The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-06-23
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DO NOT LAUGH AT HIM.
Some Valuable Calculations.

Some Valuable Calculations.
Milton F. Hodges, in Robesonian.
If you stood beside an open grave
and looked for the last time upon the
face of a good neighbor and friend,
whose llfeless body would soon be laid
beneath the soil. would you feel like
laughing and testing at the scene?
Oh, no, you, would not. But l have
seen people who would laugh and jest
at scene far more solemn than the
burying OF good man. The person
who laughs at a man whose every
sense of honor is paralyzed by alcohol,
finds amusement in one of the most
deplorable occurrences that human eye
is called upon to witness. It is not the
man that causes the merriment, it is
alcohol. And how can any one laugh
at that tyrant whose eyes are cleaning
with fiendish hate, and from whose
hands is dropping the life blood OF
hundreds aud thousands of Adams
race; that mighty giant who Is run
ming up and down the nations with a
two-edged sword in each hand cutting
right and left, Staying thousands OF
men, women and children every year
that fiery serpent which darts through
the land inserting his poisonous fangs
into the souls of men? Oh, don't laugh
at that power which can change ma
ton of patriots to land OF thieves,
murderers and raving maniacs.
That fire which lgnites the charac-
ter OF young men and burns up all
that is noble, laudable or lovely, and
seizes upon their souls and burn them
with undated fury, through the end
less ages of eternity. Don't laugh at
the deadly work of alcohol. If you
must look upon being whose every
sense of propriety is paralyzed, and
whose reason is destroyed by strong
drink, let a solemn feeling steal over
your heart and picture to your mind.
on the one side, a group of aged moth.
ers with trembling limbs, bowed heads
and bleeding hearts, and on the other
side group Of weak, nervous wives
from whose faces the roses have faded,
and from whose eyes the sparkle has
fled. Surely there is nothing amusing
in such picture, and the sight of one
drunken man is just the index to that
scene. Don't laugh at him, but il
there is spark OF true manhood in
your makeup, determine that you viii
fight the "giant liquor" who is defy
ing the armies of all true men, unit
he lies beheaded as was Goliath in the
valley Elah.
Always, whatever we do, we should
consider the cost of it first of all. Il
costs money, as we'll as many precious
souls, if you drink, and it IS all the
Lords. The meney paid for one glass
of beer would pay for one loaf OF bread
The money paid for one glass O.
whiskey would pay for one pound O
| beef
The money paid for two glasses O.
beer would pay for peck of potatoes
The money paid for two glasses O
whiskey would pay for one pound O
coffee.
The money paid for three glasses q
beer would pay for quarter of pound
of tea.
The money paid for three glasses o
whlskey would pay for a dressed fowl
The money paid for four glasses o
beer would pay for two dozen eggs.
The money paid for four glasses Of
whiskey would pay for three pound.
of butter.
The money paid in one month fol
two glasses of whiskey day would pay
for suit of clothes.
The money paid in one year for three
glasses of whiskey day would pay fol
an outfit of household furniture.
The money paid for one glass of drink
day for lifetime will carry the sou
to endless woe and misery.
God says no unclean thing as thi'
can enter the pearly gates of the new
jerusalem.
Carnegie Says no War.