The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-28

, making It's piteous appeal to every one who professes to love his species The Teachers's Lantern.
 The bowl has swallowed more than the tea.--OId German Proverb.
 Where'er the Lord erects q house of prayer
 The devil always builds a chapel there.--DeFoe.
 A young man was recently found in the Mersey drowned. On paper found in his pocket was written: "A wasted life. Do not ask anything
 about me; drink was the cause. Let
 me die; let me rot. Within a week the coroner of Liverpool received over two hundred letters from fathers and
 mothers, all over England, asking for description of the young man. How suggestive is this fact! What a story 1t tells of houses desolated by strong drinkl
 Chauncey M. Depew was brought up in the town of Peekskill, on the Hud- son River. In an address to an assem- ply of railroad men few years ago, he said: "Twenty-five years ago I knew every man. woman. and child in Peekskill. And 1t has been a study with me to mark boys who started in every grade of life with myself, to see what has become of them. I was up last fall and began to count them over and 1t was an instructive exhibit. Some of them became clerks, mer. chants, manufacturers, lawyers. doc tors. It is remarkable that every one that drank is dead--not one living of my age. Barring few who were taken of by sickness, every one that proved . wreck and wrecked his fam fly, did 1t from rum and no other cause. Of those who were Church -go- ing people, who were steady, indus- trious. hard~working men, who were frugal and thrifty, every singei one of them. without an exception. owns the house in which he lives and has some- thing laid by. the interest of which, with his house, would carry him through many a rainy day. When a man doesn't care; all his finer feelings are crowded out.
 n would not give one happy. rosy, little woman uplifted from that de- gradation--happy again in her home, | with the cricket chirping on her hearthstone. and her children about her
 knees, her husband redeemed from
 drink at her side--I would not give one of them for all the shades of all the men that ever contended since Cat | iline eonspired and Caesar fought" | (Henry W. Grady.)
 Wages and whislxey. Fifty years | ago, In Columbus. Ohio, three young | men. carpenters by trade, hired them selves to a boss, promising to stay with him until a certain piece of work was completed. They were to receive | them as they chose. The work lasted | from spring until Christmas. On the | final settlement. one of the young men. who freauented the tavern. and was a I pretty hard drinker, found a balance | to his credit of s2.S0. The second, who | was somewhat nHre moderate drink | CT, had $11: the third who was a teeto- l taller. had $15o! The first and second | wore very seedy clothes. and were in l debt. The third had good suit, and no debts. (The late William Arm I strong Esq. Columbus, ohio)
 Not long since the good bark Mon rovia" came to anchor in New York | Harbor. After her cargo was dis | charged. her skipper, Captain Chase,
 l was rummag gfng in the hold, when a | monstrous snake of the python species 1 lifted his glittering eyes. and threaten
 | ed to make square meal of him. The
 1 New York papers saw the comical side | of this incident, and gave the captains I words of humble apology for having
 | disturbed his majesty, and the rate of | speed with which he beat his retreat
 I But is there not Q serious side to this
 | novel ,circum stance. We are sending whole shiploadS or snakes 70 Afrlca.
 | Should it be thought strange that, in
 the spirit of reciprocity. Africa should
 | present us with a sample of her ownf l Hear the fable of the serpent in a | circle of fire. A man was passing by
 | and the snake said to him, "Help me I out of my dificu1ty." "If do. you
 I will bite me" 70 no, won't" I'm ! afraid to trust you.'" ''E9elp me out of the fire, or 1t will consume me. and | promise on my word of honor I won't | bite you" The man took the snake | out of the fire, and threw 1t on the l ground. Instantly the serpent said, 'sNow I'll bite you.'' But didn't you promise me you wou1dn't7" "Yes. but l don't you know it's my nature to bite. and I can not help it." So it is with
 the drink. It is its nature to bite; 1t