“Put an enemy into their mouths,
  To steal away their brains.”

* * * * *

                HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL TO THE
NERVES.  BRAIN. 
Takes away their moisture, and Fills or congests its
paralyzes them. blood-vessels with impure
Takes away their power to blood.
control the muscles.  Collects in it, and paralyzes Makes them unfit to carry it. messages to and from the Hardens its albumen.
brain.  So hurts it as to cause
                                craziness (insanity) and
                                death.

* * * * *

MORE ABOUT THE HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL.

In the lessons you have learned you have been taught about the harm done by alcohol to the body and the mind; can you tell, from what you have seen of drunken people, in what other way alcoholic liquors hurt them?—­“They make people waste their money; they make them waste their time; they make them cross; they make them fight; they make them say silly and wicked words; they sometimes make fathers and mothers hurt their children; they make people lose their good name; they often make them do things for which they are sent to prison.”

Yes, this is only some of the mischief done by alcohol.  If you could fly around the world and see everybody who has been hurt in any way by this terrible poison, what a sad, sad sight you would behold!  At least half the trouble in the world comes from strong drink.

Are you, little girl, little boy, going to join the army of drunkards?  No, indeed! you think; but probably no one who has become a drunkard ever intended to do so.  They all began with one glass, a few drops of some alcoholic liquor,—­cider, wine, or beer perhaps,—­and thus learned to love the taste of alcohol, and soon became its slaves.  For this poison has the strange power of making those who drink it want more and more of itself, though they know it is doing them harm.

The only safety is in letting alcoholic liquors alone, forever.

BLACKBOARD OUTLINE.

ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS HURT
The body,
The mind, and
The soul;
AND MAKE PEOPLE
WASTE               LOSE                UNFIT TO            UNFIT TO SERVE
Money,              Strength,           Think, or           Themselves,
Talents, and        Health, and         Work.                Their neighbor,
Time.                Good name.                              or GOD.

* * * * *

STORIES ABOUT THE HARM DONE BY ALCOHOL.[6]

A YOUNG BEGINNER.—­The hardest drinker I ever knew commenced on cider when he was only five years old.  He would go to the barrel of cider in the cellar, which had been put there to make vinegar, and, getting a straw, would suck all the cider he wanted; and then, after he had played awhile, he would go back and get more.  He kept on drinking alcoholic liquors of some kind, until he died a drunkard.