say, do not change it wrong. Tastes differ ; my Heaven would prob
from a monthly, though it might be necessary to ably be somebody’s hell. I would like to live
tncrease it to five times its present size. Cut, with a people who had no coercive laws, no
trimmed, and stitched, no broad, blank margins, domestic brute animals, fowls, insects or rep
or blank leaves, a plain, neat, compact style—is tiles, and of course no fences, barns, yards, pens,
what I like.
or stables, and no prisons, asylums, or churches,
I hope you will be able to stereotype it, for I no distilleries, poor-houses, or court-houses, and
think it will be demanded in coining years.
where all fashions and customs impose no re
COMPROMISES.
straints upon a joyful, free, spontaneous life. I
My life is, and ever has been, only a sort of do not want to live any longer with a people
compromise. How dearly I would like to live who spank their children, fight, pull hair, take
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medicine, wear hoops, paper collars, boot and
shoe heels, or shear and shave.
■ Now, readers, it you know of such a place or
people, do tell us where it or they may be found.
“ There is none”—none in this broad world,
why? Must wranglings, and fightings, and
want, and ignorance, and folly, ever sit en
throned in the hearts of men ?
A friend tells me we could not live without
brute-animal force or power. He says we must
have horses or oxen to do our heavy hauling
and plowing, and that by their use we can have
more life, i. e. more people can and will be gen
erated or created, “and the more life the bet
ter.” But these are only assertions, and I think
facts would not sustain them ; and as to life
being desirable under all conditions, is ques
tionable.
I suppose the uncivilized portions of humanity
are generally not as prolific; but such, I be
lieve, cultivate the earth but little, but subsist
mostly or its spontaneous productions and other
animals.
1 doubt even the economy of brute power. I
believe human beings pay in advance for every
ounce of power or moment of labor they get
out of a brute. True, after we have been the
humble servant for three or four years in rais
ing, breaking, and furnishing harness, etc., for
a horse, he can pull about eight times as much
as one of us; but he can do nothing else—not
even provide his own food, harness or curry
himself—and then we don’t need all this extra
labor.
Suppose he does help us to produce more, we
produce of some things too much now. I some
times think over-production is the great foun
dation stone of evil or inharmony.
All machinery, all power, and all contrivances
that enable any healthy human being to live
without their just and equal proportion of labor,
is a curse to the world. But we must get out
of this evil of brute dependence, gradually, I
suppose, or else we shall encounter obstacles
that will put our faith and patience to their ex
tremist test. For a while I might find it more
convenient—if not absolutely necessary—to ex
change my labor for food, fruits, vegetables, and
grain, and some of my clothing, etc., for that
which had been in some manner raised or cre
ated with the use of brute-animal power, for all
our industries are now in some way, directly or
indirectly, interwoven with them. And still I
see no necessity for their continuance after a
short time. Next spring, I should like to com
mence the culture of the earth with a few or
many associates, using nothing but simple hand
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utensils, aided, it may be, with a few “mechani
cal powers
but these utensils and powers
should be of the best kind. Various forms of
spades and hoes, all made of the right size and
shape, and of polished steel, and kept so; for I
find if all such articles are made and kept in
this way, much more labor can be done in a
given time, and with far greater pleasure too.
If large logs or rocks are to be removed, com
bined human power, aided with wedges, screws,
levers, ropes, and railways, could do it, and
more economically and pleasantly, too, I think.
It is not true that “ man wants but little here
below.” The trouble is he wants too much.
His needs are few and simple. The great de
sideratum is contentment, or a calm acquies
cence in the inevitable. How to attain this
contentment, is an interesting question, and not
so easily communicated, unless one has an or
ganism in harmony with the laws of God or
Nature; and if they have, there is surely no
demand for it.
* * Yes, you must allow me again to insist
upon this general idea. Our highest mission is
not to minister to the sick, give to the poor, or
simply relieve the miseries and wretchedness
around ug. What should we think or say of a
•man who knew of a fallen bridge or a railroad,
when he heard the rumbling of the distant
coming train, should raise no signal to stop it,
but should start off after a load of liniment
and coffins ?
CONFIDENTIAL AGAIN.
I think myself rather smart gifted or talented
in mechanism. Have known, very few, if any,
that excelled me in variety of mechanical pur
suits, including speed and workmanship, and
should like to live where I could be the most
useful in helping get up good tools, implements,
etc., for hand labor, or of making labor easy or
pleasurable. I think, too, I can communicate my
ideas or knowledge of mechanism to others—
rather help give them confidence in their own
abilities. Men like me will no doubt be in de
mand in the “ good time coming,” and perhaps
now in Hygeiana ; but can’t go; am one of the
Moseses, I ’spect—not permitted to enter the
“ Promised Land.”
Hurry up the new Gospel, I want to try and
get more subs.
H. B.
Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely re
venged ; slight it and the work is begun ; forget
it and ’tis finished. He is below himself that
is not above an inj ury.
A CHEERFUL spirit makes labor light and
sleep sweet and all around happy, which is much
better than being only rich.
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while adhering to some one, or ten, or twenty,
or the whole ninety-nine remaining ones, may
XLI.
be strictly professional, but is not so conducive
to the progress of the temperance reformation
ALCOHOLISMUS.
as it is to the pecuniary interests of the profes
Dr. Alonzo Clark teaches the theory and sion, the apothecary, and the rumseller.
practice of medicine in the College of Phys
“ UNHEALTHY PORK.”
icians and Surgeons in the city of New
This caption we copy from the newspapers
York; Williard Parker, M. D., is Professor
of Surgery in the same school. Both gen We do not believe that pork was ever healthful,
tlemen are eminent in their profession, and en nor that domesticated porkers can be any thing
joy a large and lucrative practice. But we have I but a mass of morbid and disease-producing
thought for many years that, hardly a physi matter.
cian could be named who was more sure kill I Trichinosis, measles, scrofula, diphtheria, car
than either of them, in a simple case of fever. buncles, cancers, leprosy, erysipelas, and cholera
We have known many cases of sudden and un morbus, are not sufficient warnings against eat
expected death under their medication, wherein ing that filthy scavenger, the hog, and so sud
we believe, and have reasons as plenty as black den deaths are occasionally credited to the fear
berries for believing, that, but for their treat ful catalogue of consequences. '
Hardly a week in the year passes away
ment, the patients would have recovered with
out difficulty. We say this with no ill-feeling without some account being published of
toward the learned professors. We wish not to deaths resulting from eating swine-flesh
disparage either their integrity or their intel The last account of the kind comes from
ligence. They are scientific, according to the Louisville, Ky.; and the peculiarities of it
system into which they have been educated, and consists in the statement that the mischief
they practise the Healing Art as it has come chief came from “ choice porkers,” from a “ fine
down to them from time immemorial. And if drove” which produced “ splendid hams!” The
their treatment causes the death of their pa Louisville Journal says:
tients, very frequently, the fault is not in the
'■ One of the most prominent and highly-re
physicians but in their system.
spected farmers living in the vicinity of Crab Or
In their clinics of the present college course chard, whose name we did not, unfortunately,
killed
use,
choice
they have spoken very emphatically against the j procure, from a for his family hogs a few he had
porkers
fine drove of
that
prevalent alcoholic medication, especially as it raised, and sent a few neighboring families a
is in whisky. They have even declared the few splendid hams as presents. Nearly every
present mania for administering whiskv to be family to which the pork had been sent, partook
productive of vastly more injury than benefit, of what they supposed were delicious morsels.
Early the following day the members of the sev
and, indeed, a prolific source of intemperance eral families were taken violently ill, with all
among the people, and of death among the sick. the symptoms of cholera. The best medical
A temperance reformer could hardly have taken skill was at once procured, and every exertion
made to relieve rhe sufferers. The patients suf
more radical and ultra ground against -alcohol, fered, we are told, intensely, and by night five
no, against whisky, as a medicine, than have Drs. of the number had died.
“ The wife of the owner of the hogs has died,
Clark and Parker in their clinical instruc
and there are no hopes of his recovery. Several
tions.
others lie in a very critical condition and are not
But we happen to know that both of these likely to survive.
gentlemen have been among the foremost in ad
“ The same day on which the families were at
ministering some kinds of alcoholic liquors (bran tacked, the remainder of the drove of hogs were
seized with
disease, having some
dy, for example) in typhoid fevers, consump thing of the some strangehog cholera, and nearly
character of
tion, and a variety of diseases of low diathesis. | all have died. The occurrence has caused great
And now we are curious to know whether our | excitement in that section of the state, and is
professional brethren of the school which cures likely to extend its influence to others.”
“ Great excitement!” of course ! But will it
the disease by killing the patient, have really
experienced a change of opinion. Have they i not all end in excitement ? Will anybody sug
abandoned brandy as well as condemned i gest that any thing ought to be done about it
whisky ? Grog-medicine exists in a hundred [ except to be excited ? Will any person propose
shapes, and to tickle the ears of the temperance i to discontinue using the foul carcasses—we mean
folks, and make the thoughtless stare by de- I the “ delicious morsels ”—of the infectious
nouncing one form of alcoholic medication, | beasts as food ? Will not the pork interest
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(many millions a year) induce many editors of
numerous newspapers, and diverse agricultural
journals to re-assure their readers that there is
no danger ? And will not medical men again
be found to certify that trichina in the flesh are
the most harmless things imaginable? And,
that, if fifty millions, or fifty thousand million
billions of them are diffused through the head,
heart, liver, lungs, stomach, bowels, kidneys,
muscles, nerves, and blood and bones of the
“ human animal ” nothing at all need be appre
hended ?
That so many who use hog-food freely sicken
and die suddenly of “ acute poisoning,” or rot
away by the slower process of chronic disease,
cannot surprise the true physiologist. He can
only wonder that any body survives the abomi
nable aliment.
ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD AND DRINK.
In a late speech at a reform demonstration
in London, England, Thomas Hughes, M. P.,
«aid, while advocating the extension of the elec
tive franchise, “ Then there is the question of
food and drink. The stories about adulterations
are perfectly true. The food of the people is
abominable.” The poorer classes in England,
as well as in all countries, pay a greater price
for provisions than the rich, while the articles
palmed off upon them are villanously adultera
ted. Few persons who have not fully investigated this subject, can believe to what an enor
mous extent the business of adulterating foods,
drinks, and medicines, is carried. Scarcely a
pure drug can be found at an apothecary-shop.
Nearly all the articles employed as beverages—
tea, coffee, chiccory, chocolate, and the hundred
kinds of alcoholic liquors, are adulterated in va
rious ways ; while a large proportion of the but
ter, cheese, milk, flour, and some other things,
is not far from “ abominable food,” when they
'reach the mouth of the consumer. There is,
however, a very simple and perfectly infallible
remedy for these evils and frauds, and perhaps
some chance reader of the Gospel of Health
may thank us for the suggestion. 1. Take no
medicine. 2. Drink nothing but water. 3. Buy
your materials of food as nature produces them,
and do your own preparing and cooking. We
have followed these rules for a quarter of a cen
tury, and can speak by authority.
sr
altogether too stony for any immediate
fruit. The people are more fixed in their habits
and customs in that country than in this ;
are more conservatively inclined, and are
a quarter of a century behind us on all
the subjects pertaining to Health Reform.
Moreover, they are very disinclined to accept
foreigners as teachers, preferring to be guided
by the advice and opinions of their own coun
trymen who occupy high positions in society, or
great reputation as authors, professors, &c. .
We have no doubt that, in a general sense,
these views are entirely correct. But from a
somewhat extensive correspondence, and a rath
er limited personal observation, we incline to
the opinion that competent lecturers of our
school, could be eminently successful there, at
least in many parts of the Queendom. Among
the middling-classes are many quiet, thinking
men and women, who are unknown to fame as
Health Reformers, for no other reason than be
cause they have, not seen the opportunity to be
useful in that capacity, nor to organize them
selves for co-operative effort. They want a lead
er. They need some one to expound the system
of Hygeio-Therapv in its purity ; some one who
can meet their drug-doctors, cliemico-physiologists, and metaphysical-phvsicits in argument,
and show the fallicies and absurdities of the
prevailing medical system, and the incalculable
benefits to result from its overthrow. We are
of opinion that if either one or half a dozen per
sons we could name, should spend one year in
lecturing in England as opportunity presented,
a large body of Health Reformers would mani
fest themselves, and, probably, establish a Col"
lege of Hygeio-Therapy. Some persons think
that the political agitations of that country so
preoccupy the public mind as to embarrass any
attempt to introduce a new subject for discus
sion. But we think just the contrary. Politi
cal agitation causes the people to think, and
while in the thinking mood, they are the bel
ter prepared for listening to argument ; and
if our system is properly presented, the labor
ing people can hardly fail to see the immense ad
vantages and power its adoption would place in
their hands. It would very soon solve the
vexed question of Labor and Capital by making
the laborer independent.
GREAT BRITAIN NO PLACE FOR REFORMERS.
A gentleman aud his wife, who are graduates
of our school, have recently spent several months
in Great Britain, and bring a discouraging ac
count of the prospect for Health Reformers in
that country. They regard the ground as I
THE WATERS OF VALS.
Some friend in Paris has sent us a small pam.
phlet of 22 pages, with the disproportionately
long title, Memoir Concerning the Acidulous.
Gaseous, Bi-carbonated, Sodaic Waters of Veil :
by Dr. Tourrette. The work is devoted to a
chemical analysis of the waters of the various
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
mineral springs in the Department of the Ar
dèche, and a laudatory and commercial state
ment of their remarkable therapeutic prop
erties. These waters contain, in varying pro
portions, chalk, soda, potash, common salt,
silica, iodine, iron, arsenic, and some other
poisons, with a small proportion of some other
impurities. These are precisely the ingredients
which render water unfit for drinking or cook
ing purposes. Should any one put them in a
neighbor’s well in the same proportions and
quantities in which they are found in “ The
Waters of Vais,” he would almost certainly be
prosecuted for an attempt to kill. But, when the
person is sick he will swallow them in any
quantities his stomach can hold, per advice of
the family physician, and regard it as an attempt
to cure. There are some strange inconsistencies
in this world, and swallowing poisons because
one is sick is one of them.
We quote a specimen of the author’s style :
In the diseases of the digestive organs, gastralgy, dyspepsias, the alkaline mineral water
of Vais impregnates to the digestive mucous
membrane lasting physiological modifications.
Pâtissier, a fellow of the Academy of Medi
cine, traces in a few lines the principal effects :
“ In a healthy state,” he says, “ the water of
Vais, taken as a drink, increases the appetite,
renders digestion easier, regulates the alvine
evacuations, and sometimes produces a pur
gative effect ; the circulation increases, the
skin becomes warmer, there is an unusual
feeling of strength and well-being ; some
glasses of that water are sufficient to ren
der alkaline the sweats and the urine, which
naturally are acid.
“ It has been observed, that .mineral waters,
when well borne by the stomach, stimulate its
vitality, and increase its digestive power. This
influence is especially the property of the gas
eous, alkaline, sodaic, cold waters of Vais.”
Petrequin and Socquet (medical treatise on
mineral waters, a work having obtained a prize
from the Academy) :
“ The influence which the waters of Vais
bear on the digestive organs, as soon as they
are made use of, is most remarkable, and their
effects are so soon felt that it might be said,
without exaggeration, that they present some
thing marvellous.”
This is good advertising, but bad grammar,
and worse logic.
In the “ healthy state,” the appetite should
not be increased. To alter a healthy appetite is
to render it unhealthy—morbid. And, again, in
the healthy state, the digestion is always per
fectly easy, and the alvine evacuations regular.
How can that which is perfectly easy be made
easier? and why should regular evacuations
be regulated ? With all due deference to the
distinguished savans of the French Academy,
we must dispose of their euphonious lingo by
applying to it the uneuphonious epithet—
fudge!
VEGETARIAN
FESTIVAL
LAND.
IN
ENG
Our English exchanges contain an account of *
a festival on vegetarian principles. Says one of
them :
A rather remarkable festival was held at
Blennerhasset, England, on Christmas Day, upon
the farm of Mr. William Lawson. The farm is
conducted upon the co-operative principle—a
tithe of the profits being divided among the
workers, and Mr. Wm. Lawson and his servants
are vegetarians. All the people of the district
who chose to write beforehand for free tickets,
or to pay 4d. on Christmas Day, were invited.
Musicians were requested to take their instru
ments with them, and it was added “ those who
like may bring their own spoons.” About 1,000
people attended. The farm buildings were dec
orated, and in the large rooms, singing and
dancing, and lecturing on phrenology, co-opera
tion, vegetarianism, and physiology, went for
ward at intervals during the day. At noon a
meal of grain, fruit, and vegetables was given,
which rather surprised some of the beef-eating
peasantry, who had assembled to take part in
the festival. There were raw turnips, boiled
cabbages, boiled wheat, boiled barley, shelled
peas, (half a ton of each of these three lastnamed :) oatmeal gruel, with chopped carrots,
turnips, and cabbage in it; boiled horse beans,
boiled potatoes, salads, made of chopped carrots,
turnips, cabbages, parsley, &c., over which was
poured linseed boiled to a jelly. As there were
no condiments of any kind, either upon the ex
traordinary messes, or the table, and all beingcold except the potatoes, it may be imagined
that the guests did not sit down with much rel
ish to their vegetarian fare. Each one had an
apple and a biscuit presented on rising from the
table. Good order was maintained all day, the
farm-servants of the establishment acting as
officers, and Mr. W. Lawson himself performing ■
the duty of special constable, a fact which was
announced by placards posted up on the farm
buildings, bearing the words, “ W illiam Lawson,
sworn constable.”
The Tomb of Semiramis.—It is said that
Semiramis directed the following inscription to
be placed upon her tomb : “ If any king stand
in need of money, let him break open this mom
ument.” On reading this Darius ransacked the
tomb, and found inscribed the following rebuke ;
“If thou hadst not been insatiably covetous, thou
wouldst not have invaded the sacred mansion
of the dead.” He retired with shame and dis
appointment, as will every one who is guilty of a
dishonorable action.
NATURE.
Read nature ; nature is a friend to truth ;
Nature is Christian ; preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed.
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Agricultural gqmrtmort.
POMOLOGY IN HYCEIANA.
BY E. YODER, M. D.
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in hermetrically sealed cans and jars, for winter
use, and for exportation, than was used for all
purposes, green and dried, ten years ago. And
yet millions of people use it only as a luxury,
not aware of the fact, that human life can be
sustained in its best conditions by making fruit
the staple, if not the sole article of diet.
THE COST OF CULTIVATION.
Settlers in a new “ colony ” intending to
engage in fruit culture, can not over-estimate
the importance of planting largely and atten
tively cultivating small fruits.
The standard fruits, apples, pears, peaches,
cherries, etc., require more time to complete
their growth before bearing fruit; and hence
to persons who need quick returns for small
outlays of capital, are less profitable and incur
greater risks than small fruits.
The expense of raising and marketing of
strawberries, does not ordinarily exceed five cents
per quart. Canning establishments can afford
to pay from ten to fifteen cents per quart.
Therefore settlers in “ Hygeiana ” need not fear
over-stocking the market, even if an acre of
strawberries were planted on each ten acre farm.
A CANNING FACTORY
should be built by the settlers of “ Hygeiana.”
They should organize a joint-stock company,
STRAWBERRIES.
so that the handsome profits realized by can
When well planted and properly cared for, ning establishments would be kept in the hands
strawberries yield a full crop the second season of the fruit-growers, to whom it justly belongs.
of their growth.
FIVE ACRES ENOUGH.
MANNER OF CULTIVATION.
Five acres of land are enough for a family of
Any person who is familiar with the cultiva five persons, if planted to fruit in the following
tion of Indian corn can easily manage strawber order, thus giving the first necessary requisite.
ries. This remark applies equally to the culti
A FIVE-ACRE SYSTEM.
vation of all kinds of fruit.
Prepare the ground as for corn, d’lant in rows
One acre planted to Strawberries,
U li
“
“ Raspberries,
four feet apart, and set the plants 15 inches
Il
Ct
“
“ Blackberries,
apart in the rows. Be careful in planting to give
Cl
CC
“
“ Grapes,
the roots their natural position, (instead of being
crowded into a little hole). Keep free of runners, leaving one acre fol buildings, ornament
except where you wish to propagate plants, and grounds, roads and a grove.
there remove all blossoms and fruit. Cultivate
RASPBERRIES.
thoroughly between the rows and irrigate freely.
The common black cap is the safest, and has
ROW TO PROCURE PLANTS.
the advantage over other varieties in bearing
Obtain plants only of reliable dealers, and transportation better.
Plant them eight feet apart. This will give
avoid all new, untried and consequently high
priced varieties. Do not under any circumstances room between the rows for one row of beans,
take, even as a gift, unknown varieties ; labor, potatoes, cabbages, or other vegetables ; thus
time, and the opportunity to produce good crops, securing thorough cultivation, so essential to
with good plants, are thus lost, and strawberry the production of good fruit.
Dig holes a» foot deep and fifteen inches in
culture called a failure.
diameter. Place six inches of leafmould, or
THE “ WILSON.”
muck, in the bottom of the hole ; fill up with
Of the different varieties, none give better fine loam and cover the roots of the young
satisfaction than that known as the “Wilson’s plants about two inches. Spring planting is
Albany.” The “ Russell” strawberry described best.
in the July number of the Gospel of Health,
BLACKBERRIES.
is perhaps larger in size, and under the manage
The
or
Dor
ment of experienced pomologists, may yield chesterLawton,bestNew Rochelle, and thebeing
are the
varieties. The latter
larger crops, but for amateurs, (and for this class the earliest and sweetest, but not so prolific a
I write,) the “ Wilson ” will prove more profit bearer nor so large in size.
able, because it will flourish under all kinds of
Plant four by eight
but
treatment, better than any other variety. It is four to grow in each hill.feet apart. Allowprop
If you wish to
the best for marketing because it is solid, and agate plants, appropriate a part of your land
beats transporting a long distance.
excep
At Hammondton and Vineland, N. J., this exclusively to that purpose, and, with the ” keep
of a single row of
“ hoed crops,
variety is so decidedly preferred, that fruit tion remainder as cleansome corn-field. Cultiva
growers in these places have almost entirely ' the is equal to a thickas a
tion
coating of “vegetable
discarded all other varieties.
not always
obtained.
Fruit-growers in southern Illinois, say, when ' rubbish,” which can number of thebeospel con
The September (1866)
G
speaking of strawberries: “we mean Wilson’s tains appropriate hints on shortening in, which
every time." So hardy are they that they send I will not repeat.
them to Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburg, and even
GRAPES.
to New York city.
Grapes will prove among the most profit
THE DEMAND FOR FRUIT
able of all fruits for cultivation in our new “ El
is steadily increasing. More fruit is now put up 1 dorado but, one acre will be enough in con-
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nection with the plan above specified, which has
been found to give such an admirable succes
sion of employment as well as fruit. The vari
ety which is best under all circumstances is thus
expressed by an experienced grape-grower in
Vineland, N. J. He says, “ If I were to plant a
thousand grape-vines, I would first plant five
hundred of the Concord variety ; 2. I would
plant four hundred Concord grape-vines; 3.
Seventy-five Concords ; 4. Twenty-five Concords,
and, to make up the thousand, I would plant
one good Concord.
