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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.

A Few Sensible Remarks Concerning tho
Dangerous Habit of Tampering with
Strong Drink.
We are frequently asked by friends to
give more editorial space to this ques-
ton. Certainly it is an important
question. But what can be said on it
that will convey the slightest informa-
ton to any intelligent human beingp
Here is Temperance lecture, and all
that can be said: Friend, you are rum
ming fearful risk every time you lift a
glass Of liquor to your lips; you are
doing violence to the membranes Of
your stomach, an injustice to society,
and are probably boiling tears 70
scOrch the cheeks of wife and children.
Ninety-nine out of a hundred who
drink die from alcoholic poison and be-
come paupers and nuisance. This is
strictly in accordance with our own OBJ
servation. Reform, after years of
drinking. is pretty nearly impossible.
If man drinks liquor until he is forty
five years old it is not likely that he
will ever permanently reform. There
are exceptions. but the statement we
have made is also in accordance
with our extended observation. II a
drinking man forty-fve years old should
read this, let him try it, and if he can
show us that we are wrong, write us
and we will give him credit. Now,
this is about all that can be said on
Temperance, and the most that has
been said is well known to every drink
ing man. A man runs no greater risk
I in eating arsenic than he does in drink
ing rum. The arsenic kills little
quicker, but though it takes little
longer, you will get there, friend,
through the rum bottle. 1t is possible
for an individual to take arsenic regu-
larly and yet live for years. Generally,
however, it is dead shot In drink
ing the shot is just as deadly but it re-
quires more time. The dangers, there.
fore, are about the same. The vast
majority of people are fully aware Of
what they may expect if they take arse
mic, and do not take it. The majority,
too, know very we'll what they may ex'
pect if they drink liquor, but they
drink it, and if these very men should
see anybody else doing half so foolish
a thing, how quickly they would pro-
nounce him fool
,, We have great sympathy for the mar
who is addicted to intemperance, ant
yet there is much sympathy wasted il
,, this direction. 1t is regarded as an ex
ceedingly tyrannical habit. and as it i
generally viewed by the Incorporate i
is. But the view is wrong. The aver
.. age drunkard thinks that he has all tn,
rum in the universe to fight. and i
, looks like big job, and if it were tru,
: it would be, for there is rum enough
!, almost anywhere to float the Grea
Eastern. But all the fighting mar
need do, and all he can do, if he wishe,
! to reform, is to fight one glass of liquor
|, , 1t is pretty poor sort Of man tina
can not whip one glass of grog. 4
: child could throw that in the gutter
and it would look much better Their
than man does. That is all we hav,
,, to say about temperance to-day
Western Rural.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
"CUI, CUT BEHINpl"

When shnow und ice vas on der ground,
Und merry shleigh-bels single;
When Shack Frost he vas peen around,
Und makes nv oIdt ears Jingle
hear dhOse rOguish gamins say:
Let shOy pc uncOnfned"
Und dhen Obey go for efry shleigh,
Und yell: Cut, cut pehind!'
II makes me shust feel young some more,
To hear dhOse youngsters yeh.
Und eef don d vas shtif und sore,
Ply shings! ] shust vOuld-vell,
When some Oldt pung vas coomin' py,
Idink I'd feel inclined
To slump riYhdt in ubon der shly.i
Und shout: Cut cut pehind"
mind me vot mine fader said
Vonce, when l vas u pOy,
Nit meeschief always In mine head,
Und fool Off life und shoy:
Now, Hans, keep of der shleighs," says he,
'Or else shust bear in mind,
] dake you righdt across mine knee,
Und cut cut, cut pehind!'
Veil, dot vas years und years ago,
Und mine young Yawcob, too,
Vas now shkydOOdling drOO der shnOw,
Shust like used to do:
Und when der pungs COON by mine house
shust peeks droo der blind,
Und sings Oudt: go Id. YawcOb Strauss
Cut, cut, cut cut pehind!'
-Chdres y. Adams, IN Hd'per's Magazine.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

socially as is a woman who has trans
crossed the law Of morality-and there
Is no more reason why he should be
admitted in society than she, for he has
just as surely lost his honor-and
drinking and dealing in rum would be
recognized as the foul and dishonora-
BILE things they really are. To enter a
saloon openly would not be dreamed
of by any man who cared for his good
name; no salOon-keeper, no man who
in any wise handled the Internal stuff,
would be considered socially eligible by
any one. A revolution, social and NOR.
al, would ut once ensue.
This example once set by the people
who are tacitly admitted to be the lead
ers in the social world would be fol
lowed through all grades of society. l,
would be a moral awakening to thou
sands and tens of thousands who as ye
have never set themselves to consider
the great overshadowing evil of oul
land. - Toledo Blade.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
TEMPERANCE READING.
AoUAM BiBAMus.a

