The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-11-20

an appetite, OUT Lne mnVlo
rises to repel it. ! tried it once years
ago, my first and last drink. l was
out on a PRETTY rough sea. and was
wrestling with the consequences IN
nv staterocm. A friend came to me-
and told ne what ! wanted was u go |
down to the bar and get q cocktail.
told him no, l wanted nothing OF that
kind; but he was so urgent and so
nositiye it would cure me that ! cons
sented | walked up to the bar with
all the dignity l could muster and
asked the bar keeper for a cocktail:
Iaid he: Gin or whiskeyF and
iidn't know which. Finally | decl,
led on Gin as the shortest word, AID
perhaps not qnite so vulgar The
nar keeper fixed It up and | drank 1t
aud it seemed to me that | had
swallowed dose of molten east non
amp buzz saw working at all speed.
[ hadn't strength to keep it down. /
staggered into the next room. There
was an open vessel there. / fell on
my kxees befrre it, and on that alter
| lay my first and LIST drink Of liquor.
have heard of men eating fl h hooks
east.iron and matches. You may
feed me on fish hooks for my break
fast, cast iron for my dinner and
matches for nv supper, but | draw
the line at gin. If my physician
thinks | need an explosive he mai
load me up with dynamite, but
draw the line at gin.
yet the appetite, when created, Is
4 terrible thing. saw 1t in Boston
on a street corner, a father and moth
r pleading with their boy to go
nome with them, and not to the
saloon. They wept and implorad.
| The sather fell on his knees on the
muddy sidewalk before his boy, the
mother threw her arms about him.
lie tore away from them and dashed
into the saloon, and the old couple
vent away together. bitterly weep
ing.
Il. We must also move along
legal lines. In this department the
chief PROCESS has been in the wrong
direction. Under the fostering inAu'
soce Of protective excise end licens
|, avs the saloon has multiplied
NUN Jers, power and political inhu'
euce. Il Las become, as you know
the greatest power in this city.
A short time ago there was re
leased from Sing Sing State Prison
man who had been incarcerated
there 80 years. He was amazed a
E cue new world in which he found
himself. Nes York had grown from
r l sr4gglin t,wn along the lowe
: edge OF the island to city Of tw'
+ mitIion: VI p ,ople. B rooklyn Bridg
o has been b1,tt, the Atlantic cable
!, laid, the war for the Union fought
= slavery aboIlshed-wonderful ad
d vance along all lines OF nationa
II prosperity and power. But in on
d hing there had been no advance. L
= 1856 in a d unken braBl, he kIlls
< aman Now as be walks the street;
e that anne led light Of ruin throws it
/, baIe'ul glare across his broken life
,e But am told a minister has n
Is business 10 NEEDLE with politics
d. Coming in a while ago from the ses
ii shore there was 8 sharp whistle, an
the train W Is stopped and then ~
a oack towards the station. I saw
Il crowd gathering. ! leaped from III
: cas- and Jpined them, and there Ia,
u on one eide Of the rail, the trunk of
ID little Bine-year.ol old girl, and the hea
D on tie othar side. In q moment {
1t two our train started sgaiu. JuI
a ;heI the mothtr came upland loudt
. than the roar Of the train II heard b.
~ st. lex Of agony as she found her chill
aI Aow in one sense il was none Of m
81 business. IL was not my child. 81
D. 1t IVES my right to weep. The eli
D Of bumsnity Is always the trump.
e Of cd! And hereafter IL will
10 my Business to nse all my inHuens
= " abolish ossings Ut grade.
- 'But We are told We should III
II moral 81 sion. Yes, but the questio
IL t., when moral tuasion be applie,
|! fhe tiger springs from the jungl
y 'tikes down q man, begins crunchin
% his arm and drinking the lifs.blo.
y from his very hears. Shall be tie
oegln to ST. oke tnat tigers heal.
~ lOnd.e him and to reason with hi
" -'Now, tiger, its very unkind. vel
:. urgentI. manly, very unie sonab
=, Tor you to chew my arm in that VA
=" suppose his freud comes out aud se
:, . hat Is going on, shall be Iectu
-. tue nan VITO l. do n. nd say: No
:, j9u ought 10 have known e ter In
=. b. get in 0 such q 3 st o.. ]
>. 9ugbt 20 hove Na'ch,d aud tak
~ more car No, let hIm =, a.rh &
II. biz eager and strike il 10 the hu
En- he b. art Of the d,stry,.r. Tn
~. there wul be the 10. tak nnI AL
M NJ.
80. Cghcluded Htzt Hfk.