Much has been written about trenching for
grapes, until many people actually believe that
to produce grapes deep trenches must be dug ;
these filled with bones, stones, old-leather, and
rubbish generally. This method would neces
sitate an expense of from $1,000 to $1,200 per
acre. But there is a better as well as cheaper
way. Plant the grape-stocks as you would a
young fruit tree, eight by twelve feet apart;
having first cleared the ground and prepared it
as for corn. To insure thorough cultivation,
plant melons, vegetables, or some other * ‘ hoed
crops” between the rows, but not so near, how
ever, as to prevent the free use of the cultivator
every two weeks next the rows ; thus keep the
surface in as good condition the entire season as is
required to make corn grow, and you will not be
troubled with the worms, bugs, and caterpillars,
whose homes are on neglected farms, and who
flourish by reason of the luxuriant growth of
weeds, found too often in vine-yards. Without
thorough cultivation the farmer would not ex
pect to be successful in corn-culture ; but many
who attempt fruit-culture seem to think plant
ing should suffice, and are ready to denounce
grape-raising as a failure, and fruit-growing gen
erally as a humbug, when they are simply get
ting nothing for doing nothing.
VV hen we consider the fact that from $300 to
$700 per acre is realized by fruit-culture, we cer
tainly owe the soil and the plants which pro
duce such results, proper cultivation and care.
•
STANDARD FRUITS.
can be planted among small fruits in the follow
ing order:
Among Blackberries, plant apple-trees, 30 ft.
by 30 feet.
Among Raspberries, plant pear-trees, 25 feet by
25 feet.
Among Strawberries, plant peach-trees, 18 feet
by 18 feet.
Cherries, plums, apricots, nectarines, and all
fancy fruits, with evergreens and flowers, find
their places in the ornamental grounds around
dwellings.
MANURING.
“ Fertilizing” with stable-manure is perni
cious. It impairs the quality of the fruit, and
produces insects, which destroy both trees and
fruit. Eternal vigilance is required, especially
in new settlements, to protect fruit from the
depredations of insects, without adding to their
opportunities to multiply their numbers.
The “ virgin soil ” of “ Hygeiana ” contains
all the elements necessary to the production of
all the fruits in perfection.
Thorough stirring is the secret of success. Ir
rigation and cultivation will enrich even the
most sterling desert on the globe.
THE PLAN OF PLANTING.
This should be such as to give rows extend
ing lengthwise through the entire lot. If less
than an acre of each of the fruits we have men
tioned be planted, the same general plan can be
adopted, extending the rows in the direction of
the land which is to be planted next, giving an
opportunity to extend the rows. Thus econo
mizing the horse-labor required in cultivation.
SOCIAL REORGANIZATION.
The leading problem in Sociology—the re
organization of society on its natural and only
practical basis—is well stated by Francis G.
Abbott in the Radical:
Now the great problem of sociology is the
right adjustment of the relations between the
unit and the aggregate, the part and the whole,
the individual and society. Neither war accord
ing to Hobbes, nor savage isolation, according to
Rousseau, is “ the state of nature,” but, these
being excluded, only one alternative remains,
and that is co-operation. The state of nature is
mutual co-operation, which is the Christian ideal
of society. But co-operation implies a common
end for which all co-operate; and what is that ’?
This is a most important question, and the an
swer to it will effect essentially the character of
every voluntary organization into which men
enter.
The ideal end of society is accomplished in the
highest possible development of all its individual
members, according to the law of their natural
individualities. The individual cannot develop
in isolation, independently of social helps ; and
that is the sufficient answer to the advocate of
pure individualism. From birth to death men
are dependent on each other in countless ways;
there is no such thing as human independence,
except in a very Pickwickian sense. The com
pletes! possible education of all its individuals,
their most perfect development in all directions,
is the grand end and function of society. This
end attained, the highest welfare of all is se
cured in the highest welfare of each. It is the
duty of society to propose this end ; it is the duty
of the individual to co-operate in achieving it.
Society defeats its own end if it violates the
individuality of any one of its members ; the
individual defeats at once his own end, and the
end of society, if he refuses to co-operate with
his fellows. The prosperity of a state depends
on commerce, in a higher sense of that word
than the common one. The free commerce of
intellectual, moral, and religious influences, the
unstinted interchange of ennobling ideas, senti
ments and social helps of every kind, is the verv
condition of true social progress ; and all this is
co-operation, mutual giving and taking, practi
cal outcome and income of all that is best in
humanity. In no other way than by this per
petual co-operation of each with all, can society
attain its ideal end.
How clear, then, is the duty of society to
respect to the uttermost the liberty of the indi
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vidual! The good of society is at once sacrificed I organization which represses individuality, but
oy any restriction on the individual’s free activ ! only in favor of organization which shall develop
ity, whether of body or mind. How clear, on it. Disorganization is simply anarchy, social
the other hand, is the duty of the individual to [ death. Scrutinize, therefore, the fundamental
work heartily for the welfare of society ! His principles of social organizations as severely as
own highest good, in which that of society is you will; but do not defeat your own end by
also involved, is sacrificed by a selfish refusal to destroying what you seek to reform. Let every
bear his part of the common burden. Private new organization be helped and encouraged
culture and public usefulness are thus recipro which shall tend to accomplish the genuine
cally ends and means; the highest individual object of all organization: namely, the higher
culture is impossible unless dedicated to public development of the individual. That is the
uses, and the highest usefulness to society is touchstone, the test of all beneficial organization.
impossible, except through the most perfect Individual development need not be the direct
culture of the individual. This mutual exist object proposed ; but if it is not the ultimate
ence of the individual for society, and of society object attained, if it is in any way, shape, or
for the individual, constitutes the human race a manner interfered with, then the organization,
single organism, which the immortal Kant de no matter how dazzling its professions, or phil
fines as " that in which the whole and the parts anthropic its intentions, obstructs the genuine
are mutually means and ends.” The more highly progress of society, and should either be re
society becomes thus organized, the richer, freer, formed or abolished. If reform is impossible,
and grander, is each individual life. Let society there is no remedy but abolition.
and the individual be faithful in the perform
ance of these reciprocal duties, and the greatest
THE TEMPERANCE FAILURE.
of human triumphs is achieved—liberty in union,
the unimpeded evolution of every soul accord
ing to the Divine ideal implanted in it, and the
It is refreshing to read, among the intermin
harmonious working of all souls for the highest
good of each. Is not this the true idea of the able nonsense on this subject, a writer on tem
perance who can see to the root of the matter.
kingdom of God ?
It seems quite unwise, then, to object to The majority of temperance writers and speakers
organization per se,-or to hold that it naturally ! are directing all their efforts in mitigating the
and inevitably tends to evil; for social progress evils of intemperance, while a moiety of the
manifestly consists in perpetual movement to
ward a profounder organic integration of the money, time, and brains, expended in the right
whole, and a higher spiritual differentiation of direction would rid the earth of the curse en
the parts. There is nothing antagonistic in j tirely. The Church Union has a pertinent
these two ends; on the contrary, the attain- ; article which concludes with the following para
mentof one depends directly on the attainment I
of the other. The most highly organized plants graph :
and animals are precisely those in which the ■ “ It was found one thing to stop the sale of
individual organs are most dissimilar. To hold rum, but quite another thing to stop the drink
back, therefore, in jealousy of organization as ing of it; very soon no one was found willing to
such, from the great social duty of co-operation i prosecute under the act, when of course it
for human welfare, is to distrust the nature of ' became a dead letter, and to sum up the matter
things and the wisdom of God’s cosmical laws— i in a word—in the whole history of the enter
which is the worst kind of skepticism. Organ- j prise, temperance men never had so much law,
izations crystallize around all great ideas, and and drunkards never had so much liquor, as at
every great idea creates its own appropriate . this present time. This result might have been
form of organization. If a vitally powerful idea ; expected. The Maine Law went on the princi
gets hold of men’s minds, it will organize them [ ple that the evil came from the traffic, but it is
almost in spite of themselves ; it will bring them I just the other way, the traffic comes from the
together as inevitably as the force of gravitation I evil. Intemperance does not come from the
brings together the tiny streams, trickling down tippling-shop, it comes from the heart; it is
the mountain’s sides, into the larger stream of found everywhere. Notv having stated the
the valley. There is no use in fighting against cause of failure, let us at some future time apply
nature. If men keep apart, it is because they the remedy.”
have no common purpose or principle to unite
We are anxious to see the “ remedy ” which
them; continued separation is a verdict pro the writer proposes to indicate. We confess
nounced against their principles—“guilty of
our fears that it will be another compromise
worthlessness in the first degree.”
Least of all should the liberal preacher of to after all. Intemperance certainly comes from
day look askance on organization. For what is morbid appetency—in one sense, “ the heart.”
he preaching? Clearly for reform—political,
social, religious. But he who works for reform, But what is the cause of the morbid appe
must first believe in form, and form is organiza tite? To this cause the remedy should be
tion. The modern prophet of humanity aims applied, or it will never be successful.
not to disorganize society, (though often falsely
accused of that,) but only to re-organize it, on
the basis of love, righteousness, and truth. He
Great men direct the events of their time ;
can only aim to correct the wrong basis of pres wise men take advantage of them ; weak men
ent organization; he protests against every are carried along in their current.
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HYCEIANA
THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
AGRICULTURAL
LEGE.
COL
One of the institutions that we desire to see
in operation at the earliest practical moment, is
a school where children of both seXes—old or
young—can he taught the most important of all
human avocations, that of tilling the soil. How
earnest we are in this matter may be learned
from our advertising department, wherein we
offer to donate fifty acres of land in Hygeiana,
to any competent person who will purchase as
many acres more, and devote the whole to the
purposes of an agricultural school. The better
plan would be, of course, to combine it with a
general educational institution, where the ordi
nary branches of a college course, as well as all
the branches of the primary school, are taught
in connection with manual labor. The writers
in our educational magazines do not agree re
specting the propriety of connecting the study
of agriculture with a regular college course. A
writer in the American Agriculturist presents
one side of the subject thus :
“ It is a noteworthy fact, that agricultural
colleges and schools, as thus far organized and
conducted in this country, have, with a single
exception, perhaps, proved practical failures.
Students in law schools become lawyers, medi
cal students become physicians, and so on, but
the students in our agricultural schools do not
distinguish themselves as farmers, and time
enough has passed for them to have done so if
they would. How is this to be accounted for ?
We may not be able fully to explain it, but may
point out some of the defects in the plans of the
institutions thus far established.
“ It is a mistake to make an agricultural school
a school also for general education. Our com
mon schools and academies teach the rudiments
of geography, grammar, arithmetic, &c.; why
burden an agricultural school with these ele
mentary and common branches? They cannot
teach them any better or more economically
than is now already done elsewhere, and it only
wastes time and clogs the working of the pro
fessional school to bring them into their courses
of study. It not only takes up the time which
should be devoted to studies strictly profession
al, but it lowers the standard of attainment. It
tends to make a young man’s education super
ficial, and hurries him into practical life at too
early an age. The growing tendency in our
country to shorten the period devoted to
education, is hurtful, and should be resisted.
As the country grows older, the tendency should
be in the other direction.
“ Again, it is a mistake to connect the study of
agriculture with a regular classical college, and
make it a part of a course of general and classi
cal education. This' would tend to divert the
mind too much from the regular studies. If a
young man who intends to be a doctor, should
have the science of medicine taught him in the
midst of his college course, he would be very
apt to neglect the other studies and give his
chief thoughts to medicine. It might, in some
cases, be wise to have an agricultural school in
the same town with the classical college, but
they should be separate institutions. In this re
spect, they should be organized just as our exist
ing schools of medicine, law, theology, and prac
tical science, are—separate and independent.
“ It is a mistake, also, to make an agricultural
school a manual-labor school. The student in
any and every department of knowledge should
have daily exercise in the open air for the pres
ervation of his health. But his exercise should
partake of the nature of recreation, not labor.
No man can well carry on two kinds of work
at once: it may be either brain-work or muscle
work, but not both in the same day. If he toils
with hands the largest part of each day, his
reading, during his hours of rest, should not be
of the nature of study. If he toils with his
head the largest part of every day, he should,
for the remainder, seek some kind of diversion,
amusement, not additional labor of any sort.
For all kinds of labor exhaust vitality. ‘ All
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’ ”
To this very superficial and most unphiloso.
phical argument we may oppose all the teach
ings of physiology and a thousand lessons of
experience. A vast majority of the men who
have been truly and originally great in the
world, were in some way laborers when they
were students. It is not true that “ all kinds of
labor exhaust vitality.” It is only excessive la
bor that does it. A certain amount of ^exercise
is essential, not only to the development of an
organic structure, but also to the preservation of
its health. If the brain organs are fatigued,
they can be restored while the muscles are ex
ercised, and vice versa. We are of the opinion
that boys and girls, or men and women, will
make better progress in classical studies by
working several hours in each day. It is stated
that, at the Michigan Agricultural College the
boys all work three hours a day, and those who
are reported by the farmer as the best in the
field, are uniformly the best scholars.
Foreign Beds.—It is curious to notice the
habits of different nations in regard to beds.
However dress, food, manners, cooking, political
conditions may vary in other countries, the beds
differ as notably as anything does. In Eastern
nations the bed is often nothing but a carpet,
and is carried about and spread in any convenient
spot, and the tired native lies down in his clothes.
We remember a child who used to be puzzled
with those miracles of -our Saviour, who, in re
storing an impotent man, directed him to take
up his bed and walk—his idea of a bed consisting
in a four-post bedstead, with its palliasse, mat
tress and feather-bed, besides blankets, sheets,
and pillows. But even in very cold countries
the beds are closely allied to the Eastern carpet.
In taking a furnished house in Russia, on inquir
ing for the servant’s bed-rooms and beds, which
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did not appear in the inventory on our surveying
the apartments, it comes out that the Russian
servants are in the habit of lying anywhere—
in the passages, on the floors, on the mats at the
room door, or even on the carpets in the sitting
rooms—generally as near as possible to the
stoves in the winter season. The emperor
himself sleeps on a leathern sofa, in a sitting
room, lying down in a dressing-gown, but not
removing his under-clothing. But in Russia
the houses are kept so warm by the system of
stoves through the walls that much bed cover
ing is no more required in winter than during
the heats of summer. In Germany, the con
struction of the beds gives one the impression
that the Germans do not know what it is to lie
down. The bedstead is a short, wooden case,
there is a mattress extending from head to foot,
but so formed that at the half-way the upper end
is made to slope at an angle of considerable ele
vation, and upon this are two enormous down
pillows, which reach from the head of the bed to
the half-way down to the feet; consequently the
occupant of the bed lies at an angle of at least
forty-five degrees, and is nearly in a sitting posi
tion all night. In some parts of Germany there
are no blankets ; there is a sheet to lie on, and
another over it, which is tacked to a quilt wad
ded with down ; and this is the entire covering,
with the exception of a sort of bed, a thick,
eider-down quilt, but not quilted, which is placed
on the top, and which, unless the sleeper is very
quiet in,his sleep, is usually found on the floor
in the morning. In hot weather there is no
medium ; either a sheet is the only covering, or
one of these over-warm eider-downs.—[All the
Year Rbund.
A PREMIUM FOR CRIME.
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government. The proposition of Commissioner
•Wellsis simply offering a premium on crime;
and we are glad that a few of the newspapers of
our country are intelligent enough to understand
it, in this light, and honest enough to express
their thoughts in words. The New Republic
well says:
The reasons for the proposed reduction of
the tax are 1st, the ratio of taxation to cost, and
2d, to promote morals.
We insist that the taxation should bear a
ratio to the profits of an article, rather than to
the cost of its manufacture, and it is a wellknown fact, that on every gallon of whisky
there remains a net profit to the trade, of from
$3 to $15 per gallon. In other words, the $2
tax per gallon can be paid, and leave a mean
net gain to the trade of at least $5 per gallon.
This comes from the consumer, a reduction of
tax would be only so much additional gain to the
trade, the cost to the consumer would remain
the same.
Instead of adjusting the ratio of taxation to
the cost of an article, equity requires it to be
adjusted to the profits, and in the whisky trade,
the cost becomes almost 000 compared with the
profit—it is almost all profit. If a man clears
$8 a gallon on whisky, why should he not pay
$2 to the government ? Rather, we say, pay
$5 to the government, for even then his profits
would exceed those of almost every other busi
ness.
But the “ improvement of morals ” to be
secured is a suggestion worthy of the “ Forty
Thieves! ” The distillers are styled “ dishonest,”
they defraud the government, therefore a ‘‘limit
has been reached.” To prevent fraud and dis•honesty, yield to the demands of these dishonest
men, although the deficit must be ‘‘wrung from
the hard earnings of labor! ” Here’s a Daniel
come to j udgment. Here is a sovereign balm
for burglary, and crime of every hue—take off
the tax! Ten years in the penitentiary is too
high a tax on horse-stealing, reduce the tax to
one year! The scaffold is too high a tax on
murder, reduce it to a fine of $11)0 ! I The ques
tion is thus: Is the ratio of tax to profit too
high? Manifestly not. Then enforce the law!
When was the Rum power honest? Under
Washington, they refused to pay the tax im
posed, and raised the standard of revolt. What
was Washington’s remedy to “benefit the mor
als ” of these people? An army of 16,000, each
with a persuasive musket, the logic of which
they saw the force of, and submitted. The
government should legislate in this matter, as
for burglars and thieves. The whole business
begins, progresses, and ends in robbery and
perjury. To succumb to this wicked monopoly
is infinitely worse, than to have yielded to all
the demands of the Confederacy. We respect
fully commend to our Commissioner a study of
the old adage “ The bird that can sing and will
not sing, must be made to sing!” Surrender
to thieves, never!
The whisky makers, having succeeded in
defrauding the Government out of $53,000,000,
Mr. Commissioner Wells proposes to reduce the
tax to the degree that the whisky lords will be
pleased to condescend to pay, with the ulterior
view, probably, of inducing those who amass
wealth in ¿he ruin of their fellow-beings, to
become honest dealers. We are not in favor
of licensing either the manufacture or sale of
intoxicating drinks, nor even of tolerating them.
But the public mind is not yet educated up to
the moral point of distinguishing between prop
erty and poison, nor of understanding that all
vocations which are pernicious to society, are
criminal in the sight of God and all true men.
Hence we must do the best we can in mitigating
the evil of that which the law and public sen
timent permit, and in keeping the fiends in
human form, as near the line of honesty as is
compatible with a dishonest calling. But we
protest, in the name of all that is decent in
morals, or respectable in legislation, against
An editor says the only reason why his house
allowing the makers and traffickers in the drunk was not blown away during this late gale, was
ard’s drink to be above law, and to control the because there was a heavy mortgage upon it.
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the; gospel of health.
moral and intellectual world, to be measured by
the literary retailers, and the literary yard-sticks
In the Galaxy for the present month is a ' of our ordinary or average life.”
biographical notice, by Eugenia Benson, of that ■
remarkable and gifted woman, Madame Du[For the Gospel of Health ]
devant, better known in the literary world by
the nom-de-plume of George Sand. The follow NEW YEAR ON HYGIENIC PRINCI
PLES.
ing account of her prodigious labors and the
expansive scope of her genius will interest our
Dear Dr. Trall.—Would your readers like
readers. Is not such a woman entitled to the I to hear how Hygienic New-Yorkers can cele
elective franchise?
brate the first day of the year ? I am sure they
“George Sand has given forth an amazing would, so will give you a short account of “ our
quantity of literary work, and she is at the pres New Year’s.” are aware that some 20 or more of
Perhaps you
ent time either contributing to the ‘ Revue des your students are rooming in one house, corner
Deux Mondes’ or writing a play for the stage, j of 7th avenue and 53d street ; a fine airy place,
It would be impossible for me to enumerate all | only a few blocks from Central Park. A fun
loving class as
her works, still less to analyze them, for I do i life. Well, we well as living earnest workers in
thought to .celebrate the bright
not know them, nor are they accessible to me. new year, with a Hygienic dinner, and a “ good
I propose to express the character, to give the i time” after it, in the rooms of Mr. Stockwell,
drift of, to analyze as I may, certain leading one of the students, who has a wife and baby to
pleasant while
works, which, by common consent, best express make his home hours happy and under Hygeia’s
he is ea rnestly seeking knowledge
the scope and meaning of her prodigious literary own tutelage. New year's morning dawned
activity.
beautiful and sunny. Smiling faces were in
“ George Sand could not be silent; she is the [ each room preparing something for the grand
dinner.
voice of her age ; through her, not France alone, | Those of us 'who eat only one meal per day
but Europe, has spoken. With the people rest omitted our breakfast, and gratified our alimenless, the old order of society broken up, laws, tiveness, in exercising our ingenuity in getting
theologies and creeds from obsolete conditions j up goodies, or something more substantial for
the table that “ Was to be.”
of life and thought—the whole moral and in
Two o’clock, the dinner hour, came, and the
tellectual world detached from the sixteenth ! company assembled, nor do I believe that a
and seventeenth centuries by the disorders and more tasteful or inviting table was spread,
assaults of the eighteenth, yet, restless to reform neither a brighter, happier company assembled
in New York, on that day. Vegetables, pud
itself on an industrial basis, in consonance with J dings, pies, fruits, appeared in many and various
universal benevolence and in accordance with forms. Yet nothing that would not nourish
the Christian idea—it has been the work of the body was to be found there. Every one ate
Madame George Sand to make known all this ; with a relish ; the best feeling prevailed, each
thought more of the comfort and happiness of
she has sought to express the spiritual and others than of his or her own.
moral needs of her age, to unmask established
The dinner passed off to the gratification of
forms of injustice, to expose the pretensions of all concerned. In the evening the company
customs derived from an old and different order assembled again, and spent the time in recita
tions of poetry, speeches, plays, etc., retiring at
of society, to weaken social bonds that retard i an early hour, feeling the better prepared for
aid often paralyze the best impulses, and de life’s work, for the short period of relaxation.
Hoping that ere many years roll around, there
stroy the free activity of men. It was for this
that George Sand, artist in her genius and in i ■will be many Hygienic dinners in answer to your
earnest, hopeful efforts, I am,
her instincts has been the conscience, the moral
Most truly, yours,
“ K.”
sense, and the intellectual protest of her time ;
New York, Jan. 1, 1S67.
it was for this that she has been forced to pro
duce such an amazing quantity of work, as from
“ Do you eat well ? ” asked one of our modern
an inexhaustible source ; it was for this that she
has been animated by a genius at once artistic pill-venders, who was in the process of manu
facturing a patient.
and moral, at once unrestrained and self-pos
“Yes, very well.”
sessed. Madame George Sand, who has shocked
“ Do vou sleep well ?”
“ Yes.”
moral people in England, America, and France,
“ Eh ? you do, eh ? That’s not exactly the
is among French writers an example of purity
thing for one in your condition. I’ll do away
and nobleness. But she is altogether too grand with that for you. Take four of these every
and impassioned a type of woman, too compre morning, and four after dinner. You’ll soon
hensive in her mind, covers too much of the see a change! ”
A “ STRONG-MINDED ” WOMAN.
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SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN.
ADDRESS OF ELIZABETH
CADY STANTON IN
BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS
ASSOCIATION TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.
Gentlemen of the Judiciary : I appear before
you at this time to urge on you the justice of
securing to all the people of the state the right
to vote for delegates to the coining Constitutional
Convention. The discussion of this right in
volves the consideration of the whole question
of suffrage, and especially those sections of your
Constitution which interpose insurmountable
qualifications to its exercise. As representatives
of the people, your right to regulate all that
pertains to the coming Constitutional Conven
tion is absolute. It is for you to say when and
where that convention shall be held, how many
delegates shall be chosen and what classes
shall be represented. This is your right. The
actions of the Legislatures of 1801 and 1821,
furnish you a precedent for extending to dis
franchised classes the right to vote for delegates
to a Constitutional Convention. Before those
conventions were called the right of suffrage
was restricted to every male inhabitant who
possessed a freehold to the value of £20, or
rented a tenement at the yearly value of 40
shillings, and had been rated and actually paid
taxes to the state ; and yet the Legislature of
those years passed laws setting aside all prop
erty limitations, and providing that all men,
black and white, rich and poor, should vote for
delegates to said conventions. See Session Laws
of 1801, page 190, chapter 69, section 2 : also,
those of 1821, page 83, act 90, sections 1 and 6.
