FOR rHG LlrcHFIELD EEQUIRER. TEMPERANCE, No. XII.
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aEMPEHANCE, NO. All.

 Many persons who labor hard in warm weather, believe ,ha, little spirit is absolutely necessary to guard them from the bad effects of,he cold water which they drink. The iact which ofrare occurrence that death takes place in consequence of drinking cold water, when the body is heated, strengthens this besiee

 It is strange f,at cold water. whchi is intended by nature to be the common aud universal drink, should by any be thought to be liquor dangerous, that i cannot be taken with saety ualess its effects be teracted by rum: That the pure fluid, which is the only principle in all liquors ,ha, quenches lhirs should be 60 bad that DO son be mixed with it to pre-. vess it's doing mischief. Certainly that system. which will not bear cold water, must De seriously diseased.

 But, in point fact who makes cold water his only beverage suffers serious injury drinking is~sThe persons wing dzep down aud die from drink ing esid waer those who hahi,uay drink freely of spirits. IT .here has ever been exception 10 this statement, have not known it. The spirit which they drink. pats the system into habilua fever; this fever aggravated by hard work and long abstinence from water, in hot weather, makes it dangerous 10 drink, at once, four times much cold water as any one would drink in healthy state. The proper course is avoid hea,iag tho body by spirils and 0 drink cold water thirst is felt: ia his way any quantity of it, tha. is craved. may be taken with perfect safety. To drink heating liquors, and safer the body get Hto violent fever; and then o fll is with cold water, and depend spirits to couneract the effects of,he s ms ifa surgeon should make deep ineisiens into the leg ofa healthy man, and thea cut of his leg to prevent his bleeding to death.

 II, from any cause, beeemes exeessisely heat cd and thirsty; let him consider what he would do with hs horse. in a similar case. Every farmer knows that his beas whsa heated, must be gradually, aad d, frsa sparingy, sUppied with cold water. A pruden, naa. would, in such case f practicable delay wa. ieTing the animal till he should become perfectly cool How much more valuable is a man than boEse H all farmers think that the Ie aad health of man s better than that of bruse, and w upon lhas be- belief spirits wil never be more ascessay for them

 than for their ealte. Precisely the rules, in this respect. apply so men as to animals.

 It s believed that all the eases. ia which, iu the or- dinary occurrences of le spirits may be sufms- ed to be useful have been stated; sad it has ap- peared that they never do good. bat in most, # all eases. positive evil Indeed, from the nature of the saimuIas, applied io ihe human system, It must be sO That system s made to go for certain length of ime. and then io stop. Under ihe operalioa oi healthy food and pare water, n the proper exercise 0f hS cOrpoTsel and mental powers and wih due al.