Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-10-23

were not enough travellers coming
through that insignificant town to sup
port moro 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 slake
the thirst created by the preceding
drafts Strong drink kindlcs tho fires Of
thirst faster than it puts them out
There were three taverns. That which
cursed that Italian village curses all
Christendom today-too many taverns
There are streets in some Of our cities
where there arc three or four taverns
on every block-ayo, where every other
house is Il tavern. You can take the
Arabic mineral of my text the three,
and put on the right hand side of it one
cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers,
and that enforcement of numerals
will not express the statistics of Ameri-
can rummeries. Even if it were good,
healthy business, supplying necessity,
an article superbly nutritious, iG 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 tavcrns now-the gorgeous tavern
for the aiiluent, the medium tavern for
the working classes and the tavern Of
the slums-and they stand in line, and
many people beginning with the first
come down through tho second and
come out at the third At the first of
the three taverns the wines are OF cole-
brated vintage. and the whistles are
said to be pure. and they are quatfed
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 tho
waiter and push back their hair with
hand on one finger of which is a
cameo But those patrons are apt to
stop visiting that place. 1t is not tho
money that man pays for drinlls-for
what are few hundred or q few thou
sand dollars to man of largo income
but their brain gets touched, and that
unbalances their Judgment, and they
can see fortunes i'll 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 roughcr, and the caster standing
Oh it is of German silver, and the air
has been kept over from the night before,
and that which they sip from the pew
ter mug has larger percentage of
benzine ambergris creosote, henbane,
strychnine, prussic 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 it's dismal echo in his business de-
stroyed and family scattered and woes
that choke ones 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 2 o'clock in the
morning and left OH 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 blotched physiognomy
He is 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-
der, one of 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 stlngeth
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 a thing as de-
clining successfully great tayernian
temptations can see from what Paul
said and did after be had Travelled the
following II miles of his journey that
he had received no damage at the three
taverns How much he was tempted 1
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 "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 some
thing remarkable that his shortest epls-
tie, the enc to Philemon. was in his
own penmanship, saying, Il, Paul, have
written it with my own hand. " He
had been thrown from his horse, he had
been stoned, he had been endungeoned
he had had his nerves pulled on by
pICUGIllIS 6AVIS4so W eiAS AiAO'e HO-~N~
arly audience of all the earth, and at
Corinth to the most brilliantly protligate
assemblage and been howled upon by
the Ephesian worshipers of Diana,
tried for his life before Felix, charged
by Festus with being insane, had crawl
ed up OH the beach, drenched i'll the ship
wreck, and much Of the tire had an
iron handcuff Oh his wrist, and if any
man needed stimulus Paul needed it,
but with all his physical exhaustion he
got past the three tavcrns unchanged
and STEPPED into Rome all ready for the
tremendous ordeal to which he was sub
jected Oh, how many mighty men,
feeling that they must brace up after
extraordinary service and prepare them
selves for other service, have called on
the spirit of wine for inspiration, and
in few years have been sacrificed on
the altar of a Moloch who sits on
throne Of human carcasses. 1t would
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