The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-03-05

healthy laborer in the United States
who, within the next twenty years. If
he viii refuse all intoxicating beverages
and be saving, may not become a CAPT
talist ON a small scale
OH how many are waiting "a SEQ II
something cannot be done for tine stop
ping of intemperance. Thousands Of
drunkards waiting who cannot go ten
minutes in any direction without hav
ing the temptation glaring before their
eyes or appealing to their nostriis, they
fighting against it with cnfeebled viii
and diseased appetite, conquering, then
surrendering. conquering again asld sur
rendering again, and crying. How
long, o Lord how lo. before these in
famous solicitations shall be gone"
And how many mothers are waiting to
see If this national curse cannot lift
Oh, is that the boy WHO had the honest
breath who comes home with breath
vitiated or disguisedl What change.
How quickly tho3e habits OF early com
ing homo have been exchanged for the
rafting Of the night key in tho door
long after the last Waterman has gone
by and tried to see :hsIt everything was
closed up for the night
OH what q change for that young
man who we had hoped woul,i do some
thing in merchandise. or in craftsmanship,
or in profession that would do honor
to the family maize long after mothers
wrinklcd hands ere folded from the
last toll. All tElt exchanged for
startled look when the doer bell rings.
lest something las happened; and the
wish that the scarlet fever twenty wears
ago had been fatal, for then he would
have gone directly 10 tie 30 SOM OF lis
Saviour. Bat alas! psr = Oil soul she
has lived 70 experience what Solomon
said. ~ foolish son is a heaviness to
his mother"
THE STRICKEN MoTEHil's wOlt.
Oh. what a funeral it will be when
that bog is brought home dead. Aud
how In0tiler viii sit there and say: ''ls
this my by that used TO fondle and
4
night when he was sick! Is this the
boy that held u the bapti<anal font
| for baptism! Is this the bov for whom
toiIed. until the blood burst from the
| tips of my fingers that IL, might have
a good start and q good home? Lord
why hast thou ret Inc I'VE to sec tltis?
| Can it be that these sHO!lpn hands are
the ones that used T., wander over my
face when rocking him 10 sleep? Can
it be that this swollen brow is that |
once so rapturously kissed? Poor boy!
how tired he does look, Iwolder who
struck him that blow across the tom
plesp | wonder if he uttered dying
prayer2 Wake up, my son; don't you
hear me? wake up. Oh! he can't hear
me. Dead dead. dead. o Absa-
lon, my son, my son, would God that
I had died for thee, o AbsaIosn. my
son, my son."
am not much Of a mathematician,
and cannot estimate it, but is there
any one here quick enough at figures
to estimate how many mothers there
are waiting for something to be done
Az, there are many wives waiting fol-
domestic rescue. lie promised some
thing different from that when, after
the long acquaintance and the Garcia
scrutiny of character, the hand anC
the heart were offered and accepted
What hell on earth @ woman lives il
who has a drunken husband! 0 Death
how lovely thou art to her, and how
; soft and warm thy skeleton hand! The
sepuicher at midnight in winter is {
) kings drawing room compared will
that wolnan's home. It is not so mucl
the blow on the head that hurts as thu
) blow on the heart. The rum fient
came to the door Of that beautiful
: homo, and opened the door and stoo(
there and said: Il curse this dwellin;
with al unrelenting curse. curse tina
father into Il maniac, | curse tina
mother into a pauper. | curse thos
: sons into vagabonds. | curse thos
l daughters into protiigacy. Cursed b
bread tray and cradle Cursed be coucl
/ and chair and family Bible, with recor,
, Of marriages and births and deaths
Curse upon curse. -
Oh, how many wives are there wait
l ing to see If something cannot be don
r to shake these froSts Of the secon
t death of the orange blossoms! Yea
, God Is waiting, the God who work
: through human ine< runentalities, wait
t ing to see whether this nation is goin
3 to overthrow this esil; and Il it refus
: to do SO God will wipe out the natio
, as he did PlInicia, rs he did Rome, @
Q be did Ticbes. us he did Babylon
r Aye, he is waiting to see what th
t church Of God will do If the churc
l does net do its work then he will wip
it out as ne did the church of Ephes1s
8 church Of Thyatira. church Of Sardis
g The Protestant and Roman Catholi
:, churchc. today stand side by side wit
a an iinpotent look gazing on this eyi
which costs this country more than
L billion dollars year to take care {
IS the 100000 paupers, and the 315, 90
y criminals, and the 80, 900 idiots, and t
\; bury the IS, coo drunkards. Protagora
G boosted that out Of the sixty years c
u his life forty years he had spent in ruiz
ii ing youth; but this evil may make tn
is more infamous boast that oil It's life
t. has been running the bodies, minds an
d souls of the human race
|. UNFAITHFULNESS OF POLITICAL PAL
d TIES.
= Put on your spectacles and take
l. candle end examine the platforms
g the two leading political parties of th
country, and see what they are dom
for the arrest of this evil and for til
overthrow of this abomination. Res
O. lutionsa Oh, yes, resolutions abor
: Morrnonisrn! 1t is safe to attack ths
a organized nastiness two thousand mile
% away. But not one resolution again.