force, external and hostile to man, from which it is 136 of the patient's own misstep, the primitive mind laid This paganism or barbaric form of thought still it to some outside power which man could not resist. The prohibitionist will answer it is but a figure of audience to, fancy the figure of a black demon with a time? the demon. Where modern man sees but the results or the "Drink Devil." They represent it as an unholy Did you ever see a fond mother pick up her baby Barbaric and Pagan Views. the kernel of the primitive conception, the idea that it survives in many instances. And we hear many people a stick and hit the "naughty" chair for hurting the tail, a cloven hoof and a pair of horns. But he retains speech when he declaims against the "Demon Rum." against a chair and fallen and hurt itself, and take man or shaman was called to exercise and cast out dear little baby ? who claim to be Christians and to have emerged en- Will it help baby to see such action? Would not which, toddling with uncertain steps, had stumbled necessary to rescue and protect us. baby be safer if it was told to use its eyes the next But it is not ! He may not himself, nor desire his tirely from paganism, speak of the "Demon Rum"