The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28

@s== =-s:.z~ sion of intoxicants.
One such place you
would think would
have been enough for that Italian VII
lage. No, there were three Of them,
with doors open for entertainment anu
obfuscation The world has never
lacked stimulating drinks. You re-
member the condition of Noah on one
occasion, and of Abigail's husband, Ma
bal, and the story of Belshazzar's feast,
and Benhadad, and the new wine In ola
bottles, and whole paragraphs on pro-
hibitiOn enactment thousands OF years
before Neal Dow was born; and no
doubt there were whole shelves OF in
f1ammatory liquid in those hotels Wn1ch
gave the name to the village where
Paul's friends came to meet him, name
ly, the Three Taverns. In vain search
ancient. geography for some satisfying
account of that village. Two roads
came from the sea coast to that place;
the one from Actium, and the other
from Puteoli, the last road being the
one which Paul travelled. There Were'
no doubt, in that village houses OF mer-
chandise and mechanics shops, ana
professional offices, but nothing is
known of them. All that we know OF
that village is that it had profusion OF
inns-the Three Taverns. Paul did not
choose any one of these taverns as the
place to meet his friends. He certain
ly was very abstemious, but they made
the selection He had enlarged about
keeping the body under, though once
he prescribed for young theological
student stimulating cordial Tor
stomachic disorder; but he told him TO
take only small dose-"a. little wine
| for thy stomach's sake"
One of the worst things about these
| Three Taverns was that they had es-
pecial temptation for those who had
just come ashore People who had just
| landed at Actium or Puteoi were soon
tempted by these three hotels which
were only little way up from the
| beach. Those who are dlsordered OF
the sea (for it is a physician disorganiz-
cry, instead of waiting for the gradual
return of physical equipose, are apt to
take artificial means to brace up. OF
the one million sailors now on the sea,
escape the Three Taverns! After sur
wing hurricanes, cyclones. icebergs,
collisions, many of them are wrecked
! in harbor. I warrant that if a calcu-
latiOn were made of the comparative
number of sailors lost at sea. and lost
ashore, those drowned by the crimson
wave of dissipation would far outnum-
Der those drowned by the salt water
Alas! that the large majority oil
those who go down to the sea in ships
should have twice to pass the Three
Taverns, namely, before they 60 out
and after they come in. That fact wa
what aroused Father Taylor, the grea
sailors preacher, at the Sailors Bethel
h Boston, and at a public meeting a
Charlestown, he said, GAIL the machin
, | cry of the drunkard making, soul de
stroying business is in perfect running
order, from the low grog holes on tn
, docks kept open to ruin my poor sailo
+ | boys, to the great establishments il
Still House square, and when 1--WE as.
men what is to be done about 1t, the
say, you can't help1it,' and yeti ther
= is Bunker Hill and you say you can
stop it, and up there are Lexingto
and Concord" We might answe
Father Taylor's remark by saying, eth
trouble is not that we can't stop it, bu
that we won't stop it," We must hav
more generations slain before the worl
S will fully wake up to the evil. TIL:
r. which tempted the travellers of old VIII
n came up from the seaports of Actiu1
Y, and Puteoli, is now the ruin of Sc:
IS faring men as they come up from IL
II coasts of all the continents, namely, II
,s Three Taverns. In the autumn, abo,
4 this time, in the year 1887, the steam
'. ship Home went out from New York f,
Charleston. There were about one hui
:, ,dred passengers, some of them wide
y known. Some of them had been sur
y mering at the northern watering plac
y. and they were on their way south. {
8 expectant of hearty greeting by the
~ friends on the wharves of Charlesto
Sc ship struck the rocks. A life boat W
As launched, but sank with all it's passe
o. gers. A mother was seen standing
It's the deck of the steamer with her chi
zee in her arms. A wave wrenched t
is child from the mothers arms a
he rolled it into the sea, and the moth
" leaped after it. The sailors rushed
* the bar of the boat and drank the
~ selves drunk. Ninety-five human
IN ,ings went down never to rise, or to
-, foated upon the beach amid the fri
NJ ments of the wreck What was I
cause Of the disaster? A drunken
- captain. But not until the judgmt
Aos day, when the sea shall give up its DE-
ne and the story of earthly disasters sh
Is be fully told. will it be known b
ION many yachts, steamers, brigatines, m
yes of-war and ocean greyhounds hi
Ind been lost through captain and CT
'es, made incompetent by alcoholic
hat thronement. Admiral Farragut
lay proper appreciation of what the Fl
ing stimulus was to man in the navy.
by officer Of the warship said to b
the !" Admiral, won't you consent to (
ter, Jack a glass of grog in the morni
lem Not enough to make him drunk,
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