The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-22

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The three taverns of my text were
too near the Mediterranean shipping
An Overdone Business.
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 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 Stake
the thirst created by the preceding
drafts Strong drink kindles the fires OF
thirst faster than it puts them out
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
Oh every block-aye, where every other
house is tavern. You can take the
Arabic mineral of my text the three,
and put on the right hand side of it one
Gil her and two ciphers and four ciphers,
and that enforcement of numerals
will not express the statistics of Ameri-
can rummeries. Even if it were good,
healthy business, supplying necessity,
an article superbly nutritious, it is a
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 aff1uent, 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 taverns the wines are of cele-
brated vintage, and the whistles are
said to be pure and they are quatfed
from cut glass at marble side tables,
under pictures approaching master
pieces The patrons pull off their kid
gloves and hand their silk hats to the
waiter and push back their hair with
a 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 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 taverns, 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 air
has been kept over from the night before
and that which they sip from the pew
ter mug has a larger percentage of
benzine, ambergris, creosote, henbane,
prussic acid, coculus indi-
Gus, plaster Of paris, copperas and
nightshade. The patron may be seen
almost every day, and perhaps many
lines the same day, at this tavern the
econd, but he is preparing to graduate.
Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly
giving way. That tavern the second
las it's dismal echo in his business de-
troyed and family scattered and woes
hat choke ones vocabulary. Time pass
IS on, and he enters tavern the third;
ed light outside, hiccoughing ahd be.
otted group inside He will be drag
,ed out of doors about 2 o'clock in the
morning and left on the sidewalk, be-
ause the bartender wants to shut up
The poor victim has taken the regular
course in the college of degradation
lie has his diploma written on his swol-
en-, bruised and blotched physiognomy
lie is a regular graduate of the three
averns AS the police take him up and
nut him in the ambulance the wheels
eem to rumble with two rolls of thun-
!er, one of which says, Look not upon
he wine when it is red, when it NOV
th itself Alright in the cup, for at the
asst it biteth like a serpent and stingeth
ike an adder. F" The other thunder roll
ays, "All drunkards shall have their
,lace in the lake that burneth fire and
With birthstone.
Temptation.
l am glad to find in this scene of the
ext that there is such thing as de-
lining successfully great tavernian
can see from what Paul
aid and did after he had travelled the
II miles of his journey that
lie had received no damage at the three
averns. How much he was tempted
now not. Do not suppose he was su-
,erior to temptation. That particular
has destroyed many of the
,randest mightiest, noblest statesmen,
heroes, clergymen, apos-
les of law and medicine and govern
nent and religion. Paul was not phys
cally well under any circumstances. 1t
vas not in mock depreciation that he
aid he was "in bodily presence weak. "
t seems that his eyesight was so poor
hat he did his writing through an