Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-24

ten shows what he thinks OF it, but for
the most part the fatality is hushed up.
Among the Adirondacks I met the fu-
neral procession Of II man who two days
before had fallen under flash of light
ming while boasting after a Sunday of
work in the fields that he had cheated
God out of one day anyhow, and the
man who worked with him on the same
Sabbath is still living, but q helpless
invalid, under the same flash.
God Robulses.
Years ago, in Pittsburg prison, two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one of them, Thomp-
son by name. applied to Jesus Christ a
very low and villainous epithct, and, as
be was uttering it, he fell. A physician
was called, but no help could be given.
After day lying with distended pupils
and palsied tongue, he passed out Of
this world In cemetery in Sullivan
county, in New York state. are eight
headstones in line and all alike, and
these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria
ragged in the village and physician
was remarkably successful in curing
his patients So confident did he become
that he boosted that no case of diph
liberia could stand before him and final
ly defiod Almighty God to produce a
case of diphthelia that he could not
cure. His youngest child soon after
took the disease and died, and ono child
after another, until all the eight had
died Of diphtheria. The blasphemer
challenged Almighty God, End God ac-
cepted tho challenge Donot think that
because God has been silent in your
case o profane swearer, that he is dead.
Is there nothing now in tho peculiar
feeling Of your tongue or nothing in the
numbness of your brain, chat indicates
that God may come to avcnge your bias
phemies or is already avenging them?
But these cases have noticed, Ibelieye,
are only few cases where there are
hundreds Families keep them quiet to
avoid the horrible conspicuity Physi-
clans suppress them through profess
sional confidence. 1t is very, very,
very long roll that contains the names
of those who died with blasphomies on
their lips.
Still the crime rolls on. up through
parlors, up through chandeliers with
lights all ablaze, and through the pic
tured corridors of clubrooms, out
through busy exchanges where oath
meets OATH and down through all the
haunts of sin, mingling with the rat
Ting dice and cracking billiard balls,
and the laughter of her who hath for
gotten the covenant of her God, and
round the city and round the continent
and round the earth a seething, boiling
surge filings its hot spray into tho face
of a long suffering God. And the ship
captain curses his crew and the master
builder his men and the hack driver his
horse, and the traveller the stone that
bruises his foot or the mud that soils
his shoes or the defective timepiece that
gets him too late to the rail train. ar
raign profane swearing and blasphemy,
two NAMES for the same thing as being
one of the gigantic crimes of this land,
and for its exti1pation it does seem as
if it were about time for God to arise
Wine When Red.
Then look for moment at the evil OF
drunkenness. Whether you live in
Washington or New York or Chicago
or Cincinnati or Savannah or Boston or
in any of the cities of this land, count
ND the saloons on that street rs COM
pared with the saloons five years ago
and see they are growing far cut of
proportion to the increase of the popu-
lation. You people who are so precise
and particular lest there should be some
imprudence and rashness il attacking
the rum traffic will have your son some
night pitched into your front door dead
drunk or your daughter will come home
with her children because her husband
has, by strong drink, been turned into q
demoniac. The drink tiend has despoil-
ed whole streets Of good homes in all
our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on
the funeral pyre of strong drink Fasten
tighter the victims Stir up the flames!
Pile on the corpses! More men, women
and children for the sacrifice Let us
have whole generations on fire of evil
habit, and at the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp sackbut, psaltery and dulci-
mer let all the people fall down and
worship King Alcohol, or you shall be-
cast into the fiery furnace under some
political platform
iudict this evil as the regicide, the
fratricide, the patricide, tho matricide,
the uxoricide, of the century Yet under
what innocent and delusive and mirth-
full names alcoholism deceives the peo-
ple 1t is cordial 1t is "bitters. u
1t is an "eye opener 1t is an "appe-
tier. tits "digester." 1t is all in
vigorator. - 1t is u "settler. !" 1t is a
"nightcap." Why don't they put On
the right labels: Essence Of Perdi-
ton, " Conscience Stupefier, - Give
DRAINS of Heartache, u clears of Or
phanage, - "Blood of Souls, y "Scabs Of
IN Eternal Leprosy, F" Venom OF the
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awhile is there anything in the title of
liquors to even hint their atrocity, as
in the case of "sour mash. That see
advertised all over. 1t is AZ honest name
and any one can understand it, "Sour
mashp That is, it makes mans dis
position sour, and his associations sour
and his prospects sour, and then it is
good to mash his body, and mash his
soul, and mash his business, and mash
his family. "Sour mash! p One honest
name at last for an intoxicant! But
through lying labels of many of the
apothecaries' shops, good people, who
are only little undertone in health
and wanting some inauguration, have
unwittingly got on their tongue the
fangs of this COBRA that stings to death
SO large a ratio of the human race.
Satanic Sips.
Others are ruined by the common and
i'll destructive habit of treating custom
ers. And it is treat on their coming
to town, and treat while the bargain
ing progresses, and treat when the