St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-11-20

enosGh pillows ard sdioHsh tf&ai
fAsaH Nd the world,s appetite u dia
sassd. and the subsequent drsaght
must b taken to slake the thirs
created b. thu preceding dranghts. 8,
strong drink kindles the Ares Of thirs
faster than Il puts them ont Their,
were three taverna That which cursel
the Italian village curses Ill Christen
dom to-day - too many tavsrna
There ars streets In sune of 81,
cities whore there Ars thres b
four taverns On every block; aye
whore every other house . I tavern
You can take the Arabic numeral o,
my text. the three. and put on thu
right-hand side Of IL one cipher. Ani
two ciphers, and four ciphsra, and
that reinforcement Of numerals vii
not express the statistics Of Americas
rummeriea Even IL II were rood
healthy business supplying necessity
m article superbly nutritious It u I
business nightly overdone. and Their,
are three taverns where there ought r
b only one.
The fact n. there are In another
sense three taverns now; the RorReou,
tavern for the afauent, the medium
tavern tor the working classes, and the
tavern Of the alums, and they stand In
line. and many people beginning with
the first come down through the see
ond and come out 1t the third. At the
frat Of the three tavernA the wines are
Of celebrated vintage. and the whis.
kies are said TO b pure, and they an
quadsd from cut glass. at marble side
tables. under pictures approaching
masterpieces The patrons pull Oh
their kid gloves, and hand their silk
hats to the waiter. and push back their
hair with = hand ON one finger Of
which il cameo But those patrons
are apt to stop visiting 1t that place.
II Is not the money thst = man pays
for drinks, for what are : few hum
dred or few thousand dollars
70 . man Of large income
but their brain gets touched, and
that unbalances their Judgment and
they can REQ fortunes in enterprises
surcharged with disaster. In longer
or shorter time they change taverns,
and they come down to tavern the SEC
ond. where the pictures are not quite
% scrupulods Of suggestion. and the
small table il rougher, and the castor
standing on it il Of German silver, and
the cir has been kept over from the
night before, and that which they alp
from the pewter mug has = larger per-
Of benxine. ambergis. creosote,
strychnine. prussic acid, CO.
culus indicus. plaster Of paris. copperas
and nightshade. The patron may b
seen almost every day, and perhaps
many times the same day, It this tav-
ern the second. but he il preparing to
graduate. Brain. liver, heart, nerves
are rapidly giving away. The tavern
The second has it, dismal echo In hia
business destroyed aud family scat
tered, and woes that choke ones
Time passes on, and he
snters tavern the third; red light out
tide; > hiccoughiLg and besotted group
inside. He will be dragged ont Of doors
lb0ut two o'clock in the morning, and
eft on the sidewalk. because tho bar
;ender wants 70 shut mp. The poor
victim has taken the regular course in
he college Of degradation. He has
lis diploma written on his swollen,
bruised and blotched physiognomy. He
> : regular graduate Of the three
avernA Al the police take him
md put him in the ambulance the
vheels seem to rumble with two rolls
i thunder, one Of which says: Look
lot upon the wine when i u red,
vhen it moveth itself Alright il the
mp. for 1t tie last il biteth like = SER
'ent and stingeth like IN adder"
he other thunder roll says: "Au
runkards shall have their place in
he lake that burneth flre and with
rimstone.
/ am glad to 6nd in this scene OF the
sxt that there is such : thing - de-
lining suecessfully great tavernian
l can see from what Paul |
nd and did after ho had travelled tho
blowing II miles Of his journey, that |
= had received no damage 1t the three |
Iverna How much he was tempted / |
now not Do not suppose he was su-
erior to temptation. That particu-
v temptation has destroyed many OF
DO grandest mightiest noblest states
zen, philosopher, heroes. clergymeu,
postles Of law and medicine and gov
and religion. Paul was mot
physically well under any circum-
tances; it was mot in mock deprecia-
ION that he said he was an bodily
resence weak" It seems that his
yesight was 90 poor that he did his
'riting through m amanuensis, for he
it ~ something remarkable
mt his shortest epistle, the one to
hilemon. was in his own penmanship.
lying: II. Paul, lave written It with
y own hand" He had been thrown
ON hfs horse, he had been stoned, he
ID been endungeoned, he had had his
erves pulled on BY preaching at
thens to tho most scholarly audience
Ill the earth, and 1t Corinth to the
ost brilliantly PREDICATE assemblags.
i'd been howled upon BY the Ephesian
orshipers Of Diana, tried for his life
efore Felix, charged BY Festus with
ping insane, had crawled mp on the
sach, drenched in the shipwreck,
I'd much Of the tune had IN iron hand
II on his wrist and il any man
eeded stimulus, Paal needed It, but
ith al his physical exhaustion. he
q past the three taverns undamaged,
ID stepped into Rome Ill ready for the
ordeal TO which he was
objected. Oh! How many mighty
on feeling that they must brace M |
ter extraordinary service. and pre-