Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-22
Correspond enee. !
CHRISTIANA.

Unnl0 iRNH,
Christiana, Jan. 13.-Rev. L.
B. ~Spracher, of Virginia, preach
ed at Christiana last Sunday, Jan.
18th. He has not yet fully decid-
ed to accept the calls,sent him by
the MISUNDERSTANDING. He
seems to be an ideal man and our
people were we'll impressed con
corning his ability.
Junius, the little son of David
S. Brown, is i'll with bronchial
pneumonia. Also leila, the lit
tie daughter Of John A. Lingle, is
recovering from pneumonia.
The Crescent school is running
at its fullest capacity now.
W. note with interest that the
SO much talked of a%nti-snloon
election in Salisbury is to be a
reality. There is nothing that
will debase a man more, ruin the
boys and p%ollute a political cleo
ton more than the selling of liq-
uor, such as Salisbury is famed
for. Yet people continue to use
it, claiming that when a laboring
man starts off On his days work
he must take a dram, then when
he gets tired take another. They
also claim the business man must
drink to sharpen his wits and
thereby enable him to carry on
business better. Such men in one
years time consume more liquor
than the average drunkard you
see staggering around the back
lots using proiane language. Does
it give them nor energy? No, it
only enables them to more quick
ly consume what energy they have
and then they grow dull and
therefore they think they must
have another drink, going on this
way day after day and year after
year until some time you pick up
the paper and read of a sudden
death, due to heart trouble or he
has quickly succumbed to some
slight ailment, all because his
nervous system was completely
wrecked, his vitality exhausted by
the continued use of alcoholic
drinks. This is for the practical
side of the question and for
all those who think they do not
drink ito excess and shudder at
the thought of being drunk.
Salisbury will be better off
financially without saloons be-
cause every man who spends
his dimes and nickles for liquor
ts&es that much from home
and on account of this he has
to live in a little hut of his
own or pay 2 or 3 dollars
per month for rent when he
could live in a nice house of his
own or pay 10 or IL dollars rent
for a nice house, thereby lncreas-
ing the value of real estate Of
Salisbury. Again a big per cent
of our court expenses in trying
drunkenness and crimes resulting
from the same would be eliminat-
ed. These saloons are robbing US
of our maniliness, the flower of
cur country, the future founda-
ton of our government, and have
taken the happiness from many a
happy home and have sent into
eternal oblivion many a son whom
a once fond mother had nestled
close in her loving embrace, send
ing a prayer to Almighty God to
some day make her son a hero in
the battle of life.
We may scan back the ragged
pathway of time and look into
the most remote corner of either
ancient or mordern history; we
may go to the Hottest mountain
peak or roam the wide world
round, but we would never find
a man more happy and contented
within this old sin-cursed world
than William F. Josey, of Cres-
cent. Needless to say it is a
little girl. XERxEs.
A tickling cough, from any