The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-05-29

theater-goers were known in Jobs
Kissed off the stage. The imper-
senator come 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 his 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 10 represent
charity and faith and humility and
helpfulness-what little preparation we
have made. although we have three
galleries of spectators, earth, heaven
and hell! Have we not been more at
tentiVe to the part taken by others
than to the part taken by ourselves,
and, while we needed to he looking at
home and ~concentring On our w
performers, and saying, that vas too
high or too low" or too feeble" or
too extravaganza" or too tame" or
"tOo demonstrative," while we our
selves were making a dead failure and
preparing to be ignomin;ously Kissed
Off the stage? Each one is assigned
a place; no Supernumcraries hanging
around the drama of life 10 take this
or that u the other part, as they may
be called upon. No one can take our
place. We can take no other place.
Neither can We puG off our
character; no change Of apparel can
make us anyone else than that which
we e%ternally are.
Many make a failure Of their part in
the drama of life through dissipation.
They have enough intellectual equip
ment and good address and geniality
u%nbounded. But they have a wine
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their social and business and moral
overthrow. So far back as the year
$50, King Edgar of England made a
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 mod
ern 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
something 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 potumaniae. By a
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 you body,
and your entire organism IS taken pos
session Of by these n0Xious infin-
itesimals. When in delirium tremens
a man sees every form Of reDtilian life,
it seems it is only these parasites of
the brain in exaggerated size. 1t is
not a hai~lucination that the victim is
suffering from. He only sees in the
room what is actually crawling and
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you take strong drink you swallow
these maggots, and every time the i'm
biber of alcohol in any shape feels YER
tigO or rheumatism or 1ause9 il IS only
tie jubilee of these maggots. Efforts
are being made for the discovery OF
some germicide that can Kill the para
sites of alcoholism, but tho only thing
that will ever eXtirpate them is ali
from alcohol and tee.otal alb
.stilence, 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 the largest crop we raise in
country is the crop C druakards.
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edges of the broken glass Of bottle and
demijohn they are en- down, and there
are whole swathes OF them, whole win
of them. and it takes al the hos
pitfalls and penitertiarias Il grave
yards and cemeteries to !,cli this mar
vest CT hell. Some OF 0 are gong
down under this evil, and the ever
dying worm of alcoholism has wound
you one OF its coils. ard by
next New Years Day it Will have an
other coil around you. and il will after
a while put a coil around your tongue
and a coil around your brain and a
coil around your lung and 2 coil around
foot and a coil around your heart,
and some day this never-dying wor
will with n spring tighten all the
coils at once, and in the last twist OF
that awful convulsion you will cry out.
ooh, my Cod" and be gOAe. The great
est of dramatists in the tragedy Of THE
sends staggering across the
stage Stephano, the drunken butler;
but across the stage Of human life
strong drink sends kingly and queenly
and princely natures staggering for
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