Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-08-07
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by
THE GOOD TEMPLARS
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MULBERRY.
The ORIGINAL Liquor League.
MULBERRY.

together and resolved that our
human race were too happy, and
a delegation Of four INTERVALS
we're sent up to earth on an en-
bassy of mischief. One spirit
saids II will take charge Of the
Vineyards Another said, 81
will look after the grain-fields."
Another sihd, 81 will supervise
the dairy" Another said, *
will take charge of the musicl"
They landed in the great Sahara
desert, clutched their skeleton
fingers in a hand-shake of fidel-I
ity, kissed each other good-byel
with lips Of blue flame, and sep
arated for their mission. The.
first spirit entered the vineyard
one bright morning and sat down
on the twisted root Of a grapevine.
in sheer Encouragement. He.
could not at first plan any harm
for the vineyard. The clusters.
were so full, and purple, and lus-
cious, and pure. The air was
fairly bewitched with their sweet
ness; health seemed to breathe
from every ripened bunch. But
the fiend in his wrath grasped a
cluster in his right hand and
squeezed it with utter hate, and
lol his hand was red with the
liquid and began to smoke. Then
the fiend laughed and said as he
looked at the crimson stream
dripping from his hand: "That
makes me think of the blood of
broken hearts. l will strip the
vineyard and squeeze out the
clusters, and let tho juices stand
till they rot and will call the
process fermentation" And a
great vat was made and men,
seeing it, brought cups and pitch
ers and dipped them in and went
off drinking as they went, till
they dropped in long lines of
death, so when the fiend of the
vineyards wanted to go to his
home in the pit he trod on the
bodies of the slain all the way,
going down over a causeway Of
the dead.
The fiend of the grain fields
waded chin deep through the
barley and the rye. As he came
in he found all the grain talking
about bread, and thrifty hus-
bandmen, and prosperous homes.
But the fiend thrust his long
arms through the barley and rye
and pulled them up and flung
them into the water and kindled
fires beneath by a spark from
his own heart, and there was a
grinding, and q MASKING, and a
stencil. And men dipped their
bottles in the fiery juice, and
staggered, and blasphemed, and
rioted, and fought, and murdered
till the fiend Of the grain-field
was so well pleased with their
behavior that he changed his
residence from the pit to a whis-
ky barrel; and there he sits by
the doorway at the bunghole and
laughs right merrily at the fact
that out Of so harmless a thing
as barley and rye he had made
the world a suggestion of Pan
demonium.
The fiend of the dairy met the
COWS as they returned full-ud-
dered from the pasture-field. As
the maid MIXED, he said: at
viii not take me long to spoil
that mess. j viii add to it some
brandy, and sugar, and nutmeg
and stir them into a milk-punch,
and children will like it, and even
temperance men will take it;
and if / can do no more | will
make their heads ache and hand
them over gradually to the more
vigorous fiends of the satanic
delegation" And then he dane
ed a breakdown ON the shelf of
the dairy till all the shining rows
Of milk pans quaked.
The fiend of music entered a
grog shop and found the custo-
mers few. So he made a circuit
of the city and gathered up all
the instruments of sweet sound,
and after the night had fallen he
inarshaled a band and a from
bone blew, and cymbals clapped,
and harp thrummed, and drum
Geat, and hugle called, and
crowds thronged in and listened, |
and with wine cup in their hand,
begun to whirl in a dance that
grew wilder, and stronger, and
rougher, till the room shook, and
the glasses cracked, and the floor
broke through, and the crowd
dropped into hell.
They had done their work so
well-these fiends of vineyard, /
and grain-felds, and dairy, and
concert saloon-that, on getting
back, high carnival was held;
satan from his throne announcing
the fact that there was no dam
ger of the earth's redemption so
long as the vineyards, and or
chards, and diaries, and grain
fields, and music paid such a
large tax to the diabolical. Then
al fle eafvre an1 co;,.;fS ond