The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-26

Expected 10 buy NOful Jales That
Make No Impression on the Liquor
Dealer-visions of Desolation.
In the front store window of dealer in
wines and other Intoxicating drinks ] sew
eral times noticed during the past winter
placards displayed, upon which were let.
tered the words which form the canton of
this article; Come in and look! You will
not be expected to buy How like in
sentiment and accordant in rhyme, ]
thought. to the familiar dity of my child.
hood: will you walk into my parlor, said
the spider to the hv!"
With no inclination whatever to accept
the invitation to enter this death trap. |
could nevertheless, in Imagination, look
around upon its brave array of bottles oil
wine and demiiohns of whisky. its TASKS
OF gin and casks of brewed liquors. and
readily picture some scenes. which. al.
though inseparably linked to this traffic,
am sure that the dealer would have been
altogether unwilling to have enacted right
there in his presence.
Thus, could bring before him the young
washerwoman, who. with a babe at her
breast. and with a second little one Just
able to walk. beside her, was at work at
my house only Yesterday 1t might have
been well had this greatly wronged woman
stood IN his presence. where he. too. could
have seen her weep bitter tears whilst she
told how her husband had broken again
his good resolve-had sDent all his weeks
wages for the hateful liquor-had lost an
excellent place, and finally. overcome with
remorse at his folly, had utterly deserted
her and the children
Had the tears and woful tale Of thi;
woman made no impression upon the re
spectacle dealer in rum cordials, there
might have been brought before him
were it not that she had lately been ST
fenced by drink-another one of whom
had knowledge, who earned livelihood by
washing. Most faithful and hardworkinl
was she in her sober moments. hut con.
slant was her craving for alcohol. and
dreadful to hear were her ieerlngs and i'm
precautions when it mastered her. Over
come by the habit she had at last died
miserablv in the forlorn room of the tene.
ment where she lodged. The writer. being
called to the spot. beheld loathsome oh
ject, such as he hoped never again to sec,
yet, had he accepted the invitation Of the
rumseller to come in and look upon
those demijohns OF whisky in the ware
house referred to. visions of drsolation
very like this must have risen to view.
Again: / might have brought could
bring now-into the presence of this deal.
er a terribly besotted and bloated creature
made so by the same maddening poison Ms
is drawn from those casks. If there should
come with him, at the same time. the two
elder sons who are following hard in theil
fathers steps to ruin. and the nine other
children-which would include the iabber
ing idiot boy and the babv-and. finally
the mother herself. to tell of her husband
nearly continuous drunken or half.drunler
condition, his frequent rawlings and foam
ings when he dashes the scanty furnitur,
about and no one is safe in his presence
his threatenings to kill her with the knit,
which he uses in his shoemakers craft
and of her being driven screaming into tht
street even at midnight in the depths o
winter and with single garment upor
her, think, perhaps. the owner of tn,
casks and demiiohns might be convinced
of the reality of the suffering though h,
might still make denial of the iniquity o
the traffic by which he thrives.
have here simnly spoken of three case
of the drink evil, happening. within
stones throw OF each other. in what i
spoken OF as one OF "the poorer localities
OF Phiadelphia's inviting suburb OF C..
Almost every one who reads these line
can cite somewhat similar instances: willis
the cases which daily come before ou,
Quarter Sessions Court will furnish many
Others of the narrowing details Of which
the swiftest pen could not take full ac
count. Yet we are assured that none o.
these things are unrecorded IN "the book
of remembrance" none forgotten by Hin
who heareth the cry of all His creatures
Would that all who accede to the hllurinG
invitation to Come in and look" who
look acquiescingiy upon the wine when il
is red" would consider the deadly peril ot
that adder's sting Cat the last 1t stingetl
like an adder'D, which is likely to assai
them. remembering that drunkards and
the conscious makers of drunkards have
no inheritance with those who "mav enter
in through the gates into the city" Still
to the tempted, the weary. and the heavy
laden, is ever extended the invitation, witt
its promise of eternal rest: LET him that
is athirst come. And whosoever will, lei
ception nor double dealing here The wort
is come and freely take, for assnredy yor
will not be expected to buy.-Josiah W
Leeds, in the National Advocate.