The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-03-20

Keep SOssl tfr-tsA G1%ndf1RC tuGul
for those of migratory habits.
Teachers, to our best of information
YOU have in general, given good satisfac-
tion- Children or pupils, you are on the
advance, ignorance is on the retreat. Be
regularly at school be studious and obe-
dient and the light of education will be
yours to enjoy, yours to transmit
D. NJ. W.
Something said i'm Reference to
s'Adieus' and his Wonderful Pro-
duetiOn.
NAdieu" seems to be considerably wor-
ricd over "my little piece" and at my
use of an anonymous signature. Why
does this puissant ~ hero do the same
thing?
| Perhaps Mr. "Adieu" is better acquain-
ted with the refrain of the grog shops
than am. / notice he is thoroughly
conversant with a mixture of billings
gate and cant, which he freely uses in
his Brobdignagian article.
| think the safest place for me, when
fired at by such marksman as "Adieu"
is to stick close to the mark, as he is not
! likely to shoot anywhere near it.
"Adieu" falsifes and misrepresents;
he wishes the public to infer that apply
the tern" nuisance" o..all women. This is
a gross'fabrication. 1 honor and respect
women, in her proper place. l believe,
emphatically, she is Heavens last, best
gift to man." Yet 1 think with "Black-
stone" that which in itself is no nui-
sance, may become one; and woman neg
lecting her household duties, singing
and praying in the saloons and the
streets, is,-to say the least,-out of her
proper sphere. He styles this whiskey
crusade, .'the noblest reformatory work
ever inaugurated on the globe" That
sounds very we'll, but let Us see; many of
the best Ministers, Christians, and good
citizens, do not agree with'this modern
Solomon. 4 long list of names might
be given, headed by that Of Arch Bish-
op Purcell, of Cincinnati, whose opin-
ions Will command as much respect as
"AdIeu's?" He further says, "Intemper-
ance in Intoxicating drink is acllnowl-
edged by aU who care to inform them
selves, to be not only the direct cause of
the worst and basest crimes and calami-
ties that distress the human family, but
it lies at the bottom of indefinite other
unholy passions and Irregularities which
curse our world"
Now will this great wiseacre tell us
whether Adam and Eve were intoxicated
when they plueked the forbidden fruit,
and brought sin, and disease in the
world, to curse man until the end of
time? Was Cain on a spree when he
killed Abel? Was David drunk when
he placed Uriah in the front of the bat
tie? Was whiskey the cause of the
wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and their consequent destruction? Was
intemperance in strong drink the cause
of all the horrors of the dark ages?-
Was alcohol the cause of the dreadful
cruelties of the Salem witchcraft? Were
the men drunk who bored the ears of
man in the clerical garb enters the fam
lily circle, and seduces the wife and
mother, or the daughter, brings shame
and sorrow TO once happy home, do
you charge that crime to the account of
whiskey?
If Mr.. "Adieu" will inform himself he
will learn that there are vices, born of
the lust of the flesh, before the appe-
| tite for strong drink is contracted,) that
carry their thousands of both sexes, ev-
cry year, to a consumptive's grave, into
driveling idiotcy, home in the mad
house; or, escaping these, linger out a
wretched and hopeless existence, unable
to discharge the duties of life, and unfit
to enjoy its pleasures.
Walk along the streets of any city or
town in the land, and you will see, free
ly displayed for sale, instruments of tor
ture that would have done credit to the
malignant spirit of past age; designed
to compress woman's form out of the
shape Nature intended it to occupy; and
it is the universal testimony of all ply
sicians of experience and skill, that no
woman who distorts her own form, for
any length of time, can bear a healthy
child. This is an instance of fashion
foolish and tricked sway, that bring>
suffering to the innocent child; it may
be an early grave, or feeble and suffer.
ing existence.
Other things in this foolish article
might notice had the time, or the in
clinatiod to weary the public, with re-
view of such "t,cdddle."
feel very grateful for the informa
tion that the ladies are praying for my
conversion; and while they pray for me
let them also pray that this redoubtablC
knight errant of the new crusade, may
be blessed with larger stock of general
information, more liberal and enlighten
ed views, that he may become freed from
fanaticism, bigotry, and cant, and learr
that others besides himself and his fol
lowers, have rights and privileges in thi
Gland of the free and home of the brave;
and, while the good sense of the peopl
remains, bigotry and cant cannot carr!
the day. If they could, they woul(
blot out the record of the last hundred
years, and American Liberty would be
come an idle dream. maxwell.
n. B. haven't been converted sine
last week; ''the sordid Iodthsome. ekein9
Of debased mind" suppose, have no
yet been overcome. Nj.
e EDITOR Press: l have heard severa
+ persons doubt the statement of your cor
C respondent, Lycurges, in the last issu
$ of the PRESS, in regard to the amour
: of snuff sold during the past year i
j this village. They claim that the est
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