Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-01-09
DIBRELL.
Personal Points and Pithy Paragraphs
From North Warren.

While sitting by a warm fire this
cold Monday morning, which by the
way, is about the first snow that we
have had this winter, my mind is
Illuminating over some of the commu-
nications that / read in the last issue
of your excellent paper. Several re-
port dull Christmas in the way of
drinking whisky and carousing
around over the country, doing many
things that is quite unbecoming. l
would be so glad to see the time come
when such conduct would be entirely
done away with. 1t is quite COM
mendable to the youth of our country
to know that they have been trained
and cultured in a way that they de-
spise such wicked and immoral con-
duct as is practiced in many locali-
ties. The way to rid ourselves and
country of many of these nefarious
and immoral practices is, for the lead
ers and professed christians of our
country to educate the youth and
show them by example and practice
that whisky drinking, swearing, tell
ing falsehoods, and everything of this
kind is wrong. When this course is
properly carried out, the occupation
of dram making will soon 60 down,
not having any patronage. l would
be glad to see the time when every
dram shop in the whole land closed,
not by force or anything OF the kind,
but by everyone realizing the evils
originating from its baneful influences.
Where is the citizen in Warren cOun-
ty or Tennessee, or even in this grand
and happy government that does not
desire to see the time when every
man, woman and child will live a
sober life-when the money that is
now being spent to make drunkards
and destroy the peace of families will
be spent to feed the hungry, to clothe
those who are destitute of apparel,
and to educate those who are living
in the hands of ignorance and vice :?
Where is the man, Oh, where that
would not like to live in such coun-
try as this? If these things are de-
sirable, let every christian man and
woman come to the rescue-let them
abolish one Of the grand elements
that is daily leading its thousands to
fill the graves of drunkards.
There is no need of further point
ing out these evils, every man of rea-
sonable endowments can see them,
the grand step and the most impor-
tant one is just toquit its use. When
men cease topatronize rum shops and
whisky dealers as a natural conse-
quence will starve at their occupation
and cease. May the old and especi-
ally the young consider these things.
DR.. Harrison, of McMinnville, pass
ed by Sunday on his way to Smith
vile, his former home.
Charley Keaton made trip to Cot
tage Home, DeKalb county, last Sun
day with his cousin, Miss Jennie
Keaton, beautiful young lady of
that place.
Prof. l.. p. Evans commenced
school at Halcomb on the 4th inst,
under the most favorable circum-
stances. Parents and guardians hav-
ing children to educate would do well
to place their sons and daughters I'M
der his care. Terms as low as can be
found anywhere.
Our Sunday school interest is much
on the increase at Mt. Zion. Would
be glad that every family in reach
would become aroused to their duty
in this work and see just what can be
accomplished in the year 1886.