The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Prices are Tumbling right and left all over our Store, all for a reason. .A. Larger Stock to choose. W from then all the others put together. . . . . CLARK & SON. hr Cheap Sale is a. Successl WW THE PUBLIC ARE now SATiSFiED WITH THE PRICES AT WHICH THEY GET DRY GOODS AT THE OLD STAND. 3° THEY SAY °o THAT earns his nor sets earners ANYWHERE. Please Continue Calling, far there is always Something New ’turning up. WM. CAMP ELL. . AN hWFlll. FMS. Prices in Tailoring. S. PENHALE wishes to announce that he has secured a new and well selected stock of Tweeds, \Vorsteds, and various other cloths, and good durable Trimmings, and is prepared to do business with prices as follows : I.»- TWEED SUITS, $3 AND UPWARDS, BLACK wonsrnn $15 a PANTS, $2.50 u Workmanship second to none. Cutting, etc., proportionately cheap, at the Fashionable Tailor Shop, opposrte water fountaln. S. PENHALE, FENELON FALLS. Furniture, Doors, Sash, MANDâ€" UNDERTAKING, W. M‘Keomn’s9 FRANCIS ST. WEST. ‘ FENELON FALLS. HOUSE, SIGN AND DECORATIVE PAINTENG PAPER-HANGING, ETC. W H E AD QUARTERS IN VICTORIA COUNTY FOR ileum Paper and Picture Frames --â€"ZS ATâ€" Thc undersigned respectfully informs the residents of the village and its vicinity V27 A. that he has returned to Fenclon Falls after , , . several years’ experience in the States as Blfier 53109-1“ Kent‘St'vLmdsa-Y‘ well as in Canada, and is prepared to . execute, xx ms nasr srrnn AND AT nonsturn 5"“315’ 600‘s 3 spec'al‘y' enters, all work in the above lines with which he may be favored. Machine Needles. Alabastine and Dve 36“ Orders left at S. Nevison’s store on Works Agency. Colborne street will receive prompt at- Wl‘lease callundsee my5c.l’aper. tention. Chas. H. Ievison. ‘ “*‘m WWW Fenelou Falls, Aug. 7th, 1895.â€"Mt! JOB PRINTING. ' FARMERS IN NEED OF A GOOD NEW STUMPING WOULD DO WELL TO SEE THOS. ROBSON BEFORE BUYING. THOS. ROBSON, FENELON FALLS. The Fettelon Falls Gazette. Friday. August 9th, 1895. Should We Drink in Moderation? We purpose giving the “gist” of a very able article by Norman Kerr, M. D., F. 14.8., on the question of temperance. He answers the question which heads this article by an emphatic negative. At the present time there are few more important questions for a young man to answer uright, on entering on active life, than the questionâ€"Ought we to drink in moderation? On his answer may largely depend his future happiness and usefulness. I have no hesitation in replyingâ€"No. We ought not to drink in moderation, because no human being can be abso- lutely certain that he will be able to long remain a “moderate” drinker. Of the many young men that I have known, those who have “done well ” as well as those who have “ done badly ” as the world goes, I have never yet known one who set out as a “ moderate " drinker with any intention to become, or fear of becoming,a drunkard. Every ,man of them began to drink with a strong determination to continue a “ moderate "’ drinker as long as he lived. Many of “ the world’s grey fathers,” like Noah and Lot, did their best to be endeavour. Yet in our day it is'im- measurably more difficult to preserve strict moderation than it was in our racc’s early history. There were no brilliant gin-palaces, no gilded public- houscs, no gorgeous hotels and music halls, to tempt our remote ancestors to empty cup after cup, nor indeed the “strong waters” of the distillation of later ages, to infuse into their veins, immediately on drinking, liquid firc producing speedy and deep intoxication, and so penetrate the whole being of parents as to bring forth children prac- tically drunken before they were born. ' In our day and generation, products as we are of the accumulated alcoholic heredity of centuries, and living in an age of nervous overstrain, how tremen- dously more arduous the fight to remain “ moderate " in our drinking 1 We ought not: to drink in moderation, therefore, because we thereby incur a risk of becoming intenzpcratc. We ought not: to drink in moderation, because, even if it were absolutely cer- tain that we would never overstcp the bounds of moderation ourselves, there are all around us in life young men and maidens, joyously or timidly engaging in the struggle for existence, who, whether from incbriatc inheritance or some other nervous defect of constitu- tion, are totally unable (from no mis- doing of theirs) to drink in moderation. They dun abstain and they can drink to excess, but to drink “ moderately ” is beyond their power. Such handicapped ones are just the very persons generally whose mental balance is so delicate and whose resisting power is so defective that they are often the least able to ab stain altogether. If they try to follow your apparently safe practice of “ mod- eration " they cannot continue “ moder- ate " to the end. We onght not to drink in moderation, therefore, because this example is much Sufcrfnr a very large 11 umber ofpersons who either are discussed (Irtmlcartls or are. by inheritance or otherwise, in danger offlrlllng. We ought not to drink in moderation, because intoxicating drinks are unneces- sary and uSeless in health. We need, to live at all, well or ill, fresh supplies of certain things to repair the waste of substance, heat, fluid and energy, which is constantly going on in body and brain. Does alcohol meet any or all of these wants ? It does not, neither does it give healthy tissue, nor internal vital heat (though it makes our skin hot), nor an innocent fluid, nor even force. Alcohol cannot build up a sound frame. Though it makes us feel warm it. robs us of our very life’s heat, and it too much is withdrawn from us it leaves us Neat. Cheap. Prompt. The Gazette Office Subscribe for ‘Tho GIZONO.’ too cold to live. We are all practically “moderate,” but sadl failed in their 5' two-thirds water, which conveys the nourishing matter over the system, cleanses our bodies, and preserves our personal identity, like a liquid paste or glue. Every addition of alcohol im- pairs this threefold beneficent capacity of nature’s beverage, “honest water that never left sinner i’ the mire." Therefore “ moderate " drinking is ex- travagant, alike for body and for purse. What we pay for our liquor, if that is intoxicating, is simply wasted, wasted as if we threw the money into the Atlantic. We ought not, therefore, to drink in moderation, because moderation is-waslc- ful. extravagant and unecomt'cul, physi- cally and financially. We ought not to drink in moderation, because this is a practice injurious to health. Alcohol is an irritant narcotic poison. It irritates and inflames the stomach, liver, kidneys, and other vital organs, overworks the heart, and dis- turbs the brain ; not much, perhaps, at first, but certainly in the long run. Of drunkenness I do not speak. No one defends that nowadays. I limit what 1 have to say to so-called “moderate,” steady drinking. Medically and patho- logically, the man who gets abominany drunk once a month for a couple of days and is a strict teetotalcr in the inter- vals, humanly speaking and leaving aside the ethics of the question, will, other things being equal, undermine his health less titan the man who prac- tises day by day such “moderation ” as a glass of spirits, three glasses of wine, or four half-pints of beer or stout. It is your regular drinking, whether lim- ited or unlimited, that induces disease. The proportion of disease among ab- stainers has been shown, in large groups of soldiers and others under similar con‘ ditions, to be about one to two. We should not drink in moderation, therefore, because moderate drinking is injurious to health. We should not drink in moderation, because thereby we diminish our chances of long life. Superficial or unskilled observers do not see beneath the sur- face. The “ moderate ” drinker often looks ruddy and robust, the teetotnler pale and shrinking. But the battle is not always to the flushed in face. I have known “ moderate " people die unexpectedly and quickly fifteen and twenty years before their average term of life. The seeming mystery was re vealed when their bodies were opened after death. As one, so many. He died in twenty minutes alter a little extra exertion. Though there never had been a suspicion of his temperance, his liver and heart were found pierced with fatty degeneration. The irrefratrablc proof of the superior longevity of abstainers lies in the records of various insurance societies. The abstainers have a higher bonus, because they live from fifteen to twenty, or more, per cent. longer than the nou-abstainers, drunken lives being, of course, excluded. We should not drink in moderation, therefore, because we would thereby tcnrl to shorten our lives. There are many other good reasons why we should avoid drinking entirely. I will add only one more. Alcohol, in any appreciable quantity, reduces mus- cular force and lessons mental sharp- ness. Carefully conducted experiments have shown this. Other things being equal, alcohol takes the keen edge off ' our perceptive faculties, so that we take some seconds longer to see an object, while it mocks us by causing us to think we have seen it sooner. So with thought. Titus is it that an abstaincr can often do business more to his own advantage when the person with whom he is dealing has taken a glass of wine or spirits. Alcohol is a reducer, a blinder, and a paralyzcr. We should treat with distrust the man who seeks to begin or conclude a bargain over a glass of liquor. We should not drink in moderation, finally, because by so doing we are hindering ourselves from enjoying and exerting to the full the various capaci- ties with which our Heavenly Father has endowth us. Accidents. Last Sunday evening two of our vil- lagers drove a short distance into the country to bring in a colt that was at grass, and returned with the young and frisky animal tied behind the buggy in which they were riding. Ho trotted along quietly until the canal bridge was crossed, when, something frightening him, he sprung forward, got one of his lorelcgs tangled up in a bind wheel of the buggy and upset the whole