The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-12-27

to druggists. On the other hand, il he
wants whisky he goes just as naturally
to Saloon" All Why is the man who
sells spirits not called spirtualist? The
word saloon acts on the president Of the
w. G. T. U. as red rag does on q bull.
The excellent creature( may her tribe in
cresSa) losses up her head and joins issue
with the man at once and with noble
vigor. She hurls great chunks of statis-
teal, religious and miscellaneous wisdom
~ him, till the wonder grows that he is
not annihilated. The power OF earnest
conviction is great, and before woman
how weak thing is man!
He is well nigh ready to say, Almost
thou persuadest me to be Rechabite:
when some hooking fiend pulls him up
with broad grin, suggesting rsscally
Sir Toby's immortal proposition. "Doss
thou think because thou art virtuout
there shall be no more cakes and ale?'
The charm is broken, and he is safe from
the president for that time.
But 1t cannot be doubted that thefe has
come TO be more or less disagreeable
suggestion in the word Saloons" All
good women seem to share in this strange
prejudice. They fairly hate the saloon"
They cannot or will not see that there be
saloons and saloons. In the moments of
madness to which their mankind are so
subject, they extract from these promises
that they will not enter the abominable
place to look upon the wine when it is
red or the whisky when it showeth itself
in i.s amber beauty. Much unnecessary
suffering is thereby caused, and much So
phisticated effort to beat the devil around
the stump.
zone morn Peri at the gate Of Eden stood dis
These rash promises are also un-
doubtedly the source of much ahd seri
GUS illness to the unhappy men who
make them. frequently it is nominated
in the bond that illness is to be consd-
cred an exceptional state of things, justi-
flying an infraction Of the rule. Even if
not 80 nominated, it is not seldom so con-
sidered by the jesuitica invalid. The
women, too, are poor lawyers, and they
invariably fail TO specify the manner,
form, description, sort, kind or kinds OF
illness, indisposition, malady, disease,
trouble or sickness which may be treated,
benefited, relieved or cured by the suf-
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is that we may trace back to these wretch
ed promises an amount and variety OF
human suffering compared with which
the Armenian atrocities sink into utter
insignifcance. How these attacks would
end il the remedy were not so convent
emily get-at-able, is an inquiry from
which the mind shrinks.
Yes, the saloon must go--and be re-
placed by some more sweet-smelling
word. Consider what an enfranchse-
ment would follow upon this simple
change. All those, and their name is le-
gion, who have an oath at home, and
who would not lay perjury upon their
souls-no, not for Pommery--might pro-
coed to palter in double sense-might
keep the word Of promise to the ear and
break il to the hope" 1t is easy to play
the sophist with a politely complacent
conscience. But that by the way. Your
moderately thirsty soul, then, having ar
gued out the case to his own satisfaction,
HES siiiim to the winners. Ha Eurekal
Vintner-hem somewhat stiff does not
fall trippingly from the tongue but twill
serve. @, the power Of words! as Oar
Daily Work was wont to remark during
the recent revival. What utrnck one
most in that rather original periodical
was the power of iuxtaposition, as thus:
"Now is the accepted time, now is tho
day of salvation.-- You can get 81
saddle at Robinson's for sl.50." This is.
no DOUBT, fin de steele aud striking, but
to the average unreconstrncted man who
has some respect for true religion, it is
somewhat lacking in statellness.
Pope Tor was il the Salvation Army
poet p. said that words were nothing but
leaves, whose abundance indicated
scarcity of fruit. Byron knew better.
"Words, said he, "are things" And so
they are. Given time, the words the
thing Did you ever think-but here
ne are, following another OF Nicotina's
vsgrom becks-and if we follow her fur
Their afeld we shall be late for dinner,
though in plenty of time for the conse-
qaent reproof. And the colder the din
ner gets the warmer becomes the reproof.
But thus il must be. The brightest bles-
sings are too often fungacious; the desa-
yremens tarry and intensity while you
wait. And when we get into trouble on
account OF our dalliance with her lady
ship, the little traitress slips of and
leaves us alone to take our medicine.
however, she skips back and
is wooing us again so winningly that we
forger her faithlessness. What wander
ing jade she is, to be sure. Frequently
flying of in any and every direction but
The one we would have her take And
yet she has such an irresistible, follow
ne-lsds way of her own, that we gener-
ally do follow where she leads (oblivious
Of our own wishes) and, following, find
that her Ways are paths of pleasantness.
She has led us far from the theme of
.hine illness, my Barrie, but aiblins thou
vert willing enough to forget it; and so,
,alam AlAiknnl