The Constitutional Convention of Rhode Island,
in 1842, affords another precedent of the power
of the Legislature to extend the suffrage to dis
franchised classes. The disfranchisement of
any class of citizens is in express violation of
the spirit of our own Constitution, which says,
art. 1, section 1 : “ No member of this state shall
be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights
or privileges secured to any citizen thereof,
unless by the law of the land and the judgment
of his peers.” Now women, and negroes not
worth $250, however weak and insignificant, are
surely “members of the state.” “The law of
the land” is equality. The question of disfran
chisement has never been submitted to the j udgment of their peers. A peer is an equal. The
“ white male citizen ” who so pompously parades
himself in all our codes and constitutions, does
not recognize women and negroes as his equals,
therefore his judgment in their case amounts to
nothing ; and women and negroes constituting
three-fifths of the people of the state, do not
recognize this “ white male” minority as their
rightful rulers. On our republican theory that
the majority governs, women and negroes must
have a voice in the government of the state ;
and being taxed should be represented. “White
males ” are the nobility of this country. They are
the privileged order, who have legislated us unj ustly for women and negroes as have the nobles
of England for their disfranchised classes. The
existence of the English House of Commons is a
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strong fact to prove that one class cannot legislate
for another. Perhaps it may be necessary, in this
transition period of our civilization, to create a
Lower House for women and negroes, lest the
dreadful example of Massachusetts should be
repeated here, and black men take their places
beside our Dutch nobility in the councils of the
state. If the history of England has proved
that white men of different grades cannot legis
late with justice for one another, how can you,
honorable gentlemen, legislate for women and
negroes, whom, by your customs, creeds and
codes and common consent, are placed under
the ban of inferiority? If you dislike this view
of the case, and claim that woman is your supe
rior, and therefore you place her above al]
troublesome legislation, to shield her by your
protecting care from the rough winds of life, I
have simply to say your statute-books are a sad
commentary on this position. Your laws degrade
rather than exalt woman ; your customs cripple,
rather than free ; your system of taxation is
alike ungenerous and unjust. In demanding
suffrage for the black man of the South, the
dominant party recognizes the fact that, as a
freedman, he is no longer a part of the family,
therefore his master is no longer his representa
tive ; and as he will now be liable to taxation,
he must also have representation. Woman, on
the contrary, has never been such a part of the
family as to escape taxation. Although there
has been no formal proclamation giving her an
individual existence, unmarried women have
always had the right to property and wages, to
make contracts and do business in their own
name. And even married women, by recent
legislation in this state, have been secured in
some civil rights. At least as 'well secured as
those classes can be who do not hold the ballot
in their own hands. Woman now holds a vast
amount of property in the country and pays her
full proportion of taxes, revenue included; on
what principle, then, do you deny her represen
tation ? If you say women are “ virtually rep
resented ” by the men of their household, I give
you Senator Sumner’s denial in his great speech
on Equal Rights in the XXXIXth Congress.
Quoting from James Otis, he says: “No such
phrase as virtual representation was known in
law or constitution. It is altogether a subtlety
and illusion, wholly unfounded and absurd.
We must not be cheated by any such phantom
or any other fiction of the law or politics, or any
monkish trick or deceit or hypocrisy.” In re
gard to taxation without representation, Lord
Coke says: “The supreme power cannot take’
from any man any part of his property without
his consent in person or by representation.”
Taxes are not to belaid on the people (are not
women and negroes people) without tiieir con
sent in person or by representation. The very
act of taxing those who are not represented
appears to me to deprive them of one of their
most essential rights as freemen, and if contin
ued seems to be in effect an entire disfranchise
ment of every civil right. For what one civil
right is worth a rush after a man’s property is
subject to be taken from him without his con
sent.” In view of such opinions is it too much
to ask the men of New York either to enfran
chise women of wealth and education, or else
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
release them from taxation ? If we cannot be
represented as individuals we should not be
taxed as individuals. If the “ white male ” will
do all the voting, let him pay all the taxes.
There is no logic so powerful in opening the eyes
of men to their real interests as a direct appeal
to their pockets. Such a release from taxation
can be supported, too, by your own Constitution.
In art. 2, sec. 1, you say, “ And no person of
color shall be subject to direct taxation unless
he shall be seized and possessed of such real
estate as aforesaid,” referring to the $250 quali
fication. Now a poor widow who owns a lot
worth $100 or less is taxed. Why this partiality
to the black man ? He may live in the quiet
possession of $249 worth of property and not be
taxed a cent. Is it on the ground of color or
sex that the black man finds greater favor in
the eyes of the law than the daughters of the
state ? In order fully to understand this partiality
I have inquired into your practice with regard
to colored women. I find that in Seneca Falls
there lives a highly estimable colored woman by
the name of Abby Gomore. She owns prop
erty to the amount of $1,000. It consists of
village lots. She now pays, and always has
paid, from the time she invested her first $100,
the same taxes that any other citizen paid, just
in proportion to the value of her property, or as
it is assessed. After excluding women, and
“ men of color ” not worth $250, from represen
tation, your Constitution tells us what other
persons are excluded from the right of suffrage.
Article 2, section 2 ; “ Laws may be passed ex
cluding from the right of suffrage all persons
who have been or may be convicted of bribery,
of larceny, or of any infamous crime, and for
depriving every person who shall make or be
come directly or indirectly interested in any bet
or wager depending upon the result of any
election, from the right to vote at such election.”
IIow humiliating! for respectable, law-abiding
women and “men of color” to be thrust outside
the pale of political consideration with those
convicted of bribery, larceny, and infamous
crime, and, worse than all, with those who bet
on elections, for how lost to all sense of honor
must that “ white male citizen ” be who pub
licly violates a wise law to which he has himself
given an intelligent consent. We are ashamed,
honored sirs, of our company. The Mohammedan
forbids a fool, a madman, or a woman, to call
the hour for prayers. If it were not for the invi
dious classification we might hope it was tender
ness rathor than contempt that moved the
Mohammedan to excuse women from so severe a
duty. But for the ballot, which falls like a flake
of snow upon the sod, we can find no such ex
cuse for New York legislators. Article 2,
sections, should be read and considered by the
women of the state, as it gives them a glimpse
of the modes’of life and surroundings of some
of the privileged classes of “ white male citi
zens ” who may go to the polls. “For the
purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to
have gained or lost a residence by reason of his
presefice or absence while employed in the ser
vice of the United States, nor while engaged in
navigating the waters of the state, or of the
United States, or of the high seas, nor while a
student of any seminary of learning, nor while
kept at any almshouse or other asylum, at public
expense ; nor while confined in any public pris
on.” What an unspeakable privilege to have
that precious jewel—the human soul—in a set
ting of irhite manhood, that thus it can pass
through the prison, the asylum, the almshouse,
the muddy waters of the Erie Canal, and come
forth undimmed to appear at the ballot-box at
the earliest opportunity, there to bury its crimes,
its poverty, its moral and physical deformities,
all beneath the rights, privileges, and immuni
ties of a citizen of the state. Just imagine the
motley crew from the 10,000 dens of poverty and
vice in our large cities, limping, raving, cringing,
staggering up to the polls, while the loyal
mothers of a million soldiers, whose bones lay
bleaching on every Southern plain, stand out
side, sad and silent witnesses of this wholesale
desecration of republican institutions. When
you say it would degrade women to go to the
polls, do you not make a sad confession of your
irreligious mode of observing that most sacred
right of citizenship. In asking you. honorable
gentlemen, to extend suffrage to women, we do
not press on you the risk and responsibility of a
new step, but simply to try a measure that has
already proved wise and safe the world over.
So long as political power was absolute and
hereditary, woman shared it with man by birth.
In Hungary, and some provinces of France and
Germany, women, holding this inherited right,
confer their right of franchise on their husbands.
In 1858, in the old town of Upsal, the authori
ties granted suffrage to 50 women holding real
estate and to 31 doing business in their own
name. The representative their votes elected
was to sit in the House of Burgesses. In Ireland
the Court of Queen’s Bench, Dublin, restored to
women in 1804 the old right of voting for town
commissioners. In 1864, too, the government
of Moravia decided that all women who are tax
payers had the right to vote. In Canada, in 1850,
an electoral privilege was conferred on women,
in the hope that the Protestant might balance
the Roman Catholic power in the school system.
“ I lived,” says a friend of mine, “ where I saw
this right exercised for four years by female
property holders, and never heard the most
cultivated man, even Lord Elgin, object to its
results.” Women vote in Austria, Australia,
Holland, and Sweden, on property qualifications.
There is a bill before the British Parliament,
presented by John Stuart Mill, asking for house
hold suffrage, accompanied by a petition from
11,000 of the best-educated women in England.
Would you be willing to admit, gentlemen, that
women know less, have less virtue, less pride
and dignity of character under republican insti
tutions, than in the despotisms and monarchies
of the old world ? Your codes and constitutions
savor of such an opinion. Fortunately, history
furnishes a few saving facts, even under our re
publican institutions. From a recent examina
tion by Lucy Stone, of the archives of the state
of New Jersey, we learn that owing to a liberal
Quaker influence, women and negroes exercised
the right of suffrage in that state 31 years—from
1775 to 1807—when “ white males ” amended
the constitution and arbitrarily assumed the
reins of the government. This act of injustice
is sufficient to account for the moral darkness
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that seems to have settled down upon that un
happy state. During the dynasty of women
and negroes does history record any social revo
lution peculiar to that period ? Because women
voted there, was the institution of marriage
annulled, the sanctity of home invaded, cradles
annihilated, and the stockings, like Gov. Mar
cy’s pantaloons, mended by the state ? Did the
men of that period become mere satellites of the
dinner-pot, the wash-tub, or the spinning-wheel ?
No! Life went on as smoothly in New Jersey
as in any other state in the Union. Anc^the fact
that women did vote there created so slight a
ripple on the popular wave, and made so ordinary
a page in history, that probably nine-tenths of
the people of this country never heard of its
existence until recent discussions in the United
States Senate brought out the facts of the case.
In Kansas, women vote for school-officers, and
are themselves eligible to the office of trustee.
There is a resolution now before the legislature
of Ohio, to strike the words “ white male ” from
the constitution of that state. The Hon. Mr.
Noell, of Missouri, has presented a bill in the
House of Representatives, to extend suffrage to
the women of the District of Columbia. * w * As
to property and education, there are some plausi
ble arguments in favor of such qualifications, but
they are all alike unsatisfactory, illogical, and un
just. A limited suffrage creates a privileged class,
and is based on the false idea that government is
the natural arbiter of its citizens, while in fact it
is the creature of their will. In the old days of
the colonies, when the property qualification
was £5, that being just the price of a jackass,
Benjamin Franklin facetiously asked, “ If a man
must own a donkey in order to vote, who does
the voting, the man or the donkey ?” If read
ing and money-making were a sure gauge of
character, if intelligence and virtue were twin
sisters, these qualifications might do ; but such
is not the case. In our late war black men
were loyal, generous, and heroic, without the
alphabet or multiplication-table, while men
of wealth, educated by the nation, graduates of
West Point, were false to their country and
traitors to their flag. There was a time in Eng
land’s history when the House of Lords even
could neither read nor write, Before the art of
printing were all men fools? Were the apos
tles and martyrs worth $250? If a man can
not read, give him the ballot, it is a school
master ; if he does not own a dollar, give him
the ballot, it is the key to wealth and power. I
have called your attention, gentlemen, to some
of the flaws in your constitution, that you may
see that there is more important work to be
done in the coming Constitutional Convention
than any to which Gov. Fenton has referred in
his message. I would also call your attention
to the fact that while His Excellency suggests
the number of delegates at large to be chosen
by the two political parties, he makes no pro
vision for the representation of women and
“ men of color” not worth $250. I would,
therefore, suggest to your honorable body that
you provide for the election of an equal number
of delegates at large from the disfranchised
classes. But a response to our present demand
does not legitimately thrust on you the final
consideration of the whole broad question of
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suffrage, on which many of you may be unpre
pared to give an opinion. The simple point we
now press is this : That in a revision of our con
stitution, when the state; is, as it were, resolved
into its original elements, all the people should
be represented in the convention which is to
enact the fundamental laws by which they are
to be governed the next twenty years. Women
and negroes, being five-eighths of the people,
are a majority ; and, according to our republi
can theory are the rightful rulers of the nation.
In this view of the case, honorable gentlemen, is
it not a very unpretending demand we make,
that we may vote once in twenty years in
amending our state constitution ? But, say you,
the majority of women do not make the de
mand. Grant it. What then ? When you es
tablished free schools did you first ask the ur
chins of the state whether they were in favor of
being transplanted from the street to the school
house ? When you legislated on the Temper
ance question, did you go to rum-sellers and
drunkards and ask if a majority of them were
in favor of the Excise law ? When you pro
claimed emancipation, did you go to slavehold
ers and ask if a majority of them were in tavor
of freeing their slaves ? When you ring the
changes on “ negro suffrage ” from Maine to Cal
ifornia, have you proof positive that a majority
of the freedmen demand the ballot ? On the
contrary, knowing that the very existence of
republican institutions depend on the virtue,
education, and equality of the people, did you
not, as wise statesmen, legislate in all these
cases for the highest good of the individual and
of the nation ? We ask that the same far-seeing
wisdom may guide your decision on the ques
tion before you.
Remember the gay and
fashionable throng who whisper in the ears
of statesmen, judges, lawyers, merchants, “ We
have all the rights we want," are but the mum
mies of civilization to be galvanized into life
only by earthquakes and revolutions. Would
you know what is in the soul of woman ask not
the wives and daughters of merchant princes, but
the creators of wealth—those who earn their
bread by honest toil—those who, by a turn in
the wheel of fortune, stand face to face with the
stern realities of life.
Speculators.—There are a species of idlers
called speculators—I mean visionary speculating
in regard to the future. ’Tis pitiable to see a
strong man live day after day in the shadow of
the sometime; he shuts his eyes, and lo! a
vision, far off on the enamelled plain of the
“ To-come ” appears, then he wiM do so and so ;
when he makes such an acquirement he will
rear himself a fabric of splendor ; then he will
sway the throng with the sceptre of power; then
he will stand on the “ Parnassus of Fame; ”
then he will find ease and happiness! O fool
ish speculator ! that then will never come. Daily
you will rear fair fabrics and dream dreams, and
daily will your fabrics fall, your dreams fade,
till you and your visions will pass into the vale
of the unknown. Rouse the faculties that have
lain dormant 1 Act for the present! Be vigorous,
heroic, and persevering! While the now looms
in strange beauty around you, improve it.
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
THE SMOKE QUESTION.
Few persons, even among those who reside,
“ from the cradle to the grave,” in the smokiest
of smoky places, are aware of the deleterious
substances they are taking into their lungs
with every inspiration. The following article,
from the pen of R Agnus Smith, M. D., F. R.
8., though applied to the large English manu
facturing towns, is equally applicable to many
cities and villages of the United States, and par
ticularly to Pittsburgh, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio,
and St. Louis, Mo.
Warm interest has compelled me for many
years to attend to the condition of the air of
towns. Habit has no power of rendering smoke
pleasant. Few men living in a smoky town
require to be convinced that they are in the
daily endurance of a monstrous evil. You do
not require details, but it is well to remind you
of some points, as possibly some present might
have long ago given up all consideration of a
sight which during all their lives had taken
the appearance of an unavoidable misfortune.
Many substances make their appearance as
smoke from chimneys ; that kind to be now con
sidered is coal smoke ; all other kinds are com
paratively rare ; and with us here smoke means
generally coal smoke. There are various colors
characteristic of smoke from pale blue to gray,
brown, and intense black. The first comes chiefly
from domestic tires,when the heat is considerable
but the combustion slight. A dark gray or a deep
brown smoke is the product of the distillation
of coal. When the dense hydro-carbons have
been heated highly, but with insufficient air,
we have them decomposed, and carbon of a pure
black is thrown out. The colored substances
in smoke are tar and carbon chiefly; the com
pounds vary with the heat, and may be numer
ous. Some time ago I calculated that sixty tons
of carbonaceous matter were sent off in a day
into the atmosphere in Manchester. A very
small amount affects the atmosphere ; a grain in
18 cubic feet is sufficient to convert good air into
Manchester air, so far as carbon is concerned.
About one half the color is due to tarry matter,
and the other half to black carbon only. This
black matter is the coloring material of all our
smoky towns, and, to a great extent, of the
clothes, as well as of the persons of the inhabi
tants. We live in houses colored by it, and we
walk
roads colored by it, and we can see the
sun, the moon, and the heavens only after they
have been, to our eyes, colored by this universal
tincture.
These are calamities of themselves ; but, al
though some men would look on such a view
of the case as mere sentiment, not one amongst
us can fail to have his spirits tinged with the
darkness of the sky. I found this strangely cor
roborated lately. One of the best men of business
in Manchester informed me that, on an atmo
spherically dull day, no one would give a high
price for goods, no one had the courage to give
it, but on the other hand they could buy goods
at a lower price—the seller had not the courage
to hope for better.
These dull days are caused in part by the cli
mate, but their remarkable oppressiveness is un
questionably due in great part to the smoke. We
do not consider that by the smoke we make wa
are affecting our own spirits and clouding ourt
own j udgment. It is my belief that this effects
on the spirits is the most powerful of all objec-i
tions to smoke, even in the minds of those who!
believe themselves above such feelings. There i
is, however, no denying the next great fact, than
everything coming in contact with a smoky at-|
mosphere is so blackened that cleaning becomesl
difficult or impossible. Smoke gives to every,
household it visits either a greater amount oil
labor, or a lower social appearance. Let us sup ,
pose a housewife only strong enough to do al',j
the work of her house so as to keep it comforta!
ble when there is no smoke plague, she will
break down before attaining the same results in,
a smoky town. We may, however, fairly doubt!
if it is possible by any means to attain the sama
results, and in reality they are not attained!
We areapt to call the people who suffer most
by it indolent, and they sometimes believe them«
selves so, but the cause is rather despair at thtjii
amount of work demanded of them. Even th«
higher wages in towns fail to make them recon*
ciled to curtains blackening in a few days, where
in country places these would have kept theii
windows neat for many months. Nor can th«,
higher wages of town reconcile them to having
their clothes blackened as soon as they arq
washed, instead of being dried when they ar<|i
hung out for that purpose. The poor pay dig
rectly for the smoke, living where it prevails^
and the middle-classes and the wealthy suffeli
proportionately in being compelled to live oup
of the town, and to spend time in going to ani
fro. It is quite true that carbon, tar, and suli
pliurous acids, are disinfectants ; but we do nog;
wish to breathe them constantly—we cannot;
live on medicines. The disinfecting powers oi
smoke have not rid us of disease, nor does it pre!
vent occasional pestilences. If it does good, it doe*
more evil, and much of the mortality of Maur
Chester must be attributed to smoke. It hag
been said that if the carbon was thoroughly
burned, the amount of sulphurous acid woulir
be so great as to be intolerable ; but when th I.
blackness is removed the sulphurous acid seemlr
to escape more easily. We can imagine thd
carbon, soaked with the acid, falling down witlB
double effect upon the town.
One product of the combustion of any carbol»
naceous substance is carbonic acid ; this is iwi
evitable, and must be endured. Another prod«,
uct is carbonic oxide, which has a deadly chart
actor, is invisible, and is not sent out by th k
domestic fire, and only to a small extent b;a
high chimneys. From a sanitary and economic
cal and an a?sthetic point of view, we shall gainb
much by the removal of the carbon, and an adj.
ditional gain will be obtained by removing th*
carbonic oxide. We are not, however, to supl
pose that all is then gained ; we are not entire! 4
safe until we have removed the sulphuroul
acid. To effect this is not a problem which w|
can expect to solve rapidly. The sulphur gasel
collect wherever there is any obstruction t-j
ventilation. Sometimes the smoke is retainer:
in the town as certainly as if a firmament werl
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.“put over it of impenetrative material. On a
‘still day, with a clear sky and considerable cold,
the smoke lies on Manchester until the streets
' become dark at midday. It is then that the
acids are found painful to the eyes, bad to the
taste, dangerous to the breathing. The black' ness might be removed ; what shall we do with
the sulphur ?
It is the sulphur acids which render the air
and rain of Manchester so destructive to metals.
Iron roofs will not remain there ; even houses
cease rapidly to exist, and become old at an early
period. The lime of the mortar becomes sul
phate of lime, and the rain washes it away. The
very stones decay under the constant action of
acid, and the bricks crumble more rapidly.
Even in places less troubled with smoke, we
j see the decay. The Parliament Houses, built
to remain for ages, are rapidly, before our eyes,
! turning into plaster of Paris and Epsom salts.
Probably some of the evil might be avoided.
The finest buildings in London appear less
handsome than flimsy structures in many Con
tinental cities. With us, the peculiarity of the
climate is a great enemy. On ceriain days the
acids rise rapidly ; but, as a rule, they fall.
Great extremes of dryness and of rain are the
best protectives, and, during heavy showers, the
air of Manchester is not unpleasant to breathe,
because the sulphur is carried down in the rain.
The coal used here contains not less than one
per cent, of sulphur, and one of sulphur makes
, three of vitriol. Some coals contain more. The
. amount of sulphurous acid sent out is enormous
. —it cannot be less than one hundred and eighty
' tons per day. The rain is acid. It falls on the
’living grass, and puts it out. Young plants
! struggle against it, but they cannot do so long.
1 We scarcely know how much of the beautiful
and useful is destroyed by this acid. The fine
i arts could scarcely flourish in an atmosphere
’ which attacks without fear a great building
' which ought to remain sound for centuries.
One of the foremost printers of Lancashire
told me that there were some colors which he
found almost instantly to fade. They were fre
quently sent back upon his hands. He was
annoyed to find that the French sent the same
colors to the same markets without the risk of
/having them returned, and it was only after
^inuch time and loss that he found that the
goods must not be allowed to pass through Man' Chester. One day was enough, but in some
weather two hours were sufficient for their
deterioration. The colors imbibed a poison and
went off to die of it. He now sends such goods
from his works without coming here, and he is
as successful as his rivals in France.
It must be remembered that even if we burn
Chmoke colorless, this sulphurous acid will remain.
¿The rain will be equally acid, but ifwe burn the
[ smoke no particles of carbon filled with vitriol
’will fall upon us. It will more readily diffuse.
■This seems to be the experience, but it is mat?ter for open discussion. We are told on one side
that the sulphurous acid is decomposed by the
♦carbon, and that the sulphur falls down with it
{In a solid state. 1 do not know if this is a fact,
but if it be, the result will be that the sulphur
will be very finely divided, and in that state be
r oxidized by the air and water, forming oil of
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vitriol where it lies. It will not be less innocent,
although it may change the sphere of its iniqui
ties. This may explain why the black vegetation
is so frequently very acid, as it most surely is
often or always found to be.
The only sure mode we know of diminishing
the amount of acid given out by chimneys is by
burning less sulphur. This can be donej- per
haps, to some extent, by burning less coal, and
burning it more economically ; next by not al
lowing the most sulphurous of the coals to be
burnt in large towns. This latter is a simple
mode of doing some good, and cannot in all
cases be considered too great a demand on manu
facturers. I inquired of engineers the amount
of coal burnt per horse-power per hour in the
best and the most careless establishments, and
was told that it varied from three pounds tc
fifteen pounds. I obtained other answers, which
went lower and higher, but enough if we know
that coal is, in many places, burnt at a wasteful
rate. This is a department concerning which I
am not called on to speak, but it comes as a
part of my subject. If we examine this care
fully, we shall find, in all probability, that the
amount of heat we really use is trifling, whilst
the coal is in amount enormous.
