The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-03-26

upon short notice, and with the
greatest expedition, to prepare vic
TINS for the poor house, asylums,
prisons and the gallows.
will furnish an article suited to
the taste, which will increase the
number of fatal accidents, multiply
distressing diseases, and render
those comparatively harmless, in
curable.
will deal in drugs which will de-
prive some OF life, many of reason,
most Of property, and all of peace,
which will cause fathers to become
fiends, wives to become widows,
children to become orphans, and
all to become sufferers.
will cause the rising generation
to grow up in ignorance, and prove
a nuisance to the nation. I will
cause mothers to forget their help
less children, and priceless virtue to
no longer remember its value.
1 will endeavor to corrupt tt q
minister of religion, to obstruct the
progress of the gospel, defile the
purity of the churches, and cause
temporal, spiritual and eternal
death.
If any should be SO impertinent
as to ask why I have the audacity
to bring such accumulated misery
upon a comparatively happy peo-
pie, my honest reply is ssGreen
backs"
The spirit trade is lucrative, and
some protesting temperance men
and christians give it their cheerful
support, besides I have license, and
if l don't bring these evils upon you
somebody else will I shall try to
be an honor to my calling. 1 live
in a land Of liberty. l have pur-
chased the right to demoiish the
character, destroy the health, shor-
ten the lives and ruin the souls of
those who honor me with their pat
ronage.
Come one, come all, I pledge my
self to do all l have herein prom
ised, Those who wish any of the
evils above specified brought upon
themselves and their dearest friends,
are respectfully requested to meet
me at my Bar, where / will for a
few cents furnish them with the
certain means of doing so. .F
AN HONEST DEALER.
N. Band for the. annoyance of
Christian people Twill agree to keep
open on Sunday.
There are'many who tell us sit is
no harm to take a dram, only let
men use it moderately" To such
we say the vast sea is filled by those
who were once only tipplers. The
tipler is speedily going the road to
drunkenness and inebriation. We
say to such stop while you can.
Once boy received a complete
flogging from an old gander. Not
long after, his mother saw him in
the yard fighting little goslings,
and inquired Of him what he was
doing. He replied: ''Killing these
little ganders.' She told him they
were only goslings. eyes," said
the boy, 81 know they are only gos-
lings now, but if do not kill them
now they will be ganders, and then
1 can't kill them"
So with the tippler, if he does not
cease ere long he cannot. -.
"There was once," SO says IA
BILE, "a fish surrounded by her hap
py family. The old fish was giving
her progeny advice en- subjects for
the future. Soon one of the little
fishes espied a fine fat worm dan
Cling before him which he was on
the point of seizing with his mouth,
when his parent told him not to
touch it; that concealed in it was a
hook, which might ruin him if he
touched it, The little ones could
not see any danger, soon they swan
off to hunt their meal, all but the
little one who could not give up the
idea Of dining on the nice worm.
still nearer, and swim
ming round it he felt confident the
parent must be deceived, he gave it
a little nibble; it was delicious, he
felt inclined to start off and tell
mother how mistaken she was, hut
alas the next taste he felt the cruel
hook fastened in his mouth, and re-
allied that he was being drawn from
the water, and exclaimed, oh! that
[ had needed the advice of my kind
parent, but now it is too alate,'" I +
= How many have titus fingered
around the Intoxicating bowl till in
spite of the warning of friends they
nave been hooked and gone down
o a drunkard's grave, and drunk
.rd's helI!T - '-,.s'i s.i'S-.e1 =
Let the friends of temperance up
% arms, and rally; though we may
lot be able to rescue the confirmed |
let us save the young
rom this fatal snare. Amen.