Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-08

erywhere. heard three preachers say
amen. Say. bud. you little thing over
there. there's NOT enough OF sou u leave
want yodli Use ihe boyeetJ. wei they
put the boycott on me. I'm feet inches
and weigh ieo pounds. feel wen, cat three
times n day. One man tritd u whip M
In the last twenty years an he promised
not to IT, II again.
You may drown mo IN The bayou. but
every passing wave viii say you've
drowned nm honest man. You want TO
get rid CT me because l want You to be
decent an am trying TO save you from
''rho whisky drinkers here are as thick
as the hair on n dogs back \, whisky
drinker II Il man that's doing an Immense
amount OF harm, II You say You're doing
no harm You're the biggest liar In town.
You Old sour mash
an moving inash iub. You say IT'S no.
hodN'a business. Amt II the business Of
your sad eyed wife and crushed children
! can smell some Of YOU now. You take
half dozen drinks OF beer or whisky. eat
some onions liGht YOUR sinking old pipe
an, then 70 home TO YOUR patient and
''If volr moral character was subject TO
putrcfaction and decay you'd etlhk You're
leading the procession to he'll IN your
"Thcn there's Colonel cusser, who feel
like splitting on an drowning. How Is Il
You know Il wouldn't he healthy for you.
You can hardly walk a block In this town
without hayiuR some human buzzard pukc
on YOU, Some OF YOU old boys are so
dirty It's hard 10 curry YOU.
The boy has TO go around heclcd with
bottle OF whisky and Il pistol, Saw;
20 home G an Xii Xii dosI T mean SV Commit nii
suicide l can tote my nkillet without u
ii can never forget the last ,inc ] saw
my boys. an / may never see them
again, one y In Cairo, Egypt an the
oilers ot college. ! took them out an
10 take q drink or 30 wrong while their
mother lived. They couldn't understand
Why ! put me limit! during their mothers
mnrried their mother, she was n rosy
checked, sweet glrl Of Kentucky. | told
Them ZEN OF my unsodly d,ssg,psSio1n. On hs@
and tho happy light die out or her eyes,
never to return again, ! owed her TINS,
not TO drink during their mothers life, but
never to touch tho poison.
NOT six months oRo last Saturday
and Vent 10 10 Atlanta, where my ~ sister i'p
lay click and apparently nearing the end,
! kissed her pale lips and from hor house
miles out OF Atlanta, There ! met
bright boy. who looks like me moro than
any other human being He was my
nephew. an In drunken spree had shot
down !, companion. He asked ma about
his mother m had 10 toll him that the
M9r, was :earcd that she would never
heaven an took a solemn pledge never 20
drink again. Not long afterwards ho
n drunken bout was the result. Recov-
erinE from the debauch, shnmed md con-
sGenro-striclten he Eot pistol, and turn
ms tho PISTOL to his heart Let out his
lifa m yet there are those who say this
whisky drinking lfn't nnybodvs bugincss
NY God. haven't | cause TO raise my voice
against the dRmnnblo trufnc?"
Aftgr an earnest appeal fOr help to win
souls over to God mud to make this week
memorable IN the history OF Houston Mr.
Jones closed by shaking hands with fully
three thousand men, who Aled past tho
platform.
AT SHrARN CHURCH.
Rev. George Stuart preached one OF his
Characteristic sermons vt Shcarn Meth
odlst Episcopal church last night TO one
OF the largest congregations Of women