A wasteful management of coal is the perpe
tration of a nuisance not justified by the exigen
cies of manufactures, and the agents can scarce
ly plead that they are following a legitimate
occupation. I shall say little of this ; probably
the change in this branch will be more gradual
than the destruction of the blackness, but we
must not forget it. A great thinker of the time
said to me once. The nation reminds me of a
man who has left a great barrel of wine for long
use; he pulled out the bung to fill his little
glass, and had not sense to see that the most of
the liquid ran off on the floor. The diminution
of the amount of coal burnt without giving out
its equivalent of power, will be a benefit sani
tary as well as economical. How far we have
this in our hands, it is not easy to say ; but it is
so to some extent, and it would be well if the
subject were kept before us permanently. Peo
ple inform us that the selfishness and self-inter
est of manufacturers are sufficient for this. That
is a theory which I never have found reason
to believe in fully. The manufacturers are not
more selfish than other men ; and if they were,
the most selfish man is often blind to his own
interest.
One of the effects of the combustion of coal is
to remove from the air a certain amount of
oxygen, putting in its place the gases and car
bonaceous substances spoken of along with coal
ashes, which are in paft carried upwards. The
removal of the oxygen occurs only to a
small extent, but it is perceptible, and in some
cases considerable. This deterioration of the
air occurs most in places where there is most
carbon floating, and where it is therefore least
pleasant to open our windows. Now, if there
is less oxygen, we require the air to be renewed
more frequently, and this we cannot permit
because of the blackness. The smoke acts like
a prison wall, and we shut windows and cease
| to ventilate. Bad as the air may be, it is better
than that which we manufacture for ourselves
| by shutting our rooms, which remain closed
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until the bed-rooms, even in the large hotels of
all our town, become unpleasant to the senses.
It is the custom to ventilate by the doors from
corridors only, in London, and elsewhere, in
hotels, lest the blacks should enter by the win
dow, from which the freshest air comes. Private
houses suffer equally. The weavers of SpitalfieldB were glad to be able to open their win
dows when the establishments near began to
burn their black smoke, and this is a powerful
argument against the opinion of those who
would attempt to show that the sulphur is the
only thing to be feared. Bad the sulphur gases
unquestionably are, but it is the carbon which
causes the alarm of housewives and house
maids, and which prevents the needful change
of air in our town houses. The oxygen which
is removed from the air is the whole of the most
active portion. It has long been called ozone
and peroxide of hydrogen; but, by whatever
name, it is a something always found in agree
able air. This is never found in Manchester.
It is for medical men to consider wliat class
of disease may arise from this diminution of
oxygen. Children suffer most in smoky towns,
we are told. They have rapid circulation, they
require much oxygen, and are instinctively fond
of fresh air. It seems to me that the analyses
of the air, showing a diminution of oxygen,
even forgetting the sulphurous acid, explains
why children should suffer so much, and helps
along with other causes, to explain what Mr.
Leigh has called “ the massacre of the innocents.”
The deficiency of active oxidation is equal to a
deficiency of power and of healthy stimulus. If
so, we need not wonder that some persons should
6eek artificial means of stimulus, nor why others
should rather seek the less vigorous oxidation of
a town. I cannot doubt that we have here some
(>f the reasons for a deterioration of race spoken
3f by Dr. Morgan as visible amongst us. Our
trength must be proportionate to the amount
of healthy oxidation. If by any method we
reduce the amount of floating blackness, we
shall increase the purity of the air of the town,
increase the beauty of its buildings, and im
prove the appearance of the inhabitants. We
shall enable the houses to be ventilated more
thoroughly, and we shall diminish the inten
sity of those days of darkness that sometimes
paralyze the whole community. Every day
will be brighter, and I think, happier to every
inhabitant. If we diminish the sulphur by
burning less coal, we shall diminish the amount
of coal dust also, and these two points are not
to be forgotten, although the full combustion
requires first to be settled. *
A conceited young fellow, calling upon an
old lady friend previous to his departure for
China, was taken somewhat by surprise when
the good-natured lady advised him to be careful
of himself in the “ flowery kingdom,” as she
understood “ the Chinese feasted on puppies.”
A Western paper strikes the names of two
subscribers from his list because they were re
cently hung. The publisher says he was com
pelled to be severe, because he did not know
their present address.
LEADING THE VAN.
The Evening Post, in a leading editorial un
der the caption, “ Connecticut Leads the Van,”
says:
“ The republicans of Connecticut deserve suc
cess, and, we doubt not, will gain it. They
have adopted a platform of equal political
rights ; they assert ‘ that the only just basis of
human governments is the consent of the gov
erned ; that in a representative republic such
consent is expressed through the exercise of the
suffrage by the individual citizen, and that the
right to that exercise should not be limited by
distinction of race or color.’ ”
We fail to see the equality or the justice of
this platform. Race and color are very well as
far as they go, but they comprehend only one
half of the human race. Has the Post never
heard that woman claims the elective franchise,
without regard to race, color, or sex ?
CATOPATHY.
That marvelously learned body, the Paris
Academy of Sciences (said to be the most learned
body of men in the world—the earth-world, not
the moon), has made another marvelous discov
ery, and, as usual, through the manipulations
and investigations of some distinguished chem
ist. The learned chemico-dietico-physiological
and categorical therapeutist aforesaid, has pre
sented to the Paris Academy of Science above
mentioned, a report of an analysis of the milk
(the mammary secretion—lac catawaulimeouw)
of that familiar household pet and mousehole
pest, commonly denominated pussy, and has
“ proved” (this word is copied verbatim et litera
tim from one of our exchanges), that it (the
milk aforesaid, not the cat above mentioned,*
but, being, and intended to be, nevertheless, the
milk of the cat or pussy aforesaid and above
mentioned) has (we quote the next three words)
“ extraordinary restorative qualities.” The ex
change hereinbefore alluded to goes on to say
and state and expatiate in manner following:
It would, he argued, be found of great value
in cases of debility and consumption. Two or
three queries naturally suggest themselves : Are
cats to be raised and tended like cows ? Who
is to milk them ? What would be deemed a
sufficient quantity for a daily dose or beverage,
and how many cats would be required to furnish
this quantity ? To those, a fourth question
might not improperly be added, viz.: If the
new beverage is to be generally adopted, what
is to become of all the kittens ?”
O “ scat,” you unhandsome editor! Who cares
for all the kittens, “ to be or not to be,” when
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the milk of the cat, or the cat of the milk (we
think it does not matter much which) is a great
restorative remedy ? If cat-milk will cure con
sumption, kittens must take care of themselves.
But what if the supply of cats should fail?
What would the thousands of consumptives, all
of whom are cured on cod-liver oil (see weekly
bills of mortality), do in that event ? We have it.
Soon after the expensive cod liver oil came into
vogue, it was discovered that any cheap fish oil
was just as good (witness medical journals).
Should the cat-cure become so popular, and the
remedy in such demand as to alarm the four
legged quadrupeds 60 that they should all run
away and refuse to be milked, it may be found
that the milk of any other animal will answer
all purposes. Perhaps, however, the restorative
qualities of cat’s milk are due to the fact that
the cat is carnivorous. The codfish is, weknow,
flesh-eating. If so, we should only milk for
medicine in the line of the carnivora—lions,
tigers, hyenas, wolves, leopards, dogs, etc. Shall
we not have a specimen of this extraordinary
medicine at the Great Exhibition?
“A DIFFERENT FO OTINC”-QUEER
LOGIC.
The English papers are reporting the sayings
and doings of Dr. Mary E. Walker, and com
menting on her morals, manners, dress, personal
appearance, eccentricities, &c., from their re
spective stand-points of observation. They all
concur in regarding her pants as perfectly awful;
none of them, however, seem disposed to argue
the question of its utility nor even of its propri
ety, but proceed to judge it, and as a matter of
course, to condemn it, by the standard of fash
ion. Indeed they treat the subject very much
as nearly all of the American newspapers did
fifteen or twenty years ago, when women in the
“ Reform Dress,” first appeared “ on the world’s
wide stage,” in this country. Dr. Walker has
lectured to a large audience in St James’ Hall,
London, on which occasion, a lot of young men
of rowdyish proclivities, most of whom are said
to have been medical students of the allopathic
colleges (Dr. Walker is opposed to allopathic
druggery), undertook to interrupt or prevent her
performance by singing, hooting, and other de
monstrations always at the command of rowdy
ism. As a specimen of rather queer logic, we
copy the following concluding paragraph of an
extended, and, on the whole, fair notice of her
lecture in St. James’ Hall:
“As regards physique, it is plain that Dr. Walk
er’s frame has been subjected to hardships per
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haps in excess of its powers of resistance. That
consideration increased the regret that every
one must have felt that a lady should be exposed
to constant and by no means mannerly interrup
tions. At the same time, a lady who comes for
ward to claim ‘ perfect equality ’ with men,
occupies a different footing from other ladies.”
How different ? This is certainly queer logic,
and seems intended to propitiate the rowdies,
while obliged to condemn their conduct. We
are unable to comprehend how the claim of any
woman to perfect equality with men justifies or
excuses ill-treatment, or places her on any differ
ent footing from “ other ladies.” Is it a crime
to claim equality ? Suppose a servant, or a
serf, or a slave, should honestly believe and
plainly declare himBelf entitled to the same po
litical rights and privileges as his employer,
guardian, or owner, would this fact authorize
any one to abuse him? The golden rule is
beautiful when our fellow-beings apply it to us
—but when we are asked to apply it to others
—a-hem !
Cheese-eaters.—The consumption of cheese
in England amounts to the amazing quantity of
821,250,000 pounds a year. This may be one
of the reasons why Brother Bull is so conserva
tively inclined, for there is not, in our humble
judgment, a more stupifying article of food in
use. It is befouling to the mouth—inflaming
the stomach, constipating to the bowels, obstruct
ing to the kidneys, congesting to the liver, clog
ging to the skin, thickening to the blood, stiffen
ing to the muscles, irritating to the nerves, torpifying to the mental powers, and wholly unfit
for human food—“ only that and nothing
more.”
DRILL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
Fall in ! To good ways and habits.
Attention ! To your own business.
Right Face ! Manfully to your duty and keep
sober.
Quick March! From a temptation to do any
thing which is unmanly.
Halt! When conscience tells you that you are
not doing as you would like others to do unto
you.
Right about Face ! From dishonesty and false
hood.
Present Arms! Cheerfully when your wife
asks you to hold the baby for an hour.
Break Off! Bad habits, and everything that
is likely to retard your advancement in this
world.
TnE following bill was lately presented to a
I farmer in Sussex :
1 “ To hanging two barn doors and myself seven
I hours, four shillings and sixpence.”
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HOUSES, CHEAP AND CONVENIENT.
By permission of the publisher of
the American Agriculturist, we are
enabled to present the readers of the
Gospel of Health with another
plan for the construction of cheap and
convenient dwelling houses,
think it will be difficult to plan a
house better combining the consider
ations of convenience and economy,
and the design seems well adapted
to many who propose to build plain
and comfortable bouses in Hygeiana
the ensuing season.
In this design, upon the ground
floor, as seen in fig. 2, are a Parlor,
Bed Room and Kitchen ; A, Porch ;
G. Front Entry;
Stairway; A1,
Pantry, connecting by slide with the
sink in the Back Entry (E); C, C, marks the
China Closet. Each room has independent
facilities for warming ; and while the rooms
Fig. 2—ground plan.
are in close communication with each other,
they yet can be quite separate. The bed-room
has a spacious closet. Upon the chamber floor
Fig. 1.
in the roof. This Cottage, if well built, may
be made a comfortable, and as they say, a
“ genteel ” house. It is very compact—not an
inch of room is lost. If desirable, the partition
between the closets over the pantry and back
entry, may be moved a little to one side, making
one of the closets larger ; a circular window may
be inserted in the gable ; and to the room used
for bathing, water may be carried by a force
pump, and even heated by a boiler connected
with the kitchen fire. Few plans of this size
afford a greater amount of convenience than may
be found in this simple design. True, the
economy in side walls, accompanying square
ground plans, is sacrificed to the greater light
and airiness of the structure, but in a snug cot
tage like this that is a small fault.
Poisoning by a Human Bite.—A sad occur
rence has happened at Arth, in France. Lieu
tenant Felchin was some time back bitten io
the thumb by a man named Muller, but he
thought nothing of the wound, and went next
day on a journey on his private affairs. On
reaching Bale he found his hand and arm began
to swell, and a medical man declared that the
case was one of poisoning from a human bite.
He at once returned home in haste, but he
refused to have the arm amputated. The con
sequence was that the inflammation increased
frightfully, and he died some days after in
horrible suffering.
Employment, which Galen calls “nature’s
physician,” is so essential to human happiness,
that indolence is justly considered as the mother
of misery.
Fig. 3.—BED-ROOM PLAN.
He who lives with a good wife becomes
(fig. 3), are three nice bed-rooms and four closets- better thereby, as those who lay down among
Each room has direct access to a chimney flue- violets arise -with the perfume upon their gar
The stairway can be lighted by a glazed scuttle ments.
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GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1867.
TOPICS OF THE MONTH.
•
The Problem of Problems.—To him who
can “ look through nature up to nature’s God,”
no truth is clearer than that the Health Problem
underlies all reforms among men, and is the
basis of all permanent improvement in the con
dition of the human race. Hence it is the
problem of problems. For this reason it is the
most radical and revolutionary of all problems ;
and its advocates can hardly expect that the
masses of the people, to whom physiology is as
a sealed book, and the great body of the medical
profession—whose physiology is mainly chemi
cal, and hence contains more false principles
than true ones, and whose pathology and thera
peutics are inexplicable dogmas and absurd
errors—will regard them otherwise than as
enthusiasts and fanatics. The world has always
applied these epithets to those who advocated
truths in advance of public sentiment, who op
posed ancient and venerable errors, or who
taught against the current of popular prej udices.
But what was radical a hundred years ago is
conservatism now, and what is ultra to-day may
be conservatism a hundred years hence.
And now, what is the Health P»oblem? And
why should the world be so indifferent to it,
and the medical profession so opposed to it ?
Health is the “normal play of all the functions;
disease is their disarrangement or abnormal
action ; health is happiness ; disease is misery ;
health is power ; disease is disability ; health is
beauty ; disease is deformity ; health is the re
sult of obedience to the laws of the vital and
mental organism ; disease is the consequence of
disobedience to them. Vital laws and mental
laws are God’s laws, as much so as are moral
or spiritual laws. Disobedience to the laws of
our bodily organization is as sinful in the sight
of the Creator of all, as is disobedience to the
laws which apply to our moral powers—what
ever distinctions we may make.
Health Reform means obedience to all the laws
of our being. To have healthy muscles, nerves,
brains, bones, stomach, bowels, liver, kidneys,
skin, etc., we must in all respects conform to the
laws which our Heavenly Father has implanted
in their organization. And to have healthy
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perception, judgment, conscience, will, passions,
emotions, propensities, etc., we must obey the
irreversible laws which control the organs of
the mental and moral manifestations. In short,
Health Reform means “ cease to do evil and
learn to do well” in all things ; and to do this,
we must “ prove all things and hold fast to that
which is good.”
The basis of all good, all truth, all progress,
is integrity in the bodily structures, which are
“ the temples of the living God.” The immédi
ate source of all error, all falsity, all crime in
the world, is morbid conditions of the bodily
organs. The idiot, the madman, the murderer,
are but extreme illustrations of the principle.
Avarice, gambling, licentiousness, selfishness,
and multitudinous vices and crimes and faults
and foibles, which are so prevalent as to be re
garded by many as “ necessary evils,” and by
some as the normal condition of society, are
more common but not less significant demon
strations of foul blood and bad digestion.
If the Christian would succeed in evangeliz
ing the world ; if the Temperance Reformer
would rid the earth of the terrible curse of in
toxicating drink ; if the Moralist would close
the dens of debauchery and prostitution ; if the
Statesman would purify legislation of party po itics and chicanery ; if the Philanthropist would
shut up the gambling palaces in high places
(witness stock exchanges and produce specula
tors), and if the Sociologist would induce men
to deal equitably with each other, they must go
back to first principles, and teach all classes and
all conditions of human beings that the first
rule of conduct and the highest good of all re
quire a life in accordance with the laws of life.
“ Strong-Minded Women ” in Ohio.—We
have long believed and thought that all licensed
laws, and all statutory’ enactments in any man
ner pertaining to thê regulation of the liquor
traffic, are a curse to the world and ought to be
abolished. No law except that of absolute and
unconditional prohibition ought to be recorded
in the statute books of a civilized nation, and
even this would be superfluous were the whole
subject left to the compion sense of society and
the common law of humanity. A beautiful illus
tration of the doctrine we have indicated, oc
curred a few days ago in the state of Ohio. A
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial tells
the story :
Some time in July, 1865, the ladies of Green
field, Highland county, took it into their heads
that there should be “ no more whisky sold in
I Greenfield.” The question of abating the nuii sance had been discussed frequently, when an
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accident occurred that brought things to a crisis.
A young man named Blackburn, highly esteem
ed, only 21 years of age, was the victim of a
whisky brawl. A party of drunken men got
into a quarrel and a shot was fired, and this
young man, who was passing the house, received
his death wound. Shortly after this the ladies,
with a.secrecy unparalleled in the history of wo
man, met and resolved on the destruction of the
spirit. So in broad daylight, about noon, a
posse of about seventy started on the cleansing
expedition, armed with hatchets, axes and
woman’s determination. Some three or four
stores were entered and the bottles made to
dance jigs and the whisky to gurgle down the
gutters before the other wdiisky fiends were
made aware of what was going on. When they
did become cognizant of the situation of things,
they barred, bolted and barricaded their doors.
But nothing daunted, the women quietly de
manded the liquor, and if not admitted into the
house they quickly battered down the doors or
shutters. This was carried on till nearly every
respectable wliisky-sliop was demolished. Suits
were brought, but the verdict of equity said,
“ Served cm right.”
Now the whisky-dealers have combined to
bring suits against the husbands of many of
the ladies for damage to property, but nearly
everybody feels that the slight damage tempora
rily done is nothing to the benefit derived there
from. The most extensive preparations are be
ing made to escort the ladies of Greenfield, sev
enty of whom have been subpoenaed as wit
nesses. Large wagons are to be fitted up, and
their male relations wiil accompany them to
Hillsborough, where the court will be in session
on the 16th of this month. The ladies of Hills
borough are making the most ample prepara
tions to receive them as welcome guests, and
they are to be entertained by the ladies of that
place.
Just imagine seventy women in court! Im
agine the ineffectual cry of “ silence ” from the
stentorian lungs of the sheriff! What will the
judges do ? what will the jury do ?
We care very little what the judges or the
jury do, or all the people of the species mascu
line, in and about the court, or neighborhood, or
state, or nation, provided the women of Green
field and the region round about are true to
themselves. If they will follow up the kind of
“ moral suasion” they have so successfully com
menced, they will do more for the cause of Tem
perance during the year 1867 than the men have
done in fifty years. We would rather have a
grand Temperance army of seventy women,
armed with hatchets, or even broom-sticks, and
“ woman’s determination,” than all the organ
izations of Washingtonians, Sons of Temper
ance, Rechabites, Good Templars, &c., that the
world has ever seen. These may talk, and re
solve, and preach, and sing beautifully, but those
do the work.
Our Cottage Illustrations.—We are in
debted to the politeness of that sterling journal,
the American Agriculturist, for the illustrations
which appear in the present number of the Gos
pel of Health, and also for those which ap
peared in our January issue. It is our duty to
say that these cuts are copyrighted, and cannot
legally be published without permission of the
Agriculturist. We intend, in future issues, to
give a great variety of designs for buildings, and
extensive illustrations of the best fruits of all
kinds, so that our colony at Hygeiana can have
all necessary data on which to predicate success,
both in building Hygienic houses, and in rais
ing the very best varieties of fruits.
Profitable Crops.—Several persons have
written us for information concerning the most
profitable crops that can be raised in Hygeiana
before returns can be had from the growing
fruit trees. We answer, there are many kinds
of vegetables, roots and seeds, which are ready
sale and always command a good price, and
which produce sure crops. Among these are
onions and white beans. Probably it would be
impossible to realize more the first season from
any crops that could be raised than from these.
The best article of small white beans is now
retailing at twenty cents a quart in this city.
There are other kinds of garden beans which
will produce more to the acre, and which find
ready sale ; but, we doubt if anything, unless it
is onions, will yield a greater return of money
for the quantity of land cultivated and the
amount of labor performed, than white or field
beans. Tomatoes, cabbages, sweet corn, and
beets, are usually very profitable crops, but are
more troublesome to preserve and market. Some
correspondents have suggested the propriety of,
raising our own cereals, especially wheat and
corn ; but as these grains are plenty and cheap
in the neighborhood, it is our opinion that we
should find both pleasure and profit, at least
in the infancy of our colony, in limiting our
product ions to a few of the choicest fruits and
vegetables. These crops can be raised without
interfering much in the cultivation of fruit
trees. In this connection, we commend to the
attention of our readers the able article of Dr.
Yoder, in the present number, on the subject of
immediate fruit-raising in Hygeiana. Dr. Yoder
has had much experience in fruit-culture, is a
thorough Hygienist, and a graduate of the Hygeio-Therapeutic College, is well acquainted
with the locality we have selected for our pio
neer colony, has been a practical fruit-culturer
in Vineland, N. J., for several years past, and
has, moreover, sold his property in Vineland
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and invested the whole amount in the purchase
of five ten-acre farms in Hygeiana. These cir
cumstances evince his earnestness and capacity
in Health Reform movement, and give especial
importance to his suggestions. We have the
pleasure to state, also, that Dr. Yoder will be
among the “ first settlers” of our colony, so that
others may profit by his experience.
Suffrage for Woman.—We publish in
another department, in full, the address recently
delivered by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to
the Legislature of our state. It covers the whole
ground. And now that the “Woman Question ”
is rapidly assuming form and magnitude, so
that it can and must be discussed in all its
length and breadth, we are sure that the great
majority of our readers will be interested in the
perusal of Mrs. Stanton’s able and admirable
address. We have long regarded the full recog
nition of woman’s rights—her equal, social, civil,
political, and religious rights—as one of the pre
requisites to her full and just influence in the
medical profession and in the great field of Health
Reform. And no one who understands the import
ance of woman’s work in aiding us to revolu
tionize many and reform most of the habits and
fashions of society, which are now rapidly de
teriorating the human race, will regret the
prominence we give to this subject. If we can
correctly read the signs of the times, the day is
not far distant when the greatest and most
beneficial reformation agitated since the dark
days of the middle ages—the enfranchisement
of woman—will be achieved in all the length and
breadth of our land. Every day witnesses the
accessions to her cause of noble, influential,
earnest, practical men ; and whether the “ ma
jority of women” petition, or not, for the right
to vote and hold office, the voice of the Creator,
which endows her inalienably with all the rights
and privileges that pertain to humanity, will be
regarded in the legislation of all intelligent and
Christian states and nations, and then her equal
opportunities for development, for education,
and for avocations, will soon follow as a matter
of course.
Twenty-four Dollars a Gallon.—Several
weeks ago we called upon an artisan of this city
to get a little work done. He was sick of a cold.
In a few days we called again. He had been
better, but had suffered a relapse. Two weeks
later we visited him the third time. He was
now decidedly and fatally consumptive. His
friend informed us that he had just changed his
physician. We saw at a glance the whole state
of the case, and knew from the array of bottles,
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phials, poisons, plasters, etc., that the poor pa
tient was another illustration of
The deadly virtues of the healing art.
