The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-11-07

90 many taverns. There are streets
some OF our cities where there are
hree or four taverns In every block. I
sc, where every other house Is a tav- |
IN. You can take the Arabic numeral
4 my text. the three. and put on the
light hand side OF II one cipher. and
NO ciphers. and four ciphers. and that
-e-enforcem6nt OF numerals will not
express the statistics Of American rum
meries. Even n II were a good, healthy
business, supplying necessity. an ard-
Gle superhly nutritious. Il Is a business
nightly oyerdone. and there are Three
Taverns where there ought to ha only
one.
The fact %. there are In another
sense Three Taverns now. the gorgeous
Tavern Tor the ailluent. the medium Ia
vern for the working classes. and the
Tavern Of the slums. and they stand In
line, and many people beginning with
the first come down through the second
and come out az the third AZ the first
OF the Three Taverns. the wines are OF
celebrated vintage. and the WHISTLES
are said 10 be pure. and they are
quaffed from cut glass. at marble side
tables. under pictures approaching
masterpieces. The patrons pull on
their kind gloves. and hand their silk
hats 70 the waiter. and push back their
hair with a hand on one finger Of
which IL a cameo. But those patrons
are apt TO stop visiting that place. II
IL not the money that a man pays for
drinks. for what are a few hundred or
few thousand dollars to a 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
90 Tavern the second. where the pic
lures are not quite 10 scrupulous OF sug-
gestlOn. and the small table Is rougher
and the castor standing on Il Is OF Get
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 benzlne. ann
borgris. cro0sotc. hcnhano. strychnine.
prussic acid. coculus lndlcus, plaster Of
paris. copperas. and nlghishado The
patron may be seen almost every day.
and perhaps many tines the same day
AZ this Tavern the second. but he Is
preparing to graduate. Brain. liver,
heart. nerves. are rapidly giving way.
That Tavern the second has It's dismal
echo In his business destroyed and fam
ny scattered. and woes that choke ones
vocabulary. limo passes on. and be
enters Tavern the third; a red light
outside. a hiccoughlng and besotted
group inside. lie will be dragged out
OF doors about two o'clock In the morn
ing and LETT on the sidewalk. because
the bartender wants to shut up. The
poor victim has taken the regular
course In the college OF degradation. TIC
has his diploma written on his swollen
bruised and blotched physlognomy. HC
Is a regular graduate Of the Three
Taverns. As the police take him IN
and put him IN the ambulance. IN,
wheels seem 10 rumble with two roll,
OF thunder. one OF which says. "Lool
not upon the wine when q Il red. wher
Il moveth itself arIrht In the cup. fol
90 last u hitcih like a serpent. an,
stlngeth Ike an adder" The othel
thunder roll says. IAN dmnkards shall
have their place in the lake that burn
eth with Gre and birthstone.
with these thoughts cheer Christian
reiormcrs in their work. and what re-
joieing an earth and heaven there vii
be over the contamination. within
few days one OF the greatest OF m,
leaders In this cause went up 10 en-
thronemont The world never had hu
one Neal Dow. and may never hay,
another. lie has been an illumination
TO the cedtury The stand he took ha
directly and Indirectly saved hundred
OF thousands from drunkards' graves
Seeing the wharyos OF Portland. Maine
covered with casks OF West lndial
rum tnoarly an acre OF Il at one timel
} and the city smoking with seven dis
tilleries. he began the warfare agains
drunkenness more than half a centur.
ago. The good he has done. the home
he has kept lnyiolate. the high mora
b sense with which he has Infused lei
generations. IA a story that neithe
earth nor heaven can AFFORD 10 let dc
Derlded. beliitled. carlcaturcd. mallgn
ed. for a quarter Of century as fe'
men have been he has lived on unit
at his decease universal newspaperdol
speaks his praise and the culogiums O
his career on this side Of the sea hav
,, been caught up by the cathedral orga
sounding his requiem on the other. nj
whole life having been Tor God aud N
worlds betterment. when AZ half-pas
three o'clock Ia the afternoon Of o,
tcber second he left his home on cart
surrounded by loving ministers. an
, entered the gates Of his eternal res
dence. I think there was a most uni
4 sual welcome and salutatlon give
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o the beauty OF his dcath.bed. where .
4 said. Il long 20 be free" | think a
{ the roformors OF heaven came out
. hail him In. the departed legislator
] who made laws 20 restrain intempe
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p tors who thrilled the generations thl
e are gone. with righteousness, tempe
y ance. and Judgment 90 come Abe
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