The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-06-11

e app0Ip Organism is taken possessi's
NJ ,ps6 noxious infnite3imals. VINES
~ fum tremens, man sees every 1oi
| 4tilian life, 1t seems it is only these
CITES of the brain in exaggerated size. u
not q Authorization that the victim is sqO
ing from. Ae only sees in the room VII
actually crawling aud riotipg il hisl |
brain. Every time We" take strong 4 |
you swallow these maggots, and everyh !
the imbiber Of alcohol in any shape feelsf
tigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only
jubilee OF these maggots. Efforts are h
madS or the discovery Of some GERM
that can kill the parasites of alcohol1snd
the only thing that will ever extirpate u
Is abstinence from alcohol and teetota+
stinence, to which | would before God B
all these young men and cid.
America is fruitful! country, and
raise large crepe Of wheat and corn
oats, but tho largest crop we raise in
country is the crop of drunkards.
sickle made out of the sharp edges OF
broken glass OF bottle and demiiohn thel
cut down. and there are whole swathl
/ them. whole windows of them, and it Il
| all the hospitals and penitentiaries =
| graveyards and cemeteries to hold this b
vest Of hell. Some of you are going 60
under this evil, and the never dying We
OF alcoholism has wound around you one
its coils, and by next New Years Day it '
I've another coil around you, and it will
ter awhile put coil around your tong
md coil around your brain, and
around your lung, and coil around
Ioot. and coil around your heart, and 81
lay this never dying worm will, with
;pring, tighten all the coils at once, and
he last twist OF that awful convolution
| Adf ma IA fyf
The greatest of dramatists in the tragedy
"The Tempest" sends staggering across
stage Stephano, the drunken butler;
scross the stage of human life strong di
sends kingly and queenlY and princely
lures staggering forward against the f
lights of conspicuity and then staggeI
back into failure till the world is impat
for their disappearance, and human anC
abolic voices Join in Kissing them off
stage.
Others fail in the drama sof life thro
demonstrated selfshness. They make al
rivers empty into their sea, all the roaC
,, emolument end at their door, and
! gather all the plumes Of honor for
I brow. They help no one, encourage on
rescue no one. How big a pile of me-
can l get?" and "How much of the W
can absorb" are the chief questions. ]
feel about the common people as the t
y felt toward the Asapi, or common sold
considering them of no use except to fill
the bitches with their dead bodies while
other troops walked over them to take
fort. After awhile this prince of worldly
cess is sick. The only interest society h
his illness is the effect that his possible
cease may have on the money markets.
ter awhile he dies. Great newspaper {
tails announce how he started with not
and ended with everything. Although
sake of appearance some people put h
kerchiefs to the eye, there is not one gen
tear shed. The heirs sit up all night '
. he lies in state, discussing what the old
low has probably done with his money
takes all the livery stables within
miles to furnish funeral equipages, an
the mourning stores are kept busy in Sc
, weeds of grief. The stone cutters ser
proposals for monument. The minist
the obsequies reads of the resurrec
= which makes the hearers fear that if tn
scrupulous financier does come up II
general rising he will try to get ''coI
on tombstones and graveyard fences.
= good men ale glad that the moral nuts
has been removed The Wall street 81
lators are glad because there is more
for themselves. The heirs are glad bee
tney ger possession Oh the long ueldye'
heritance, Dropping every feather Of a
+ plumes, every certificate OF all his S
every bond of all his investments. every
lar Of all his fortune, he departs, and a
rolling OF dead March, in "Saul, an
the pageantry OF his interment, and al
exquiteness Of sarcophagus, and all tn
trayagance OF epitaphology cannot hid
fact that my text has come again to tire
dous fulfllment, "Men shall clap their
at him and shall hiss him out OF his plac
You see the clapping come before the
The world cheers before it damns. SO
said the deadly asp tiekles before its 81
= Going up, is he? Hurrah! Stand back
let his galloping horses dash by. whirl
of plated harness and tinkling headgea
arched neck. Drink deep OF his madeira
cognac. Boast OF how well you know
All hats off rs he passes. Bask for day
years in the sunlight of his prosperity.
e. ing down, is he2 Pretend 20 be nearsi
so that you cannot see'him as he walks