He had been drugged to death’s door. Among
other potent medicines which he had been tak
ing was a very powerful kind of brandy. It
was a rare and choice brand ; so rare and choice
and powerful that it cost twenty-four dollars a
gallon. He was taking a teaspoonful every
hour. The doctor told him he might eat what
ever he pleased, so long as he took the brandy.
The physician gave the patient to understand
that the brandy was so powerful a promoter of
digestion and so infallible a supporter of vitality
that he might safely follow his appetite or fancy
in the matter of victuals. The poor victim of a
murderous medical system was suffocating by
night and by day in a dark, damp, unventilated
bedroom, the door and windows kept con
stantly closed, and the confined air redolent of
typhus miasm from the effete matters of his
own body. Not a word had been said about
bathing or washing ; not a hint had been ut
tered about the necessity of fresh air. Pure
water and wholesome food were never men
tioned. But drug and dose, and dose and drug,
narcotize and stimulate, and stimulate and nar
cotize, brandy and opium, and opium and more
brandy. These were the remedial measures
prescribed by a member of the New York Acad
emy of Medicine in this enlightened 19th century
and the year of grace, 1867. But why need we
dwell on this particular case. He is only one
of the thousands who are killed annually by the
same or similar means. The case, however, has
an unusual significance in illustrating the com
mercial side of the healing art as it is in druggery. The profit on such a gallon of brandy can
not be less than twenty dollars. Suppose (we
admit the case isn’t supposable, but suppose it
was supposable) that the doctor and the apoth
ecary divide the profits between them. The
doctor gets ten dollars (in addition to his pro
fessional fee), for prescribing the brandy, and
the apothecary gets ten dollars clear profit for
dealing it out. And as doctors and apothecaries
must live, and as sick folks, however poor, will
have medicine, why not accommodate all round
in this way ?
The Prince of Wales.—Since our article on
“The Smoking Palace of Frogmore” appeared,
a correspondent has sent us the Philadelphia
Press containing an article from a London letter
writer, in which the Prince is very severely
handled. It is not only intimated but openly
asserted that the Prince is becoming addicted to
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other bad habits besides tobacco-smoking; in
deed that he is rapidly going the downward road
in various ways through dissolute associates
and evil communications, which so frequently
corrupt both the morals and manners of young
“ Princes of the blood.” We hope these state
ments are not true, or that they, are greatly ex
aggerated. And lest injustice might be done to
some person, or persons, we refrain from giving
any further publicity to the matter.
Wayside Jottings in Great Britain.—
With this number we commence the publication
of a series of extremely interesting articles, under
the above head, from the pen of Mrs. Susannah
Way Dodd§, M. D.,of Antioch College memory.
She has recently returned from a tour through
many parts of the Queendom, and her keen ob
servations, practical views, intelligent criticisms,
and candid statements, cannot fail to instruct and
profit our readers in thSt country and in this.
Vegetarians will be especially pleased with the
assurances that ample provision exists for them
in that part of the “Old World,” and her direc
tions for finding and enjoying them.
Flowers and Plants in Sleeping-Rooms.
—W. M. writes from Maryland : “ My son is a
subscriber to your Gospel of Health. It is
truly what its name imports—a joyful visitant—
and its monthly instructions bring most blessed
instructions. In the November number there is
an important subject named—ventilation. But
the writer says, ‘ Leaves of the trees lake in car
bonic-acid, and emit oxygen.’ Now, some au
thors say that this is only true of the leaf in the
daytime, but not in the night, or during hours
of darkness. Will you be so kind as to give us
the correct chemical process ? Are flowersand
plants in sleeping-rooms conducive to health, or
are they injurious ?”
There is no “ chemical process ” of any kind.
But the vital process that governs the nutrition
—the assimilation and disintegration—of the
vegetable kingdom as a general law is, that
leaves emit carbonic-acid gas to some extent
during the night, and oxygen gas during the
day ; hence, it follows that any considerable col
lection of plants or flowers in a sleeping-room
would be injurious ; and a single one would be
if there was defective ventilation.
Hygeiana and Vineland.—It is known to
many of our readers that the citizens of Vine- j
land. N. J., are, on the whole, a much better 1
class of people—more progressive and reforma
tory—than are “ the generality of mankind in
general,” as we find them in most of the large |
villages and small cities of the United States.
The manner in which the place was settled, the
provisions made for improvements, and the
protection against many of the nuisances to be
found in all other places, were well calculated to
attract a high order of human nature. And
those who have lived there a few years have
experienced the great comforts and advantages
of the precautions which have been so judi
ciously taken to prevent the seeds of vices,
crimes, debauchery, etc., from contaminating
their domain. Yet there are some nuisances
tolerated there. Tobacco is cultivated, drug
shops exist, and we are not aware that rum-shops
are prohibited. And because we prohibit all
nuisances of every name and nature, except
original sin, from entering the domain of Hy
geiana, several residents of Vineland have al
ready purchased farms in Hygeiana, and intend
to remove there early in the season. And more
than a dozen others write us that they will
emigrate Hygeianaward as soon as they can sell.
Indeed we have sold more lots to the citizens of
Vineland, than we have to the people of any
other place. Can there be any more convincing
testimony that our scheme is not only right but
bound to “ go ahead ” ?
Vaccination.—A Jew was lately fined in
London for refusing to allow his child to be
vaccinated. The Jew was right. Since the
days of Moses and the prophets the Jews have
had a salutary horror of pork, scrofula, small
pox, plague, leprosy, and viruses, venoms and
infections of all kinds. And what right has any
one to infect their blood and bones with the
virus of small pox ? If the learned medical gen
tlemen of the Board of Health of the city of
New York should order us to poison our chil
dren, or anybody’s children, with this or any
other infection, wTe should, most respectfully,
decline to do it, and most peremptorily prevent
others from doing it, fine or no fine. Neither
nature, Bible, science, nor common sense, teaches
the absurd doctrine that poisons are remedies
for the ills that flesh is heir to ; but, on the con
trary, each and all teach that cleanliness is the
only preventive of disease. Vaccination is
one of the many curses which the abominable
drug medical system has inflicted on humanity.
The child that is vaccinated has to take the
chance of being infected with humors a thou
sand times worse than “ small-pox the natural
way,” while it is almost certain to be in some
way contaminated. That a large proportion of
those who are vaccinated become affected with
venereal disease, may be learned from the fol
lowing paragraph which we clip from the Med
ical Record of this city:
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“ Syphilis by Vaccination.—In the ‘Depart
ment du Morbihan,’ France, a great many
children have been found affected with syphilis
after vaccination. The report of the commis
sioners charged by the Academy of Medicine
with the duty of investigating the subject, con
cludes as follows: I. Several of the children
presented to the commission were really affected
with secondary syphilis. II. It seems impossi
ble to account for their contamination otherwise
than by vaccination. III. It appears evident
that the virus was contained in the vaccinal
liquid. M. Ricord gives his assent to these
conclusions, provided they contain (as well as
the report itself does) the mention that primary
syphilitic accidents were also present.”
Hygeiana at Cost.—Since our last issue,
several persons have offered to purchase one or
two hundred acres each in Hygeiana, and im
prove them at once, provided we would sell the
land at a small advance from cost—say ten or
fifteen per cent. We reply that we will do even
better than that: we will sell at actual cost,
as nearly as we can calculate. In a business of
$200,000 or more, we can’t estimate within a
few hundred, nor possibly within a few thou
sand dollars, the exact receipts or expenditures.
Our aim is to make receipts and expenditures
balance ; and if any person or company sees
any chance for a pecuniary speculation, he or
they shall be more than welcome to take the
business out of our hands, provided he or they
will guaranty the enterprise to be carried out
according to our printed programme. We have
to reserve the streets and avenues, and all the
public grounds, which make the land we have
to sell some hundreds of acres less than those
we have to purchase. Then, again, we have
the expenses of surveying, advertising, travel
ing, the commissions to agents, etc., and lastly,
unmarried women (several of whom have al
ready purchased) must have their farms at half
price. If one-half of the purchasers should be
unmarried women, we should be many thou
sands of dollars out of pocket. We shall be sat
isfied if we come out minus one or two thousand
dollars ; and if the result should be plus that
amount, or even more, we should not be very
sorry. But, as already remarked, our plan and
prices are intended to be “ six of one, and half-adozen of the other.” If we make any money, it
will be in the next purchase.
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velop and reform our mental and moral nature ;
and if all medical sects, who profess to be the
conservators of our vital organisms, would
adopt the platform of principles set forth in
this article, or rather make the principle of tl.e
article their platform, they would be vastly
more successful than they ever yet have been
in saving the souls and preserving the bodies
of men.
Is Salt Necessary for Stock?—The Cali
fornia Rural Home Journal says: “ Some
eighteen years since, while living at Tangier,
in the empire of Morocco, we sent into the in
terior of the empire to purchase of a tribe of
Bedouins, who were famous for their choice and
rare stocks of barbs, or Arab horses, one of their
fine barbs for our own use, which we were so
fortunate as to obtain, after not a little maneuv
ering and diplomacy. As a matter of course, we
made a great pet of him ; and almost the first
thing we offered him, as a condiment to his feed
of barley and straw (the universal food of the
horses of that country), was a handful of salt;
but, to our surprise, he would not touch it, but
turned up his aristocratic nose at it, as if he felt
a big disgust at such, to him, unsavory dose.
On making further inquiry, and experimenting
with several barbs that we owned subsequently,
we found that neither the Moors nor Arabs ever
gave salt to their horses, cattle, or sheep. And
yet there are no horses in the world equal in
healthful vigor, in powers of endurance, or elas
ticity of movement and robust constitution, to
these same Arab horses.”
The Cattle Plague in Holland.—The
Belgian Moniteur publishes the following par
ticulars of the cattle plague in Holland : “ The
cattle plague appears to be making dreadful
ravages among the cattle in Holland. The num
ber of fatal cases do not cease to increase, and
if the progress observed to have been made by
the disease since the end of November con
tinue, the losses of the Dutch farmers will soon
exceed those of the English cattle-owners at
the time when the plague was most violent.
According to the official reports, the number of
cases among cattle were, for the weeks ending
November 3d, 1,443 ; 10th, 1.551; 17tli, 1,592 ;
27th, 3,257 ; and December 4th, 7,162. The last
number is more than double that w’hich is re
corded when the epidemic w-as at its worst in
December, 1865, and everything tends to show
that it does not indicate the greatest height of
the disease. The cattle plague was especially
virulent in the provinces of Utrecht and South
ern and Northern Holland ; but it has also shown
itself in Friesland and Overyssel, and has lat
terly attacked many parishes of Guelderland
Wholeness.—We commend the article in and North Brabant.”
tlie present number from the Spiritual Repub
When the regulations of the Boston and Cam
lic to the careful and prayerful consideration of bridge Bridge were drawn by two famous law
our readers. The philosophy of sociology is yers, one section was written, accepted, and now
stands thus:
stated with a clearness and precision that leave
“ And the said proprietors shall meet annu
nothing to be desired. If all religious denomi ally on the first Tuesday of June, provided the
nations, whose teachings are intended to de same does not fall on Sunday.”
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VOICES OF
THE PEOPLE.
One of Many.—The experience and observa
tions of the writer of the following are similar
to those of a thousand who have written us their
story. But it is on a subject whereon “line
upon line and precept upon precept ” is neces
sary. She writes from a rich agricultural dis
trict in a Western state. “ Dr. Trail—Dear Sir :
although a stranger to you, I am not a stranger
to the great principles so nobly advocated in
your writings. Two years ago I became acquaint
ed with them, and ordered your Encyclopaedia,
Hand Book, Cook Book, Diphtheria, Water-Cure
for the Million, and would have purchased
more of your works had I been able. I have
lent my books to my neighbors and tried to
convince others of the value and importance of
Hygienic principles. But the great majority
seem bound to live as they list, be the conse
quences what they may. Very few ‘ eat and
drink to live.’ It has been more than a year
since I discontinued the use of all animal food,
butter, salt, spices of every kind, and all warm
drinks at meals. In short, I am striving to live
in accordance with the laws of health. My
husband does not sympathize with the Health
Reform, and thinks the idea of a Vegetarian
Colony very unlike the manner of all other
great reformers. He says, that, if they think
they are right and everybody else wrong, it
would be more Christ-like to remain among
the people and try to enlighten and reform them.
But I am thinking it is not easy to work much
of a dietetic reform among those ‘whose God is
their belly,’and ‘whose glory is their shame.’
To explain our principles to them seems very
much like ‘casting pearls before swine.’ For
my part I am tired of living in society where the
people are addicted to such gross habits. It is
all that I can possibly do to live among them
without contamination; and what can I hope
for my children ? I have four now living, and
two in the spirit-land, who, doubtless, would
have been living at this time, if I had not been
in utter darkness as to the proper manner of
training them.”
Tired of Fashionable Life.—S. R. writes
from Ohio : “I intend to look at your location
for a vegetarian colony in Ross county, and if
the scheme suits me to remove there at an early
day. 1 feel, and my wife does also, just about
ready to go into a Hygienic settlement, but, as I
am pretty well circumstanced here, I must ne
sure of making an improvement before pulling
up stakes. I am thoroughly disgusted with
the bloody-boned surroundings here. My finer
sensibilities are continually outraged by the
butchering of the bloated scavengers (swine) and
the grinding of their corrupt carcasses into dis
ease-engendering food. I hear their last and
smothered groans saddening the merry hum of
the balmy breeze, and am almost forced to ex
claim, 0 God, how are thy children sunken in
iniquity! Then, perhaps, before the crimson
blood is dried up, the besotted devotee of the
corner groggery comes staggering along, breath
ing his venomous breath upon all around ; and,
perhaps, before he has disappeared, along comes
the tobacco-smoker, puffing his detestable ex
halation into every passer’s face. I turn from
all these, horribly disgusted, but to meet the
knight of the pill-bags dispensing his vaunted
nostrums to a deluded people ; and then my
heart sickens, and I long for the promised land
where these debasing influences cannot come. I
have a little cherub growing up that I do not
want exposed to all of these morbid and pollut
ing influences which exist all around us.”
Mountain Land for Fruit-Growing.—J.
G. P., writing from North Carolina, near Black
Mountain, strongly recommends that part of
the country as a proper location for a Vegetarian colony. The following remarks are equally
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applicable to his location and to Hygeiana:
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“ The great and chief business of colonies, such
as we contemplate, will be that of raising fruits;
and as there is but one kind of locality (in this
country, at least), which never fails to hit (as
the saying is), and as the land hereabouts is
mostly of this kind, so I regard it as of great
value, although for raising Indian corn, which
is considered the neplus ultra of successful farm
ing, it is not as well adapted as the bottom lands
along the rivers and creeks; hence the hilly
lands are considered of little value by people
generally, and can be purchased for a trifle com
paratively. The land I speak of as best adapted
to the purposes of a Vegetarian colony is moun
tain land ; and I have no doubt that thousands
of acres which can be cheaply purchased, are
perfectly adapted to the raising of all kinds of
fruits. I consider a large quantity of this kind
of land a sine qua non to a successful Hygealthic community, and my policy would be to lo
cate as much of it as possible. Mountains were
the ‘ sunny spots’ of earth with our Saviour, and
his most sacred acts were performed upon them.
And why should they not be dearest to us also ?
Besides, the ‘ good time coming,’ according to
Isaiah, will be ushered in on or in the moun
tains. Let us, then, have at least one Hygeal1 thic mountain colony, and call it Montadelphia.
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“ P. S. The above was written before I saw typographical appearance and its doctrines. I
your ‘ Hygeiana.’ You took this word ‘ out pity the man who is so mystified and befogged
that he can read its pages and not be convinced.
of my mouth.’ as the saying is.”
A Good Word from Missouri.—T. S. writes To me, who am one of the most radical believ
ers in the Hygienic system and its philosophy,
from Clinton county, Mo.: “ The Health Reform
seemed to be entirely unknown here when I it is utterly incomprehensible how men can so
settled in 1863. But by circulating your jour often have the truth presented to them and yet
nals among the people, I have made some con see it not. You may or may not recognize my
verts. Several families of my acquaintance are name among the list of your students for 1863—4.
now zealous advocates of the Hygienic system, As I have not been heard from since then, do
and do not employ the drug doctors when they not think I have been a backslider. From my
organization, that I could not be. I am prepar
are sick.”
ing to take the field at no distant day, and work
A Watch for Hygieana.—An unmarried with heart and soul for the cause of Health Re
lady writes from Ohio : “ Dr. Trail—Sir: On form and for all reforms. I have a large vol
noticing in the last number of the Gospel of ume (manuscript) of reports of your lectures,
Health that a whole score of unmarried ladies which I took phonographically, and which I
had entered into your enterprise of Hygienic value far more than any book I have. W ithout
homes, I bid them God-speed, and wished that trespassing further upon your time, believe me
I was among the number ; but not having any
always your
“ Co-worker.”
ready funds, I have delayed sending an applica
tion. I am very desirous to try my hand at
Hogs and Dogs, Tobacco and Drugs.—A.
farming, and have bethought myself of my E. writes from Vineland, N. J.: “My Dear
watch which, perhaps, you will accept in ex Friend Dr. Trail: I am glad that the colony
change for a ten-acre lot in Hygeiana. It is is finally located, for 1 have been waiting and
considered a good gold watch, but there is no working for this for twenty years. I feel that
sale for such property here ; but if you think the time has come to come out from the wicked,
you can dispose of it to advantage, and can afford and to get away' from hogs and dogs, the vile
to take it. Please let me know.”
weed tobacco, and the doctors’ drugs. Hygei
Send on the watch ; the farm is yours. We ana, in a few years, with its fruits and flowers,
will not dispose of the watch, but keep it as col its sweet lawns and beautiful cottages, its hap
lateral ; and when our fair unmarried corre py homes and healthy inhabitants, will present
spondent earns the money and can conveniently the most remarkable contrast with the general
spare the money, she shall have the watch aspect of society that the world has ever seen.
again.
Will it not be a second Eden, or Eden restored ?
Tired of the “Natives.”—C. D. B. writes An influence cannot fail to emanate from its
from Illinois : “ Dr. Trail—Dear Sir: I have green fields and beautiful hills that will extend
missed your teachings very much since you the blessings of the Hygienic system far and
discontinued your connection with the Herald wide. After looking over your programme for
of Health, and did not know what had become colonization, I have no fears that it will be too
of you until I accidentally met with a number radical. I am a gardener and nurseryman, and
of the Gospel of Health a few days ago. I think that I can be a useful man among you.
do not wish to part company, and so send my At all events, put me down for one farm. I
subscription for one year. I am very much in will send the amount in a few days, and shall
terested in your project for a Hygienic settle purchase several lots if I can raise the means
ment, and would like to become a member of soon enough. My family will remove to Hygei
it. This is a fine fruit country, but I am sur ana just as soon as I can dispose of our property
rounded by ‘ natives’ who think that hog and in this place. Myself and wife are getting old,
hominy and strong coffee are the -necessities of but we desire to do good to our fellow-mortals,
and I know no way of accomplishing more, as
life.”
Our New Volume.—G. G., who is principal we are in feeble health, than to settle in Ilyof a seminary for learning near Philadelphia, geiana and take an agency for circulating your
Pa., writes : “ Dr. Trail—Dear Sir: Permit me journal and selling your books, and procuring
to express my great pleasure at seeing the Gos orders for nursery stock—choice kinds of vines,
pel of Health come out in a new and vastly apple, peach, and pear trees, etc. I am willing
improved form. It is now in a style fitted to to exchange property—let you have my houses
go forth and challenge criticism, both as to its and lots in Vineland—and take their value in
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land in Hygeiana. I would like to take a thou
sand copies of the Gospel ok Health to give
away, but have no means until I sell. The
Gospel ought to be in every family in the
United States.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A Hotel in Hygeiana.—E. B. B.—Dr. Trail
—Dear Sir: I would like to have you answer a
few question in the Gospel of Health, es
pecially as they may interest others as well as
myself. 1. What is the name of the nearest
town to Hygeiana? 2. What is the nearest
Post-office? 3. Is the Sciota river navigable?
4. Will there be a house or shanty erected by
the first of April, so that persons can have shel
ter for a night or two, till he can construct a shan
ty of his own ? I shall send you the names of
several purchasers in time for the March num
ber.”
1. Hygeiana is bounded on the north by
Chillicothe, and on- the south by Waverley.
2. Waverley is the nearest Post-office. 3- The
Sciota is not navigated, a canal along its banks
doing the freight business, and the railway
transporting the passengers. 4. As to the shanty
we cannot say. Probably a number will be
built before the middle of April. But persons
can get lodgings near by, among the farmers,
for a few nights, or they can live in tents, or
sleep in a covered wagon as thousands of travel
ers do on long journeys.
Buckwheat—Itch—Gripes.—E. O. M.—“1.
Is buckwheat a wholesome article of food ? 2. If
so, why does it give people, cattle, and hogs the
itch? 3. How do you heal gripes and green
discharges in children ?” 1. Yes. 2. It does
not do it. 3. Abdominal fomentations or warm
hip-baths, with proper attention to diet. I&the
child is nursing, the mother’s habits of eating,
drinking, exercise, etc., must be attended to.
Sick-Headache.—A. S. T.—“ What can be
done for one who is subject to what is called
the sick-headache ? It is either constitutional
or caused by the measles when a child, or by
drug medication for the measles. The patient
is thirty years of age ; was in the army three
years, and st ffered much from sickness or from
the prescriptions of the M. Ds. His paroxysms
of headache are much more frequent than be
fore going into the army.” A disordered liver
is the immediate cause of the trouble, whatever
may have been the remote or primary causes.
An abstemious diet, a daily ablution, and occa
sional hip-baths, are the proper remedial meas
ures.
Palpitation.—0. S. F.—Constipation of the
bowels is the most common cause. An enlarged
liver will occasion it. The remedy is plain food,
moderation in the quantity of food, and correct
habits generally. Bleeding affords temporary
relief, but always aggravates the trouble event
ually.
Panting.—S. S. R.—Short breath, panting,
and “fluttering of the heart,” etc., are caused
by obstructions in the livgr or bowels, weak
ness of the abdominal muscles, congestion of the
lungs, and many other causes. Ascertain the
abnormal condition, and medicate accordingly.
Quick Returns.—S. O. wants to know what
are the best crops for immediate profit to raise
in Hygeiana while the fruit-trees are growing.
There are several, and among them are onions,
beans, beets, and sweet corn. These are always
saleable at a remunerating price, are easily cul
tivated, and require no special attention or
preparation.
The Appetite for Tobacco.—T. S.—“Please
give me, in the next Gospel, a plan of home
treatment to destroy the appetite for tobacco—of
long standing, say twenty or thirty years.”
Let the patient discontinue the use of it for
as many days as he has used it years. He must
not touch it again during his life lest the appe
tite return with redoubled fury, and he become
more the child of the devil than before.
Spinal Irritation.—M. A. S.—Tenderness
of some part of the spinal column does not prove
the existence of spinal disease, but in nine of
every ten cases, is merely indicative of disease
or obstruction in some of the internal viscera.
Caustics applied to the back for supposed spinal
diseases, have ruined the health of thousands
who never had spinal disease at all.
Zymotic.—E. S. S.—This term is applied to
such diseases as are more especially occasioned
by foul air, as typhoid fevers. Accumulated
excrement, imperfect ventilation, and too long
retention of the waste or effete matters of the
body, are the causes of zymotic diseases. Clean
liness would be a complete preventive of all
contagious diseases, as measles, small-pox, hoop
ing cough, etc.
Baker’s Bread.—A. L. R.—Physiologically
we regard baker’s bread as a worse article of
diet than lean flesh-meat. We know of no
article that is baker’s manufacture that is proper
food for human beings, nor, indeed, for ani
mals.
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Plethora.—A.M.—Sugar, butter, starch, etc.,
may be very fattening, but are also very disease
producing. They are in no proper sense proper
food at all. It is not fat but flesh that you need.
