The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-17

| ing Temperance nation under the first
Napoleon and at the battle Of Austerli 2
| his soldiers were all sober while the Eng
llish. Russians, were reveling and they
fell j. Fennimore Cooper says: 81 came
to Europe with the impression that there
was more drunkenness among us Amer:-
cans than in any other country. hut /
have changed my views; have been more
struck with drunkenness in the streets of
Paris than of London.'"' Horace Greeley
wrote from Paris "that wine will intoxl.
cate. does intoxicate, and that there are
confirmed drunkards in Paris. A French
Magazine says that Drunkenness. is the
beginning and end of life in the great
French industrial centers. At Lille 25
per cent. of the men and 10 per cent. Of
the women are confirmed drunkards.
Hon. Caleb Foot writing from Paris de-
MES in toto that wine producing coun.
tries are sober. DR.. Kirk of Bost n saws
'lnever saw such systematic drunk enness
as saw In France during residence of
sixteen months there. Rev. E. S. Lacy of
San Francisco after residence of six
months IN a wine producing section of
Switzerland says "Here more intoxication
was obvious than in any other place it
was ever my lot to live in. An appeal to
California now shows like results, ard
people WAC live there now begin to ex.
press their fears that tbs to be a state of
Drunkards. ao7HattIo aeel9tr
Does it fire anew the appetite once under con-
troll. Johu B. Cough, this greatest American
Orator, says that for three years after he
joiued christian church he dared not go to
the communion, ess the fire fend should be
walked up by a teasponful OF wine, aud he
loose all control. Bishop Potter tells US of a
gentleman he knew, who had after long eff
forts conquered the habit, and stood up once
more free. There seemed TO be good pros
poets of final victory. He was invited to a
kid glove dress parade, accepted and went.
himself sitting at little Gable opposite a
beautiful woman. She asked him to take
wine, he declined. She urged him to take q
glass with her; he told her no. She, feeling
as all Others do who present such drinks at
their parties, or invite others to partake,
that her own position was iticised, laughed
at the weakness OF gentleman, who could
not take a harmless glass of wine with a
lady. Casting on her one firm look of scorn
that she would use both her attractions and
sarcasm to ruin a man. and feeling the
force OF what he was doing, he put the lit
tie delicate glass to mis- lips. and feeling the
wild torrents beginning to surge through his
veins, he brought his hand down upon the
table in one full stroke Of despair, and seid
"Now / drink till die,'' and in six short
weeks they buried him. Dead with tremens
At party Of lashionables in Iowa three
years ago, the lady who provided the enter
tainment had her costly wines. She had urged
to drink. young man said no, he
could not with safety, feeling it reproof
to her course she said, Oh, do just take
little that there may be uniformity. He did
not like to embarrass, he took a little, and
in six hours he was found on the streets
raving maniac. and it took six men to hold
him
A man was once led into the evil of drunk.
enness. His wife resolved she would save
could do this. Sac followed him by day and
night, after years of the most anxious effort
she saw him stand up q redeemed man She
held her victories with trembling hand
but firmly. Temptations were on his track
everywhere. The least taste of liquor end
all would be lost. She went with him into
places of danger to streng then him. Finally
disease came as the result of early debauch
and he was sinking into the grave. To add
to her anxiety the physician prescribed spir-
its. She got them at his command, bat put
them up and never used them lest she should
compass his ruin. She stood by his bed day
and night to sec that no one gave the fiery
temptation. She watched thus the interests
of soul and body. for If he died she would see
him go into the eternal world sober At last
she saw him laid in the grave sober ma
She returned to her home rejecting how
heartess world had been trying for years to
ruin the idle of her heart, and maddened at
the thought, she took the very brandy she
had defended him from and drank herself TO
death.
How sad to think that of one of your par
ties with your wine, you are to undo in one
hour what some poor wife or mother has
prayed over, and worked years to accomplish ;
viz. the reformation your carelessness de-.
stroys for one moments pleasure, and bere l