The Meeker herald., 1890-11-29
COUGHS TEMPTATION.
The Great Reformer's Natural Ap.
elite for Liquor.
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Whs Wss Associated Nth Him II ne
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tie Of whisky in my pseke' for fifteen
years and never drank drop of IL, said
Milo Eossorth, = sell'knoHn siiissn OF
the South side, who is sishty-nse years
old. ~ . Cleveland l>-sier reporter.
when ! MAS . young fellow ! drank
pretty hard. in fact. I MAS drunk about
all the time. but ~hen I got married l
thought il ~as time 10 call . halt !
vent do~n Ia Chagrin Falls ON ii,.is
basiness, and before l came home
stepped a. Iieari's grocery, as ~as my
custom. and had my mask nll-d. ! had
made up my mind tina, that would Ia
tho last liquor would drink for nfi.en
years, but shsa 50, ihto my wagon I
fell to thinking about the natter and
cam. To III. conclusion tina. there VAS
no time like III. present, and ! just
pa, that bottle in my hip pocket. and
there carried IL Tor fifteen long years.
and iurins that time never touched .
drop Of liguor Of any Kind.
well. about ,s.iSe years after that.
Cough. the rrva, temperance orator. -as
s.y.stis.d 10 st~Aa in Cleveland. Tho
posters inforn-i Us that III. m.e'ins
would i,e held in tho fresby t-,.an
church. You young feiloss Prot'sbiy
never heard Of that ehurh. u ~as
large. wooden structure. and stood On
III. ,i,e Of the Old Stone Church. OF
eours. AZ attended the meeting. which
occurred on tn. sabbath. and kinder
took notion 90 Goa1h and ass.d
him q" 80 dome and dine ~l,a us.
lie accepted. and after dinner I took
ogt tho bottle I had carried for
iR"ivr y~ars and asked him ~ Ls
would tax. a driAk. jus, said IL In
fun, 10; sr-a, guns, you ought 10 haS.
seen th-, man. lie turned hfs, red and
then sh.tr. and finally taspcd out tho
words;
"'i'u, IL up. ican't stand IL Put IL
up. I .ay. b-tor. ! disgrace ny>sla'
Ma, frightened. and put the nask In my
poke; In a hurry. u. dIdn't aay any
thing 70. several minutes. bu, "a, .lih
looked up and 'aiii
My friend, I am truly sorry that
.holli display MY weakness In your
house. bu, sometime, I have an uhe1n.
,roii.lio desire for liquor. and -hen
,ar your flask I would have riYon my
life Tor drink. Hut he continued. I
uni-r,,sos! you Ia .ay tina, you had car
rir'l ;hal bottle and no, drank Any thing
for tS"Is. years.
THAT l. true sAid. and then ! pro-
c.-,i-l Ia toll him Of tho circumstance,
Of my swearing OF. When he hsd heard
me through h, ,aii; You Arc jus, ,h-
msn I AN looking foe, and want you 20
60 to England With me OF course I
WAS taken by surprise. and asked him Ia
explain. lie said ,ha. he had long
wanted reformed drunkard 10 travel
with him and lecture. and ,ha, man
With my will "a, Just tho chap he de-
sired. Well. talked tho matter over
guessed she could spare mo Tor year or
10. and tho upsho, Of tho thing ~As iha,
Cough and formed . partnership
whereby wAs Ia receive handsome
percentage Of tho receipts. and ~o
started out
ALBANY WAS tho first place ~hrsc 40
~os- billed to lecture, and I trli you
,h-rr ~as . crowd their to hear US.
Cough had advertised tho reformed
drunkard feature for all 1, WAS worth.
and ~As regarded ~i,h A. much Gu.
riosity a. the dime museum freak, arr
to-day. From Albany NO wen, To los.
ton. and finally TO New York. where We
bid goodbye TO America and 50; sail
tor England. A stop Vas made In
ireland. and ~ Dabiis tn, largest
hall In tho city wouldn't hold
tho people. I gave those who scrc
on the outside tickets and had
them come the next night Ono way Of
running the lecture was to have Cough
make an opcnin; speech, after which
he would Introduce me IS the reformed
drunkari / would stop forward and as
a starter would slap down my whisky
bottle on the table and toll the audience
how long Mad carried /. After that
we ~ouli call for people to come for
ward and sign the pledge. and there wcrc
dozens who complied every nigh. In
England VIC were very successful and
We remained there three years. At the
end OF that ,imo ! was getting y little
homc-sicls and wanted To SEQ my family.
So l told Cough that I guessed | would
quit. and We looked over the books and
settled up. had $1,000 coming TO me,
and brought every cont OF II mack to
Cleveland and deposited II In the old
bank down on Canal street"
Speaking OF Cough, he said: 'iic was
aercat orator and grand noblcman. but
he was not master OF himself. re.
member ono time. when man put some
whisky in glass OF soda water he was
about to drink. Just that taste was
enough to SGT tho appetite afro within
him. Very fcw people over knew Of
this, but IL IL true nevertheless. and tho
fac 10 r.l,t.l i, nf 80 al
When he came out OF 1t never saw
man feel so in all my life. IIc cried like
baby, ard vowed that he would never
speak before an audience again, and II
remember rightly he cancelled his or
gagcmcnts for the rest Of that year. lie
has told me many times when passing
saloons, mounted on . horse, he had dug
the spurs into tho beasts TANKS and
ridden for miles at brcakncck speed to
get out OF reach OF the temptation"