You have too much adipose matter already, and
the more you increase it the more you will
diminish the flesh. Avoid sugar, milk, grease,
salt, and seasonings of all kinds.
Books.—A. R. R.—Your letters were answered
and the books forwarded according to order, by
mail Why you have not received them we
have no means of knowing. It is customary for
everybody to blame publishers for all disap
pointments, but we happen to know that the
fault is much more frequently with mail-carri
ers and post-masters, than with publishers or
their clerks.
Eastern IIygeiana. Home.—S. S. C.—We
shall be ready for patients at Florence, N. J., on
the first day of April next. During the summer,
heating apparatus will be distributed through
out the building, so that it will not be closed
another winter.
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rejoice, as it has not had since the advent of
Hippocrates, when the best Allopathic medical
class is reduced to a Homeopathic dilution of
the tincture of the shadow of a shade of noth
ing at all.
No Summer Term.—In reply to frequent in
quiries, we reiterate the statement we have
often made, that there will be no summer term
of the Hygeio-Therapeutic College in 1867. This
is settled, whether we go to Paris or not. Other
work, which we have delayed for years on ac
count of the college, must now be attended to,
after which we hopo to resume the college
terms under improved auspices. All scholar
ships, outstanding or hereafter purchased, will
be good for the next or any subsequent term of
the college.
A Court Journal on Crinoline.—The
London Court Journal, of a late date, has the
following remarks on this expansive subject:
No beauty of form or splendor of material
in costume can compensate for manifest incon
venience to the wearer. No dress is sanctioned
by good taste which does not permit, and seem
to permit, the easy performance of any move
ment proper to the wearer’s age and condition
in life ; for it defies the very first law of the
mixed arts—fitness. Form is the most impor
tant element of the absolute beauty of dress, as
it is of all arts that appeal to the eye. The
lines of costume should in every part conform
to those of nature, or be in harmony with them.
We must, therefore, regard as the elementary
requisites of all dress, that it be comfortable and
decent, convenient and suitable, beautiful in
form and color, simple, genuine, harmonious
with nature and itself. The taste for the very
wide, full skirts, aDd large jupons, which has so
long prevailed, is now beginning to decline ; and
ladies distinguished for their good taste are
adopting a moderate style of crinoline. Many
persons are apt to run into extremes at the least
indication of a change in fashion, but nothing
can be a greater error. Fashion, as we have
hinted, changes by almost imperceptible de
grees, in accordance with the progress of public
taste ; and every new style which is introduced
must, to become successful, be an improvement
on those which preceded it. It is, therefore,
ludicrous to see a few ladies who have quite dis
carded thejupon without modifying the form of
their skirt, thus leaving the dress to trail on the
ground, and form very ungraceful folds.”
The theory of dress announced by the Court
Journal, is both sensible and true; but the
practice it recommends seems to ignore the the
ory entirely. If the lines of costume are to
conform to those of nature in every part, why
not adopt the “ American Costume ‘I ”
Medical Schools at a Discount.—The
Medical Record of this city imputes the small
- classes of medical students now attending the
Allopathic Colleges to the increase of the lecture
fees. We incline to the opinion that this cir
cumstance has little or nothing to do with the
question. We think it is owing to the obvi
ously diminished demand for their services on
the part of the public. Precisely as the people,
in any part of the world, become more enlight
ened on the subjects of medical science and the
Healing Art, as they exist in Poisonopathy, the
less will they have to do with doctors of the
drugopathic persuasion. Before the war there
was a remarkable diminution of medical stu
dents ; but the war created an opportunity for
some thousands of physicians and surgeons to
find temporary employment. Then there was
a rush to the medical colleges, which did not
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end with the war, and the year immediately
preceding the cessation of hostilities witnessed
unprecedented crowds of ambitious young men
en route for the places where diplomas were
conferred. But the “ reaction,” to use the usual
absurd expression of Allopathic friends, has al
ready “ set in.” Students have fallen off like
the subsidence of the hot stage of a quotidian.
Well, we hope the “ subsidence ” will continue
A lady advertises in a Glasgow paper that
to increase, and humanity will have cause to she wants a gentleman “ for breakfast and tea.”
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CHURCH UNION
ENCE.
ON
INFLU
There are words of wisdom in the following
remarks, which we clip from a religions paper
recently started in Brooklyn. Without assent
ing to or dissenting from its political predilec
tions, we can most heartily recommend the
principle inculcated to all Health Reformers
and especially to those whom the world de
nounces as crazy one-ideaists.
INFLUENCE.
must therefore never be measured by his FifthAvenue Church, and its wealth, quality, and
obsequious obeisance to his flatteries. The
camel’s hair and leather girdle has a revolution
bound up within it, even if locust and wild hon
ey is its meat.
•
George Fox, in his leather-breeches, was more
powerful than archbishops ; yea, popes, when
the whole column of debit and credit shall be
run up some time yet. Wait till the battle is
over, and see if the little corporal isn’t emperor
at last.
•We are induced to commend these reflections
to the consideration of all men in search of pow
er to do good. Power for evil never comes in
this way—that is therefore out of the reckoning.
Power for good is gained by devotion to truth.
He is a “ Brick ” who never worships only at
the shrine of truth ; who hates all sycophancy,
all ceremony of diplomacy, all indecision, all
Chesterfieldian morals, all high-low cliurchi.m,
all vicars of Bray, all mutual admiration, Chris
tian unionism—but loves and fears only God
and his Truth, and he, only, has influence. Such
men are not now in power among the sects, for
sectarianism draws its life from sycophants.
We used to think a man’s, and especially a
minister’s influence, was proportioned to the
number of admirers, imitators, and sycophants
he could gather around him. This is’ the pop
ular idea. We can point to the so-called lead
ing men in the different sects, and the world
will always judge of their influence by this
standard. He who has the most fashionable
congregation, who presides at all social or sec
tarian meetings, who sits in the seat of honor
when Morton Petolias a dinner of notables, who
make the clerical speech when the President, or
Japanese Tom comes, he is the man of in
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fluence ; so thought we once in Callow’s simple
WHAT THEY HAD FOR SUPPER.
days. So think the crowds yet. A little reflec
tion, and more acquaintance with men, have com
pletely revolutionized our ideas. Jesus of Naz
First, I will tell you something of the family
areth—shall we leave him out of the list of in
It consisted of six persons, father, mother,
fluential characters ? Or, if he be said to have and four children—all boys, respectively, ten,
been divine—Wickliffe, Huss, Galileo, Burns, ' twelve, fourteen, and sixteen years of age. The
Milton, Wilberforce, Garrison—what will we do father was U large, well-formed, intelligent, and,
with them ? None of them were appreciated, I must say, healthy-looking man, about fortynor had they much visible influence.
five years of age. The mother was pale, deli
The man most dreaded to day in this nation, cate, intellectual, and miserable. The boys
the man who has done more to bend this nation, were sallow, cadaverous, and voracious.
give it ideas, shape its policy, nerve it for the
Now for the supper. There was half a bushel,
conflict of the age, is a man of so little personal or a little less, of hot, saleratus biscuit—prop
influence, that he probably could not get elected erly so called, as from their looks I should judge
to the office of hogreeve for the township where they were made of two parts saleratus and
he dwells. He has been President of these I grease,and one part flour; pork sausage, swim
United States these ten years past, and is quite mingin grease ; potatoes fried in grease ; a large
likely to be for thirty years to come, if not long bowl of grease—called gravy ; apple-pie, of which
er, though he couldn’t be elected to Congress the crust was at least one half grease ; dough
in any district in the country. Don’t think we j nuts, or crullers, cooked in grease, and rpplemean Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson ; No 1 sauce, spoiled by spices, of some kind. For drink,
these have been mere clerks of the great leader 1 they had strong, green tea.
of public opinion, who has presided over states
Of all these various abominatione, all the fam
where a vote for him would have been an ear ily (except one of the boys, who was sick with
nest—of tar and feathers, if not a gentle suspen- j headache) partook hugely, and just before retir
sion from the nearest tree. We mean, of course, ing, the sick boy was so far recovered, as to be
Mr. Phillips.
able, at the earnest sol ¡citation of the mother, to
In short, no influence is so absolutely Omnip eat a quarter of a pie, and a handful of the
otent as that of the Truth-teller. Devils fear doughnuts.
and tremble before him ; timid time-servers flee j Now, is not the ignorance, as such a supper
before him as they did before him of the whip I as this displays, of all of God’s laws of health,
of small cords.
perfectly astounding ?
They who judge a man’s influence by the
Yet, as I said before, the parents were intel
flattery the people give him, tremble for fear ligent people, on nearly all other subjects. The
“ he may hurt his influence.” “ You destroy father had held a lucrative position in the army,
your power with leading men by your radical and had just bought and furnished a nice little
ism,” say men with gold spectacles and white home of fifty acres in the country.
chokers. Not a bit of it. Never fear. The
They were well supplied with books, papers,
great truth-teller of Judea lost his life by his &c.
radicalism, but his death was victory over sin
I tried to get them to subscribe for the Gos
and hell. A man’s influence, and a minister’s pel of HEALTH.but no—they could not afford it!
power, whose whole stock in trade is truth, Poor man !—he had better take it if it cost hint
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•$200 a year, instead of $2. Perhaps some read
er may be ready to inquire, “ Well, what did
you find to eat at such a table?’’ Easily an
swered—nothing. I excused myself from going
to the table as best I could.
In the morning we‘had for breakfast about
what we had for supper, with the addition of
buckwheat cakes. I ate some of the latter, and
a little of the apple-sauce—considering these the
least objectionable of anything I could get.
My business calls me from home a good deal
of my time, and I believe it is no exaggeration
to say that three-fourths of our people live as
does this family. Is it any wonder we are a na
tion of invalids ? Occasionally, I meet with a
family intelligent upon the subject of Hygiene
—and whose practice is in accordance with their
belief. Such a family to me, is like an oasis in
the desert to the lost and weary traveller.
Intelligence upon this subject is generally bom
of much suffering, and untimely death of friends
and relatives.
Let all who have been enlightened, labor to
extend a knowledge of the Gospel of Health.
j. w. M.
WHOLENESS.
Wholeness is completeness. Applied to
things it signifies unity and symmetry of form.
Applied to persons, it supposes power ; a wellbalanced distribution of activity, and a certain
execution of purpose, implied in the constitu
tional functions of our being.
Womanhood and Manhood are the significant
terms for human wholeness. A stone may be
whole as a stone; an edifice may be whole—
complete—as an edifice ; a child may be whole
—healthily performing its emotional functions
as a child ; but more than this, Womanhood and
Manhood, in wholeness enshrines greatness,
which, like a star, sheds its light on all con
tinually, and brightens as there is need for
light.
It must be seen, however, that human whole
ness, as above defined, is not a birth right only
by possibility of attainment.
The fabled ones of old have no corresponding
facts in human experience; we are not born
women and men, bnt babes ; as we are not born
noble and virtuous, but innocent; the latter be
ing a prophesy of the former.
Evidently, the grand purpose of our earth life
is, by a process of culture, to attain human
wholeness. Will persons say the purpose of
life is to glorify God? We answer, the glory of
God is his manifestation, and the highest mani
festation of any divine life on earth is in the
human consciousness of spiritual things. And
the cultivation of human life produces higher
'and higher manifestation of the divine will or
purpose, therefore, the highest cultivated life,
human wholeness, is the greatest glory, and the
highest thinkable end of earthly action.
In the light of this corollary we view all pres
ent aims, methods and institution with this
further provision:
1st. That all thingsand conditions,actually
desirable are attainable by human effort in keep
ing with natural law.
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2. That the things and conditions attainable
are associates, therefore cannot be legitimately
sectarized. The one cannot be attained, held,
and used successfully, without reference to the
other.
Our first proposition, we presume, will be
readily seen and accepted by all thinking per
sons unless we except some theologians who
will as readily drop it as “ infidel.”
The second is like unto it, in point of fact,
though if involves methods that are not so
readily mastered. Herein we see the waste of
effort, the want of wholeness.
We will take to illustrate our thought, the
process of physiological evolution in the child.
We may supjjose the babe j ust born to be whole
as a babe. Bodily organs, respiration, circula
tion, all complete. There is a perfect adjust
ment of one part to the other, leaving no undue
extremes. Here, then, to our observation, com
mences a struggle upward toward womanhood
or manhood. We know that all things desira
ble are possible, so far as the constitution of the
child is concerned, and the only questionable
ground is the method adopted in rearing the
child. But what are the requirements ? Sim
ply that an equilibrium shall be maintained, as
between the several organs and functions of the
body; that wholeness be perpetuated, and that
no one part feed upon and devour the other, or
in any way rob it of its required vitality or ex
ercise. As the child advances, new functions
will appear, broader scope of action will be de
manded, and therewith the nicer adjustment of
one part to all the rest. If the newly-born babe
be subjected to extremes of heat and cold ; it
it be starved and overfed alternately, and if in
after-years it be subjected to extremes of affec
tion and anger, caressed and beaten ; if extremes
rapidly alternate through life, or if an extreme
in any one direction be taken and maintained ;
we shall hardly fail to see, as a result, some
glaring fault, some insurmountable weakness,
and withal a fretful waste of life’s forces.
May not this process of individual growth find
an exact counterpart, so far as methods and re
sults are concerned, in society ? Society is not
merely a collection of men, women, and children,
any more than the human form is merely a col
lection of bones, muscles, and nerves. One part
of society cannot be fostered at the expense, or
to the neglect of the other, without abating the
action, and impairing the health of the whole.
Witness even the extremes of American society
in this respect. Our appeal to arms in 1861 had
no other cause, primarily, than the persistent
effort of one part of the body politic to usurp the
rights of another part, and socially to make
equals in fact, subservient in use. One can but
see the inevitable consequence of such a course.
It came, and corresponding results will continue
to come, as long as similar causes exist, or until
an equilibrium metes out equal and exact jus
tice to all.
In the religious department of society, we
find excessive turmoil: sect warring with sect,
and in sheer contention for masteiy, wasting
more than one-half their energy ; and the whole
theological or “ orthodox ” school deny the right
of equal Divine favor to others, who, just as no
ble as they, differ in forms of belief. Who can
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not prophecy that just as certain as authority to
dictate is assumed by the “ orthodox,” and per
sistently urged, that they will be overthrown
by the dissenters; and the extreme measures
employed for their overthrow will be in exact
proportion to the gravity of their assump
tion, and the tenacity of their adherence to
it ?
As between the sexes, the same comparison
can be drawn. Without any inherent right
whatever to do so, man assumes the control of
society. He makes and administers what is
called law, demanding of woman not only obe
dience to it, but also to his wishes, often to her
own destruction, and oftener to her inexpressi
ble disgust. In this respect, the record of wrongs
silently borne, in intensity and depth of mean
ing, exceed, perhaps, that of any other depart
ment of life, at least in the present century, and
it becomes more and more significant. Is there
no remedy ? Yes, it is in the very constitution
of society, and cannot be forever, or long with
held. And, further still, the classes are terribly
unbalanced. Money, even in America, warrants
favor, and gains position, as against brains and
integrity. Capital owns labor, and degrades it
just as the priest degrades the layman, or man
the woman, that thereby its power and rule may
be perpetuated. Now, we affirm that as human
wholeness is the grand aim of individual life,
that as woman and man, physically, mentally,
morally, and spiritually equilibrated, are the
highest earthly expression of Divine wisdom, so
society, which derives its type from them, finds
its highest expression in wholeness, or the ad
justment of all its parts so as to secure activity,
without contentious opposition. All women
and men are created equal, and are endowed
with certain inalienable rights which pertain to
the whole being, politically, religiously, so
cially.
Can it be otherwise than that the same stand
ard and practice shall obtain in society ? Cer
tainly not. We may cry peace! peace! but
there is no peace until the Idea of Wholeness
is practically acknowledged and sought to be
attained by all.
Upon this we base our hopes and labors for
reform in the future, with the full consciousness
that, though there maybe differences of opinion,
and though different women and men are speciallv adapted to certain work and unfit for cer
tain other work, yet all together constitute the
measure of human uses and symbolize industrial
wholeness. The various legitimate means of
life and progress everywhere chime in their
perpetual harmony of purpose. And we rise in
the scale of being just in proportion as we, in our
consciousness and volition, accord with the great
eternal Ideas of Wholeness, and practically bal
ance the scales of justice. The difference in our
illustration of the child and society is nominal.
We assume the child’s equilibrium, and proceed
to perpetuate it. The different departments and
parts of society are not in equilibrium, but by
effort this condition is to be attained, until dif
ferences will not be a synonym for contention ;
then the waste of effort ceases, and the social
and industrial energies produce, where now they
irritate and re-act.
We are not expecting to attain peace and
vigor by merely writing or announcing the con
dition of their existence. The significant words
of Emerson, “ Choose which ye will, truth or
repose,” ring in our ears, and every day we
tighten our armor for continued effort, with the
simple provision that we stand in the breach
and strike for justice and equality. Time will
render an account of persistent’ effort, which
will be effectual in proportion as it is wise.
We have no particular desire that people
should agree. Wholeness is not sameness. It
would be well, however, if we could agree to
disagree, and not stoop to the obstruction of each
other’s way. No one class can far precede the
others ; each must help ; and egotism is a cursed
thing. May it not be that all political, social,
and religious reformers constitute, in three
divisions, the Grand Army of Progress ? It seems
so to us ; and while we sincerely admire indi
vidual Wholeness which, at least, implies vigor,
justice, and virtue, we can but plead for social
Wholeness, which implies unity of effort, to
the end that each may have his or her own.
THE KEY TO KNOWLEDGE.
There is a refreshing philosophy of theology
in the following extract from a sermon lately
delivered by Rev. O. B. Frothingham of this
city :
Once we waited on the theologians to give us
the magic word, at whose utterance the gates
which open from our cavern into the light-of
day would roll back. Now, to understand the
theologians’ word is one of the undertakings
that we are ready to abandon. The difficulty
is to reveal the revelation ; to unveil the veil.
We are getting tired of looking on as at some
grand spectacle that is to be disclosed before
our eyes, by a few workmen who are toiling
behind the scenes to lift a curtain which still
hangs stubbornly before certain majestic but.
dumb statues of antiquity, and are thinking it
is high time to find out some truth for our
selves. The revelations of men who look away
from human life into a far-off literary world—
who take the wings of their imagination and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, are illu
sive and unfruitful. They are productive of
conjecture, and guess, and surmise, and specu
lation, but of little else Their light is at the
best uncertain—it is commonly misleading.
Their teaching lacks authority, and it lacks
consistency—it bewilders more than it guides.
These great seers and prophets had life before
them just as we have. Their object was to get
a solution of life’s mystery—even such as we
desire—but their method was to look away
from life in order to get light upon it; to retire
to their closets in order to get at the secret
which was in the world; to burrow into the
recesses of their own minds in search of the key
which was to unlock the chambers of the ma
terial and human universe, to escape into the
regions of sentiment, that they might hear
the Btill small voice which counsellors and
kings must obey.
Such was not the method of Jesus. No meta
physician, or theologian, or closet-philosopher
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was he, but a genuine child of nature. He lived into its parts, analyzing, pulverizing, blowing
in direct communication with the life of his substances into gas—its optics screwed into a
time, to the consideration of which he brought lens, and boring into a point, it is apt to miss
the keenest of observation, the finest of intelli those splendid combinations which reveal the
gences, the purest and sweetest of hearts. The spirit, movement, and genius of the whole. The
meaning of what he saw was revealed to him. specialists in science seldom throw light on the
The sunbeams were his teachers, and the show purposes and ends of things, The atoms are
ers, the grasses, the lilies, the birds, the pastur more than the eternities to them. The most
ing sheep, the mountain torrents, the harvest famous of them, lacking the sympathy that
fields, the sowers scattering their grain, the blends them with the whole, will deny all pur
fishermen hauling in their nets, the people.pray pose, all end, all design and significance. No
ing or trafficking in the temple, the children heap of information is equivalent to a truth.
playing in the square—in all these things he The physiologist may show us all there is in a
saw God. If he went away alone, it was for human "body, may explain how it is formed out
meditation and prayer—to the end that he of a tiny cell, how it is nourished by the assim
might keep clear and single the inward eye by ilation of food, how the secretions are made,
which he perceived the divine significance in how the condition of the brain affects intelli
gence ; but when he has set up his skeleton,
the common events of his day.
it
Two things of inestimable value Jesus has and clothed the with flesh, and covered it all
breathing garment
bequeathed to us. One is his method of seeking round with shown us a man. Thereof the skin,
he has
are worlds
revelations ; the other is the quality of vision by within not
worlds of meaning there that he has not
which revelations are made possible. This come upon, or guessed the existence of. All
method was the study of life—this vision was that we call affection, intelligence, heart, soul,
the loving intelligence.
spirit, whatever it be, is hidden trom him. That
The first point is obvious. The world is before sphere of fine sympathies and relations in which
us still; and life is before us—real as ever— he touches other beings like himself, higher,
richer than ever. Not a fact of the universe lower, wiser, simpler, better, worse, is to him
has been removed from its place ; cm the con as though it were not. In a word, he sees the
trary, many additional facts have been piled up carnal, lie does not see the divine. He sees the
under our observation. The world we live in, portion that belongs to the dust, not the portion
as compared with the world that Jesus lived in, that belongs to the deity. To see that, requires
is as the city of New York to a country village. an illuminated mind. The unilluminated man
We have new sufferings and new diseases—new sees no revelation of God’s truth or benignity
modes of living and dying; new interests and in the flowers—
new relations—new duties and new responsibili
“ The primrose on the river’s brim
ties. Married life is not the same—home life is
A yellow primrose is to him,
not the same—life of leisure and of business is
And it is nothing more.”
not the same. Men are not the same, nor women,
But the great poet says :
nor children. We have new doubts, beliefs,
<• Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
sentiments, fears, sorrows, aspirations. What
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,
shall reveal to us the meaning of this life of
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
ours? What can reveal it to us? Can any
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
thing but study of our life as it is, do it ? There
A mind thus illuminated and turned directly
it is before us, no doubt, full of order, and law,
and beautv, if we could but see it—full of wis upon our human life, not turned away to creeds
dom, too. Every thing in it appointed, arranged, and bibles and theologies, but turned directly
adjusted nicely to every other thing. No acci upon human life, has the revelation of God s
dents, no surprises, no untimely or disjointed will and purpose in human life. The meaning
events. All things well in their place, all things of God is wrought into the substances of things ;
tending upward toward perfection, all things into organic and inorganic matter ; into the hu
doing good service in their time, all things man frame; into the regulation of personal
provided for—every thing ministering to some habits; into private, domestic, social, civil, po
thing else—how are we to know it, to feel it ? litical life; into days and epochs; into events
and histories. If it is revealed to us at all. it
Clearly by looking at it, not away from it.
Let us come to the second condition. The must be revealed there. To the loving eye it
revealer is the Reason, the illuminated mind will be revealed.”
turned on life at any point. The illuminated
mind, I say again ; and by the illuminated mi nd
I mean the mind which is lighted by splendid
Among mere blunders we believe we have
ideas, and warmed by a deep and wide humani met with no richer specimen than this one, per
ty. God’s truth is wrought into the texture of petrated by a bell ringer in Cork :
our common life, and may be found there full
“ Oh, vis'! oh, yis1 Lost somewhere between
and glowing by him who has eyes to see it. But twelve o’clock and M’Kinney’s store in Market
the eyes that are to see it must have behind street, a large brass key. I’ll not be after tellin’
them, not speculation merely, but sentiment, yees what it is, but it’s the key of the bank,
heart, soul. They must be loving eyes, as well sure.”
as keen ones. And so I say that science, in the
A counsel being questioned by a judge to
ordinary sense of the word, is not the revealer.
