The Lake County star., 1877-05-31

At Urbana young man made this
Springfield on the midnight train. ii
was dark and stormy night. / had
taken between pint and q quart be.
loal While between drinks-I mean
tbe tms coming from Springfield u
UAez ecsiy @ hopS = went int
sslssn sssSEs c'Sf re eS's =. e. e 81 ~
and book q drink, and took an0th&1
drink and another, until the late hOtix
of Gclock had arrived. II was blow.
lp9 and et0rming, and / looked up and
:asVxwQnnen ccmine IN the deuf Nth
senetAipgjn her arms. kShe WRlkR[1
}fiRe-6 cab 6he camc up ma looked4s
me, and said: civilian, here lisa little
baby that the doctor said could not live
over night. i have taken care OF II
.thisihnch g i. Of thS aigbt now You take
to eat In the house. have no wood u
And there sat this man, ,-me, taking
out, Of his pocket the money that he
should have bought medicine, bread
and fuel with, damiiing that wife he
had promised to protect, cursiDg that
child that God had given him. go
3 AtanOther meeting q rash man, con-
trary to the,whole,spiritoft the Murphy
moyement,-which never attacks deal.
ers or makers, -said he thought that
those who sold liquor ought to be prose-
cuted, ~ but he was immediately
checked "That won't do at al" !" said
Mr.. White; s'he is going right off the
track. we were going over to st.
Paris the other night, and we fell In
with the distiller who, lives there, one
OF the most wealthy citizens of the
place, When he found out what we
were going to, do, he became very
angry, and swOre viciously. / let him
GO ahead till he said oil he wanted, and
then asked HIM to let me say some
thing without interruption. L went
on to explain this movement, and took
out the pledge, and read 1t to him.
After l had finished he said to me,
Mr.. White, ] am glad You are, going
TO st. Paris, and / hope the people will
give you warm reception, and that
every man lin town will sign the
pledge And he said further: Tho
fact k,, never In my life sold q gallon
of whisky but what 1t hurt my con-
science And he got both his boys to
sign the pledge that night, We have
got nothing to do with the distiller or
the dealer. What we are after Is to
enact the part of the Good Samari-
s.The experience Of Mt.' E. cundefr Of
Urbana was that of very moderate
drinker, whose friends for years would
not have known he ever took q glass,
unless they saw him do IL. But after
. while he began now and then to take
too much In an evening. He. got a
little broken off the habit by going
away from home, but still he drank
more or less. Going into Louisville
saloon with q friend, the said): We
saw man, an old resident of Urbana.
He came in just as we were taking our
drink, and said to the bar-keeper: |:
"F0r Gods sake, give me drink" {"
He was trembling all over, just ON the
verge of delirium tremens. The bar
keeper said no, he would not sell
liquor to such as he, I told him to give
the man drink, but he refused, and
said: '.See, he could not hold the glass
to his mouth" I poured out drink
as If for myself, and gave it to him.
He thanked me, and went out. That
same night went to see q friend of
mine whose husband was in charge of
the hospital, and she told me that this
man had come there and had died with
delirium tremens. He was as smart a
man as we had in Urbana at one time,
but he drank whisky, and away he
went. 1 went further west, to st.
Louis and then to Leavenworth, and
there it was the same thing. 1 tell
you, this thing Of ofcommencing to drink
wine and beer, thinking you can leave
off, won't do. If you can quit it, why
don't you? If you don't leave it alone,
1t will get the best of you, sure, There
is nobody who will take drink to-day
but what will want one tomorrow.
He will take one to-day, and perhaps
two tomorrow, and then stop while;
and by and by a friend comes along
and says, "J0hn, come along and have
: drink, nand then, IL is "Now, Bill,
you have q drink with me-" BY and
by you find yourself drunkard. BY
and by you find yourself In the gutter,
as I have been. fts.iis -f'
= A "hard case'' In st. Paris who has
both signed the pledge and Joined the
church, because he wanted the Savior's
strength, said: It Is much better to
work for 40 cents day and not drink
whisky than to work for $4 q day and
diink whisky, for 1t will cost $5 a day
to keep you In whisky. If you don't
drink whisky, you get up in the morn
ing with a clear head; you don't get
up and scratch your head, and slip out
the back way, afraid some one will
see you, to take '.just one drink"
Some of you who d-ink will say: IT
am not such q big fool as Tom Furrow;
be is Q perfect fool" / will acknowl-
edge that. Whisky will make fool
Of any one, no matter how smart he is,
or how much money he has, / will
tell you, gen uemen, that, If this don't
bring you, I am afraid nothing will.
Ifas hard a rakeas / have. been can
sign this pledge and stand by It, it will
save any man in the United States.
But / believe that If 1 had not called
on my Savior could not have stuck.
have before this made promises. and
quit drinking whisky for two or three
weeks, or two or three months, but
when !, got. started at drinking again
~ WS5 WOAoY uu6M 0YOAs hCh WOuiu
for three or four months, or
six, and drink from half q
gallon to q gallon and q half a day.
[" That was pouring it down."] If /
had not had constitution like I have
got, l. would havei been dead long ago.
It has made, me miserable. am al
most q wreck now from the effects of
It. You may think you are smarter
than am-and, perhaps, 1t is so-but
30 sure as you touch that vile stuff, just
30 sure It Is bound to ruin you. i
know / have not got stability In that
respect / would 60 about drinking.
well, I can't do the case justice. You
all know 1t well enough yourselves.
A Cincinnati diypatch to the New
York Times contains the interesting
Items: In Columbus the signatures
over 1000; In many other
towns of considerable size there are
more signers than voters; the liquor
traffic has suffered to a marked extent,
the sales Of many large saloons having
fallen off 60 per cent. From this or
some other cause, some Of the largest
in Cincinnati are on the