The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-09-20
Temperance.
WHAT 1T COST.
Read This story. Boys.

in -, during the Murphy excitement,
gentlemen, it has cost me ten thou
sand dollars to bring my nose TO its
present state Of perfection. Ten thou
sand dollars! And what did he have
besides his red nose? An aching and
remorseful heart, pain-racked and dis
eased body; home where a miserable
woman probably dragged her weary life
along in wretched, hopeless apathy,
crushed and bowed to the earth by the
shame of being drunkard' wife. "Ten
thousand dollars" wrote the recording
angel and turned in stern sorrow from
the page. "Ten thousand dollars!'
chuckled the rum-seller; 81 am that
much richer; am | not lucky man?"
"Ten thousand dollarsi' said the devil;
"what a fool! I'll have him surely, if
he doesn't look out" "Ten thousand
dollars" whispered little boy away
back in the corner, whose father was
killed in drunken brawl, "ten thou
sand dollars would make my mother
happy, and wouldn't have to sell news
papers for living, and stay out of
school when my heart is hungry for
books" "Ten thousand dolIars!'' So
liloquized the young man who drank q
llltit. Il Cdll tudts <1uu hC
signed the pledge, though he did not
mean to.
The confession was like spark that
sprang into the flame, and rang with
vivid tongues of fire through the vast
audience. The little boy went forward
with the throng with all the manliness
of twenty-five. He wrote his name as
well as he could. and proudly took bis
pledge card When he thought HIM
self unnoticed, he wrote slyly on its
back: "Ten thousand dollers savd for
mothur bi not drinkin." That was ex-
actly the way he wrote it, so you need
not laugh. May be his own father had
wasted as much over his cups, and now
his child had no time to learn to spell.
He was busy all day at anything to turn
an honest penny, and nights, poor fel-
low. he was too tired and sleepy to even
look at book.
How do | know what he wrote. In
passing out his precious card was
brushed from his hand. He could not
go back. for the throng pressed on. 1t
was picked up by the jantor, given to
one of the officers in charge, and was
next day posted on an immense black
board, and served as text for one of
the most magnificent lectures of the
course. What lot of wet handker-
chiefs there were when the speaker was
through. How red the ladies'
eyes were almost as red as the
drunkard's 5 nose, And Jimmy
there, / didn't mean to tell one
bit of his name-whO had stolen back
to get his treasured card, and see if he
could sell a few books and papers,
trembled like a leaf with excitement, to
think he was the hero of all that grand
talk, and the color went in and out of
his cheeks with just that quiver you
have seen in the sky when the Northern
lights wave and tremble. By and by
the gentleman called his name, and
somebody put him on the platform, and
then there was such a stamping and
clapping as you never heard of before
in your life. And how did it all end?
Why, good people interested themselves
in the child and its mother, and Jimmy
goes to school now, and his mother is
matron in Temperance House," and
some day, if you don't study hard.
boys. Jimmy will be at the top of the
ladder while you are Just beginning to
climb. l want you TO remember the
man-for he was a real living man
who said: 1T cost me ten thousand
dollars to bring my nose to its present
state of perfection;" and think of the
boy, drunkard's orphan, who resolved
to save ten thousand dollars for his
mother ''by not drinking" and if you
are tempted to drink, see if you can not
make and keep as good a resolution
Mrs. G. W. White, an Ctnaeter.
Mr.. GLADSTONE AND THE TEMPER
ANCE MovEMENT.-Mr. Gladstone is
reported to have said of the "Gospei
Temperance Mission" in England:
From the first | have watched ths
| Temperance question with great inter-
est; but l am bound to say that no
phase of it has ever yielded me so much
satisfaction as this has done. To wit
ness the large number of ministers of
| all denominations, and, of course, the
still larger number of members of per-
haps all the churches, wearing the rib
bon of blue, is an exceedingly crafty
| ing circumstance, and speaks well for
the future. Indeed, / firmly believe, as
| far as this matter is concerned, that
much brighter days will soon, in Gods
good providence, dawn upon u.s."
A DRUNKARD's WILL.-First. Ileave
to society ruined character, a wretch
ed example, and memory that soon
will rot. Secondly. l leave to my par
ents, the rest of their lives, as much
sorrow as humanity, in feeble, de-
crepit state, can sustain. Thirdly. l
leave to my brothers and sisters as
much modification and injury as / well
could bring upon them. Fourthly. /
leave my wife a broken heart, a life of
wretchedness and shame, to weep over
my premature death. Fifth. / give
and bequeath to each of my children,
poverty. ignorance, low character and
remembrance that their father was a
drunkard. NJ w. Christian Adc0cdte.
BEER AND INSANITY, Insanity is in
creasing to an alarming extent in Ger
many, and it is an established fact that
there are more cases of insanity among
the Germans of the United States than
among the people of any other nation
ality. Lager-beer drinking is said to be
the cause. The slop which is manufact-
ured and sold for beer nowadays pois-
ons the system, causes serious diseases
of the liver, kidneys and stomach, stu
pefies the brain. and drives hundreds OF
Germans to suicide annually. Bright 5
disease of the kidneys alone carries on