CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I.]
[The Monster, Strong Drink]

[CHAPTER II.]
[It Curses the Body]

[CHAPTER III.]
[It Curses the Body—Continued]

[CHAPTER IV.]
[It Curses the Soul]

[CHAPTER V.]
[Not a Food, and very Limited in its Range as a Medicine]

[CHAPTER VI.]
[The Growth and Power of Appetite]

[CHAPTER VII.]
[Means of Cure]

[CHAPTER VIII.]
[Inebriate Asylums]

[CHAPTER IX.]
[Reformatory Homes]

[CHAPTER X.]
[Tobacco as an Incitant to the Use of Alcoholic Stimulants, and an
Obstacle in the way of a Permanent Reformation]

[CHAPTER XI.]
[The Woman's Crusade]

[CHAPTER XII.]
[The Woman's National Christian Temperance Union]

[CHAPTER XIII.]
[Reform Clubs]

[CHAPTER XIV.]
[Gospel Temperance]

[CHAPTER XV.]
[Temperance Coffee-Houses and Friendly Inns]

[CHAPTER XVI.]
[Temperance Literature]

[CHAPTER XVII.]
[License a Failure and a Disgrace]

[CHAPTER XVIII.]
[Prohibition]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[IN THE MONSTER'S CLUTCHES]

GOD'S BEST BEVERAGE, PURE WATER

[HEAPING BURDENS UPON POVERTY]

[AN UTTER WRECK]

["TAKE WARNING BY MY CAREER"]

[CRAZED BY DRINK]

[ALCOHOL AND GAMBLING (12 sequence pictures)]

[FOUR STAGES OF THE DOWNWARD COURSE]

[A VICTIM OF THE DRINKING CLUB]

[FINANCIAL VIEW OF THE LICENSE SYSTEM]

"Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also."—HABAKKUK ii, 15.


CHAPTER I.