Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-04
ANNUAL FESTIVAL.
AMIcITIA LODGE, NO. 43, I. o. OF G. T.

Last Tuesday evening the annual oyster
supper of the Good Templars, was given
at their Hall, in this village. The Hall
was filled with members of the order and
invited guests. After partaking of the re-
freshments, the company was entertained
with vocal and instrumental music. Rev.
VIM. Sturges being one of the invited
guests, was called upon for speech, who
spoke substantially as follows:
WORTHY CHIEF TEMPLAR, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN am obliged to you for the
invitation to be present at this, your annu-
al festival. accept the invitation as an
act of courtesy to the profession that un-
worthily represent. | am sure that the
taste and bountifuness Of the tables unto
which we have just sat down, reflect great
credit on the sisterhood of the lodge, and
who would deny to such ladies those de-
grees of the heart that can only be taken
at the altar Of Hymen.
can and do sympathize with the great
aim of your organization. What I can do
is freely done and willingly done, and the
best that can do I am ready to do to
show the wickedness of selling, and the
folly of drinking anything that ntoxicates.
would like you to remember that ours is
not one of those campaigns which will soon
be over That massive, frowning, begrimed
fort of Alcohol will not be taken by storm,
ours must be patient, steady, persevering
siege work. Then we must not paint the
face of our enemy. l will illustrate this
idea by reference to an old German fable
A doe warned her youthful offspring to
beware as she skipped about the forest, Of
that dangerous animal, the leopard. And
what is the leopard like? inquired the
fawn. Oh, it is dreadful looking mon.
ster; its eyes glare and its jaws drop
blood. The fawn goes off to crop the ten
der heritage, and in the course Of her ram
bles, espies, at some distance, in the long
grass graceful creature with beautiful
spotted hide its movements are elegant
and ever playful; its aspect betrays nc
sanguinary stain. Well, this cannot b.
the leopard, says the fawn; this is not the
creature my parent descrlbed-I must &C
and make it's acquaintance. She advances
to meet the new found friend, and-well,
need not tell you the result; so j! will no
profit much to call liquor sellers bloated
blear-eyed, with large red nose, and repul
sive aspect; it will not profit much to say
nasty whiskey, nasty wine; the Bible doe:
not do so, but admits that appearances
are attractive look not thou upon the
wine whenit is red, when it giveth its
color in the cup, when it moveth itsel
Alright, at last it biteth like serpent and
stingeth like an adder.
There are vices in our world, an6
drunkenness is one Of them, that we shall
never live to see banished from it, but be-
cause we have not done all, do not say we
have not done any thing. TIA young man
takes off his coat to any vice or wrong, he
may not drive the vice or wrong from the
field, but he has driven it from HIM; he
has spotted it, a victory was his in taking
off his coat, victory over inertness and
indifference, there is bracing of the mus.
cles, strength coming from conflict that
is gained in no other way. don't know
what this world was made for, unless that
on it may be developed true and beauti-
ful manhood, and then, as when we throw
one weed over the fence we feel like throw
ing another, and when we get one beauti.
| ful plant in our garden we want to, get
another; so when you hate one vice, /
have hope for you that you will hate an
other, and if you take one virtue to your
loving heart, | have hope that you will
take others.
| Thou sparkling bowl; thou sparkling bowl
| Though lips of bards thy brim may press,
| And eyes OF beauty Ger thee roll.
And song and dance thy power confess;
will not touch thee, for there cIngs
| scorpion to thy side, that stings.
beg At a fox-hunt at Yarmouth, in the