Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05
TAKING A LITTLE SoMETHING.-A

ono VI tuc IcV1V"A MceIluSS az the
Globe Hall In Boston, a few days ago,
man who until recently had been ex-
ceedingly Incorporate, stated that he
attributed his reformation to hearing
his little son sing the temperance hymn
beginning, my father Is. a drunk.
ard, but lam not to blanse.o How
many fathers who indulge constantly
in drinking almost to inebriety would
be touched to the heart il they knew
how anxously their children watch the
operation, and desire to demonstrate,
but dare not! The safer way is to
use no ardents spirit at all !; but how
ever much people may differ as to that,
there is one thing to which all moder-
ate drinkers must accede, we presume
viz, that when man finds that he
is making a beverage Of intoxicating
draughts, or that he is acquiring IA
habit of drinking a little something Of
the sort every dug, it Is time for him
to break short off, as brick. eta
king a little something" spirituous
daily FOR the stomach's sake" might
have answered pretty we'll in St Paul's
day, when wines we're composed of the
pure juice Of the grape; but in these
modern times, the stuff sold for port,
sherry, etc., is avile adulteration.; and
as for brandy, whisky, rum and gin,
(which We rever recommended, by the
way,) they are commonly the vilest de-
coctions. The occasional use Of pure
article is allowable, but not even then
it the effect of it is such as to make
the person desire more Of it. Fire is
a useful servant to man, but once let
1t get the mastery, and we see that
rum and death are in its train. 1t is
just so with good liquor" only that
when it becomes the master Of a man
its effects are more desolating than a
contagration. War and famine has
not killed as many as intemperance.
The GOSPEL OF BUsINEss.-The
South County Journal, published at
Wakefield, R. l., essays an editorial
headed as above. The following truth
full words are worthy of being respon-
ded to: ~ - - ~ ~ = =
"While the secular element in every
sermon might perhaps be regarded ex-
cessive, yet the assignment to it Of a
more common and prominent place in
the pulpit, would no, be amiss. These
outstanding accounts are ruinous
things, both morally and financially
Had 'the Gospel Of business, been thor
oughly preached and practiced, we had
escaped the slough Of bankruptcy, in
which we are now laundering. But
we can conceive that a minister who
should preach the whole Gospel, as it
bears upon secular affairs, upon debt
and credit, capital and labor, work and
wages, money and usury, speculation,
bonds, mortgages, collaterals, securi-
ties, and consignments, in word,
upon the perpendicular right and wrong
of trade and business of every kind,
would be immensely unpopular both
with the money-making and money
spending part Of the community. But
nothing is more needed than such an
application of the Gospel to the prac-
teal affairs of life, and that, too, in
the actual detail of trade and finance,
and business interchanges Of every
kind A ministry that in these matters,
would lay judgment to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet-that
would preach Gospel Of stringent
honesty, between man and man, would
do an important, but neglected part of
the work of an evangelist
The MELsTRoM VERIFIED. OF
late years the existence Of the Mel-
strom has been doubted. Ancient &C
counts Of its terrible power we're doubt
less fabulous, but the Malstrom actu-
ally exists. and is sometimes dangerous.
H. IIagerup, Minister of the Norwegian
Marine, has recently gave reliable ac-
count Of it, in reply to some questions
from correspondent Of the Boston Re-
corder.-The vast whirl is caused by
the setting in and out of the tides be-
tween Loroden and Mosken, and is
most violent half way between ebb and
food tide. At food and ebb tide it dis
appears for about half an hour, but be-
gins again with the moving waters.
Large vessels may pass over it safely
in serene waters, but in a storm it is
pcrilous to the largest craft. Small
boats are not safe near it at the time
Of it's strongest action in any weather.
The whirls in the M@lstrom do not, as
was once supposed, draw vessels under
the water, but by their violence dash
them upon the neighboring, shoals.
AN eminent French statistician states
that the land and naval forces Of the
European armies number $4,000 O
sound picked men, in the prime of their
productive strength. The annual outlay
required to keep up their armies and
the materials Of war is over $780,
900, 900, not including the value of land
or buildings occupied by Notifications,
arsenals, hospitals, foundries, schools,
etc., moderately at $38, 1000, on
which Ca four per cent .interest) the
yearly expense is more than $3.50, 0O0,-
900. To this add the labor which
these men would productivity perform,
which amounts to more than 1856, 000,-
600, and we have an annual war expense
paid by European producers Of nearly
So, 100000.