Science uses the microscope, the spectrum, the know “ for whom he was concerned,” replied,
retort, the crucible—vea, the telescope, with “ I am concerned, my lord, for the plaintiff, but
wonderful skill; but while separating matter I am employed by the defendant.”
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BRITAIN.
GREAT
NO. I.
Said a friend to us j ust before we started on
our tour to Great Britain in August last, “ You
can’t practice vegetarianism in that country
where there are no fruits.” “ Are there no
fruits there?” said I. “ Scarcely any,” was the
reply. “ Peaches and grapes are only grown in
hot-houses, and even apples are a meagre and
indifferent crop. Small fruits are not much at
best ; and, as for dried fruits, they are not in
the market.” Such was the doleful prospect
presented to the frugivorous tourist.
Well, after traveling through the length and
breadth of the country, from almost the ex
treme north of Scotland to the south coast of
England, and visiting, meanwhile, most of the
large cities, I had some little opportunity to
take items on a subject in which I was practi
cally interested, at least two or three times
daily. In the first place, the humidity of the
climate is such that one needs, and therefore
desires, a drier diet there than here. Just as on
sea, one naturally prefers more of “hard bis
cuit” (alias Graham crackers), and less of fruits
and other moist and juicy substances.
But, aside from all climatic considerations,
the vegetarian will experience no difficulty
whatever, as he travels from city to city, in ob
taining the very best of fruits, vegetables, and
farinaceous food. Instead of taking the usual
hotel fare, etc., for some two hours, laboring
through six, eight, or ten courses of soup, fish,
fowl, mutton, beef, dessert, etc., etc., with length
ened pauses between each (for the good natives
are strangers to the dispatch of our American
hotels), and finally finishing off with several
rounds of porter, claret, champagne, etc., the
traveler can go to the “ coffee-room,” order just
what he wants, and haw and when it shall be
prepared. Or, if he doesn’t like the extrava
gant bills at hotels, he can obtain, for a few
shillings per week, excellent private lodgings
(say a parlor and bed-room), with attendance
included, and order his meals as before. This
is really the better way. One is more comfort
able, more retired, better waited upon, and at
less expense than he would be at a hotel. You
can have, if you like (in Scotland at least), su
perb oat-meal porridge—better than you ever
ate in this country—for the imported article
(and that is all we have here) is always injured
by damp and otherwise, together with good
brown bread, excellent vegetables, and the
choicest of fruits.
In no cities in our own country have I ever
seen in the markets a finer supply of fruits and
at so trifling expense. (Think of a great “ Scotch
pint” full of splendid strawberries or goose
berries for three pence, and a pound of good
eating apples for the same money!) Some of
the imported fruits are higher, but we should
think none of them extravagant. Apples, pears,
plums, grapes, gooseberries, strawberries, and
other fruits, are plentiful and cheap. Some of
the large fruit stores in the cities are beautiful
beyond description. The “ small fruits ” con
tinue much longer in summer there than here ;
the climate is peculiarly adapted to them. The
abundant moisture that permeates the soil and
fills the very air, making it at times almost op
pressive, is most favorable to the growth of all
fruits and vegetables native to the island. The
raspberry, gooseberry, and strawberry, grow
much larger than with us; and, instead of that
keen, sharp' acid which people with a “ sweet
tooth ” take such exceptions to, they have a
mild, sweet, and delicious flavor.
In Aberdeen market I sa.w raspberries, goose
berries, strawberries, and currants, as late as the
middle of September; (they were done in Glas
gow some two or three weeks before ;) and I
was informed that these fruits begin to ripen
there almost as early as they do with us. The
berries which I saw were the last of the season,
and the market women called them “ poor
but I thought them very fine indeed. I tried
the experiment of putting a single strawberry
(an extra big one, of course, and rather irregu
larly shaped) into a .common-sized tumbler, and
found that it would not go half way to the bot
tom ! The gooseberries are of several varieties
and of different colors—yellow, green, pink, and
dark red—the green-colored ones being gener
ally the best. They are about twice as large
as we usually grow them here in Ohio, and are
very delicious ; the same may be said of the
raspberry. There were currants and huckle
berries in the market, much the same as we
have them in this country ; and in some of the
cities I saw cranberries, said to be grown, I
think, in the north of Scotland. The blackberry
(or “ bramble-berry,” as they call it—the black
currant is their “ blackberry ”) is only grown in
the wild state, and is very similar to our wild
blackberry.
Grapes, although commonly grown in hot
houses, are very fine, especially those grown in
the southern parts of England. Some of the
white grapes are excellent. Apples are rather
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plentiful, at least in the cities ; they ripen later
than with us, and are inferior in quality, par
ticularly those grown far north. The Scotch
apples are usually very sour and crisp and rather
small; some of them are very fine cooked. The
best eating apples that I saw in Scotland, that
is, the best native apples, were the Scotch “ pip
pins,” a very small apple, with a mild, sub-acid.
The apples commanding the highest price are
those imported from America. Apples do best
in that climate when the trees are trained up
to i wall or to the side of a house, where they
cai have all the sunlight and heat possible, for
Great Britain is not a land of sunshine. Indeed,
during the three months that we were there,
the island seemed almost constantly enveloped
in mist and clouds ; and I said to the good peo
ple—who think the Americans very dark-col
ored—that it was no wonder they were white,
since the sun never shown upon them.
It is too far north, and there is too little sun
shine for peaches. They can only be grown in
hot-houses; and though they often look very
well, they are rather insipid. I saw at Salis
bury, England, nice-looking tomatoes growing
in the hot-houses, but they are seldom in the
market, imported or otherwise ; and many of
the country people have never seen one. Beau
tiful plums and pears are in the markets and
fruit stores, most of them imported from France
and Germany. Of dried and canned fruits there
are not so many, nor is there so great variety
there as here, chiefly because there is not that
demand for them by the people, who seem
scarcely to have learned either the luxury or
the worth of them. Canned fruits are to be
found in some of the cities (sometimes imported
from New York), but the great masses of the
people have never heard of such a thing. Did
wholesome fruits take among poor people the
place of the pipe and snuff-box, and among the
rich people the place of John Barleycorn, or
some other John (of whom I shall have some
thing to say hereafter), all would be better off.
The vegetables of Great Britain are very fine
indeed. If there are not so many native fruits
as there are in the warmer climates, the lack
of them is greatly atoned for in the abundance
and excellence of the native vegetables. The
jxitato is very much better than ours ; not any
larger, but drier and finer flavored. The turnip
is so far superior to those in this country, both
in size and quality, and especially in the pecu
liar sweetness of its flavor, that there is really
no comparison between it and the article grown
here under the same name. Of parsnips, car
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rots, cabbage, Scotch cale and the like, there is
no lack, and of the best quality.
The vegetarian will rest assured, therefore,
that Great Britain is the last country in which
he need be compelled in practice to abandon his
faith. (And yet, the people, there as here, ask,
“ Why, what do you live on ?” as if there were
no “ living ” exclusive of meat, tea, and, one
may add—tobacco.) The stranger can obtain,
even on the streets and from the shops, good
brown bread, choice fruits, and plainly-cooked
vegetables. In London, fine large baked pota
toes, hot in the oven, are common on the street
corners.
'
S. W. D.
Xenia, Ohio, January, 1867.
IMPORTANCE OF PROPER FOOD.
[A little girl just entering on her “teens,”
and who has lived in a Hygienic family for sev
eral years, being requested to write an article
for the Gospel of Health, complied without
a moment’s hesitation, and the following is the
result of her first effort in the literary line.
We are of the opinion that many thousands of
full-grown American girls might derive profita
ble instruction by its careful perusal.]
“ People generally eat milk, sugar, and but
ter, and many other things, which are really
not food at all. I have read in some books
about sugar being useful and necessary food ;
but I havesince learned it is not food at all, and
that all kinds of seasonings are injurious. In
deed, proper food never requires anything with
it, and this will nourish the body most perfectly
if nothing is taken with it. If you should take
a handful of salt, or a chunk of butter, and eat
it by itself, it would make you sick. And so, if
persons eat proper food five or six times a day
sickness will be the result. But if proper food,
with no seasonings nor additions of any kind, is
eaten, in proper quantities, twice a day, it will do
all that food cando to give strength and preserve
health. One who has never tried the experi
ment can scarcely imagine what a change for the
better there will be in adopting a Hygienic diet,
and eating only two meals a day. Since I have
lived strictly according to this system, I have
grown stronger, got more rosy cheeks>and am
in better health in all respects.
“ Some folks think that if you eat only twice
a day, you will get so very hungry that you can
not help over-eating. But this is not so : When
you eat too frequently the stomach is over
worked, for it has to labor to get rid of the ex
cessive quantity, and this causes fatigue and
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weakness. If you wanted your house clean, and “ worst features ” removed. All whose grog
some one kept throwing dirt into it, you would geries are “reasonably respectable” will be
have to work too hard" to get it all out, and tolerated. And then we have the assurance that
might get sick. And this is the way you get the business of rumsellingis not to be diminished.
iick when you eat too much or too frequently. It is only to be placed in fewer hands. The
The stomach must have rest, like all other or same quantity is to be sold.
gans, or it will soon wear itself out. 1 know a
W ell, we fear this is too true, and we are of
little girl about my size who eats five or six the opinion that one “ respectable ” rumshop is
times a day, and she is hungry all the time, more mischievous in society than are ten low
and so long as her mother indulges her in this groggeries. Indeed, the more “respectable,"
way she will feel a continual craving. It is said the greater is their influence for evil. No drunk
to be very hard for mothers to deny their chil ard ever led a human being into habits of intem
dren food when they call for it; but it is better perance ; but moderate drinkers have influence
than to let them become sickly, and grow up fee in that direction. No low groggery ever caused
ble and useless. Some parents say that their a human being to take the first downward step
children eat all kinds of food and seasoning, i on the road to drunkenness; but every respecta
and between meals, and yet are well enough. ble drinking place in the country has turned the
But such children are never in good sound steps of many perditionward. We are of the
health. They are often sick of fevers, inflam j opinion that all the excise laws that ever were
mations, convulsions, &c., and many of them or ever can be enacted only make the matter
die of these or some other diseases. Many per worse. By “ regulating ” the traffic in intoxi
sons think they cannot work without eating cating drinks, and authorizing certain persons
flesh-meat, and drinking tea and coflee. But this to deal in them, they make the traffic, which
*s another mistake, for I know many vegetari in its very nature is infernal—an outrage on
ans who drink only water, and not that at God and man—“ respectable." If the whole
meals, who are always in good health, and work matter were left to common law, a remedy would
very hard. I advise all persons, and young per very soon be found in a “Vigilance Committee ”
sons especially, to adopt the Hygienic manner or something similar.
of living, and when they become old, not to de
part from it.”
Bread Thrown Upon the Waters.—The
President of the Franklin County (Pa.) FruitGrowers' Association writes us : “ Dr. R. T.
REASONABLY RESPECTABLE
CROC-SHOPS.
Trail & Co.—Dear Sirs : Inclosed find $5, for
which please send as many of the January Gos
The comments of our city papers on the Ex pels of Health, including a few copies of
cise law, passed at the last session of the Legis Hygeiana as you can afford for the money. I
lature, since its constitutionality has been am much pleased with the journal. It is not
affirmed by the Court of Appeals, are very too radical for some of us, although it is so far
various, as the papers are or are not in the in advance of public opinion generally, that
interest of the rumsellers, and some of them many will not see even the glimmer of its light.
quite amusing. The following is a specimen of Whatever quantity you send will be for gratui
logic as it is in rum :
tous distribution. I shall consider them as bread
“ It is not the object of the law to suppress the thrown upon the waters, or good seed sown
sale of liquor. It is only intended to prune the
evil of its worst features by closing up the low which may bring forth a rich harvest. I am
and disreputable groggeries where vice and very much pleased with your Hygeiana pros
crime are bred. Dealers who keep reasonably pect, and hope it will prove a success. Permit
respectable places, and who are willing to ob me here to offer a few suggestions, if they have
serve the restrictions imposed by the law, will
be allowed to continue their business. This not already been considered : that the best fea
class ought to be well satisfied, for the natural tures of the Vineland enterprise be laid down
effect of the new measure will be to increase the as a basis to keep out speculation ; and that it
patronage of the better places by the suppression be made obligatory on all property holders to
of others.
sow the road sides in grass lawn, and plant with
Of course it will never do to think of removtrees, etc.”
ini»1 the evil entirely ! That would be radical
and fanatical, and proscriptive, and in divers
“ I have not loved lightly,” as the man said
ways offensive to the knights of the toddy-stick. when he married a widow weighing three hun
The evil is only to be “ pruned ” a little, and its | dred pounds.
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NEW YORK STATE TEMPERANCE
SOCIETY.
We are glad to record that one more Tem
perance organization has taken a step in ad
vance. At the recent annual session of the
New York State Temperance Society, held at
Auburn, the following platform of principles
was announced:
Resolved, That, in view of the facts : 1. That
domestic wine is intoxicating; 2. That nearly
two-thirds of it is manufactured into brandy ; 3.
That intemperance is on the increase in wine
growing districts, especially among the youth
of both sexes ; we deprecate the production of
grapes for the manufacture of wiue, believing it
has an immoral tendency.
Resolved, That we recommend the vigorous
enforcement of all the restrictive and prohibit
ing provisions of the Excise law, and that we
further recommend the friends of Temperance to
petition the Legislature to extend the Metro
politan Excise Law over the entire state.
Resolved, That the approaching convention to
'amend the Constitution of the state of New
York should be regarded in the good Providence
of God as a fitting opportunity for the people to
declare in the new Constitution, “ that hence
forth no license in any form or under any cir
cumstance shall be granted in this state for the
manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, and that such permission shall be
submitted by separate article to the voters of
the state for adoption or rejection concurrently
with the new Constitution which may be ap
proved by the convention.”
In view of the facts that the rum trade owes
all of its vitality, directly or indirectly, to the
abominable license system, and that nearly all
of our agricultural journals, and the great
majority of our political newspapers (conspicu
ous among which is the New York Evening
Post) are advocating and encouraging the busi
ness of wine-making, these are certainly import
ant resolutions. We hope they will be endorsed
by and echoed from every temperance meeting
which may be held from this day until the final
consummation of the Temperance Reformation.
True, they do not go quite far enough. But
they are steps in the right direction. The real
root of the evil is alcoholic medication. But
our temperance friends have not yet got their
eyes open wide enough to see this. Possibly,
however, they may in the good time coming.
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and
vicious fellow, quietly said to him: “A contest
between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear
ill language with ease, and return it with pleas
ure ; but to me it is unusual to hear and disa
greeable to speak it.”
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How Paris Wives Get Rid of Their Hus
bands.—La Patrie relates the following start
ling incident : “ M. Sam relates that he was
standing at a ball given at the Tuileries, talking
to the great chemist. Dr. Lisfrank, when he
perceived him suddenly become pale, and move
from his position. M. Sam, fancying that his
friend had been taken ill, followed him out to
the Salle des Maréchaux. There, having re
covered his equanimity, he said,‘ I have just
seen a beautiful young bride waltzing with her
second husband. Now, lam perfectly convinced
she murdered her first husband. It had been a
love match ; but the young man discovered he
had made a fatal mistake, and his health visi
bly declined. One morning he was found dead
in his bedroom, which his wife had filled with
flowers, especially with hyacinths. Their poi
sonous emanations had evidently killed him.
On being summoned to inquire into the cause
of his death, I perfectly remember having re
lated in his wife’s hearing a case of poisoning
produced by these very flowers ; and, on learn
ing that a scandalous intrigue on her part had
been the cause of his misery, 1 have not the
slightest doubt that the wretched woman took
this mode of regaining her liberty. This tragic
anecdote recalls to me another, which one of
the first physicians in Paris related a few days
ago as having occurred to him during the course
of his practice. He had been for some time in
attendance on a wealthy merchant, whose ill
ness, though of a painful nature, was not dan
gerous. Much to Dr. N.’s surprise, the symptoms
became complicated, and M. X. got rapidly
worse. Dr. N. asked to see the mixture his
patient had been taking during the night, and
remarked to the servant that the glass from
which he had apparently drank was not clean.
‘ No one, Sir, touches it but Madame,’ replied
the servant. Pouring a little water into it, Dr.
N. put it to his lips. He then asked to see
Madame X. alone. She was young and lovely.
‘Is my husband worse?’ she inquired, with
great apparent anxiety* ‘Yes, Madame; but
he must improve rapidly.
Do you hear,
Madame ?—in a week he must be cured.’ The
lady’s cheek grew pale. ‘ But, Doctor—’ ‘ You
have understood me, Madame ; good morn’ng.’
The patient recovered within the given time,
and M. and Madame X. gave a ball last week
and looked as jolly a couple as you would wish
to see.”—[Paris Correspondent of the Morning
Star.
One of “ the sex” writes that “ though a few
American ladies live in idleness, the majority as
yet work themselves into early graves, giving
the men an opportunity to try two or three in
the course of their own vigorous lives.”
Two ears, and but a single tongue,
By Nature’s laws to man belong ;
The lesson she would teach is clear,
“ Repeat but half of what you hear.”
A singular innovation was made at a funeral
in Paris the other day. Instead of a laudatory
discourse in honor of the individual interred,
one of his friends read extracts from a newspa
per in his praise.
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
THE LIFE OF A RADICAL.
My father was independent. T do not think
he ever thought of the consequence of any spe
cific act. Was it right?’if so, it must be per
formed. This made him a host of enemies, and
none were more bitter than the clergy. I re
member that he was the member of a Baptist
Association, and not one but were bitterly op
posed to him.
It was at the period when the Liberator began
to be published in Boston, and we took the pa
per, its editor, Mr. Garrison, visited our village,
and of course stopped at our house. He was
regarded as an infidel, and the most trouble
some fellow in the country. He was announced
to deliver a lecture in our church. At the hour
appointed the building was crowded to its ut
most capacity with a throng of noisy town
loafers, who, hearing of the proposed advocacy
of the unwholesome doctrines of “ abolition ” by
the chief mover in it all, came for the express
purpose of breaking up the meeting. This was
easily done with the help of some worthless
boys, and through the connivance of respectable
men of wealth in the town. My father, my
mother, and one or two others, were the only
supporters he had. The roughs made short
work of it, put out the lights, and cleared the
house within ten minutes. We were compelled
to flee for our lives, and were scarcely in sight
of our hopse before we saw the light blazing up
ward against the dark nightsky. Our church
was on fire, and before we reached our house,
the conservatives had been there before us, for it,
too, burst into flames, and we were compelled
to pass the night as best we could, at the hum
ble farm-house of a neighbor. Every thing we
had in the world was consumed, except the
clothes we wore. It was in the dead of winter.
My father was penniless, houseless, and hated
of every man in the town. And yet there was
a certain sort of respect accorded to him, that
showed that the truth was working. My sisters
readily obtained employment at a farm-house.
My mother wrote a little, and got enough to take
care of herself. My brothers and myself sought
and obtained work in various pursuits, one as a
clerk, and I as a farm boy. Father began to ad
dress himself to the work of reform entirely.
Heretofore he had not devoted himself to this
exclusively. Now, however, God had taken
away all hinderances ; so he consecrated his
taients and time entirely to this work. He
went from town to town, and district to district,
teaching the sin of American Slavery. He was
a man of powerful frame, with great black eyes
looking out from under shaggy iron gray eye
brows. His look was as stern and forbidding as
that of Alpine ('rags in winter. There was no
grace or beauty in his style. He spoke plain
truths, and eschewed all ornament and all cir
cumlocution.
As I have said, not a minister sustained him.
There came at last to his net, three only out
of the whole region round about, who might be
called supporters. One vi as a teacher who read
the Liberator, and taught the village school;
another was a long-haired reformer, who lived
a lone, bachelor life, subsisting chiefly upon
vegetables, and talked reform constantly; and
a bloomer-costumed Amazon, who came no one
knew whence or how, and lived chiefly by prac
tice of certain medical arts, phrenological lec
tures, examination of heads, and operating in
the capacity of a medium in spiritual manifesta
tions. These formed the party outside our family,
who sustained my father, and I may say, be^
lieved in him.
The town had a population of one thousand
souls, and there were of course four churches.
Each of them about as prosperous as my father’s
church, save this, lhe Episcopal Rector took
the only persons of wealth ; the Presbyterians,
the timid and middle class ; and the Baptist and
Methodist strove, one with another, to get all
that remained.
The three ministers dragged out a miserable
life of servitude and obedience to public will,
and never dared so much as to notice my father*
lest their constituency should suffer thereby.
It took us all nearly a year to get enough
together to think of having a home. This we
did by combined effort. I putting in my little
earnings with the rest. We built a plain house
of humble pretensions, and all came back again
to the work of rdform.—[Church Union.
THE YOUNG MEN OF OUR CITIES.
Rev. Dr. Osgood, in a recent work entitled
“American Leaves,” gives the following painful
but truthful sketch:
“The number of youth in our cities who are
seeking some kind of employment that allows
them to have a delicate hand, and wear kid
gloves and polished boots, is enormous, and fur
nishes a fearful number of recruits to the army
of vice and crime. What the cause of the disin
clination to the manual arts is, it is not always
easy to say ; and certainly, in the nature of
things, there is far more demand for intellect
and far more exercise of manly power in tilling
the soil or building houses and ships, than in
selling silks and calicoes behind the counter.
It would be a great gain if ten thousand clerks
could at once go into the fields and workshops,
where they are wanted, and leave their places
to ten thousand young women, who have noth
ing to do but to make their poor fingers the
hopeless rivals of the sewing-machine, and
to anticipate the uncertain time when some
young man. not yet able to pay for his own
board and clothes, shall venture upon the enter
prise of taking a wife less thrifty than himself.
It is partly from the false feminine notions of
gentility that much of the rising aversion to
manual labor springs, and much harm comes
from the frequent preference of the dainty swain
of the counter over the far abler worker at the
plough or plane bv sentimental maidens, who
have studied out their ideas of the gentleman
from trashy novels, and not from the good old
Bible and its noble standard of the gentle
heart.”
Thirteen objections were once given by a
young lady for declining a match—the first
twelve being the suitor’s twelve children, and
the thirteenth the suitor himself.
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
Paris a Doomed City.—London Society, in an
article on “The Beaux Mondes of Paris and
London,” utters the following fearful, and we
fear, truthful prophecy concerning the most gay
and luxurious city in the world :
Paris has reached a climax in what is gener
ally called civilization that cannot be surpassed.
She lias adorned and beautified herself with a
rapidity and splendor that are without a paral
lel. She is the most beautiful capital in the
world—the queen of cities ; she has put out of
sight all that can offend the taste of the most
refined critics ; she has driven further and fur
ther back all the signs of poverty and labor
which might offend the eye or suggest a thought
inconsistent with the opulence and gayety with
which it is her desire to impress her visitors;
she is a very Sybarite of cities ; but with all her
magnificence of decoration, with all her lavish
outlay and ever-changing caprice, which consti
tute her the leader of fashion throughout
Europe, she carries within herself the elements
of her own ruin, which cannot be far distant.
No society can last long which is so rotten at
its core, where profligacy reigns, and all sense
of propriety is at a discount.
The history of the world supplies abundant
instances of cities which have reached a climax
of refined splendor, and, being lifted up in their
pride, have overlooked virtue, and have been
dashed to the ground, and have crumbled to
ruin ; nor need France go far to look for such an
example. In the period before the great French
revolution society had become corrupt. They
who ought to have been examples of virtue
made use of their high and exalted position for
the indulgence of their evil passions, and saw in
it only opportunities for a vicious life. Even
now men tremble at the recollection of the aw
ful judgment that fell upon them, which has
left that fair and beautiful country in a state of
ferment from which there seems to be no repose,
and which can only be kept under by the firm
hand of a great military power which is ever
ready to repress the first indication of the pop
ular mind daring to think for itself.
