Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-27

hlled with maniacS; bow many graves
have Won dug and filed at the Come
teries' how many ragged and hungry
children have You beggared through
the fathers whom you have DESTROYED.
III the skeletons of all those whom Won
nave slain were piled up on top OF each
other. how high would the mountain
be? III the tears of all the orphanage
and widowhood that you have pressed
out were gathered together how wide
would be the lake, or how long the riv-
err? All. they make no answer. On this
subject the modern taverns are as
silent as .he Oriental Three Tavcrns
but there are millions of hearts that
throb with most vehement condemna-
ton, and many OF them would 90
as far as the mother in Oxford. Mass.
whose son had been long absent from
home and was returning, and Mt the
tavern on the way he was persuaded
to drink, and that one drink aroused a
former habit. and again and again he
drank. and he was found the next
morning dead in the barn of the tav
ern. The owner of the tavern. who
gave him the rum, helped carry his
body home, and his rollen.hearted
mother, afterward telling about il,
SAID; 1t was wrong, but cursed him;
did it. Heaven forgive him and
ma"
But what glad time when the world
comes To the last Three Taverns for the
sale of intoxicants. Now there are so
many of them that statistics are only n
more or less accurate guess as to their
number. We sit with half-closed eyes
and undisturbed nerves and hear that
In 1872 in the United States there were
1864 breweries, 4,349 dis.illeries, and
III, 900 retail dealers, and that possibly
by this time these figures may bc truth
fully doubled.
The fact is that these establishments
are innumerable, and the discussion is
always disheartening, and the impress
sion is abroad that the plague is So
mighty and universal il can never bc
cured, and the most of sermons on this
subject close with the Book of Lamen-
tations, and not with the Book of Rev
Citations. Excuse me for adopting any
such intidel theory. The Bible reiter.
ates 1T until there is ne more power in
inspiration TO make it palmer. that
the earth is to be, not half, or three.
quarters, but wholly redeemed. On
that rock l take my triumphant stand
and join in the chorus of HoZannas
One of the most advantageous move
ments in the right direction is taking
this whole subject into the education
of the young. On the same school desk
with the grammar, the geography. tho
arithmetic are books telling the lads
and lasses of 10 and II and IL wears OF
age what are the physiological effects
of strong drink, what il does with the
tissues of the liver and the ventricles
of the brain, and whereas other gener-
atoms did not realize the evil until
their own bodies were blasted. we
are to have generation taught
what the viper is before il stinps
them, what the hyena is before il
rends them, how deep is the abyss
before II swallows them. oh. boards
OF education, teachers in schools. pro-
fessors in colleges, legislatures and
congresses widen and augment that
work, and yet hasten the complet..
overthrow of this evil II will 90 down.
| have the word of Almighty God for
that in the assured eXtirpation of all
sin. But shall we have "A share in tho
universal victory? The liquor saloon,
will drop from the hundreds of thou
sands into the scores of thousands and
then from the thousands into the hun
dreds, and then from the hundreds into
the tens, and from the tens to Three.
The first of these last Three Taverns
will be where the educated
and philosophic and the high-up will
take their dram, but that class. aware
OF the power of the example they have
been setting, will turn their backs
upon the evil custom and be satisfied
| with the two natural beverages that
God intended for the stimulus of the
race--the Java Office plantations fur
nishing the best of the one and the
chinese tea fields the best of the other.
And some day the barroom will be
crov dcd with people ut the vendue and
the auctioneer's mallct will pound at
the sale OF all the appurtcnanccs.
Inc scconu Of these last three tav-
crns VIII take down its flaming siyn
aud cNtinguish its red light and close
its doors for the working classes viii
have concluded TO buy their own horses
and furnish their own beautiful homes,
aud replenish finely the wardrobe Of
their own wives and daughters. In
stead Of providing tho distillers. the
brewers and liquor sellers with ward
robes and mirrors and carriages. And
che next time that second tavern is
opened IL Is will Ice drugstore or q
bakery or dry goods establishment or
= school Then there will be only one
~ the three dissipating taverns left. /
don't know in what country or city or
ncighborhood 10 viii De-, but look al it.
FOR Do is the very last The last incbri-
ate will have staggered up 20 its coun-
Ger and put down his pennies for o dram.
tis last horrible adultcration will be
mia and quafFcd 90 eat out the vitals
and inhanc The brain. The last drunk
aru VIII have stumbled down IL, stems.
7 be last spasm % delirium trcmcns
caused hv % will De- struggled through.
2 he old rposrrv viii be- torn down. and
with its demolition will close the long
and awful reign - the mightiest II
EARTH Accumulation The last 81 tho
diss' patlnF Three Taverns 81 all the
world win bc a. thoroughly blottcd
out as were the Three Tavcrns Of my
tert
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wgr f.uide reputation on account ~
its sItr shape color aud flavor The
largest fruit farm probably in the