Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-21

COUGH SYRUP is the 1
Chew LANeE,s PLUGS. Ihe Great tobacco AntIdO,
nnu I1gIuul-rllrsuF. Un Unu cdge OF a
bronzed step and on burned brick has been
found the name of Nebuchadezzar Henry
Rawlinson and Oppert and Hicks and
Palestine exploration societies and Asyriol-
ogists and Egyptologists have rolled an
other Bible up from the depths of the earth,
and lol it corresponds exactly with our
Bible, the rock Bible just like the printed
Bible, inscriptions on cylinders and brick
work cut $500 years before Christ testify
ing to the truth of what wo read 1897
years after Christ The story of the tow
or of Babel has been confirmed by the fact
that recently at Babel an oblong pile of
brick 10 feet high evidences the remains
of fallen tower. In the inspired book Of
Ezra we read Of the great and noble As
napper, a name that meant nothing espe-
cial until recently in pried up Egyptian
sculpture we have the story there told Of
him as great hunter as well as great
warrior What say now is news to those
prejndiced against the Bible. They are SO
far behind the times that they know not
bHtb bu6 Olu DOON 10 DolDB pIONou ny
the prying eye of the antiquarian and the
ringing hammer of the arch@ologist and
the plunging orowbar of the geologist. No
more is infdelity characterized by its bias
phemy than by its ignorance, but, ohl
what high mountain of prejudice against
the Bible, against Christianity, against
churches, against all evangelzing enter
prises-a mountain that casts its long
black shadows over this continent and
over all continentsl Geographers tell us
that Mount Everest is the highest noun
tain in the world Oh, mol The mountain
of prejudice against Christianity is higher
than the highest crags that dare the light
nings of heaven. Before our Zerubbabel,
can it ever become plain?
The Mount of Inebriacy.
Another mountain of hindranoe is that
of positive and outspoken immorals. There
is the mountain of inebriaoy. 1t is piled
with kegs and demijohns and decanters
and hogsheads, on which sit the victims
of that traffic whose one business is to rob
earth and heaven Of the most generous and
large hearted and splendid of the human
race. If their business was to take only
the mean and stingy and contemplate and
useless, we would not say much against
the work, for there are tens of thousands
of men and women who are nuisance to
the world, and their obliteration from hu-
man society would be an advantage to all
that is good. The removal of these moral
deficits would not arouse in us much of a
protest. But insobriety takes the best.
The mountain of inebriacy stands in the
way of the kingdom of God, and hundreds
of thousands of men but for that him
drance would step right into the ranks of
the Lords host and march heavenward,
each one taking regiment with him. The
mountain of inebriacy is not an ordinary
mountain, but it is armed. 1t is line of
| fortresses continually blazing away it's de-
struotive forces upon all our neighbor-
| hoods, towns and cities, their volleys Of
death poured down upon the homes and
churches Under this power more than
| 100, 900 men and women are in this coun-
| try every year imprisoned, and an army of
| 600, 600 drunkards almost shake the earth
with their staggering tread 1t causes in
| this country 800 murders and 400 suicides
year. This mountain Of inebriacy has
not only assaulted the land but lombard
ed the shipping of the sea, and some of the
most appalling shipwrecks on Atlantic
and Pacific coasts have been the result
| What sank the steamer Rothsay Castle, on
the way from Liverpool to Dublin, de.
stroying 100 human livesS A drunken sea
captain. What blew up the Ben Sherrod
on the Mississippi and sent 15o to horri-
| BILE deaths A drunken crew. What drove
on the breakers steamer making its way
| from New York to Charleston and sent
whole families on the way home from
summer watering places to the merciless
depths of the scar A drunken sea captain.
Gather up from the depths of the rivers
and lakes and oceans the bones of those
shipwrecked by intoxicated captains and
crews, and you could build out Of them a
temple of horrors, all the pillars and al
tars and floors and ceilings fashioned of
human skulls. Is it possible that such a
mountain of inebriacy can ever be made a
plainP
The Mountain of Crime.
Yonder also is the mountain of crime,
with its strata of fraud and malpractice
and malfeasance and blacklnail and bur-
glary and piracy and embezzlement and
libertinism and theft, all it's heights man.
ned with the desperadoes, the cutthroats,
the pickpockets, the thimble riggers, the
corsairs, the wreckers, the bandits, the
trioksters, the forgers, the thugs, the gar
roters, the fire fiends, the dynamiters, the
shoplifters, the kleptomaniacs, the pyro-
maniacs, the dipsomaniacs, the smugglers,
the kidnapers, the Jack Sheppards, the
Robert Macaires and the Macbeths of vii.
lainy, The crimes of the world! Am not
right in calling them, when piled up to.
gether, mountain? But we cannot bring
ourselves to appreciate great heights ex-
cept by comparison. You think of Mount
Washington as high, especially those Of
you who assembled as of old, on mule back
or more recently by rail train, to the Til
Top House. Oh, mol That is not high. Fol
it is only about 5000 feet, whereas rising
on this western hemisphere are Chimbo
razo, 81 900 feet high, and Mount Sahama
23,000>feet high and Mount Sarota, "a, SO(
feet high. But that is not the highes
mountain on the western hemisphere. Tht
highest mountain is the mountain O.
crime, and is it possible that this noun
tain, before our Zerubbabel, can ever b.
made plainp
The Mountain of War.
There is also the mountain of war, thu
J most volcanic of all mountains-the Vesu
vius which, not content, like the Vesu
vius of Italy, with whelming two cities
Herculaneum and Pompeii, has coveret
with its fiery scoria thousands of citie
and would like to whelm all the cities o
J both hemispheres. Give this mountain full
utterance, and itwould cover up Washing
ton and New York and London as easil.
, as a householder, with his shovel at Il
O'Clock at night, banks CRATE fire witt
ashes This mountain is pile of fortress
] es, barrioades and armories, the world
artillery heaped, wheels above wheels, co
!, lumbiads above columbiads "a FOUNDER
, above "a Founders, wrecked nations abov
! wrecked nations.
This mountain of war is not'only loade
TO cannonade the earth but it is also
| cemetery, holding the oorpses of 10000, 90
slain in the wars of Alexander and Cyrus