The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-30

l will pipe all hands to breakfast in
Mobile bay" The Thrse Taverns of
my text were too near the Mediterra-
mean shipping.
But notice the multiplicity. What
could that Italian village, so small that
history makes but one mention of it.,
want with more than one tavernp
There were not enough travellers COM
ing through that insignificant town TO
support more than one house of lodg-
ment. That would have furnished
enough pillows and enough break
fasts. No, the worlds appetite is dis
eased, and the subsequent draughts
must be taken to Stake the thirst
created by the preceding draughts. So
strong drink kindles the fires OF thirst
faster than it puts them out. There
were three taverns That which cursed
the Italian village curses all Christen-
dom to-day = too many taverns.
There are streets in some OF our
cities where there are three or
four taverns on every block; aye,
where every other house is a tavern.
You can take the Arabic numeral of
my text, the three, and put on'the
right-hand side of it one ciphe0 and
two ciphers, and four ciphers, and
that reinforcement of numerals will
not express the statistics of American
rummeries. Even if it were good,
healthy business, supplying necessity,
an article superbly nutritious, it is a
business nightly overdone, and there
"a Ia ~. tuy Xyh A
be only one.
The fact is, there are ia another
sense three taverns now; the gorgeous
tavern for the atfluent, the medium
tavern for the working classes, aud the
tavern of the slums, and they stand in
line, and many people beginning with
the first come down through the Sec
ond and come out at the third. At the
first of the three taverns, the wines are
of celebrated vintage, and the whis-
kics are said to be pure, and they arc
quatfed from cut glass, at marble side
tables, under pictures approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull off
their kid gloves, and hand their silk
hats to the waiter, and push back their
hair with hanu on one finger of
which is cameo. But these patrons
1t is not the money that Il man pays
for drinks, for what are few hun
dred or few thousand dollars
to a man of large income
but their brain gets touched, and
that unbalances their judgment, and
they can see fortunes in enterprises
surcharged with disaster. In longer
OF shorter time they change taverns,
and they come down to tavern the sec
SO scrupulous of suggestion, and the
small table is rougher, and the castor
standing on it is of German silver, and
the air has been kept over from the
night before, and that which they sip
from the pewter mug has a larger per-
centage of benzine, ambergis, creosote,
henbane, strychnine, prussic acid, Co
culus indicus, plaster of paris, copperas
and nightshade. The patron may be
seen almost every day, and perhaps
many times the same day, at this tay-
ern the second, but he is preparing to
graduate. Brain, liver, heart, nerves
are rapidly giving away. The tavern
the second has its dismal echo in his
business destroyed and family scat
tered, and woes that choke ones
vocabulary. Time passes on, and he
enters tavern the third; a red light out
side; II hiccoughihg and besotted group
inside. lie will be dragged out of doors
about two o'clock in the morning, and
L. t 81, -. 81,
tender wants to shut up. The poor
victim has taken the regular course in
the college of degradation. He has
his diploma written on his swollen,
bruised and blotched physiognomy. lie
is regular graduate of the three
taverns. AS the police take him
and put him in the ambulance the
wheels seem to rumble with two rolls
of thunder, one of which says: Look
not upon the wine when is is red,
when it moveth itself Alright in the
cup, for at the last it biteth like SER
pent 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"
/ am glad to find in this scene of the
text that there is such thing as de-
Ginning 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 l
know not. Do not suppose he was SUI
perior to temptation. That particu-
lar temptation has destroyed many of
the grandest, mightiest, noblest states
men, philosophers, heroes, clergymen,
apostles of law and medicine and gov
eminent and religion. Paul was not
physically well under any circuln-
stances; it was not in mock deprecia-
ton that he said he was IN bodily
presence weak" 1t seems that his
eyesight was so poor that he did his
writing through an amanuensis, for he
mentions it as something remarkable
that his shortest epistle. the one to
Philemon, was in his own penmanship,
saying: II, Paul, Lave written it with
my own hand" He had been thrown
from his horse, he had been stoned. he