Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-07-05


ing buildings; others were crushed in
shapeless masses under the cars. They
died in various ways, but strong drink
killed them all, aud on their tombstoucs,
If they. have any, may bo itIy inscribed,
"He died a drunkard's DEATH" Close
behind them comes another long line of
funeral professions, but they are numerously
attended by mourning friends. They con-
tain tho remains of those who have met
death through tho careleasuess and cruelty
OF drunken men. Some died of broken
hearts; some wero foully murdered by
druken husbands and fathers; some wero
burned to death in buildings set on fire by
drunken mcnj some were horribly maugled
on railroads because of drunken engineers
or flug men; some were blown up on q steam.
bout because drunken captain ran race
with rival boat.
But here comes another army-thc child.
rem innocent ones, upon whom has been
visited the iniquitics Of their fathers. How
many are thcre2 Two hundred thousand!
Marching two abreast they extend up tho
street thirty miles. Each one must bear
through life tho stigma of being drunk
ards child. They are reduced to poverty,
want and beggary. They live IN ignorance
and vice.
Some of the children are mourning with
hunger and some are shivering with cold.
A largo number of them are idiots, made
such before they were born by brutal,
drunken fathers. And, worse than all the
rest, many of them have inherited a love for
liquor and are growing up to take the places
and do the deeds Of their fathers. They
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drunkalds that moves in unbroken column
down to death.
1t has taken nearly year for tho street
to empty itself of its years work And
close in the rear comes the vanguard of the
next years supply. And If this is what
liquapEas done in one year 10 our great
country, what must be its results in all the
world through tie long centuries.
Thus for we have listened to tho story
that the figures tell. Tho give only tho
outline of the terrible tragedy that is going
on around US.
They cannot picture to US the wret6hed
squalor of drunkard's home They cannot
tell US how many unkind and cruel words
strong drink has caused, otherwise, kind
aud tender hearted husbands and fathers to
utter to their dear ones. They cannot tell
us how many heavy blows have fallen from
the drunkard's hand upon those whom it is
his duty to love, cherish and protect. They
cannot tell us how many fond expectations
and bright hopes which the young bride had
of tho future have boon blasted and turned
to bitterest gall. They cannot number tho
long, weary hours of night, during which
she has anxiously awaited, and yet fearfully
dreaded tho hoavy football at the door.
Figures cannot tell us how many soalding
tears the wives of drunkards have shed, nor
how many prayers of bitter anguish and
cries of agony God hos hoard them utter.
They cannot toll US how many mothers have
wora cut body and soul in providing for
children whom drunken father has loft
destitute. They cannot tell US how many
mothers hearts have broken griof as they
saw q darling son becoming a drunkard.
They cannot tell us how a,any gray hairs
have gono down in SORROW to the grave,
mourning over drunken children. They
cannot tell US how many hard fought battles
tho drunkard; in his sober moments, has
with tho terrible appetite; how many times
he has walked his room in despair, tempted
to commit suicide becnuse he could not
conquer the demon. And finally we oannot
search the records of the other world, and
see now many souls have been shut ont from
that holy place where no drunkard ever
entors, and banished to tho regions of eternal
doath by tbe fiery demon Of drink.
What man, what woman, what child,
would not vote to have that whole street,
with it's awful traffic in the internal stuff,
sunk to the lowest depths of pordition, and
covered ton thousand fathoms deep under
tho curses Of the univorse2
Cold Feet.
Cold feet usually result from uncuual