Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-10-22

were not enough travellers coming
through that insignificant town to sup
port more than one house Of lodgment.
That would have furnished enough pill
lows and enough breakfasts No; the
worlds appetite is diseased, and the
subsequent drafts must be taken to slake
the thirst created by the preceding
drafts Strong drink kindles the fires OF
thirst faster than it puts them ont.
There were three taverns 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
on every block-aye, where every other
house is a tavern. You can take the
Arabic numeral Of my text, the three,
and put on the right hand side Of 1t one
cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers,
and that reinforcement Of numerals
will not express the statistics Of Ameil-
can rummeries Even if it were good,
healthy business, supplying necessity,
an article suporbly nutritious, 1t Is
business nightly oyerdone, and there
are three tayerns where there ought to
be only one
The fact is, there are in another sense
three tayerns now-the gorgeous tavern
for the affiuent, the medium tavern 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 at the third At the first Of
the three taycrns the wines are Of cele-
brated vintage, and the whiskies are
said to be pure, and they are quaifed
from cut glass at marble side tables,
under pictures approaching master
pieces The patrons pull of their kid
gloves and hand their silk hats to the
waiter and push back their hair with
hand on one finger Of which Is a
cameo. But those patrons are apt to
stop visiting that place. 1t is not the
money that man pays for drinks-for
what are a few hundred or few thou
sand dollars to man of large income
but their brain gets touched, and that
unbalances their judgment, and they
can see fortunes in enterprises sur
charged with disaster In longer or
shorter time they change tayerns, and
they come down to tavern the second
where the pictures are not quite so scru'
pulous Of suggestion and the small ia
Bile is rougher, and the caster standing
on it is Of German silver, and the all
has been kept over from the night before,
and that which they sip from the pew
ter mug has a larger percentage oi
benzine, ambergris, creosote, henbane'
strychnine, prussic acid, coculus lndl'
Gus. plaster Of 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 be is preparing to graduate.
Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly
giving way That tavern the second
has its dismal echo in his business de
stroyed and family scattered and woei
that choke ones vocabulary. Time pass
es on. and he enters tavern the third,
red light outside, a hiccoughing and be
sotted group inside. He will be drag
ped ont of doors about 2 O'Clock IN tn
( morning and left on the sidewalk, be
cause the bartender wants to shut up
The Door victim has taken the regula
I course in the college Of degradation
, He has his diploma written on his swol
Ion bruised and blotched physiOgnOmy
q He is a regular graduate Of the thre
taverns. AS the police take him up an.
g put him in the ambulance the wheel
1 seem to rumble with two rolls OF thun
. der. one Of which says, Look not upo
r the wine when it is red, when 1t NOV
t eth itself Alright III the cup for at IN
last it biteth like serpent and stinget
J.. like an adder The other thunder ro
+ SAYS, "All drunkards shall have thel
+ place in the lake that burneth IRE an
u u-ith hrimstone "