ITO the German melody Ergo Bib1m,ts.''l
For song and good cheer we're now gathered
here,
But II you please. dqu1m bibdmu,:
We've given up whisky and CIDER and beer,
So, if you please: dqaGm bibanus;
We've found that cold water is good taken
We've found It's not lacking in sparkle or
cheer.
We've found. taken straight. that it's not
So, if YOU please, aquam bibdmus
Wen drink to our wives and daughters so
But, II you please, aq,mm btbamus;
Well take only that which they with us can
So, II you please, aquan bibamus;
It never brings headache, it never brings
Nor doctor nor blisters. nor tempts us to
swear,
| Or to do wicked deeds, which no man should
dare.
So, if you please, aQ,tam btbamu.
Well drink to our churches. our country
rs our schools.
But IL you please, aquam bib1mus;
Well drink to good laws, good habits, good
| 50, II you please aQ,am blInmus:
| Well drink to good workmen, good masters
Well drank to the wise men, we'll drink to
the fools,
And tho good time a-cOming, when they N
| crowded from stools,
So, If you please, aquam bibdmus.
Well drink to our boys who are watching
our phrase.
But. II you please. Gqtidm bibamw:
We'll drink to good women with prayer ant
with praise:
So, II you please. dQlidm btb1mus:
lus. IL Col mil nj In
But drink that never will poison or craze,
We'll drink, but wen do it in good Christian
| was,
So. II you please, dqlam bibdmus.
LET us drink water.
II Il IL n L.. "a
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
Fatal Effects Of Alcohol.

According to DIR. Richardson, alco-
..Aol cuts down by disease, in England
and Wales alone, one thousand per-
sons week. What, adds the doctor,
If any any other cause of mortality did
the samep What if one thousand per-
sons per week died, in the same area,
from the bite of the rabid dog or the
snake, by the swallowing of arsenic,
opium or prussic acid? What if some
thousand persons week were known
to be killed by the secret devices of the
slow pOisoner, who, under the guise of
friendship, went about and instilled
into his victims some subtle drop
which led to the shortening of their life
and to the production of lingering Or
ganic fatal diseascp What, indeed.
then would be the cry and the action?
Why, all through the ranks of the great
profession of medicine there would be
tumult of labor and toll such as new
er before was seen. to remove the ca
lamity. Men would be ambitious to
be first to discover by experiment, by
experience, the cause of so fearful an
evil, and to remove it instantly; while
he who won the victory over the calam-
ity would be extolled as illustrious,
and, crowned with honor, become a
household word among the children OF
Esculapius. Yet here one single cause
making this deadly havoc, a cause well
known and easily removable, in spite Of
its evils and in face of its easy remov
al, is permitted to remain in sigh
with a majority of the army of medi
cine looking on in apathy, plying u
'poor foolish fanatics" who are exer
cising our limited powers to uproot it
and some, with the rest of the world
SO sharing the calamity as to becom,
copartners in the destruction which
follows from the participation. Sci
entifc american.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

youngster, with fluffy curls all over
his head, and the mothers voice
never sounds sweeter to me than when
she is grooming some quaint lullaby
to soothe her child to sleep. Chicago
Ionrnnl
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
SOCIAL CUSTOM.

~ L. Rankin, d. D., IN Temperance Advocate
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

The village Of Geneva, N. Y, having
a population Of about four thousand,
has undertaken the establishment of q
coffee-house for putting Temperance
principles into practice. 1t is to be, as
described in one of the local papers,
ian attractive place, where young men
can congregate, drink their coffee, eat
their lunches, enjoy the benefit of fine
reading-room and the pleasures of bill.
lard and pool, without the contamin.
ating influences Of the saloon and bar
room"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21

For Is years I was
annoyed with severe
pain In my head and
discharges into my
throat from catsrrh.
My sense Of smell WA
much impaired. By
the use Of Ely's Cream
Balm l have overcome
these trouDles.J. B,
CASE. St. Denis Hotel,
N. Y.
My son. aged nine
years.was afflicted with
catarrh. the use Of Ely
Cream Balm effected ,
complete cure.-W. E
HANMAN, Druggist
Esst0n, Pa.
Aparticle 10 applied
use. Price 80 cents by
circular. ELY BROT
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-04-21
Sample Street Greetings.

Well, how are youP"
well. How are yous"
well. How are the folks?"
"Well. How are yoursp"
"Well. Cold enough?"
well, / should smile"
Well, so long"
"Well, goodbye. "-Cnan1ati Con-
mcrc;dl Gazette