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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 816, 25 August 1870, Page 2

Like its brother narcotics, tobacco and opium, alcohol has its seductive progress, when used as a something additional to man's ordinary wants, a " dainty," and " delightful to the senses." Exhilarating at the first, and pleasurable to the intellectual as well as the animal sense, neverthe-i less it tends to pervert, and deteriorate, and destroy what man would most wish to cherish and retain. After a time, too, the amount taken must be increased to produce even the first and best effect j and then the subsequent sinister tendency becomes moro and more intensified. A state of body and mind is consequently induced, which craves not only continuance but still further increase of the stimulant. After every exhilaration there comes depression ; the reaction constant and often great. Who so melancholy and moping, in his intervals —who so sad in his sobriety, as. the man who depends for mirth and gladness on this deceitful help ! Forced hilarity turns out a sorry affair in the long run. "Gro and see Grimaldi," said Abernethy to a hopeless hypochondriac. "Alas," said the poor patient, " I am the man{"