Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
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THE WINE GLASS.

ry long at the wine. They that
go to seek mixed VINE Look
not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it
giveth it's color in the
when it
moveth itself
Alright
At
the last
it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder
A poor wOrkingman told his wife,
on awakening one morning, curious
dream which he had during the night.
He dreamed that he saw coming to-
ward him, in order, four rats. The
first one was very fat, and was fol-
lowed by two lean rats, the rear rat
being blind. The dreamer was great
ly perplexed as to what evil might fol-
low, as it has been understood that to
dream OF rats denotes calamity. He
appealed to his wife concerning this:
but she, poor woman, could not help
him. His son, who heard his father
tell the story, volunteered to be the in
terpreter. ''The fat rat,'' he said "is
the man who keeps the saloon you go
to so often, the two lean rats are my
mother and me, and the blind rat,
father is yourself. ''-North and West.
The law in some states requires tn at
an applicant for license to sell liquor
shall be a man of good moral char
acter. An Irishman who applied for
license being questioned as to his
moral fitness for the trust, replied,
"fAh. sure, it's not much of char
acter man needs to sell rum''
The child of God has many BIRTH
rights; as, for example, life, liberty,
the pursuit of happiness, now and al
ways. These imply air, water, food,
JOY, strength, beauty, knowledge, spir-
itual life, an eternal weight of glory.
We may sell them, one or all. 1t is a
khabit with many men. n boy sells
something of his stature for cigarette
smoking; another his steady, joyous
nerve for momentary pleasures, his
whole welfare of body, SOUL and spirit
for the delirium of drink. A man sells
keenness of conscience by sharpness
in trade, sells honor for this world s
stuff, sells heaven for what he eats
and drinks, his soul for pottage.
contend with to-day we find in it's ow1
home, in it's own grasp: the wors
weapon that is welded against labor
to-day is held by the strong right han6
of labor itself, and when that weapon
is raised to strike the blow, it is raised
in the shape of n glass that carries
!
son.
A mans house is his castle. The
wind may blow through it, but the
king himself dare not enter. That was
good English law before Lord Coke
said it, and is now. But "God haiti
set men in families,'' and a mans
house is his wife's castle and his chill
dren's castle too.
The wind may blow through it, the
rain may penetrate it. He himsel
may vex, disgrace, disease, and terri
fly those who depend upon him, and
with the dumb loyalty of women, stick
to him through good and i'll.
The saloon may embrute him, ir
spite of love Or 10y atty or law. Blu
we say that the statutes of Christian
government shall not be the burglars
tools by which the liquor traffic breaks
and enters the home of truth and love
and honor. to debauch it.
And in the name of mother love an6
| W1C"1OFC duu C1llO-1OVc. We ucu buC
that this nation shall forbid the sa
loon and scorn to be a ''fence'' fol
money, in the form of revenue, tina
has been stolen from women and chill
dren, even tho the husband and father
were with the robber and a party tt
the crime.
Then, if the saloon lives on, it viii
live on a fugitive from justice. An6
if we find our government too weak tt
cope with it, it will at least have prov
en- itself too honest to put it's virtue
up for sale.-Woolly.
II II
"What seemeth best I'll do,
With hope and courage too,
And if results\ should show
The right did not know,
Twill be the right for me
Throughout eternity.