The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-01-10

| was provided with all the news
and magazines of the day, ard the
stocked with all kinds of books ca
in and out were gentlemen--some re J.
| ing ten minutes, others hours. lie
had left luxuriant homes 10 enjQSke
larger socisbility of club>kfe. One
ball in ten votes would Keep mai
From top to bottom wss complete J.
chantment. ~
The speaker hastenei to another Kind
of club, where, on opening the door, the
fumes of strong drink and tobacco smoke
were almost intolerable. Young men
were seated at tables From their flushed
faces and the angry manner in which
they threw the dics, it was easy to see
they were gambling. At another table
were other young men telling vile
stories. They Were three-quar tiers drunk,
and between twelve and one a. m, would
be staggering home shouting. One was
an only son; another a young married
man, who had broken every vow made at
the altar only a few weeks previously.
All around were the implements of
death. As night went by. the young
men became more imbeciIe and disgsSt-
ing. The time came to shut up. Those
able to stand went out upon the sidewalk
and balanced themselves against NE
lamp posts. Those unable to stand Id
I haHa rNrnufcaH IL . ~
house, or were conducted to their fathers
homes by two imbecile escorts-,Ae
ghsstliest and NEST hellish spectacle ~
ever enters front door-a drunket
If club-hOuses should make a con
with the inferno to furnish Il, 600
year for ten years, it would be. q
thing compared with what
tnally doing. 81 make 3
in clubs, said the spsSl
longed to four d
club, cali club and - -
get physical rejuvenasS
health from them" ~
There were three tests by Wild
person could Judge whether his clu
legitimate or not. One was it's infiu
on his home. The speaker had been
that three>quarters or he club mem
are married men. A wife who wouldX
jealous of her husbands devotion %
charity, art and public veal would braS
her own seepter. Still, no man shouH
| sacrifice home to his club. There wen
men who were angels at the club but in
fernal at home laughter generous 10
the matter of wine and horses, but stlnss
when their wives wanted new dress
and such men committed moral bigamy
Thousands OF houses in Brooklyn and
New York were being clubbed to death
IlsughterI The man who gave foul
| nights out of six to home, one to charity
and one to his club, was TO be congratu.
lated. The speaker trembled for the
man who gave three nights to his club
and for the man who devoted FIVE night:
TO his club and one 10 his home, bis
obituary was written. His health wa;
sure to fail from long hours and too much
stimulus. He contracted erysipelas and
rheumatism OF the heart, and the clergy.
man on the funeral day spoke over him
only religious generalities. Give the
speaker a mallet and chisel, and he wouli
carve on the tombstone this epitapl
I" Here lies the victim of dissipatir1
clubhouse" Damage was often do
blythe scion of some aristocratic famii
being a member of q club. People s
humber classes imagine 1T an honor q
belong to it in consequence, forgetti1
that the descendants of merchants of 81
last generation are imbecile in mind al
destitute of morals, and would have La
their fortunes long ago if they had h
been tied up. -
Another test was the effect club Ii /
had on mans secular occupation.
his credit was failing, he should loo3
out. The speaker knew of commercis5
houses which went down through th}
excuses of one of their members. IN
third test was the effect on man
sense of moral and religious Obligation
In one instance the clubhouse fascina-
ton was SO great that a man turned bis
back upon his child dying of scarlet
fever. The child died. His wife, worn
by three weeks of watching, lay uncon-
scions in the next room. There was the
rafting of night-key in the door and a
demand to know what the matter was.
He would hud out on the Judgment
Day.
In conclusion, Mr.. Talmsge took, met
aphorically, threads out of a child's bap-
tismal robe, child's shroud, and the
s'scarlet role of suffering Jesus" aud
strings from cheruhic harp, and formed
of them "three strands" from which he
wound a "huge cable" he tied one end
of this to the cross, and threw the other
to the multitude, shouting to them to
clay hold, and pull for your lives !"
Sabbath Sickness.-This remark
able disease has not yet been treated in
books of pathology.
/. This disease is of the intermitting
kind, attacking the patient by violent
paroxysms, which return every seventh
day. These paroxysms return only oq
the Lords Day, and hence it is called
g.