Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-30

wears ago. After it, delivery yonng law
student in the audience, Mr.. 7. 8. Shep
herd, now o resident Of this city, asked hr.
Cough to favor him with his words in writ
ing. Mr.. Cough consented on condition
that the manuscript never be published
while he was on the lecture platform. The
conditions were assented to, and Dir. Cough
iotted down the following spostrophe On
water and execration Of RIM ss he had de-
iyered them while holding glass OF water
in his hand:
COLD WATER.
There is no poison in that cup; no
iendlsh spirit dWells beneath those crystal
drops to lure you and me and all OF US TO
ruin; no spectral shadows play upon Its
wsyeless surface; no widows groans nor
orphans tears rise to God from those
placid fountains; misery, crime, wretched-
ness, woe, want and rags come not WITHIN
the hsllowed precincts where cold water
reigns supreme. Pure now as when 1t lelt
its native heaven, giving Vigor to our
youth, strength to our manhood and soisce
to our old age. Cold water Is beautiful
and bright and pure everywhere In the
/ moonlight fountains and the sunny r'lls
| in the Wsrbling brook aud the giant river
in thu deep tangled wildwood and the cat
arsct's spray; in the hand OF beeuty or on
| The Inns of msnhood-cold water is besuti
ful everyWhers."
Now follows the eEecFation on rum
RAM There is q polson N thst cup
There is q serpent in that cup whose st'ng
ia madness and who5e embrace 10 death
There dwells beneath tbs smiling surface
a 6sndish spirit which for centuries IA
beeu wandering over the earth, carrying
IN a war of desolstion and .destruenol
AGAINST mankind, blightins spd miidee"lnE
he noblest affections Of the heart aIa COZ
runtin0 with it's foul breath the tide o
human lite, and changing the GLAD, greer
earth into q lazsr house. Gaze on IL! Du
shudder "a you gaze! Those sparkling
drops are murder in dlCgqiss; oqaiet no"
vet widows grosns and oiphsus tears an
maniscs wells are in that cup The SorE
that d;ath not and the fire that 10 no
ouenched are in that cup
THE CUP o. HORRORS.
peace and hope, aud love aGd trut
dwell not within that fiery circle Wher'
dusIIs that desolatiug monster which mel
call rum. Corrupt now az when 1t lett II
native hell, giving FIRE to the eye, msdnes
n the brain and ruin to the soul Hum
vile and deadly and accursed everywhere
The poet would iken it in its hery glow {
,bs flames that flicker around the aood
Of the damned. The theolosisn woui
ooipt YOU 10 tie drunkards hte, aud thur
Ser in your ears the drunkatd doom
Ib;ls the historian would Infold the dsr
racord Of the past and point you ts tia 's'
a smn;res and kingdoms lured to RUN b
the siren song Of the tempter, and sieeP,n
now in cold obscrrrity, the wrecksot wns
oncs wars great, grand and glorious; e'
rum is corrupt end vile and aeagiy a.
sccursed everywhere Fit typs sno sem
lance of all earthly corruptioni
TRase art thoa yet IS when the wise % q
EARNED us of thy power and babe US i,
. ,hv enehautmept. Vile art thou yet
.Ssn thou Srst vent forth on thy. unho
m;Ss;on-6Iing earth Siil dsS4la'lSn al
a msdness woe and anguish. Deadly =
'e thou vet Is when thy envenomed tso'9 Al -
sook fast hold on human besrt'' anu = :.
Ssrnsnt tongue first drank up the warm u
a Nod of immortal souls. Accused
D tSon vet As when the bones OF thy hrst ',
tim rotted in damp grave, SIS US snri'
echoed along the gloomy cavern q &c
YES thou internal spirit OF rum; tnr0ul
ali mast tins hast thou been, IS tirosen
coming time thou shalt be, accused s'e'
TTn tbs 6ery fountains Of the still; in :!
seathing bubbles of the cauldron; IN u
, k;nOly uslsce and the drunkards hove
7" in he rich mans cellar and the poor mar
cIoset. in the psstilentsl Fspour OF &c
nd dens and in ths blaze OF SiiSed ssleoI
in the hand of beauty and on the mp
e manhood. Rum is vile and desdiy a
accused everywhere. ILL.,
- SRnm We weld not to thy'unhalloT
;rAnsncs. and together We have met to Pi
r. Jsstruction. And By what new ma
'SsITe call the, and to what shall We liz
wh>n we speak ofthy attributes. On
eU ali thae SSa child of perdition, the D.
\, born progeny of ain anu Satan the nuroe
Of mankind snd the destroyer o. nIu''
nd souls but this night VII give thee y
a my name among men and crown the W.T.
nav horror, and that new name SnAh
q. the sscrsmsntal cup Of the Gum poN
g, and I win say to oil soma and daughters
mr.. III. Dash il down. And thou, III
shait be my text in my pilgrimage amt
. men and not alone shall my tongue u
.dA il but the creams Of orphans in their az
= And the cries of widows in their desolA'
one .hsIl nroclaim it the enemy Of home,
ara trsducsr of childhood, and the dessroye
, 1S manhood, and whose only sntidote Is
.ms sacramental cup Of temperance, cold
set, TERI
Bueklen's Arnica salye.