Four of them drank freely of spirits to keep up their
strength, but the fifth would drink none. One was drowned, and all that
drank spirits failed and stopped, and froze one after another, the man that
drank none being the only one that reached the house at some distance from,
the shore, and he lived many years after that.
IT EXHAUSTS STRENGTH.--Concerning one cold winter when there were very
severe snow-storms in the Highlands of Scotland, James Hogg, the poet,
says: "It was a received opinion all over the country that sundry lives
were lost, and a great many more endangered, by the administration of
ardent spirits to the sufferers _while in a state of exhaustion_. A little
bread and sweet milk, or even bread and cold water, proved a much safer
restorative in the fields. Some who took a glass of spirits that night
never spoke another word, even though they were continuing to walk and
converse when their friends joined them. One woman found her husband lying
in a state of insensibility; she had only sweet milk and oatmeal cake to
give him, but with these she succeeded in getting him home and saving
him."--_Bacchus._
SHIPMASTER OF THE KEDRON.--"I was brought up in a temperance school, and
when I shipped before the mast I stuck to my principles, though everyone
else on board drank excepting two boys whom I persuaded to abstain.
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