The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-01
WOES OF DRUNKARDS
Or. TALMAaE's STRONG DENuNclA-
r. TON or jNTEMPERANcE.


wheh ene Owls u ene orinA 'rahio are DE-
Ing widely discussed and the movement
for the abolition Of the degrading and
brutalizing canteeu in our military camps
is gaining many supporters, this sermon
Inv DR. Talmape. dealing with the broader
asnocts ~ the nlagua AZ intemneranca.
should cheer and inspire The friends Of
temneranoe eyervwhere. His text ia Ex.
odus ri. q. "And there sball DO great cry
throusho,,t ali the land OF Erypt."
This was tha worst az the Tan p,aeues.
The deatrovina angel at midnis ht fiapped
hia wing over Che land. and there was one
iead In each housc. AUGMENTATION and
mourning and woe through all Erypt.
Thsh dostrovinp angel hsa fied the earth.
mt a far worse has come. He sweans
through these cities. II IA tho destrovino
angel AZ strong drink Far worse devas.
tation wrought by this second than by the
frat Pho calamity in America worse
than the ca)a7,,tv IN Esvnt Thousands
Of In. sIaIn, millions ~ the slain No
arithmetic can calculate their number
Once unon time four flends met in the
Lost world Thev resolved That the n.ople
Of our earth were too happy. and these
four iufernaIs came forth to our earth ON
embassy Of mischief. The one flend said,
"IIlt take oharae Of the VINEYARDS. An
other said. "r,il take charge Of the grain
f,elds - Another said. nI,u take charge
AZ the dairy Another said, HI'u take
charae Of the music. /" The four tends met
IN the great Sahara desert. with skeleton
fineers clutohed each other in handshake
81 1delitv. kissed each other eoodby with
lin 81 blue fame and parted on their mis-.
sion
The f1end of tho VINEYARD cane in one
bripht morning ANN the grapes and sat
down on a root of-tv,sted grapevine In
sheer announcement. The flend knew
not how to damage the VINEYARD or,
through 1t, how e damage the world
The grapes were 60 ripe and beautiful and
lusciousl They bewitched the air with
their Sweetness, There seemed 10 be 80
much health in every bunch And while
the tlend sat there in utter indignation
and disappointment he clutohed a cluster
and soueezed IL In perfect spite and, TO-
his hand was red with the blood of the
VINEYARD. and the flend said "That re.
minds mo of the blood of broken hearts,
Ill strip the vineyard, and I'll squeeze
out all the Juice OF the grapes, and I'll al
low the i,,ices of the arapes to stand until
thew rot, and I'll call the process fesmen.
tation." And there was a great vat pre-
pared, and people came with their cups
and their nitchars. and thew dinned IN the
blood Of the cranes, and thew drank and
drank and went away drinking. and thew
drank until they fell in long lines Of death,
80 that when the flend Of tho VINEYARD
10 IL; t., r,i+ bn
stepped from carcass to carcass and walk
cd down amid great oauseway Of the
dead.
Then tho second fend came into the
grainfeld. He waded chin deep amid the
barley and the rye. He heard all tho
grain talking about bread and prosperous
husbandry and thrifty homes He thrust
his long arms into the grainfeld, and he
pulled up the grain and threw 1t into the
water, and he made beneath it great fires
fires lighted with spark from his own
heart-and there was grinding and
mashing and stencil, and the people came
with their bottles, and they dipped up tho
fiery LIQUID, and they drank, and they
blasphemed, and they staggered, and they
fought, and they rioted, and they murder
ed, and the 1end of the pit, tho fiend of
the grainfield, WAS SO pleased with their
behavior that no changed his residence
from the pit to whisky barrel, and there
he sat BY the door of tho hunghole laugh
Ing 81 liiQh 1nerriment at the thought that
out Of anything so harmless as the grain
of the field lie might turn this world into
q seeming pandemoniun.
The Fiend of the Dairy.
Tho aord of tho dairy saw tho cove
coming home from tho nasture fl.ld fill
uddered and as the maid MIXED he said.
iii, soon snoil all that mess hi add To
L. hron5v s,,yor and nutn,ey and ri stir
~ irtn nn;iE nunch and childron will
dr,nl ~ anil some Of the temncranoe neo-
,Ie will drink n and ;f 7 can IN tbam M
,,,oro bar,n IN g,ye thon, a headache and
thsn iii hand than over IN tho more VIC.
orous tends Of the satanic delegation ;"
Ana +ham tho Aand of the da;ry ,oansd
nnon the shelf and danced until the long
raw a sbin;no Mill rans almost ouakod
Tbo fnnd If tba music ontered n groy.
shon and there were hut few customers
Find;n1 feyv customers he swent the cir.
anti ~ tbs c;tv AND he oatbered m tho
musical instrnmcnts and after niphtfall
be marsbaled a hand and the trombones
b,s,y and the cvmhals CLAIMED and the
dr,,,ns hest and The buy,es ra,led and the
usonln crn,yded in and they sw,ny around
IN marry dance each one With n vine.
gioss in his hand and the dance heoame
wilder and stranger and roupher until
tha roo,n shook and the GLASSES crackod
and tho f,oor invoke and The crowd dron.
nod into hal1
Than tho fo,r fo,ds-tbo Aand of tho
vinovard and Of the orainae,d and If tho
dairy and of tbe music hall.-went hack
to tba;r HOWE and thnv hold b,gh carnival
hooaHaa +hair ,vnri- hoI hoor 90 wall dons
md satan rosa fron, hS tbrona and nm.
nouncsS that tbsre WAS M danger of tho
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