Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-05-29

Many make a failure of their part In
tho drama of life through dissipation
They have enough intellect ual equipment
and good address and geniality unbounded
But thoy have vino closet that contains
ell tho forces for their social and business
and moral overthrow. So far back rs tho
year $50 King Edgar OF England made q
law that the drinking cups should have
pins fastened Gt a certain point in tho side,
so that tho indulscr might be reminded to
stop before re got to tho bottom. But
there arc no pins projecting from the sides
Of tho modern vino g. p or beer mag, and
tho first point at which millions step is at
tho grGvclly Bottom Of their own grave.
DR.. Sax of Franco las 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-
maniCe. BY powerful microscope these
living things arc 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 possess
sion of by these noxiOus inlnitesimals.
When in delirium trenens u man secs ev-
cry form Of ruptilian life, it seems 1t is
only these parasites of tho brain I'm eXag
geFated size. IL is not a Authorization that
the victim is suffering from. He only secs
in the room what is actually crawling and
rioting in his own brain. Every time you
take strong drink you swallow those mag
gots, and every time tho imbiber of alcohol
in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatisnl
or nausea it is only the jubilee of these
maggots. Efforts nre being made for tho
discovery Of some germicide that can kill
tho parasites of alcoholism, but the only
thing that will ever extirpate them is
abstinence from alcohol and teetotal alb
stinence, to which would before God
swear all these young men and old.
America is a fruitful country, and we
raise large crops Of wheat and corn and
oats, but tho largest crop We raise in this
country is the crop Of dEunkards. With
sickle mado out of tho sharp edges Of this
brokon glass Of bottle and domijohn thoy
arc cut down, and there arc whole swathes !
Of them, whole wiurows Of them, and 1t !
takes all tho hospitals and penitentinries |
and grayeyards and cemeteries to hold this |
harvest of hell. Some of you are going |
down under this evil, and tho never dying |
worm of alcoholism has wound around |
you ono Of its coils, and by next New |
YpaF's day it will have another coil around |
you, and It will after awhile put coil /
around your tongue, and coil around |
your brain, and o coil around your lung, |
and a coil around youF foot and a coil |
around your heart, and some day this never
dying worm will, with ono spring, tighten
Ill the coils at once, and in tho last twist
Of that awful convolutiOn you will CRY
lut, "Oh, my Godp' and be gone. The
greatest Of dramatists In the tragedy Of
THE Tempest" sends staggering across
tho stage SiophanO, the drunken butler,
)ut across the stage Of human life strong
rink sends kingly and queonly and
1rincoly natures staggering forward
against the footlights Of conspiouity, and
then staggering back into failure, till the
world is impatient for their disappearance,
md human and diabollo voices join in
Kissing them off the stage.
Many also mako failure in the drama
# life through Incidence. They are al
Ways making calculations how little they
an do for the compensation they get.
rhoro are more lazy minister's lawyers,
lOotOrs, merchants, artists and farmers
han have ever been counted upon. The
community is full Of laggards and shirk-
rs l can tell it from tho.way thoy crawl
long tho street, from their hardness in
Meeting engagements from tho lethargios
hat seem to hang to the foot when they
1T it, TO tho baud when they put 1t out,
0 tho words wheh they speak.
The Misplaced,
Two young men in store. In the
morning the ono goes to his post tho last
minute or one minute behind The other
ten minutes before the time and has his
lat and cont hung up and is at his post
gaiting for dntY. The one is over and