Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-04

was uttering it he fell. A physician was
called. but no help could DO given, After
a day lying with distended pupils and pal
sled tongue, he passed out of this world.
In cemetery in Sullivan county, in this
state, are eight headstones in line and all
alike. and these are the facts: In 1861
diptheria ragged in the village, and ply
sician was remarkably successful in cur
ing his patients. So confident did he be-
come. that he boasted that no case OF dip
liberia could stand before him, and finally
defed Almighty God to produce case OF
diptheria that he could not cure. His
Youngest child soon after took the disease
and died. and one child after another, un-
til all the eight had died of diptheria. The
blasphemer challenged Almighty God, and
God accepted the challenge.
But come later down and give you
AFACT THAT Is PROVED
by scores of witnesses. This last August
of 1856 man got provoked at the con-
tinued drought and the ruin of his crops,
and in the presence of his neighbOIs he
cursed God, saying that he would cut his
heart out if he would come, calling Him
liar and n coward, and flashing a knife.
And while he was speaking his lower jaw
dropped, smoke issued from mouth and
nostrils, and tie heat of his body was SO
intense it drove back those who would
come near. Scores of people have visited
the scene and saw the blasphemer in awful
process Of expiring.
Do not think that because God has been
silent in your case, o, prOtane swearer,
that he is dead Is there nothing now in
the peculiar feeling of your tongue, OF
nothing in the numbnesS of your brain
that indicates that God may come to avenge
your blasphemies, or is already avcnging
them? But these cases | have noticed,
believe, are only few cases where there
are hundreds. Families keep them still
to avoid the horrible cOnspicuity.
Physicians suppress them through prOtes'
sional confidence. 1t is q very, very, very
long roll that contains the names of those
who died with blasphemieS on their lips;
and still the crime rolls on, up through
parlors, up through chandeliers with lights
all ablaze, and through the pictured corri,
dOrs of the club-rOOms, etc, out through
busy exchanges where oath meets oath,
and down through all the haunts of sin,
mingling with the rattling dice and
cracking billiard balls, and the laughter OF
her who hath forgotten the covenant OF
her God; and round the city, and round
the continent, and round the earth a
seething, boiling surge, filings its hot spray
into the face of a lOng-Sutfering God. And
the ship captain damns his crew, and the
merchant damnS his clerks, and the mas
ter-builder damns his men, and the hack
driver damnS his horse; and the traveller
damns the stone that bruises his foot, or
the mud that soils his shoes, or the defec-
tive time. piece that gets him too late to
the rail train. | arraign prOlane swearing
and blasphemy, two names for the same
thing, as being one of the gigantic crimes
of this land, and for its eXtirpation it does
seem as if il were about time for God to
arise.
Then look a moment at
THE EVIL OF DRUNKENNESS.
Whether you live in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or Savan-
nah, or Boston, or in any of the cities OF
this land, count up the saloons on that
street as compared with five years ago, and
see they are growing far out of proportion
to the increase of the population. You
people who are so precise and particular
lest there should be some imprudence or
r;lshness in attacking the rum traffic, will
have your son some night pitched into
your front door dead drunk,
or your daughter will come home
with her children because her husband
has by strong drink been turned into
a demoniac The rum fiend has despoiled
whole streets of good homes in all our
cities. Fathers, brothers, sons, on the
funeral pyre of strong drink! FaSten
tighter the victims! Stir up the flames!
Pile on the corpses More men, women
and children to sacrifice! Let us have
whole generations on fire of evil habit; and
at the sound of the cOrnet, flute, harp,
sackbut, pSaltery and dulcimer let all
people fall down and worship King Alco-
hol or you shall be cast into the fiery fur
mace under some political platform
indict this evil as the lratricide, the
patricidc, the matricjdc, the uXOricide, the
regicide of the century. Yet under what
INNOCENT AND DELUSIvE ann MIRTHFUL
NAMES
alcoholism decieves the people! 1t is a
cordial" 1t is "bitterS." 1t isan ''eye-
opener" 1t is an appetizer" 1t is a
settler 1t is a digester.' 1t is an
"invigorator 1t is ''night-cap." s"
Why don't they put on the right labels
Essence OF Periition,' Conscience Stu
PETER" Five DrachmS of Heart-ache," :"
Tears of Orphanagc." " Blood of Souls, ="
"Scabs OF an Eternal Leprosy,' venom
of the Worm That Never Dies?' Only
once in while is there anything in the
title ofliquorS to even hint their aStrOcity,
as in the case of sour mash!
That see advertised all over. 1t is an
honest name, and any one can understand
it. Sour mash! That is, it
makes mans disposition sour, and his
associations sour, and his prospects sour;
and then it is good to mash his body, and
mash his soul, and mash his business, and
mash his family. Sour mash. One honest
name at last for an intoXiCant! But
through lying labels of many of the apoth-
ecaries' shops good people who are only a
little undertone in health, and wanting of
some invigOratiOn, have willingly got on
their tongues the tangS of this cobra, that
stings to death 50 large ratio of the hu-
man race.
Others are ruined by the common and
all-destructive habit OF treating customers.
And it is treat on their coming to town,
and treat while the bargaining progress
es, and treat when the purchase is made
and a treat as he leaves town. Others to
drown their trouble submerge themselves
with this worse trouble Oh, the world
Is battered. and bruised, and blasted with
this growing evil. 1t is more and more
entranced and fortified They have mil
lions of dollars subscribed TO marshal and
advance the alcoholic forces. They NOM
mate, and elect and govern the vast major
ity of the office-holders of this country.
On their side they have enlisted the might
lest political power of the centuries. And
behind them stand all the myradS of the
neither world, Satanic, and ApOllyonic,
and diabOlic Its beyond all human et-
fort to overthrow this Bastile of decanters
or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And
while approve of all human agencies of
reform, l would not utterly despair if we
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