disease, but also as a wonderful healer of disease. The more
people can be taught to live in pure air out of doors, and bask
in the rays of the sun, the less of disease there will be to
prevent."--DR. C. H. SHEPARD, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ALCOHOL TESTED.

"Some years ago Dr. Beddoes, a physician of eminence, was very
anxious to put to the test the disputed question as to the power
of alcoholic liquors to give strength to the system. He
discovered that those who had most calls upon their physical
endurance were the smiths who were engaged in forging ship's
anchors, for at one moment they would be exposed to a heat so
fierce that one marveled that any human organization could
endure exposure to it, and then their work would call them away
to a temperature that was chilly and cold, added to which all
the time their work lasted they were bathed in a profuse
perspiration, the demands upon their physical energy were so
great. To counteract this perpetual drain upon their system they
were in the habit of drinking unlimited quantities of beer,
which their masters provided for them as a matter of course, and
a _sine qua non_. One day, as they were resting from their work
at midday, Dr. Beddoes made his appearance amongst some of these
men who were employed in a certain foundry, and submitted a
formal proposition to them, to this effect, that twelve of their
number, the strongest and stanchest, should be selected for an
experiment, and they should work for a week, six of them
drinking only water, and the other six taking their beer as
usual. His proposition was laughed to scorn. The men would not
hear of it. 'Look here, mate,' said their spokesman, 'do you
want us to be all dead men; you don't know what our work is, and
how it takes all a man's strength to weld an anchor. Why, if we
did not have our beer and plenty of it, it would be all up with
us in a brace of shakes.'

"The doctor said: 'I should be very sorry for any harm to come
to you. You know I am a doctor, and I will be constantly at hand
to see if any of you are going wrong, and I promise that if I
see any of you breaking down I will at once stop my experiment.'
And then taking out of his pocket ten crisp five-pound notes, he
displayed them to the anchor smiths. 'I will put down these
notes, L50 in all; six of you shall try