Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-11-03


much of the time had an iron handcuff on
his wrist andsif any man needed stimulus,
Paul needed it, but with all his physical
exhaustion, he got past the Three Taverns
undamaged. and stepped into Rome all
ready for the tremendous ordeal to which
he was subjected. Obi 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
Moloch, who sits on throne of human
carcasses. Shall call the names of fifty
of the victims, all of them illustrious in
American history? MOI 1t would not be
wise, or kind, or Christian to call their
names in public, but you call them out OF
your own memory. Oh, how many splendid
men could not get past the Three Taverns.
Long ago an arch fiend arrived in our
world, and he built an invisible cauldrOn
OF temptation. He built that cauldrOn
strong and stout for all ages and all nations.
First - squeezed into the cauldron the
juices + the forbidden fruit of paradise;
then he gathered for 1t a distillation from
the harvest fields and the orchards of the
hemispheres; then he poured into this caul-
dron capsicum and logwood and assault and
battery and vitriol and opium and rum and
murder and sulphuric acid and theft and
potash and cochineal and red carrots and
poverty and death and hops. But IL was a
dry compound and it must be moistened
and 1t must be liqueied, and so the arch
fiend poured into the cauldron the blood of
twenty thousand assassinations. And then
the arch hend took a shovel that he had
brought up from the furnaces beneath, and
he put the shovel into this great eauldron
and began to stir, and the cauldron began
to heave and rock and boil and sputter and
hiss and smoke and the nations gathered
around it with cups and tankards and
demijohns and kegs, and there was enough
for all, and the arch flend cried: "Ahal
Champion fiend am II Who has done more
than have for collins and graveyards and
prisons and the populating OF the lost
world? And when this cauldron is emptied
I'll I'LL it again, and I'll stir it again. and IL
will smoke again, and that smoke will join
another smoke-the smoke of a torment
that ascendeth for ever and ever. l drove
fifty ships on the rocks Of Newfoundland
and the Skerries and the GOOdwins.
have ruined more Senators than will gather
next winter in the national councils. 1
have ruined more Lords than will be
gathered in the House of Peers. The cup
out of which | ordinarily drink Is
bleached human skull, and the upholstery
of my palace is so rich a crimson because
1t is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic OF
my floors is made up of the bones of chill
dren dashed to death by drunken parents,
and my favOrite music, sweptar than Te
Deum or triumphal marrh-my favOrite
music is the cry Of daughters turlrl out at
nlunlBHl On TIE street. because IHtnNr mas
come home from "A carousal, and the seven
hundred-voiced shrek of the siukiag
steamer because the captain was not hill
self when he put the ship ON the wron.
course. Champion tiend am l. | have
kindled more fires, ! have Wrung out more
agonies, | have stretched out more mid
might shadows. | have opened more Col
gothas, have rolled more Juggernauts
have damned more souls. than ary other
emissary of diabolism. Champion tcnI am
|. Hal hal ha! hai'
But what glad time when the world
comes to its last Three Tavrrus. FOR the
sale of intoXicants. Now there ar. So many
of them that statistics are only 70 more or
less accurate guess as 10 their number.
We sit with half-clOsel eyes aud uudis-
turbei nerves and hear that in 1872 Ina tho
United States there We're 1854 brrweries
43i0 a u leriesS md III 500 ,.I..-s.
nnu that possibly by this time - ilgur,
may be truthfully doubled. The fact h.
that these establishments are innumerable,
and the discussion is always disheartrn-
ing, and the impression is abroad that the
plague Is so mighty and universal il ca
never be cured, and the most of sermons
on this subject close with the Book of
Lamentations, and not with the Book of
Revelations. Excuse me from adopting
any such infldel theory The Bible rciter
ates it until there is no more power
in inspiration TO make it plHiueI
that the earth Is to be- not half
or three-quarters, but wholly re.
deemed. On that rock I take my
triumphant stand and join in the cho-
rus of Hosannahs.
One of the most advantageous move
ments in the right direction is taking thi
whole subject into the education of 40
young. On the same scnool-desk with O.
grammar, the geography, the Brithm,
are books telling the lads and lasses OF
and twelve and fifteen years of age wh.
are the physiological effects of STR
drink, what 1t does with the tissue OF ta
liver and the ventricles OF the brain. Hr
whereas other generations did not regz
the evil until their own bodies were blaetr.
we are to have generation taught what
the viper Is before 1t stings them. what The
hyena is before 1t rends them how de,p i-
the abyss before it swallows them. uu
boards of education, teachers in schools
professors in colleges Legislatures. Hr.
Congresses, widen and augment that wHrE
and you hasten the complete overthrow ut
this evil
1t will go down. | have the word OF Al
mighty God for that in the assured eXtirpa-
tion of all sin. But shall We have a share
the universal victory? The liquor saloon
will drop from the hundreds of tnOu-gu,
into the score of thousands and then Ir
the thousands into the hundreds. and a.
from the hundreds into the tens 'and f.
the tens TO Three. Tie first Of thGsS
three taverns will be wh5Te tn educ
and philosophic and the high-up will
their dram, but that class, aware Of
power of the example they have been
ting, will turn their back upon the evil
tom and be satisfied with two naturail
srages that God intended for the stinil
of the race-the Java coffee plantat
furnishing the best OF the one and the G
'ese tea fields the best of the other
some day the barroom will be crowded
people at the yendue and the auction
mallet will pound at the sale of the dp.
tenances.
The second of these last three tayerns
will take down its flaming sign and eN-
| tingush its red light and close its.doors for
the working class will have concluded 90
buy their own horses and furnish their own
beautiful homes aud rpplenish finely the
/ wardrobe of their own wives and daugh-
tiers instead of providing the distiilrrS, the
brewers. and liquor sellers with wardrobe
and mirrors and carriages. AID the ucNt
time that second tavern is opened 70 will ho
drug store, or a bakery, or dry goods
establishment, school. Then there viii
| be only one moro of the Three dis4ipltiu-
! raverns left. / don't know in what enuu-
| try, or city or neighberhool it viii br nIt
| look at it, for il is the very last. Tne 1-t
| inehriate will have staggered up g. Its
| counter aud put down his peuni-- for nis
! dram. Its last horrible aiultr-a. ''n VIII
| be mixed and qunifri TO eat OCT tH" NirHis
| and iutiame the brain. The las truuEar'
will have stumbled down it. - sta~-
| The last spas;os ofdelirium trem"l- rar-
| by it will be- struggled through. The
/ rOOkerv Will be torn down. and W.
| demolition will close the earih's aapm.
| lions. The last Of the 6tesipntiu.. Thrc
! TayerGs OF all the worii Will uH us tho
oHrhly blottel on. as Wtrt tue Thr
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