Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-01-16

90 HOl llilik tb"l MY lrlCEu VAS any
more responsible for Tic mode CT his
taking ctf tl...n /; typhoid fever patient
in delirium is responsible for lcaping
ont Of the fourth story window. But
while we were hcultbroken about his
gcimy away | think that in the saloons,
to those WHO heard of his men bership
of the church and the tragedy Of his de-
parture, lie became, as did the David
and The Christ OF my text, the song Of
the druIkards.
a Song Easily Learned.
Again, the song of the drunkards is
easily learned. Through what long and
difficult drill one must go to succeed as
az elevated aud inspiring singer. En-
n,a Abbott, among the most eminent
cuntatrices that ever enchanted acad-
emies OF music, told me OIL ocean ships
deck in answer to my question,
"Whither are you bound?" II am going
to Berlin and Paris to study music. !"
"What!n said. after all your world
renowned successes in music, going to
study" Then she told me through what
har(lships, through what self denials,
through what almost killing fatigues
she had gone in order to be singer,
and that when, i'll her earlier days. a
great teacher of music had told her
there were certain notes she could new
er reach she said, 81 will reach them, )"
and through doing nothing else but
practice for five years she did reach
them. Oh, how many heroes and hero
Ines of musical achievement! There are
songs which are easy to hear, but most
difficult to render When Handel, with
a new oratorio, entered room where a
group of musicians had assembled and
said, Gentlemen, you all read music?"
they said, Eyes, we play in church. !"
Every well, :" said the great composer.
"Play this" But the performance was
so poorly done Handel stopped his ears
and said: "You play i'll church! Very
we'll, for we read the Lord is long suf-
fering, of great kindness and forgiving
of iniquity, transgression and sin. But
you shall not play for me" Pure mu-
sic, whether fingered Oh an instrument
or trilled from human lips, is most diff
ficult. But one of the easiest songs to
learn is the song of the drunkards.
Any body can learn it. In little while
You can touch the highest note Of con-
VITALITY or tho lowest note of besotted-
ness. Begin moderately, sip here and
a sip there. Begin with claret, go on
with ale. and wind up with cognac.
First take the stimulant at wedding,
then take it at meals, then take it be-
tween meals, then all the time keep
your pulse under its stealthy touch.
In six months the dullest scholar i'll
this Apollyonic music may become an
expert. First it will be sounded in a
hiccough. After awhile twill be heard
in silly ha, ha! Farther on twill be-
como wild whoop. Then it will en-
able you to run up and down the five
lines of tho musical scale internal.
Then you will have mastered 1.-THE
song of the drunkard.
None Too Old to Learn.
The most skillful way is to adopt
the modern theory and give the intoxi-
cant to your children, saying to your
self, -s'They will in after life meet the
intoxicants everywhere, and they must
get used to seeing them and tasting
them and controlling their appetites. %
That is the best way of teaching them
the song of the drunkards. Keep up that
mode of education, and if you have four
boys at least three Of them will learn
the drunkards' song and lie down in a
drunkard'S grave. and if l ever laid a
wager, 1 would lay wager that the
four will lie down with the other three.
Or if the education of the children in
this music Should be neglected, it is not
too late to begin at 81 years of age. The
young nan will find plenty of young
men who drink. They are in every Cir
Gle to be fo;ind. Surely, my boy, you
are not Il coward and afraid of it? Sure
ly you are not goirg TO lie hindercd by
sumptuary Laws CT the hrejudices of
your cid father and mother? They are
behind the times. Take something.
Take il often. Some Of the greatest poets
and orators have been notorious imbib-
ers. If you are TO enter a parlor, it
makes you mcrc viyacious and Chester
fieldian. If you are to transact bust
ness, YOUR customer is apt TO buy more
if you have taken with him a sherry
cobber If you are to make a speech, it
will give you elibbcr tcHgue. Gluck
could compose his best music by having
his piano taken into the midst Of
meadow and bottle of champagne
placed OH each side of him. The earlier
you begin to learn the song Of the
drunkards tie easier it is, but none of
you is too old to learn. You can begin
at so or GO, under prescription of doc
tor for aids to digestion or breaking up
of infrmities and close life by render
ing the song of the drunkards so well
that all pandemonium will encore the
performance and want it again and
again.
Furthermore, the last characteristic
of the drunkards' song is so tremendous
that can hardly bring myself to NEIL
ton it. The drunkards' song is con-
tinuous song. Once start that tune and
you keep it up. You have known hum
dred men destroyed of strong drink.
You cannot mention five who got fully
started OIL that road and stopped. The
grace of God can do anything, but it
does not do everything. Religion saves
some Temperance societies save some.
The Bowery mission saves some. The
Central mission saves some. But q
hundred thousand who are annually
slain by strong drink are not saved at
all.
Prolonged S.
I have been at conceru winch went
on for two hours and half, and many
people got UP and left because it was