The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-09

t91ears day the sons OF some OF The best
families drunk, and young men have
excused themselves by the fact that
the wine cup has been offered by the
ladies; and again and again IL hns been
found out that lady's hand has kind
led the young mans thirst for strong
| drink, and long after all the attrac.
tions of the holidays have passed that
same woman crouches in her rags and
her desolation, and her woe under the
uPlifted hand OF the drunken monster
to whom she had passed the fascinat-
ing cup on New Years day. II we
want to go TO ruin let us go alone and
not take others with us. Can we not
sacrifice our feelings il need be? When
the good ship London went down the
captain was told that he might escape
in one Of the lifeboats No" he re-
piled, I'll 60 down with the passen.
gers" All the world applaud
ed his heroism. And can we not
sacrifice our tastes and our
appetites for the rescue of others?
| Surely, it is not a very great sacrifice.
Oh, mix not with the innocent bever-
age of the holiday the poison of adders!
Mix not with the white sugar of the
cup the snow Of this awful leprosy!
Mar not the clatter of the cutlery of
the festal occasion with the clank of a
madman's chain! Pass down the street
and look into the pawnbroker's win
dow. Elegan watch, elegant furs, ele-
CANT flute, elegant shoes, elegant scarf,
elegant books, elegant mementoes.
You sometimes see people with pleased
countenance looking into such win
dow. When look into a pawnbroker's
window it seems to me as If / had
looked into the window of hell! To
whom did chat watch belong? To a
drunkard. To whom did those furs
belong? To a drunkard's wife. To
whom did those shoes belong? To a
drunkards child. l take the three
brazen balls at the doorw ay of pa vn-
brokers' shop and | clank them to-
gether, sounding the knell of the drunk
ards soul. A pawn brokers shop is only
one of the cddies in the great torrent
of municipal drunkenness. oh" says
some one, Il don't patronize such
things. l have destroyed no young
men by such influences. / only take
ale, and it will take great amount of
ale to intoxicate." Yes; but tell you
there is not drunkard in America
that did not begin with ale. Three KS
Il do not know what they mean.
Three KS on the brewers dray, three
KS on the door of the gin shop, three
KS on the side of the bottle. Three
Ks | asked a man. He could not tell.
! asked another what is the meaning
of three Ks. He could not tell me.
Then l made up my mind that the
three Ks were an allegory, and that
they meant 30 heartbreaks, 30 agonies,
80 brokenup households, 30 pros
poets of drunkard's grave, 80
ways to perdition. Three KS. If
were going to write story the first
chapter would call three KS and the
last chapter l would call the pawn
brokers' shop. Oh, beware of your
influence!
The winter season is especially full
of temptation, because of the long
evenings allowing such full swing for
evil indulgences. You can scarcely
expect n young man to go into his
room and sit there from to IL o'clock
| III LIG evening" ICldlbS LhObANJ
Dutch Republic" or John Fosters
essays. 1t would be a very beautiful
thing for him to do, but he will not do
it. The most of our young men are
busy in offices, in factories in banking
houses, in stores, in shops, and when
evening comes they want the fresh
air, and they want sightseeing, and
they. must have IT. they will
have it, and they ought to have it.
Most of the men here assembled will
have three or four evenings of leis-
uro on the winter nights. After tea
the man puts on his hat and coat and
he goes out One form of allurement
, saws, Come in here" Satan says, I'll
is best for you to go in; you ought moi
to be so green; by this time you ought
to have seen everything" and the
: temptations shall be mighty in dull
times such as we have had, but which,
believe, are gone; for hear all over
the land the prophecy of great pros
perity, and the railroad men and the
/ merchants they all tell me of the days
, of prosperity they think are coming,
, and in many departments they have
: already come, and they are going *
come in all departments; but those
, dull times through which we have
r passed have destroyed a great many
, men. The question OF livelihood il
, with a vast multitude the great ques
ton. There are young men who ex
y pected before this to set up then
r household, but they have been dis
appointed in the gains they hav'
made. They can not support them
$ selves, how can they support others
and 70 the c,lrse of modern society