The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-28
TEMPERANCE.
WHAT DO you WANT TO BET
How All the Drunlxards in the World Have
Been Made So-The Only Safe Way.

vital W TOO WAN III BET
How All the Drunl<ards in the World Have
Been Made So-rhe Only Safe Way.
proverbs 1riii, 29,s5)
If could bring together a thousand
boys and girls from one city, and a
thousand from another, and so go all
over this country. and ask each enc:
"What do you expect to be when you
grow up." not one would say: 81 ex-
pect to be drunkard.n No one wants
to be a drunkard. When we hear the
name it brings up in our minds a pict-
ure of man in shabby clothes, with
red, bloated face and bloodshot ewes.
Keeling along the streets, saying foolish
things, quarreling with those about
him, lighting, and at last lying down
helpless in the gutter.
That is dreadful sight that nearly
all of us have seen, and drunkards must
have been just the same in the DAYS of
Solomon, although they had no whisky
then, and could only get drunk upon
wine. Hear what Solomon says about
these drunkards of his day: "Who
hath woep who hath sorrowP who hath
contentionse who hath babbling? who
hath wounds without cause? who hath
redness of eyes? They that tarry long
at the wines they that 90 to seek mixed
wine. -
But all the drunkards in the world
have been made. They were not born
soi they have been made out of bright
faced children, with clear ewes, and
pure, sweet breath, and strong, steady
steps, and happy voices children who
never meant to be drunkards, and who
never would have been if they had taken
Solomon's advice. He says there is
only one way to be safe, and that is not
to begin; to let the wine alone; not even
to look at it. He says: ''Look not thou
upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth its color in the cup, when it
moyeth itself Alright; and at the last it
biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder"
This red wine that sparkles in the
cup, and has q pleasant taste, is like a
beautiful serpent that is moving its
beautiful coils and getting ready to bite
you. A cluster of ripe grapes is beau
tiful thing, and when you crush the
grapes in your mouth and swallow the
delicious pulp you are taking what is
harmless and nourishing. But if YOU
squeeze out this refreshing juice and let
it stand very few hours it begins to
change. A part of it turns into the
poison that is called alcohol: all that
could nourish and feed your body is
destroyed, and the juice becomes wine,
just such wine as Solomon said bites
like serpent.
: If you eat an apple, the juice that is
ground out by your teeth is exactly the
same as that which is crushed out by a
cider-mill; it is wholesome and nourish-
ing, and you like it, because it is mixed
with the spicy pulp. But what is called
sweet CIDER is this same juice that
has stood few days until it has begun
to "work;" that means that part of
it has changed into this same poison
that makes it no longer nourishing, but
dangerous. The more OF the poison
there is in it the more it sparkles and
the better it suits the taste Of those who
have learned little by little to love it.
So, when people say to you: "What
harm can there be in the juice of grapes
or in sweet cider?'' you can answer
them: mo harm at all, Il you take
them just as God made them. But the
juices OF the grapes ana the juices of
the. apples begin to change as soon as
they are crushed cut and the poisonous
alcohol is formed, and then there is al
ways harm in it. If you were dying of
thirst it might be worth while to take a
drink from a spring that you knew was
impure and unhealthy; but, with so
many good things to eat and drink in
the world, do you think it is sensible to
drink what may have poison in it, just
because you are not sure it hast If you
let all cider alone you will be sure
never to drink the wrong kind, or let
your example lead any one else to do
so. " That is about what l would say
on the cider question if ] were a boy or
girl; and when had made up my mind
would stick to that of course, what
ever any one else said or did. Why,
one of my neighbors, at great inconven-
fence and expense, has all his water
brought from distance, although he
has well in his own yard. The water
looks pure, and tastes pure, but he
knows some wells have poison in them,
and he thinks 1t quite possible his may
have, and so he lets it alone. Is he not
more sensible than his neighbor, who
went on drinking the water because he
could not see anything wrong with it,
until half his family were attacked with
typhoid fever? .u....
If you mean to take Solomon's ad-
vice, and not even stop to look at this
dangerous enemy, that can seem so
harmless at first and yet sting like
serpent afterward, you must remember
and not 60 with those who drink wine.
Don't be found among them; keep away
from them; give them no chance to
tempt you; for if the children should
grow up right for one generation we
should have no more drunkards.-
Emily Huntington miller, IN Youths
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