Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18

rum TO ondCI0 me TO 40 my Cuty. L viii
orde- two cups of coffee to each man at
2 o'clock IL the morning, and at s
O'Clock I Will pipe all hands to break
fast il Mobile bay
The three taverns Of my text wers
too near the Mediterranean shipping.
An Orerdone Business.
But notice the multiplicity What
could that Italian village, SO small that
history makes but one mention of it,
want wish more than one tavern? There
were rot enough travellers coming
tEror gh that insignificant town to sup
port more than one house of Judgment.
That would have furnished enough pill
lows and enough breakfasts No; the
worlds appetite is diseased, and the
subsequent drafts must be taken to Stake
the thirst created by the preceding
drafts Strong drink kindles the fires of
thirst faster than it puts them ont.
There were three taverns. That which
cursed that italian village curses all
ChrlstendOm tCday-tOO many taverns.
There are streets in some Of cur cities
where there are three Or four taverns
On every Esock-aye, where every other
house is a tavern. You can take the
Arabic nuneral Of my text, the three,
and put on the right hand side of it one
cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers,
and that Reinforcement of numerals
will not express the statistics of Ameri-
can rummeries Even if it were a good,
healthy business, supplying necessity,
an article superbly nutritious, it is a
business nightly overdone, and there
are three taverns where there ought to
be only one.
The fact is, there are in another sense
three taverns now-the gorgeous tavern
for the affluent, the medium tavern for
the working classes and the tavern of
the slulns-and they stand in line, and
many people beginning with the first
come down through the second and
come out at the third. At the first of
the three taverns the wines are Of cele-
brated vintage, and the Whistles are
said to be pure, and they are quaffed
from cut glass at marble side tables,
under pictures approaching master
pieces. The patrons pull off their kid
gloves and hand their silk hats to the
waiter and push back their hair with
a hand on one finger Of which is a
cameo But those patrons are apt to
stop visiting that place. 1t is not the
money that a man pays for drinks-for
what are a few hundred Or a few thou
sand dollars to man of large income
but their brain gets touched, and that
unbalances their Judgment, and they
can see fortunes in enterprises sur
charged with disaster. In longer or
shorter time they change taverns, and
they come down to tavern the second
where the pictures are not quite SO scru-
puloUs Of suggestion, and the small ia
BILE is rougher and the caster standing
Oh it is Of German silver, and the air
has been kept over from the nignJ pe1ore,
and that which they sip from the pew
ter mug has a larger percentage of
benzine, ambergris, creosote, henbane,
strychnine, prussia acid, coculus indi-
Gus, plaster of paris, copperas and
nightshade. The patron may be seen
almost every day, and perhaps many
times the same day, at this tavern the
second, but he is preparing to graduate.
Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly
giving way. That tavern the second
has its dismal echo in his business de-
stroyed and family scattered and woes
that choke one's vocabulary Time pass
es on, and he enters tavern the third; a
red light outside, hiccoughing and be-
sotted group inside. He will be drag
ged out Of doors about o'clock in the
morning and left on the sidewalk, be-
cause the bartender wants to shut up.
The poor victim has taken the regular
course in the college of degradation.
He has his diploma written on his swol-
len, bruised and blotohed physiognomy.
He is a regular graduate Of the three
taverns- As the police take him up and
put him in the ambulance the wheels
seem to rumble with two rolls Of thun-
Ger, sone CT which says, ''Look not upon
the wine when it is red, when it NOV
eth itself Alright in the cup for at the
last it biteth like serpent and stingeth
like an adder. The other thunder roll
says, ''All drunkards shall have their
place in the lake that burneth fire and
with birthstone. -
Temptation.
am glad to find in this scene of the
text that there is such thing as de-
clining successfully great tavernian
temptations. l can see from what Paul
said and did after he had travelled the
following II miles Of his journey that
he had received no damage at the three
taverns. How much he was tempted
know not Do not suppose he was su-
perior to temptation. That particular
temptation has destroyed many of the
grandest, mightiest, noblest statesmen,
philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apos-
ties Of law and medicine and govern
ment and religion. Paul was not phys
ically well under any circumstances. 1t
was not in mock depreciation that he
said he was Sin bodily presence weak.
1t seems tha5 his eyesight was SO poor
tl,.,t he did biz III; t;,,.r tl,,.c11crl,