estab- lishment, falling, himself, upon his knees and nose, which were slightly scraped by contact with the wheel or the road, but he escaped any more serious injury. The buggy had an axle broken, the horse in the shafts, after lying awhile on his side, arose unhurt, and the menâ€"one of whom had his back somewhat badly bruisedâ€"realized what an awful thing it was to get upset on Sunday, out of consideration for We want to «get which fact we refrain from mentiogig their names. *5- On Sunday evening while Hilliard Cepp, aged about ten 'cars, the young- est son of Mr. John Oopp of Fenclon, was driving home the cows, he fell oti' a large log and alighted with his forehead on two'sharp snags, each of which in- flicted a deep wound. He was imme« diatcly driven to Dr. Wilson‘s oflicc at the Falls, where the wounds were stitched up and covered with plaster. O‘I Tuesday afternoon Mrs. James. Knox ot Echelon Falls drove out to visit her sister.in~law, Mrs. Wm. Wray. in the second concession ol‘Vcrulam, and was accompanied by her eldest: daughter, Eugenie, over 13 years old, and her son Percy. nearly 11. During the afternoon, while the children and their cousins were amusing themselves in the orchard, Genie climbed a choke- cherry tree that grew near a fence in order to get. some of the fruit. to make wine, and by some means lost her foot- ing and fell to the ground, a distance of fourteen feet by actual measurement, her hcnd and face striking against. an old pump that had been taken from a well and thrown between the lance and- the tree. For a period estimated at- ten minutes, though it was probably much shorter, she lay insensiblc, but gradually revived, and, as she did tint appear to be very seriously injured, she was wrapped up. placed in a bung ' and taken to the residence of her grztntl» father, Mr. Andrew Knox, who lives about half a mile from Mr. Wray’s. In the meantime Percy had driven back to the village to fetch his father and media cal assistance, and Dr. Wilson was soon in attendance on the little girl, who, we are glad to hear, is recovering rapidly and will probably be brought home this week. Her head was slightly out and her face badly bruised and blackened, and fora time she vomited blood; and her escape from death can only be accounted for on the supposition that. her fall was broken by the limbs of the tree. Personals'. Miss Rose Dunsford of Lindsay and- Miss Eva Bonncll of Bobcaygeou are visiting at Mr. Dickson's. Miss Florence English, of Fcnelon, left last week with her uncle, Mr. Irwin of Hamilton, for a lengthy visit to that city and Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. John Dickson of Wing- lmm (of which town Mr. Dickson has. been treasurer for about twenty years) were. at the Falls from Friday last until yesterday morning visiting their nephew, Mr James Dickson. . Mr. Charles Nevison, who has been living at Durand, Michigan, for several years, has returned to the Falls, and may remain permanently. See his card in another column. His father, Mr. John Nevison Sr'., is expected over on a. visit belbrclong. ' Mrs. Charles Lucy of Grafton came to the Falls last Friday, accompanied by her two daughters, to visit her nieces, Mrs. John Shane, Mrs. Albert Quibell and Mrs. W‘m.,Crossgrcy. Mrs. Lucy left on Wednesday for Kirkficld, where. she has other relatives, but the Misses. Lucy are still at Mrs. Shane’s. Powles’s. Corners. ( Corrcs )mulcnce o ‘1ch Gazelle. l . Intoxication, from the earliest ages.- up to the present time, has been the greatest curse that ever was known, and. has been the cause of more deaths titan a century of bitter and savage war. Prohibitionists have been working for a long time against a. political party that are. too fond of stuff that doesn’t; come out. of a well, and have a little money in the treasury to buy their way into power, and as long as they are there the temperance party can rest. We are glad to learn that Patrons have adopted prohibition as one of the planks in their platform, and as sure as the. sun sets in the west the. Patrons will have a good working majority at Otta- wa before fifteen years, and Tories and. Grits who. don’t intend to vote on the Patron ticket at the next general elec- tion should go right straight. to Mr. John Cruess and Mr. Wm. Manning and get some independent eyc ointment. S. A. Excunsroxâ€"Thcre will be a. Salvation Army excursion from Peter- borough and Lindsay to the Falls on Tuesday next, by the steamer Colum. bian, but we do not know at what time she is expected to arrive. 36" McCullum, the only Fashionable Tailor in town, has just received his full, stack of cloths, which are being sold at prices to suit the times. To Wasununn's Isr.AND.â€"-M‘r. '1‘. Austin, who believes in “ taking time by the forelock,” has asked us to aux nouncc that the I. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. intend running an excursion per steamer Columbilm to Wushburn's Island in Scugog lake, on Tuesday, tho 27th inst. Posters giving full particu: him will be issued in a few days. , . ..._-‘.__._..,_____..._ W-M.Wlmm W’ ‘ flea-s.