Pure Wines and Temperance.—Dr. Stone,
of San Francisco, says he is fully convinced that
the manufacture and introduction of pure wines
into general use will not diminish intemper
ance, as has been supposed. Full two-thirds of
all the wine manufactured is converted into
brandy, and in the wine districts intemperance
is on the increase, extending to the youth of
both sexes.—Exchange.
The exercise of a little common sense, will
enable any physician in any part of the world,
or any man, woman, or child, who has arrived
at a condition of reasoning, to see that all use
of the alcoholic element, as drink or medicine,
must conduce to intemperance.
Let us give them a very simple illustration.
Mercury is a poison. In all forms and prepara
tions it injures the vital organization, and in
large doses tends to induce the inflammatory
condition of the mouth and salivary glands,
technically termedptyalism or salivation; though
they may not occasion manifest local inflamma
tion, they do, nevertheless, produce some degree
of the same or a similar morbid condition. They
can never be taken without injury exactly pro
portioned to quantity.
Alcohol conduces to intoxication. Large doses
occasion drunkenness. Small quantities pro
duce a slight degree of intoxication, termed
stimulation. But, as the alcoholic element is
always a poison, its use in any form is injuri
ous exactly in ratio of the quantity taken, no
matter whether taken in the form of rum,
brandy, wine, cider, porter, lager, etc., etc.
A Fine Lady.—We clip the following para
graph from the New York Tribune :
“ For the Paris Exhibition.—At No. 544
Broadway is a cooking-stove which cost $1,000.
The boiler, tank, and pot closet, are of German
silver, and the whole is as splendid as a piano.
Of course, it embraces latest improvements. In
cooking, a current of air passes through the
oven, and bread is baked in a brick oven. With
such a stove, a fine lady might be induced to
make herself useful.”
The diabolical innuendo of the writer is that a
fine lady isn’t useful! Was there ever a more
preposterous absurdity ? Half the commerce
of the world depends on her finery for its ex
istence. All of the dry goods’ merchant princes
owe their fortunes to her disposition to display
fine things. Every milliner’s and mantua-maker’s shop in the land may bless her desire to
shine in frills and flounces for their meagre
bread and butter. The Tribune itself is in
debted to the fine ladies for one-half of its im
mense advertising patronage. Indeed, discon
tinue fine ladies, and the controversy between
the Tribune and Post on the subject of “Pro
tective Tariff and Free Trade,” which has raged
for twenty years, and bids fair to continue so
long as they both shall live, would be deprived
of three-quarters of its facts and illustrations.
We doubt if either of these papers could live if
there were no fine ladies.
Carnivora and Herbívora.—An exchange
says:
“ A dinner was given, near Paris, recently, of
which the principal dishes were shark, horse,
dog, and rat.”
A dinner was given, in this city recently, of
which the principal dishes were bread, apples,
potatoes, and beans. Which dinner indicates
the higher grade of civilization?
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THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
A Marvelous Medicine.—A writer in the
Religio-Philosophieal Journal gives a wondrous
statement of a medicine which is greatly relied
on for the cure of mortal or immortal maladies
in one of the “ spheres ” or “ grand divisions of
the spirit land.” We have much faith in the
remedy, and believe that more of it could be
used by people “ in the form ” with advantage :
“ The medicine most in vogue there is that
of Namm oc Esnes, sometimes used on earth.
When well applied and digested, it there, as
here, effects the most marvelous cures. I may
state, however, that the people on earth spell
the name of this great remedy backwards ; for
here the letters are reversed. Every one can
find and use it, and it is already being applied
to the cure of many ills.”
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Gospel of Health.
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former in tliis country who cannot send us a
club of subscribers ?
To Editors.—Country papers and magazines
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As we Expected.—Many agents who had
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$25 ; one page, $40. When advertisements of
half a column, or more, are continued without
change for three or more months, a reduction of
twenty per cent, will be made.
Anonymous.—We can pay no attention to
anonymous communications. We do not desire
to publish names without permission, but, as
an evidence of good faith, and for many other
reasons which could be named, we must have
the name of the writer, or the article must go
into our waste basket.
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Gqspel vs. Herald.—Many of the subscribers
us to send them specimen numbers, and forget
to enclose the requisite dimes. Please read our to the Herald of Health have requested us to
transfer their subscriptions to the Gospel of
Prospectus more carefully.
Health. This is impossible. We have nothing
Canvassers.—We offer special terms and further to do with the Herald, except to run
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make it a business to canvass for subscribers. for the Gospel had better subscribe for it.
Send stamps for terms and circulars.
How to Canvass.—The best way to obtain
Our Illustrations.—These will largely in subscribers is, to leave specimen numbers of the
crease our expenses, but we shall confidently Gospel of Health at each of the dwelling
rely on the efforts of our friends to extend our houses, stores, and workshops, in your neighbor
circulation, so that we may continually improve hood for examination. In a few days thereafter
call for them and solicit subscriptions. In this
in this attractive feature.
manner a hundred numbers will enable an agent
Certificates of Agency.—We will send to to canvass a large territory.
any person, on receipt of request and satisfactory
Geometrical Proposition.—We have a plan
references, certificates of agency, authorizing
them to receive money on our account, for for annihilating the drug-medical system in less
than ten years. It is this : Let each subscriber
subscriptions to the Gospel of Health.
send us one new name in 1867 ; each subscriber
The Present Number.—Can our friends do in 1867 send us a new name for 1868, and so
themselves, their neighbors, us, and everybody on to the end of the chapter. A little arithme
else, a greater good, at a small expense, than tic will demonstrate not only its practicability,
by circulating a few copies of the present num but its infallibility. We will wager all Hygeiber among their neighbors, and asking them to ana on the result.
read carefully.
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Pay Your Own Postage.—We receive our Prospectus, we have received several thou
several letters a day requesting information on sands of names, to many of whom we have sent
a variety of subjects which it is of no earthly ad onr first number. But we learn that, in a few
vantage to us to give, but which may be of instances, those who forwarded the names have
importance to the writer, min ms the stamp for neglected to subscribe for the Gospel, or to
return postage. A three-cent stamp is a small solicit subscriptions, on the supposition that all
matter per se, but several thousands of such names sent to us, as well as all persons sending
letters in a year would impose on us an un them, would receive the Gospel gratuitously.
reasonable tax for the privilege of working for This is a mistake. The only way to be sure of
nothing.
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�93
THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
WORKS BY DR. TRALL.
GRANITE STATE HEALTH INSTITUTION,
(Prepaid by Mail. )
HILL, N. H.
Hydropathic Encyclopaedia......................................... $4 50
Hydropathic Cook Book............................................. 1 50
Hygienic Hand Book...................... ,.......................... 2 00
Diptheria. .................................................................... 1 60
Sexual Physiology........................................................ 2 00
Sexual Pathology......................................................... 2 00
Home Treatment for Sex-Abuses............................... 50
Uterine Dis. and Displacements................................. 3 50
...................
“
Colored Plates . ... 6 00
Water-Cure for the Million .. ..................................
35
Diseases of the Throat and Lungs ............................ 25
>^rize Essay on Tobacco.............................................. 20
Prize Essay on Temperance.....................
20
The Alcoholic Controversy......................................... 50
The True Temperance Platform....... . .......................
60
Alcoholic Medication ................................................
30
Problems of Medical Science.................................... 20
Principles of Hygeio-Therapy....................................
20
The True Healing Art.................................................
35
Health and Diseases of Woman................................
20
Lecture on Drug Medication........ ..............................
20
Lecture on Nervous Debility.....................................
20
The Complete Gymnasium ....................................... 2 00
Anat. and Phys. Plates................................................. 20 00
Phys, and Path. Charts...............................
12 00
WORKS EDITED BY DR. TRALL.
Fruitsand Farinacea................................................... $2 00
Accidents and Emergencies........................................
30
Hydropathy for the People......................................... 1 50
Theory of Population.................................................. 40
Hydropathic Review ................................................... 3 00
Milk Trade in New York.............................................
50
Mysteries of Nature..................................................... 2 00
Dress Reform (Mrs. Harman)...................................... 20
WORKS IN PREPARATION BY DR. TRALL.
Principles of Hygienic Medication.......................... $12 00
Physiology and Hygiene for Schools......................... 2 00
Philosophy of Human Nature.................................... 3 00
VALUABLE WORKS FOR SALE.
Science of Human Life.................................................$3
Woman and her Era.............................................
4
The Empire of the Mother.........................................
The Unwelcome Child.................................................
Fowler’s Phrenology.. ...........................
1
50
00
80
75
75
COLLEGE TEXT-BOOKS.
(By Express.)
Gray’s Anatomy............................................................ 87 00
Dalton’s Physiology...................................................... 5 25
Youman’s Chemistry................................................... 2 00
Bedford’s Obstetrics..................................................... 5 50
Erichsen’s Surgery..................................................... 6 50
Dunglison’s Med. Dictionary. .................................. 6 75
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.................... --....12 00
This institution is located in one of the finest regions
of the “Old Granite State,” on the direct route from
Boston to the White Mountains. The cars bring patients
within a few rods of its door.
The establishment is one of the oldest in the country,
and its physician is one of the most experienced in the
treatment of all the varied forms of chronic disease,
whether of the male or female organization.
For further particulars, please inclose stamp for circu
lar, and address
W. T. VAIL, M. D.,
Hill, N. H.
G. H. SALISBURY,
Manufacturer of All Kinds of Crackers
of
A Superior Quality,
436 Greenwich Street, New York.
GRAHAM
CRACKERS
Prepared on strictly Hygienic principles, according to
directions of R. T Trall, M. D., constantly
on hand.
All orders filled at‘shortest notice.
PHILADELPHIA HYGIENIC INSTITUTE.
Dr. WILSON’S Establishment is now located at 1109
Girard Street, above Chestnut. This Institution is very
favorably located. The situation is central, pleasant, and
healthy. The rooms are spacious, well ventilated and
attractively furnished. Patients receive the personal at
tention of the doctor and wife, and may rely on skillful,
careful, and attentive treatment. We use no drug medi
cation. Our table is supplied with a variety of well cooked
food. Persons visiting the city can be accommodated with
rooms and board. Address
R. WILSON, M. D.,
1109 Girard Street,
PHIL A DELPHIA.
FAMILY PANGYMNASTIKON.
An improved and more convenient apparatus, which
answers all the indications, and costs but one-third as
much as that which has hitherto been sold under this
title, has just been invented. It is simple and durable,
and an admirable contrivance for enabling invalids to
exercise in their own rooms. Moreover, it can be carried
in one corner of a carpet-bag. Price, $5. Send orders
to R. T. Trail & Co.
Dr. N. R. ADAMS,
Physician, and Surgeon,
SYRINGES.
Bridgeport, Gloucester Co.,
(By Mail Prepaid.)
Mattson’s Improved....................................... • - ....... $3 00
NEW JERSEY.
HAND
MILLS.
(By Express.)
Large Size.................................................................
pm all Size........................................................................................
G. W. BACON & CO.,
American Booksellers and Publishers,
$8 00
0®
NO.
48 paternoster row,
LONDON, ENGLAND.
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N. D. THOMPSON, M. D.,
Hygienic Physician.
Swedish Movements for Diseases of long standing.
No. 149 West Sixteenth Stbeet, New York.
A few invalids can find a pleasant home, with skillful
physicians, and favorable surroundings for restoring to
health. Hygienic boarding.
HIGHLAND WATER-CURE.
H. P. Burdick, M. D., and
Mrs. Mart Bryant Burdick, M. D.,
Physicians.
Send for circulars. Address
Alfred, Alleghany Co., N. Y.
J.
F. SANBORN, M. D.,
HYGIENIC PHYSICIAN AND DENTIST,
E. YODER, M. D„
HYGIENIC
PHYSICIAN.
Residence and Office,
Third Street, between Landis Avenue and Elmer Street,
Vinela/nd, N. J.
fi®* All diseases successfully treated without the use of
drugs.
Z. P. GLASS, M. D.,
HYGIENIST.
Address letters and telegrams to Box 1,094, Quincy, IU.
Patients at a distance visited promptly.
Mrs. M. E. COX, M. D.,
HYGIENIC
PHYSICIAN
AND LECTURER,
CHESTER, N. H.,
Desires to enter into communication with Health and
Dress Reformers who would like lectures in their lo
calities.
Mrs. Cox, with competent assistants,will open, for the
summer the “Old Homestead,” lor the reception of a
few patients who are willing to live on strictly Hygienic
diet. Invalids will not find magnificent accommodations,
but good conditions of health. We offer them careful
and judicious attention, and proper diet, with the purest
air in New England. Address
B. T. COX,
Chester, N. H.
ECONOMY IS WISE—HEALTH IS WEALTH.
THE HYGIENIC COOK-BOOK;
OR, HOW TO COOK
Without the use of salt, butter, lard, or condiments.
A book for those who eat to live. Eighty pages. Forty
kinds of bread, cakes, pies, puddings, etc., palatable,
nutritious, and healthful. How to prevent dyspepsia,
causes of summer complaints, etc.
“Just what is wanted in every family.”—E. Yoder,
M. D.
“Will save more than the cost in one day.”—Every
body.
Price by mail, 20 cents ; $1 75 per dozen.
Mbs. M. E. COX, M. D.,
Chester, N. H.
M. AUGUSTA FAIRCHILD, M. D„
HYGIENIC PHYSICIAN,
HANNIBAL, Mo.
PREMIUM DRESS PATTERNS.
Patterns of the Premium Dress for Women will be
sent by mail on receipt of one dollar. Address, Ellen
Beard Harman, M. D., care of R. T. Trail & Co., 97 Sixth
avenue, New York.
PREMIUM DRESS PHOTOGRAPHS.
Photographs of the author of the Premium Dress for
Women, in costume, will be sent by mail on receipt of
25 oents and postage stamps. Send orders to R. T.
Trail & Co.
TABOR, FREMONT CO., IOWA.
All diseases successfully treated with Electricity, Mag
netism, Bathing. Gymnastics, Movement-cure, and other
Hygienic agencies. Positively no drugs given.
WATERS’
SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS, MELODEONS
AND
CABINET ORGANS, .
The Best Manufactured.
TO LET, and rent allowed, if purchased. Monthly pay*
ments received for the same. Second hand Pianos
at bargains, from $60 to $225. Old Pianos taken
in exchange. liberal discount to teachers
and clergymen. Cash paid for sec ndhand Pianos. Pianos tuned and re
paired. New 7 octave Pianos for
$275 and upward.
Warerooms, 481 Broadway, New York.
HORACE WATERS.
HYGIENIC HOME,
GENEVA, KANE COUNTY, ILL.,
By John B. Gully, M. D.,
Thirty-five miles from Chicago, on the Chicago and
Fulton Air Line Railroad.
APPARATUS FOR LECTURERS.
For $100 we will furnish the following:
Dr. Trail’s Anatomical and Physiological Plates, six in
number; a painting of Powers’ Greek Slave; a painting,
taken from life, of the figure of a woman deformed by
tight lacing, to contrast with the preceding ; paintings of
the male and the female skeletons; paintings represent
ing the vital organs in their normal position, and as de
formed and displaced by fashionable dress; a painting
representing the different kinds of uterine displacements;
and a painting representing the fcetus in various stages
of development. The paintings are all on light canvas,
and with the plates, can be carried conveniently in a
small trunk.
B. T. TRALL & CO.
IMPROVED RUPTURE TRUSS.
We are prepared to supply persons afflicted with Rup
ture or Hernia with a new and improved article, which the
patient can adjust for himself. The Pad-spring is so
arranged as to make upward and inward pressure, thereby
avoiding all injury to the spermatic cord.
Price, only $5.
In ordering a Truss from a distance, send a mea
sure round the body—take two inches below the hip
bone.
R. T. TRALL & CO.
HOUSES TO RENT IN HYGEIANA.
Several persons have proposed to erect a score or two
of nice cottage houses in Hygeiana, early in the season,
and rent them to parties who will furnish good refer
ences as to ability and character for the term of five
years for $50 per year each, payable in advance. If
the parties renting will bind themselves to make cer
tain improvements in fruit trees, vines, etc , which will
be named from time to time, at their expense, they can
have all of the proceeds of the same, and their rent re
paid at the end of fitje years, and have an equal interest
in what the places will sell for ; and it shall be at their
option whether to buy or sell one half interest in the
same.
For further information, address
R. T. TRALL & CO.,
No. 97 Sixth Avenue, New Yqrki
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NEW ILLUSTRA.TED
PHYSIOGNOMY; or, ‘SIGNS OF CHARACTER,”
As manifested in Temperament and External Forms,
AND ESPECIALLY IN THE
cc ZEi TT TvT -A- TSJ"
F
C E
DIVINE.”
Large 12mo, 768 pages. Price $5. With more than 1,000 Engravings.
Orders reoeived by R. T. TRALL & CO., No. 97 Sixth avenue, New York.
A SPECIAL REQUEST.
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
AU persons who see this advertisement, wiU greatly
oblige us, and probably benefit others, by sending us the
names and post office address of aU invalids in their
vicinity; also of aU friends of Hygeio-Therapy, or
Health Reform • and also of aH who are or have been
subscribers to the “Water-Cure Journal,” “Hygienic
Teacher,” “Herald of Health,” “Water-Cure World,”
“Western Water-Cure Journal,” “Health Journal for
the People,” “Laws of Life,” “HaU’s Journal of
Health,” or the “ Phrenological Journal.”
Devoted to the advocacy of Primitive Christianity, in
Theory’ and Practice, containing twenty-four double
column pages to each number. It acknowledges the
authority of no Creed but the Bible. TermB, $2 per
year ; one number, P2 cents. New vol. begins March,
’66. Address,
J. W. KARR, Publisher.
Eureka, Ill.
• s. H. HUNT, M.D., Hygienic Physician,
r*eoria, Illinois.
CaUs from a distance promptly attended to, either in
person or by letter.
A SEMI-MONTHLY PERIODICAL,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All communications for R. T.Trall, as weU as for R. T.
Trail & Co., should be addressed to No. 97 Sixth avenue,
New York. Wherever Dr. Trail maybe, his letters will
be forwarded to him, if directed as above.
�96
THE GOSPEL OF HEALTH.
BLOOMINGTON
NURSERY.
HYGEIANA AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.
Fifteenth year, Eight large Green-houses, 275 acres
To any person who will establish an Agricultural
Fruit, Ornamental, and Nursery stock—a very large and
School on our domain, we will donate fifty acres of land,
complete assortment, including
with the proviso that the grantee shall purchase as much
500,000 APPLE, 1 to 4 year, $50 to $140 per 1,000.
more, and devote the whole one hundred acres to the
150,000 PEAR, standard grafts, 1,000, $120.
purposes of an Agricultural College. All the emolu
20,000 HARDY CHERRY; also Plum and Peach.
C00,000 GRAPE, on over 25 acres of vines; best leading ments shall be the proprietors. We have no manner of
sorts, as Adirondae, Concord, Catawba, Clinton, Delaware, doubt that this enterprise can easily be made very profit
Diana, Hartford, Ives, Iona, Rogers’ Hybrids, 17 Nos., of able as well as very useful. It can be started with a
small capital. Address
which No. 4 by the 1,000.
R. T. TRALL, M. D.
30,000 each, CURRANT and DOOLITTLE RASP
BERRY.
100,000 STRAWBERRY, over 40 sorts.
500,000 APPLE STOCKS, 1 and 2 year.
GARDENER WANTED.
500,000 APPLE ROOT-GRAFTS, in winter, 10,000, $100.
1,000,000 OSAGE ORANGE, first class, 1,000, $3; 100,000.
A person who thoroughly understands “ Truck Gard
$250.
ening ’’ may find steady employment and fair wages at
2,000 ALTHEA, named double, two feet, 100, $12.
20,000 ROSES, aB classes.
“ Eastern Hygeian Home,” Florence, N. J., after the first
of April next. Address
5,000 PEONIES, etc.
Send two red stamps for wholesale and retail catalogues.
R. T. TRALL, M. D.
F. K. PHCENIX,
Bloomington, McLean Co., Hl.
PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENIC MEDICATION.
By R. T. TRALL, M. D.
Having at length finished all of the books on our desk
catalogue preceding the large work, we are now engaged,
as busily as half a dozen other avocations will permit, in
preparing this for the printer. The retail price cannot be
less than $12. But those who have sent us $6 will have
the work at that price, whatever may be the actual coBt
of publication. We cannot, however, accept any more
advance subscriptions at that rate. The price to the
trade will probably be $8, and all who send us this
amount between this time and the announcement of its
publication day. will receive the work. Many corres
pondents have written us to inquire when it will be pub
lished. But this question, for reasons which will be
obvious on a moment’s reflection, we cannot with pro
priety answer. We can only say that we shall do it as fast
as it can be well done, and no faster. It will be pub
lished in three volumes of 750 pages each, and will be a
complete library of Hygeio-Therapy. Send orders to R.
T. Trail A Co.
HOW TO GET GOOD BY DOING GOOD.
The friends of Health Reform generally, and the prac
titioners of our system especially, who desire to make
the Hygienic System or their business known in their
neighborhoods, cannot do better than distribute (gratui
tously if need be) a few specimen numbers of the pre
sent issue among the people. It will pay, For this pur
pose we will furnish them at something less than actual
cost, say $12 for one hundred copies, and $100 for one
thousand.
BACK NUMBERS OF THE GOSPEL.
We have a few hundred complete sets of the Gospel
of Health (from July to December, inclusive), and
several thousands of the July number, which we will sell
at one-half the cost of publication—that is, $3 50 per
hundred, and $25 per thousand. We will furnish them
in full sets, or such numbers as may be preferred.
Wherever they have been distributed, we have heard a
good account from them ; and if the friends of Health
Reform desire to bring the subject under the notice of
their neighbors, they can have an opportunity to do
much good at little expense.
B. T. TRALL A CO.
HYGIENIC FARMER WANTED.
We wish to employ a Farmer, who is a strict Vegeta
rian, and who understands fruit culture in all its branches.
He must be well acquainted with grape-culture, especially
of the Delaware and Concord varieties. Address
R. T. TRALL A CO.,
No. 97 Sixth avenue, New York.
HEALTH CONVENTION.
The Fourth Annual Session of the World’s Health Asso
ciation will be held in Chillicothe, Ohio, on the second
Wednesday in June, 1867. We hope to see the friends of
Health Reform present in large numbers,
R. T. TRALL, M. D., President.
ELLEN BEARD HARMAN, M. D., Secretary.
HYGEIANA NO. 1.
A pamphlet, entitled as above, has been published, de
scribing the tract of land in Southern Ohio which we have
purchased for founding aVegetarian Colony, and explain
ing the plan of organization, etc. Price 15 cents; ten
copies for one dollar. Send orders to
R. T. TRALL A CO.,
No. 97 Sixth avenue, New York.
FRUIT FARMS FOR SALE.
We offer to sell ten thousand acres of land in Franklin,
Ross county, Ohio, in building lots, and in farms of ten
acres. The price is $200 for each farm of ten acres, with
out regard to location, and $200 for each building lot,
without regard to size. We will sell as many building
lots or farms as above, to one person, as he or she wishes
to purchase, subject, in all cases, to the conditions men
tioned in Hygeiana No. *1. To unmarried women we will
sell building lots or ten-acre farms at $100 each.
R. T. TRALL, M. D.
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Notes: From the library of Dr Moncure Conway. Printed in double columns. Contents: What is temperance? -- Women's rights question --Vegetarian festival in England -- A 'strong-minded' woman -- Suffrage for women - Importance of proper food -- Reasonably respectable grog shops.
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