The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

APPENDICES.
A.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S EXPERIENCE.
"At my first admission into the printing-house (Palmer's, Bartholomew Close, London), I took to working at
press, imagining I felt the want of the bodily exercise I
had been used to in America, where presswork is mixed
with the composing. I drank only water; the other men,
near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On one
occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of types
in each hand, when others carried but one form in both
hands. They wondered at this and several instances that
the Water American, as they called me, was stronger than
themselves who drank beer. We had an alehouse-boy,
who attended always in the house to supply the workmen.
My companion at the press drank every day a pint before
breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a
pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint
in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he
hlad done his day's work. I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong
beer that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to
convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer
could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the
barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that
there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and,
therefore, that if he would eat that with a pint of water,
it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He
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