Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-28
Communicates.
DAYTON, Va, Jan. IS, rs.

The winter seems. just now to be fairly
upon us; but so far It has put US off with
very little snow. This morning the sky
Is overcast with dark threatening clouds
but il has often been SO in the last month,
and we have as often been disappointed.
Our Ice men are having a glorious har-
vest, and should this cold snap continue
few days longer. We shall not want for
that cool and refreshing article, during
the coming hot summer months. Ice is
considered great luxury, by most of our
Inhabitants. l suppose majority of the
farmers have ice houses, and they spare
no pains in having them we'll filled for
summer use. One can not we'll imagine
how single family can be renumerated
for the trouble of keeping an ice house
until he has once fairly tested 1t. Most
certainly an ice house, particularly with
dairy attachment is an important pierre
quisite to a we'll kept farm.
| had thought of giving your readers a
little about Christmas, In Virginia: but
as it is rather late now, and no doubt
they are sick and tired, long ago. of
Christmas, I shall content myself with
giving few general observations Christ.
mas is celebrated here, 1 presume as it is
most other places. throughout christen.
dom. We have the professed christian
here that goes to Church and spends an
hour or two in the house of God; after
church he returns to his home, or to the
home Of a neighbor and partakes of tur-
Key. cake, preserves" and sich like.
Tie perhaps eats little more than he Il
wont to eat; but then you know it's
Christmas. Then too, we have the Young
man here. fla. son CT christian father,
the son ofs fond mother. This young
man feels certain kind of freedom du-
ring these holidays, that has grown up
in bis very nature ever since he knew
enough to hang the stocking up in the
fireplace" A freedom that bis father
and mother taught him to foster and nour.
ish, from childhood up. He has looked
forward for weeks--to these days of feast
ing and general hilarity, with mingled
feeling OF anxiousness and JOY; what a
good time he is going 70 have on that
" bum" If he should smoke great ma.
ny cigars, chew tobacco. or even get
drunk. Whyl its Christmas, and that
comes but once year; and again. we
have the drunkard. the poor sot. 1t was
his privilege to drink brandy; but now
he actually pours it down. He used to
buy it by the dram; but he managed to
earn few dollars expressly for he holi.
days, and now buys by the jug full-all
because It's Christmas; but what is the
use Of talking? us Americans are glut.
tons; every inch of us, let the appella-
ton be as distasteful to us as 1t may, not
only on holidays, but always. We are
beings with perverted appetlies. We
take 70 drinking whisky as naturally as
the duck takes 10 water. Whys Be- |
cause-we need something TO keep the
going with all its might, or IL |
viii clog and choke. There needs to be |
a reform; and we must strike at the root |
of the evil. The world looks to the
church to take the first step. We know
it's unpopular to talk about gluttony, in
The pulpit, to talk about intemperance, in |
any form, unless it be in use of whisky. /
You approach man on the subject. of
what he ought to eat, and how much he |
ought to eat: and you will find that he
loes not wish to prolong the converse
ion: 1t is one OF the last things he has
thought about. Allow me to close by
making this affirmation. THAT so long
Is the christian father and mother allow
their children to have their hands. pock-
Its and mouths, full of candies and cakes
30 long as they, themselves. allow perver-
ed appetite TO govern and overrule a good
Judgment, just so long will We be a peo-
pie of inordinate passions, foul stomachs,
Dad blood and inactive brains" Let man
obey Gods natural laws, and doctors will
'tarve, the walls of the drug store be lev.
lied, and the name patent medicines"
De stencil in the nostrils of the nation
md, now my dear REPUBLICAN, wishing
7ou great success, and long life, close.
Truly Yours.
RALPH ADAMS.