The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-02-11
/ TIE sAhoofkEEPER's PETS.

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ing them up to q restaurant to break. /
fast! Each one solemnly took afseat
upon the cushions, one before and one
behind; and. n the rum seller closed
The; door With . proud smile, the car
cage rolled away and the two dogs de-.
parted s!sandd l g SET their morning
! We'll; fe would have been been : dull TEL
low who hndsnot gone hissway think.
Ing. Surely here one had found an il
lustration; Of eternal: fitness. The liquor
sellers. down there. in New York have
lately had . banquet and fight.
Their principal speakers fell foul. of
one another 1t the very festal board.
Now, propose to these gentlemen
that they adopt the bulldog as a
badge. Let them hang him on their
:hains-and most Of them sport heavy
ones. Let his protruding teeth glitter
On the scarfs they wear. And when
they march in boastful procession let
their banner blazon their affection; let
them march behind the emblem of two
bulldogs riding in a coach to break
last. Old Egypt found its divinity in
- -
yanized empire within each modern
nation enshrines as its chief idol the
ono brute whosessupreme passion is to
slay, to rend and to devour. ,es.
AS I passed on deeply bordering I
asked myself who it was that was sup
plying the cash for their high might
nesses, the, white bulldogs riding away
Tor their morning meal. had seen
The saloonkeeper's pets. and now l was
curious to see his patrons. So turned
and passed again by his door, just in
time to see two poor fellows reel
out. Workmen, evidently, one black and
the other white. both maudlin. Wild
and uncertain in their gesticulations,
heard enough to know that they were
boasting to one another of their more
or less imaginary exploits Poor fell
lows, l thought, how, much better it
was to be a rum sellers pet than his
patron, his dog than his dependent
Little did these braggarts realize that
they were being impoverished to pam
per brutea Little did these boastful
fools know that they were walking to
pay the fare Of the ours going away in
the carriage, with their muzzles up to
the plate glass windows. And while l
thought upon it, whom should l see but
the acquaintance whose invalid wife
was even now Shaving in the kitchen,
too poor to afford the luxury of help.
His dimes went this morning to pay
the carriage hire of brutes What
ought to have given his wife an outing
to-day carried two worthless and over
fed beasts for an airing. And next
came the trusted clerk in one of the
great financial corporations of the
and lodged behind the screened door,
without knowing that watchful eye
was upon him. What wonder if
cloud fell upon my brow, as thought
of the sweet girl who so lately gave
her happiness and her honor into his
hands ut the altar. l knew what
careful economies she was practicing
in order, if God wills, that they may
own "a home" of their own. You
could not tempt her to telephone car
rage to-day, for she counts grudgingly
the car checks in her pocketbook. But
what should have brought some lifting
of her burdens goes to give pleasure
ride to these four-footed gladiators.
Let the young bride slave, let the weak
wife bend low her back in toll; the
patrons of the saloonkeeper. will pay
for the rides of the saloonkeeper's
pets. If there is vice which takes
the manhood out of its victims, if ever
sin which degrades its subjects, surely
this is it. We could scarce forgive it,
It it robbed the babe to feed the kitten.
or starved the child to fatten the lamb
kin; but even when it adopts pet it
must be one as brutal as it's own in
stincts. -.
Now for, a score, of years have gone
in and out among the homes of the peo-
pie, and, like every other servant of
the Word, have seen much of the woes
and sorrows Of the drunkard's home.
I have seen not little of the brutality
of the traffic ip strong drink, but never
did l see more sharply the contrast be-
tween the saloonkeeper's pets and his
patrons than to-day when I CHANGED
upon his bulldogs riding off in state,
and saw at the same time the rest of
young wives and the shoes of little
children going into the till to pay car
rage hire for two ugly :visaged, battle
Scared. ill tempered brutes Rev. H.
D. Jenkins, in Watchman.