Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-18
TEMPERANCE.
EDITED BY THE LADIES OF THE ". c. T. U.
ii. -s DEATH In THE POT.

.l -t DEATH In THE POT.
BY T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
Another caldron Of iniquity is the dram
shop. Surely there is death in the pot.
AIaehrassis said that the yine had three
grapes: pleasure, drunkenness, misery.
Every saloon built above ground or dug
under ground is a centre. Of evil. Men en-
gagged in the ruinous traffic sometimes
say, ''You don't appreciate the fact that
the largest revenues paid to the Govern
ment are by eur business" Then / re-
member Gladstone, the Prime Minister of
England, said to committee of men en-
gagged in that traffic, when they came to
him to deplore that they were not treated
with more consideration: Gentlemen,
don't be uneasy about the revenue. Give
me thirty million sober people, and win
pay all the revenue, and have a large sur
plus" But my friends, the ruin to proper
ty is a very small part of the evil. 1t
takes every thing that is sacred in the
family, everything that is infinite in the
soul, and tramples it into the mire.
The marriage day has come. The happy
pair are at the altar; the music sounds;
the gay lights flash; the feet bound up
and down on the draWing-room; started
on bright voyage of life; sails ali up;
the wind is abaft; you prophesy everything
beautiful; but the scene changes. A din
gy garret; no fire; on broken chair sits
a sorrowing woman; her last hope gone;
poor, disgraced, trodden underfoot,-she
knows the despair of being a drunkard's
wife; the gay bark that danced of on the
marriage morning has become a battered
hulk, dismasted and shipwrecked, go"
she says, ''he was as good man as ever
lived, He was so kind, he was so generous
no one better did God ever creaS-s than
he, but the drink, the drink did it" B
A young man starts from the country
home to the city. Through the agency Of
friends he has obtained situation in a
store or a bank. That morning in the
farm house, the lights are kindly very
early and the boys trunk IS on the wagon.
81 put a bible in your trunk, says the
mother, as she wipes the tears away with
her apron. ''My dear l want you to read
'''motheT, don't you be worried about me,
Il know what | am about, am old enough
to take care of myself, don't you be wor-
ried about me-" The father says, 'Be
good. boy and write home often, YOUR
mother will want to hear from you"
Cracki goes the whip, and away over
sAC HIS e9uCo lltD aNtlSOlls" LIE scene
changes. Five years after, and there is a
hearse coming up the lane in front Of the
farm house. Killed in a porter-house
tight, that son has como home to disgrace
the sculchre of his fathers. When the
old people lift the coffin lid. and see the
changed face, and see the cash in the tenn
piles where the life oozed out. they will
wiring their wlthered hands and look M to
hnQTnn and fffl1rcol H.,
be rum!
Lorenzo de Medici was sick. and his
friends thought that-if they could dissolve
some pearls in his cup, and then get him
to swallow them, he would be cured, and
so these valuable pearls were dissolved in
his cup, and he drank them. What an
expensive draughtl But do you know that
drunkenness pnts into its cup the pearl of
physical health, the pearl OF domestic hap
piness, the pearl of earthly usefulness, the
pearl Of Christian hope, the pearl of an
everlasting heaYen and then presses it to
the lips? o, what an expensive draught!
The dram7shOp is the gate of hell. While
i speak there are some Of youin the outer cirss
cles Of this terrible mRlStrOm, and in the
name Of God l cry, sPut back now or
neVerP Young mani by the grace Of God
9e master OF your appetites and passions.
6rederlck, the Great, before be became the
Ureat, was seated with his roistering com
Panlohs, and they were drinking and hal
loolng and almost imbecile, when word
came to him that his father was dead and
consequently the crown was to pass to him.
lie rose from among the boisterous crew
and stepped out and cried, ''Stop your
fooling; | am emperorr' Would TO God
that this lallE you might bring all your
appetites and all your passions into subiec-
ton. '.Better is be that ruleth his spirit
than he that taketb a city," Be emperorl
Yea, you are called this morning to be
kings and to be priests unto God forever,
Soon all the days and years of your life
VIII have passed away, and then, the great
eternity. 'Rejoice, o young man in thy
youth; let thy heart cheer thee in thy
youth, and walk thou in the sight of thine
own eyes, and in the way Of thine own
heart; but know thou that for ali these
things God will bring thee unto Judgment,
Christian at Work.
Last. Monday night the proprietor of
the only saloon in Burton, surrendered his
stock and fixtures to the temperance peo-
pie. and helped carry bottles, barrels and
billiard tables into the street, while the
pile was burned, to the music of the band.
Belt enacted by the General Assembly |
OF the State of Ohio, that it shall be un |
lawful to catch or destroy fish in any man |
ner during the spawning season, excepting
IN reservoirs containing one thousand acres
or more, from the first day Of Nav to the
fifteenth day Of June in each year. Passed
April 10th, 1878. The offender shall h.
liable to a fine Of not more than fiftv nor
less than ten dollars, or imprisonment in
he county Jail not less than ten or more
han sixty days.