The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-10

than have for collins and grayeyaxds and
prisons and the populating OF the lost
world? And when this cauIdron is ernptfed !;
I'll fill It again, and I'll stir II again. and
will smoke again, and thst smoke VIII Joln.;
another smoke-the smoke Of torment.
that ascendeth for ever and ever. droxe3
fifty ships on the rocks OF NeWtcundlen
and the skerries and the Good wins z 47a
have ruined more Senators than Will gathAfs
next winter In the national councils
have ruined more Lords 4hAn VIII fbes
gathered in the House Of Peers. The @tT
out OF which ordinarily drink 70 ~
bleached human skull, and, the upholsteI9A
Of my palace Is 80 rich o crimson be6su3ey
1t Is dyed in human gore, and the m6saicof]
my floors is made up OF the bones 6f cht1ys
dren dashed to death by drunken patSrtySJ
and my favorite music, syeeter than Yesa'
Deum or triumphal march my fSg0rte
music is the CRY Of daughters tnrned ont SSs 4
midnight on the street because father hAS Z
come home from q carousal, /, and the seYen-
.hundred-voiced shrek Of the sinktnS
steamer because the captain was not hint.
self when he put the ship ON the wrong
course. Champion iend am II III haze
kindled more fres, have wrung out more;
agonies, I have stretched out more midi
night shadows, I have opened more COB!
gothas, I have rolled more JuggernsptssIX Y
nave QamneQ mOLo 5OuIS, buhH auJsythpk :
emissary OF diabolism. Champion hend an
I. Hal hal hal hal'' 4 81
But what glad time when the world
comes to its last Three Ta7erns for the
sale of intoxicants. Now. there are es0maryE
lace aecnrsta onass G "a ~ II. thar ufsbsrsS
We eit witb lsalf-cJosed evea and nnifis +
tnrhea nerves and hear TINT N 1874 IN fhea
TTnited atatea thara wara 1gelc Krawarie rie1l3;
Isan J;ot;iIariea and III ssa retaif dasieSss 8
anS thet nossihiu hv ~ n Tina theses Han -
nav ha frnfhfiIIv donhfad The faof "A
that these estahlishments ara einniirnerables
and the diseussion is always dishearten.s
ING. and the Impression is abroad that thesS
nIapne is 40 miphty and universal e can:
never be cured. and the most of sefnonS
on this subject close with the s Book ofz
Lamentations, and not with the Book oil
Revelations. Excuse me from edOptin&
any such infidel theory. The Bible sreiteI5i:
ates it until there Is no. more power5
in inspiration 10 make It plainer
that the earth Is to: he, NOT hall
or three-ausrters, but wholly Z 9ra-s
deemed. On that rock Z take my Y
triumphant stand and Join IN the ch9-e
rus of Hosannahs. z y
One of the most advantageous fnoye-; !;
n,snts IN tba r,obt d,rection IA fsEinr,fhiSa
whoie anh;act into Ifhe edI,catfot 0f tbSks
vonno IN the sanue scbool-deeE With ;tliea
grammnr the eeoorapllyI the afithrnetio ios'
are hooks falling the lads and iasses of f6ns
and twelye and fiftsen wears Of aee what2
are the nbvsioIoeicaI effects 81 etronfd
drink what 'it does with the Tissue of the
iirer and the yentricies az the brafrs and
whereas other eenerations did not fssHse
the evil untiltheir own bodies we're blasted.
we are to have generation taught whst
the viper Is before 1t stings them, what the
hyena is before it rends them, how deep 70
the abyss before 1t swallows them. ohtS
boards of education, teachers In scheolg,
professors in colleges. Legislatur reS;J5 ana,
Congresses, widen and augment thst VOTE,
this evil, al II Il & i f
II will on down. have the word ofS Az
mighty God for that in the assured extfrpa.
tion of ali ain. But shall we hayea share In
the universal victory? The .fduor 'saioonsz
n1iIl dron from the Iundreds al th1usands
into The score Of thousands and then from
the thousands into the hundreds. and then 4
from the hundreds into the tens. and from
the tens to Three. The first OF these last:
three tayerns will be where, the educator
and nhilosophic and the hiet.up viii take
their dram. but that class. aware Of the,
power of the example they have been set-;
fino will turn their back upon the evil eus-s
TOM and be satisfied with two natural bev-
eraees that God intended for the, stfmnluSs
of the race-the Java coffee plantations
nrniehino tbe hast Of the one and the Chm
eea Tea fieids The hest OF the other. Ind /
some dav the barroom win be crowded With
neonle at the yendue and the aucttoneefsB
maliet will pound at the sale OF the appur-
tenances. ~. ~ ~ 8 a
The second Of these last three tsyesnS
,,iii toks down ira flaming sign and ex.S
t;nanish its rad 1ieht and close It's doors,f FOR
thas srnrLine Glaze viii have concluded Go Z
sme thair -, horooa and f,,rnisf their own
py,,tis,i 10y sIH bnr.as and renlenish finely the
ua-drnba ~ tbeir own wives and dsueh-E
tars inetead Of nroyidinp the distillers, tho
hrewera and Honor sellers with wardrobe8
and mirrors and carriapes. And the NEXT /
tJroo that eecond tavern Ia opened II Will be 7
. dr,,s otore or a bakery or dry goods;
o,taLfSioSuant uIfS ] ~ ecbooi Then there will
s LII nne -, ora ofthe Three dissipatine
Tavergs Te Uny LEFT LETT ~ don't know in what coun.
IaVelns ,t .ei'. oinhhorbood q viii ha bnt !
Try, or city, VI uVis the varv iast The Isst
iooh iooh,as+a Hs 49, ,viii have stseoered M TO fts
ineuIta.o t ,Md WI MI dovn Sis nennies Tor hisS
counter anI ~ horr;hla adnJteration will
ulan. 10 20 .sos ~, f,ad to aat ont the yitals
pc niaeo iaea ant az su~i hrain The last drunkard
aIu liu ha1a et,,mbied down its front steps. :,
mL mLn a. ua,o sosr,a o;Iol,rinno tremens causei
Inc q iass m sPasms ntrIad VI tuI thrnnoh The ala
by It Will pc struggled m M dawn enro snd uitb M ,ts
Iookery VIII LIN 10 ,,oaa e0n the earibss abomfna.f
demoht10n ion wiz ~ ciVse 80 sao S,ae;nat,no Three
lions. ine M aas' .S W .no o.,d %,SI he sa thor.
IaVeTns Oh an 'no "os'u s 80 ~ tha Threa
0ugnly o,osset 20 4u' a. "eio ' - : =
IaVerhs Oh my 'eA'. -.
In this battle the visible tro0ps aee S nos
80 mighty as the invisible. Tne aosPet
campaign pegan WIN me supe.Ia'ah .ha ahan.
the midnight chant that woke the snep-5
herds. the hushed sea, the eyesignt given
where the patient had been born Wltnous
the optic nerve. the sun obiiteratea ron