Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-05-28

causes OF fallure IN lie, drawing on BID
lical reference to the theater for startling
illustration. His text was Job xvii, 2S,
"Men shall clap their bands at him and
shall hiss him out of his place."
This allusion seems to be dramatic. The
Bible more than once makes such allu-
sions. Paul says, ,"We are made theater
or spectacle TO angels and to men," 1t is
evident from the text that some of the
habits of theater goers were known In
Jobs time, because he describes an actor
hissed of the stage. The impersonator
comes on the boards, and, either through
lack of study of the part he Is to take or
happiness or other incapacity, the audience
is offended and expresses Its disapprobation
and disgust by Kissing. "Men shall clap
their hands at him and shall hiss him out
of bis place"
My text suggests that each one of us is
put on the stage of this world to take some
part. What hardship and suffering and
discipline great actors have undergone year
after year that they might be perfected in
their parts you have often read. But we
put on the stage of this life to represent
charity and faith and humility and help
fulness-what little preparation We have
spectators earth and heaven and hell
Have we not been more attentive to the
part taken by others than to the part taken
by ourselves, and, while we needed to be
looking at home and concentrating on our
own duty, we have been criticising the
other performers and saying, "that was
too high" or "too low" or "too feeble" or
"too extravagant" or "too tame" or "too
demonstrative, while we ourselves were
making dead failure and preparing to be
ignominiously hissed of the stageP Each
one is assigned place. Nosupernumera-
ries hanging around the drama Of life to
take this or that or the other part, as they
may be called upon. No one can take our
place. Wecan take no other place. Neither
can we put off our character. No change
of apparel can make us any one else than
that which we eternally are.
| Noxious Infnitesimals.
Many make failure of their part In
the drama Of life through dissipation.
They have enough intellectual equipment
and good address and geniality unbounded.
But they have q wine closet that contains
all the forces for their social and business
and moral overthrow. So far back as the
year $50 King Edgar Of England made q
law that the drinking cups should have
pins fastened at a certain point in the side,
so that the indulger might be reminded to
stop before he got to the bottom. But
there are no pins projecting from the sides
Of the modern wine cup or beer mug, and
the first point at which millions stop Is at
the gravelly bottom of their own grave.
DR.. Sax Of France has discovered some
thing which all drinkers ought to know.
He has found out that alcohol in every
shape whether of wine or brandy or beer,
contains parasitic life called bacillus potu-
manie. BY powerful microscope these
living things are discovered, and when
you take strong drink you take them into
the stomach and then into your blood,
and, getting into the crimson canals of
life, they go into every tissue of your body,
and your entire organism Is taken posses
sion of by these noxious infnitesimals.
When in delirium tremens a man sees ev-
cry form of reptilian life, it seems it is
only these parasites of the brain in exag-
gerated size. 1t is not hallucination that
the victim is suffering from. He only sees
in the room what is actually crawling and
rioting in his own brain, Every time you
take strong drink you swallow these mag
gots and every time the imbiber of alcohol
in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism
or nausea it is only tho jubilee of these
maggots. Efforts are being made for the
discovery of some germicide that can kill
the parasites of alcoholism, but the only
thing that will ever extirpate them is
abstinence from alcohol and teetotal alb
stinence, to which I would before God
swear all these young men and old.
America is fruitful country, and we
raise large crops of wheat and corn and
OATS but the largest crop we raise in this
country is the crop of drunkards. With
sickle made out of the sharp edges Of the
broken glass Of bottle and demijohn they
are cut down, and there are whole swathes
of them, whole winrows of them, and II
takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries
and graveyards and cemeteries to hold this
harvest of hell. Some Of you are going
down under this evil, and the never dying
worm of alcoholism has wound around
you one of its coils, and by next New
Years day 1t will have another coil around
you, and it will after awhile put a coil
around your tongue, and a coil around
your brain, and coil around your lung
and a coil around your foot, and coil
around your heart and some day this neve,
dying worm will, with one spring, tighten
all the coils at once, and in the last twist
of that awful convolution you will CRY
out, ooh, my Godl' and be gone. The
greatest of dramatists in the tragedy ol
"The Tempest" sends staggering across
the stage Stephano, the drunken butler
but across the stage of human life strong
drink sends kingly and queenly an6
prinoely natures staggering forward
against the footlights of oonspicuity, and
then staggering back into failure, till the
world is impatient for their disappearance
and human and diabolio voices join iI
Kissing them off the stage.
Many also make failure In the drama
Of life through Incidence. They are al
ways making calculations how little they
can do for the compensation they get
There are more lazy ministers, lawyers
doctors, merchants artists and farmer:
than have ever been counted upon. ThI
community is full Of laggards and shirk
ers. can tell it from the way they craw
along the street, from their tardiness IL
meeting engagements from the lethargle
that seem to hang to the foot when the.
lift it, to the hand when they put it out
to the words when they speak.
The Misplaced.
Two young men in store. In tn
morning the one goes to his post the las
minute or one minute behind. The othe
is ten minutes before the time and has BIZ
hat and coat hung up and is at his pos
waiting for duty. The one is ever ant
anon, in the afternoon, looking at hi
watch to see if 1t is not most time to shu
up. The other stays half an hour after HI
might go, and, when asked why, says h
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