The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-04-28

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two wears since then some presen
somes from the poor mute whom
they rescued, and whose gratitud
seems unfailing.-Yout CompaE
ion.
Natures Best Beverage.
In the celebrated whisky trials G
| 1876 Emory A. Storrs was chic
counsel for Gen. Babcock. After th
conclusion of the trial Mr.. S.orr
and a number of lawyers were gath
cred in social intercourse. One Q
the party took from his pocket
copy of Coughs celebrated apostro
ply to water, and read it aloud
| When he had concluded Mr.. Storr
ljocularly observed, in substance
that that was nothing be coult
beat it himself Thereupon the law
yers called upon him to try it. Al
ter few minutes he arose, with ;
glass in his hand, to begin. 4
stenographer present took down tn
words. Through his kindness tn,
Knoxville Journal publishes then
for the first time, with substantial l.
the above explanation. Holdin:
up the glass, Mr.. Storrs began
. How do you expect TO improve
upon the beverage furnished by IA.
ture? Here it is-Adam's ale
about the only gift that has descend
ed undefiled from the Garden o
Eden Natures common carrier
not created In the rottenness of fer.
mentation, nor distilled over guilty
fires Not born among the hot anO
noxious vapors and gases of worms
and retorts. confined in reeking vats
| placed in clammy barrels and kegs
stored in malarious cellars full oi
rats and cobwebs No adulteration
fills it with sulphuric acid, spirits OF
nitre, stramonIum, and other deadly
drugs and poisons, until i, is called
forty rod death" J." and bug juice,
= fuse oil, and Jersey lightning u
It is not kept standing in the fumes
of sour Deer and tobacco smoke and
saloon, exposed for weeks and
months before it is drank to
the odor OF Old cigar stubs and huge
spittoons. Virtue and not vices are
its companions. Does 1t cause
drunkenness, disease, death, cruelty
10 women and children? ? Will it
place rags on the person, mortgages
on the stock, farm, furniture? VIII
1t consume wages and income in
advance, and ruin men In business 4?
No But 1t floats in gossamer clouds
far up IN the quiet summer sky, and
hovers IN dreamy mist over the
merry faces Of all our sparkling lakes
1t wells the woods and hills of
earth's landscapes in a purple haze,
where the filmy lights and shadows
drift hour after hour. 1t piles itself
into tumbled masses of cloud-domes
and thunder5olts. Draws the cleo
tric flash from lis mysterious hiding
places, and seams and shocks the
wide air with vivid lines OF fire. 1t
is carried by kind winds and falls in
rustling curtains of liquid drapery
over ali the thirsty woods and fields
aud fixes in Gods mystic eastern
heavens. His beautiful bow of
promise, gloriGed with q radiance
that seems reflected out of heaven
itself. II CLEANS in the frost crys-
tails of the mountain tops and the
dews Of the valleys 1t silently
creeps up into each leaf in the myr-
lad forests of the world, and feeds,
tints every fruit and flower 1t is
here in the grass blades of the mead
ows, and there where the corn waves
its tassals and the wheat does its
billowing Ii gems the depths of
the desert with the glad, green oasis,
winds Itself in oceans round the
whole earth, and roars Its hoarse,
eternal anthems on hundred
thousand miles of coast 1t claps
its hands in the flashing wave-erests
of the sea, laughs in tie little rapid
brooks, kisses the dripping, moss
covered, old oaken well-buckets in
a countless hest OF happy homes.
See these pieces OF cracked-ice, full
Of prismatic colors. clear as dia-
mondsl Listen to their fairy tinkle
against the brimming glass, that
sweetest music in all the world to
one half fainting with thirst. And
so in the language of poor old Cough
/ ask you, brothers all, would you
exchange that sparkling glass of wa
ter for alcohol, the drink of the very
devil himself ?"