The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28

leeded rum to enable me to do my ,
luty. I will order two cups of coffee :
o each man at two o'clock in the morn
ng. and at. eight o'clock will pipe all ;
lands to breakfast in Mobile Bay"
The Three Taverns of my text were
100 near the Mediterranean 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 tavern? There
were not enough travellers coming
through that Insignificant town to sup
port more than one house of lodg-
ment. That would have furnished
enough pillows and enough breakfasts.
NO, the worlds appetite is diseased,
and the subsequent draughts must pc
taken to slack the thirst created by the
preceding draughts.. Strong drink kin
dies the fires of thirst faster than 1t
puts them out. There were three tav-
ems. That which cursed that Italian
village curses all Christendom today
TOO many taverns. There are streets
IN some of our cities where there are
three or four taverns in every block;
aye, where every other house is tav-
ern. You can take the Arabic numeral
OF my text, the three, and put on the
right hand side of it one cipher, ana
two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that
reinforcement of numerals will not
express the statistics of American rum
mer1es. Even if it were a good, healthy
business, supplying necessity, an artl-
Gle superbly nutritious, it is business
nightly overdone, and there are Three
Taverns where there ought to be only
one. -.
The fact is. there are in another
sense Three Taverns now; the gorgeous
Tavern for the afluent, the medium Ia
vern for the working classes, and the
Tavern of the slums, and they stand in
line, and many people beginning with
and come out at the third. At the first
OF the Three Taverns, the wines are of
celebrated vintage, and the whiskies
are said to be pure, and they are
quaffed from cut glass, at marble side
tables, under pictures approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull off
their kind gloves, and hand their silk
hats to the waiter, and push back their
hair with a hand on one finger of
which is cameo. But those patrons
are apt to stop visiting that place. 1T
is not the money that man pays for
drinks, for what are few hundred or
a few thousand dollars to man of
large income-but their brain gets
touched, and that unbalances their
judgment, and they can see fortunes
in enterprises surcharged with disas-
ter. In longer or shorter time they
change Tayerns, and they come down
to Tavern the second. where the pic
lures are not quite so scrupulous of sug-
gestion, and the small table is reugher,
and the castor standing on it is of Ger
man. silver, and the air has been kept
over from the night before, and that
, which they sip from the pewter mug
has a larger percentage of benzine, am
,, bergris, creosote, henbane, strychnine
: prussic acid, coculus indicus, plaster oil
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 il
: preparing to graduate. Brain, liver
:, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving way
That Tavern the second has it's disma
echo in his business destroyed and fam
ily scattered, and woes that choke one
I vocabulary Time passes on, and h
S enters Tavern the third; red ligh
e outside; a hiccoughing and besotte'
- group inside. He will be dragged on
S of doors about two o'clock in the morn
t ing and left on the sidewalk, becaus
l, the bartender wants to shut up. TIL
It poor victim has taken the regula
l. course in the college of degradation. H
= has his diploma written on his swolle1
g bruised and blotched physiognomy. H
e is a regular graduate of the Thre
n Taverns. AS the police take him i
n and put him in the am bulance, til
k wheels seem to rumble with two roll
y of thunder, one of which says LOO
e not upon the wine when it is red, whe
t it moveth itself Alright in the cup, fl
N at last it biteth like a serpent, an
7r stingeth like an adder" The otht
le thunder roll says, AL drunkards sha
1t have their place in the lake that burr
re- eth with fire and birthstone.
~ With these thoughts cheer Christie
~ refor1ners in their work, and what r
- ioicing on earth and heaven there W
- b., over the contamination. Within
= few days one, of the greatest of t
leaders in this cause went up to e
ut thronement. The world never had b
-. one Neal Dow, and may never ha
~ another. He has been an illuminate
n to the century. The stand he took h
.1v directly and indirectly saved hundre
M of thousands from drunkards' grav
.es Seeing the w1larves of Portland, Mail
all covered with casks Of West Indi
cir rum (nearly an acre Of it at one tim
IN. and the city smoking with seven d
he tilleries, he began the warfare agail
1as drunkenness more than half a cent?
IN ago., The good he has done, the hon
on he has kept inviolate, the high mo
lid sense with which he has infused
The generations, is a story that neitl
nd earth nor heaven can afford to let