Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-02-12

| al; anu lalhaIlNc WIN tIlell lliSluS' lHCy
even excel the example, and easily become
more adept than their teachers. Their fu-
ture progress will detail TO you in the Sc
quel-their final catastrophe the records of
eternity will unfold. Again the indscre-
ton of parents is witnessed in their neglect
to furnish suitable employment for their sons
in the heyday of youth. 1t has become a
notion with too many that regular manual
labor is degrading to son whose parents
are wealthy. The STRIPPING is taught to as
sumo the airs of manhood Furnished with
horse and chaise, watch, a whip-pock-
cts full Of money, he is launched out to dis
play his brilliant parts, and impose his con-
seqence upon the world. Thus equipped,
you will see the pampered coXcomb putting
his cigar, calling for the punch, cracking his
whip, displaying his horse and watch, and
boasting ofhis fathers wealth. Follow him
little further, and you will find him in the
billiard room, at the card table, in the brothel,
or drunk at Bacchanalian revel. Alas!
poor child! destruction has marked thee for
her prey-thy orphaned sister shall weep
over thy early grave. Alas dear father.
thy indiscretion has murdered thy child,
Squandered thy estate, planted thorns of an
g'lish in thy dying couch. The grave shall
cover thee; but thy monument shall tell the
indiscretion of a father. Secondly another
fruitful source of this evil, are the facilities
furnished by operation oflaw. To saynoth-
ing Of the extensive liberation oftradc in ar
dent spirits, unrestrained by adequate dll-
ties; leaving out of view the many ships
yearly chartered in the import, the thousands
of men employed, the millions of capital
abused, and worse than wasted; we will Just
produce two glaring illustrations of the fact,
that the law connivcs at, or aids the evil of
Intemperancc.:
: Look at the innumerable distilleries, scat
tered and multiplied, belching out pestife-
rous fumes and liquid death, in every glen,
} and corner, and nook of this extended en-
pire. On them the law imposes no restraint
! The excise, sells indulgences to the factu-
: rer, at the distillcry,-go on, mighty engine
Of ofdeStruction; convert the bread-corn of the
land into burning founts of fire-water, and
1 send il out in a thousand streams, burning
D and foaming, carrying in their course desola-
5 ton, and death, and putrifaction. Again,
= contemplate the appalling number of Groce-
: ries and dram shops, directly licensed by
;, law. No less than three of these poison
e venders are licensed in the town of Hunts
e vile; in the United States, at safe estimate,
e 10000; what an overwhelming fact is this,
c 10000 men employed to inveigle and Sc
2 duce 100000 more Of their fellow mortals
e into the snare of intemperance until their
= feet are made fast in fetters, and their steps
IL take hold on death. And skillful seducers
|, they are. To ensure success in their bust
c ness, they hold out their gilded bait in the
g most facinating forms. Their recess is
:. shaded with linen, and cooled with myrtle
h as if 1t were the bower Of love; ranged
e around their enchanted alcovc, in curvire
y rows, sparkle decanters, labelled with gold
h and cut glasses, which reflect the prismatic
it co!ors OF the rainbow from the varying IL
a quors within. The board on the door pos
al tells of choice viands, of brandes and wines
'e and lemons, and julips, and citrons and ic
lie creams, to be had within; youths in swarms
" light there, first for ropast and relaxation: re
i galed by the cooling shade, exhilarated b,
I'd the cheering beverage, and charmed by tn
Id fascinating politeness of the host, they repea
III their visits, come again and again, oitene
j. and oftener, and stay longer and longer, un
st til they are strangers at home, and the drar
%. shop becomes the place of their ordinary hal
us itation. Over that gateway to ruin, mother
EN- made childless, and children made fatherlcs!
re pour out tears of blood; from that Golgotl
ly shall depart armies of affrighted ghosts,
ke victims slainthere, to minglc their babbling
N. with the wailings of the damned.
ed We proceed, secondly, to mark some
is the symptoms of this terrible malady. Il
ed temperance, like other chronic disease
b. rarely comes on at once. It's predisposir
of causes are various; but in its process it
he gradual, gaining by degrees, little by lit
he till the disease is confirmed, and the man
TX. marked for the grave. Perhaps no one,
Ell the opening of life, ever designed to die
ull drunkard;- thousands olmen, from re
of pectable pretensions in early life, by SIN;
lie; beginnings in this course, move on step
he step, are covered with rags and sores at 70
nd ty; and are eaten by worms at fifty. It
ire biography of one of these victims will she
ted the symptoms and progress Of this dire di