The Cairo bulletin., 1874-05-31
I.-W IN T..
PICTURES.

| The hacknied story OF the woes tha'snoW
with the liquor from the bowl shall not re-
peat. To you all it j. kuown-is as familiar
ss the English alphabet In II are many
| chapters of distress. narrowing in detail all
| Of Il 10 saturated with human misery.
Were We TO turn over together its leaves
to night. on many OF its pages we would see
| nj pi:tures OF ruined homes, cherries; in
them wives broken-hearted. and ch,ldren
holding 10 the hand OF Poverty ,k.owing not
happiness but unconscious OF. the depth OF
their misery ;-pictlires OF other ruined
homes, distressed; I'm them, all the luxury
wealth can buy, the r,istlng OF silk In the
halls and parlors making music not unplcas.
ant TO human ears, and the voice OF society
ripping in conversation, but in. which
drunkenness has obtained an abiding place,
driving from its portals happiness and con.
tentment, without which even palaces, with
an their splendors, are cherries and gloomy
places. We might also see pictures Of shat
tered hopes, lying hespcd with good inten-
tions.-not flung aside, but dropped un-
willingly from hands made ncrvclc,s by the
subtle power OF the demon Of the cup OF
Strife driving Peace away from quiet places;
of Vice dccked Ia fine linen, and Cline
Il clothed in gorgeous raiment ;-of the vo
taries OF Bacchus crowding around the cal
of their god. and Lasciviousness, from
. among the bacchanals, iinging her javelin a
the clear front Of chastity ;of great mind
oyerthrown--
The eoartier's scholars soldiers eye tongue sword
n The expectancy and Of the fair state,
The glass Of fashion and the mould Of form,
The observed Of all Observer. quite, quae down !
. Noble and most sovereign reason
Like sweet bells jangied cut Of tune and harsh -
OF Murder, frowning; of graves coyere
with flowers 'pringing from heart
= prematurely still, In which impulse. q
beautiful as the flowers. and virtues a
d fragrant had an abiding place, until theJ
were driven out by the resistless power o
appetite. Dark pictures, and many ofthem
IMroLITIC sLERRs.
But in the volume In which the drunk
y ards story l. told, are passage, pleasant &
q read, let the temperance dotard say what II
may. Certain impolitic aborers In the wine
yard of total abstlncnee-men ignorant {
human nature and with plentiful lack q
=, blood, fsh-like owners OF tongues that ar
wholesale and retail dealers in words de
= nuncistory; men who have walk ell froi
youth up without sin; saints from the
birtk; In youth too stupid TO be wicked an
" in manhood the Aminidab Seeks ofthe pu
" pit-while boasting with turned.up eye
through thin lips that they have neye
t,stcd liquor, aud declaring that he VIII
d has is u william that should be east withor
2, remorse into the lake of orthodoxy, tn,
II waves OF which are sulphurous flames, o
which are tossed the moaning aud The groai
ing souls of the unfortunate damned-tell |
that to eschew liquor requires no effort, TIA
all the chos of the Lord resist the tempt
at tion Of the cup aud only the sons OF Beli
or cling 10 II through pcryerseness ofheart.
THE PLEASURES OF WINE.
Untrue, utterly untrue, all these assc
tious of tho Slecks. In the train of
na "Baoehus, tha, ir., from out the purple grape
"N Crushed the sweet poison Of msused Wine'
'eh are good men, noble in impulse, of aspirin
On ambition. Woocd and won by the temple
many OF them To themselves, their fmil
and The world are lost.
Wine There Is witchcry in thee. a
that the social virtues are developed by the
that wit blazes brightest when
'en --"o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers pn.'
od, that you make nights Attic and "cnarge /
Ut. horizon of the board into the horizon OF I
lor world!"
at Truly you spoke, talented and drunk
McDougal, when you said that all the gr'
i, poets that ever illustrated the higher ho
y oi humanity from old Homer down, did d
ON my the use OF wine hat many Of
At great phiiosophers used WINE for the cxs
; NJ ton OF Their in'ehigence that most OF tn
lrte- "h' "'' .''0"''' INV '"''"pe''or res''
into tue etherea',
,,.,. Took nectar on high Olympus
'eNe And mshty need IN Nalhalla.
oRGATsEss AND WINE.