Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-13

ASAh ttHu u al Int CiliScs We ulOutuS
I of hell, when will We cease to craunch
| and devour? There is no danger of
this liquor business failing. All other
styles OF business at times fail Dry
goods stores go under. Hardware stores
so under. Grocery stores go under.
Harness makers fail, druggists fail,
bankers fail, butchers fail. bakers fail,
confectioners fail, but the liquor deal
ers never. 1t is the only secure business
know of. Why the permanence of
the alcoholic trade? Because, in the
first place, the men in that business, if
tight up for money, only have to put
into large quantities of water more
strychnine and logwood and nux vomica
and vitriol and other congenial concom-
infants for adulteration. One quart of
the real genuine pandeinoniac elixir
will do to mix up with several gallons
of milder damnation. Besides that,
these dealers can depend on an increase
of demand On the part of their custom
ers. The more of that stuff they drink.
which stop other business, only increase
that business, for men go there to
drown their troubles, They take the
spirits down to keep their spirits up.
There is an inclined plane down which
alcoholism slides its victims-claret,
champagne, port, cognac, whisky, tom
and jerry, sour mash, on and down I'M
til it is sort of mixture Of kerosene
oil, turpentine, toadstools, swill. es-
sence of the horse blankets and general
nastiness. With its red sword Of fame,
that liquor power marshals its process
sion, and they move on in ranks long
enough to girdle the earth, and the pro-
nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloat-
ed, soul scorched inebriates, followed
by the women. who, though brought up
in comfortable homes, now 20 limping
past with aches and pains and pallor
and hunger and woe, followed by their
children, barefoot, uncombed, freezing,
and with wretchedness of time and
eternity seemingly compressed in their
agonized features. Forward, march,
cries the liquor business to that army
without banners. Keep that influence
moving on. and you will lave the poor
always with you. Report comes from
one of the cities, where the majority of
the inhabitants are out of work and de-
pendent on charity, yet last year they
spent more in that city for rum than
they did for clothing and groceries.
THE BiPRovIDENCE OF wCRKMEN.
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty Of
the world Is tie wicked spirit Of i'm
providence A vast number of people
have such small incomes that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
sulance one cent year. 1t takes every
farthing they can earn TO spread the
table and clothe the family and educate
the children, and ii you blamo such
people for improyidenco you enact a
cruelty. On such a salary as many
clerks and employees and many minis
tiers of religion live, and ON such wages
as many workmen receive, they cannot,
in 20 years, lay up 90 cents. But you
know and | know many who have com
petent incomes and could provide some
what for the future. who live up to every
dollar, and when they die their chill
dren go to the poorhouse or on the
street. BY the time the wife gets the
husband buried, she is in debt to the
undertaken and gravedigger for that
which she can never pay. While the
man lived he had his wine parties and
fairly stunk with tobacco, and then ex-
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tiles of the world. Do not send for me
to come and conduct the obsequies and
read over such IL carcass the beautiful
litugy, Blessed are the dead who die
in the Lord, :" for, instead of that,
will turn over the leaves of the Bible
to Timothy V, IS, where it says: IF
any provide not Tor his own, and espe-
cially for these of his own house, he
hath denied the faith, and is worse
than an inidel, or | will turn to Jere-
miah xii, 10, where it says, He shall
be buried with the burial of an ass,
drawn and cast forth beyond the gates
of Jerusalem.
| cannot imagine any more unfair or
meanel thing than for man to ret his
sins pardoned at the last minute, and
then go to heaven, and live in man
sion, and 90 riding bout in golden
chariot over the den streets, while
his wife and children, whom he might
have provided for, are begging for cold
vlctuals at the basement door Of an
earthly city. It seems to me there
ought to be a peorhouse somewhere en-
the outskirts of heaven, where those
guilty of such improvidence should be
kept for awhile on thin soup and gristle
instead of sitting down at the Kings
banquet 1t is said that the church is
Il divine institution. and | believe it,
Just as certainly are the savings banks
and the life insurance companies divine
institutions. AS out of evil good often
comes so out of the doctrine Of proba-
bilities, calculated by Professor Hugens
and Professor Pascal for games of
chance. came the calculation Of the
probabilities of human life as used by
lite insurance companies, and no bust
ness on earth is more stable or honor
able and 30 mightier mercy for the
human race has been born since Christ
was born. Bored beyond endurance for
my signature to papers Of all sorts,
there is one style OF PAPER that / always
sign with feeling Of gladness and
triumph, and that Is paper which the
life insurance company requires from
the clergyman after a decease in his
congregation. in order to the payment
of the policy to the bereft household.
always write my name then SO they can
read it. | cannot help but say to my
self: Good for that man to have look
ed after his wife aad children after
earthly departure. May he have one of
the best seats IN heaven!' Young
man. The day before or the day after
you get married, 20 10 life insurance
company If established reputation and
get the medical examiner TO put the
stethoscope to your lungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest
off, and have signed, sealed ard delig-
cred to you document that will, in the
case of your sudden departure. make
for that lovely girl the difference be-
tween a queen and pauper.
have known men who have had an
income Of So 900. "a, 600. S., coo,
year, who did not leave enc farthing to
the surviving household. Now, that
mans death is a defalcation, an ont
rage. a s@indle. He did not die; he
absconded. There are 100, 900 people in
America today a-hungered through the
sin of i1unrnyldarce :, Pint - say some