The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-06
Alone, in a cold dark street;
And he led him to a palace fair,
Where music circled sweet.


Where music circled sweet.
And light and warmth cheered the
poor mans heart
From cold and darkness screened;
| Til his brain grew mad beneath the JOY,
And he worshipped before the tiend.
b. we'll had he never worshirped that
:iend,
For Il taskmaster grim was he,
And he said one-half of thy life on earth
epjoin thee to yield to me:
And when from morning til sci of sun,
Thou toilest in heat or snow,
Thy gains must on my altarS be laid,
And the poor man ne'er said: No,
This poor man at that time had health
Stout bones aud muscles strong;
That never feeble or weary grew,
Though he toiled, the summer day
long:
Tbe fond cried out both shrill and loud,
Thy strength, thou must forego,
Or thou, no follower art Of mine;
And the poor man ne'er said: No!
Three children graced this poor mans
home
Little angels, dropped to earth,
Then the tiend bebeld their bright blue
eyes
And he laughed with fearful mirth.
Bring forth, cried he, thy children three,
My godhead wills it so;
That they should an offering be to me,
And the poor man ne'er said: No!
A young wife sat by this poor mans
fire;
Who, since she had become bride,
Had heightened his joys and sweetened
his cares,
His guardian friend and guide.
Fall foul of her, then cried the fend,
Fill up her cup of woe;
Make her drain the cup to the very
dregs,
Aud the poor man ne'er said: No.
All. misery now to this poor man,
Ah. worse than misery;
His godlike reason the tiend next took,
And with the beasts fed he;
And when his reason and all were gone,
He pilfered bis soul also,
But marvel of marvels, he murmured
not.
This poor man ne'er said: No!
Now mer aud maidens, one and all,
Children and grandsires old;
| Come, listen with both heart and ear;
While I this tale unfold:
Come listen It'll your brain turns ronnd,
And YOUR hearts are sick to think,
That in England's isle this all befell,
And the name of that tiend was
DRINK"
When I see the temperance people OF
South Carolina striving SO hard to rid
their State of the drink curse, feel ad-
ditional modification that my State is
so far behind in thai noble work.
Party fealty is so powerful IN lie North
and West that the South, itseems, will
be the leader in this great reformation.
The Acts Of your last Legislature
somewhat disappointed the Temperance
people who knew the basis upon which
they, the members, were elected.
| When State authority conducts the
liquor traffic it gives, if not moral, at
least legal, sanction to it and thus far
strengthens which every Prohibi-
ZIONIST 1t is to he hoped,
however, that the results Of the Dis,
psnsary may make sore advance in
the cause Of temperance; that the ex-
ample Of your noble citizen, Francis
Marion, (who once sprang through a
a window to avoid being almost forcl-
bly, put in the condition of his rnaudlin
companions,) may be more and more
followed by your people; that the per-
sistent temperance labors of Hon. John
B. O'Neall, J. n. Whitner, Andrew
Wallace, H. ]. Dean, A. Rhett, Robert
Brice, Gilbert T. Snowden, John Glass,
A. w. Leland, D. D., John Bryce,
NJ. G. Shafer, Henry Muller, George
Howe, D. D., John F. Marshall, Henry
Summer, and others, "may, like bread
(seed) cast upon the waters, be seen
after many days" in the punishment
Of the liquor traffic from the intelli-
gent, magnanimous and heroic State
of South Carolina.
West Milton, o., June 5th, 1898.