The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-04-03
A LECTURE.
From the Rock Bound, Steel ChesteC
Fortress of HOte Dubois.
Ph. Kastner, ST., Tells of His Experience.
JASPER, MARCH. 23d, 1908.

JASPER, MARCH. 23d, 1908
Ms dear Friends:
As cannot be with you today and have to lay in JAIL
will sit down to pass my time by writing a few lines
Some of you may ask, how do you be in jail? The
answer YOU will find in the Dubois County papers The
Huntngburg Independent from Feb 1st has it as follows
shot his son in Quarrel" Jasper dispatch says: "Ph
Kasner aged 81 years. shot and perhaps fatally wounded
his son, George, in a drunken quarrel and The
rest think you have all read.
Before came toJasper bore better reputation than
some Is giving ne and do 50 today, with many good Clt
Of this City and this County will not aatter my
self to call myself of the best citizens of the
best Christians but Will say that have my faults and
maybe than persons have but then never cost
ANYBODY but mysef one cent as always did and ALWAYS
ilI pay my honest debts and saoon-keeper in town,
can will say, that owe him cent. When | came
Jasper 10 years ago. brought the earnings and savings
Of all my life time with and invested it in Jasper and
nearly all ever earned since, expended here never
got cent from father-in-law had to make up sub
spton list and ask the people of Jasper to help put
up IN Business
But forgot to tell, when | was a little boy used to
climb our neighbOrs cherry and plum trees and steal
cherries and plus. And recoIlect when got my first
pants, used to do something terrible and got many
whipping for it.
As for drinking Booze don't deny did drink more
than was good for me; and some not ALL of the trouble
got in to- done when had been drinking and had to do
them to my life and keep the Bull dogs away
from which set upon me three or four times and
nearly got killed by them crippled and old as and
only did not and will not dance after their mas
ters whistle.
Rut after all what have done wrong and of which am
very sorry am glad there are some drinkers than
am There are some who drink only when they get it
for nothing They sit in the saloons all day to pick up the
news and carry the saloon get another drink
There are drinkers that drink only at home 1t is
cheaper to buy it wholesale and when they full
body will them They keep bottle jug in the barn
or kitchen safe or under the bed There are some that
drink much that they not able to walk stand up
They fall in the cutters, roll or wallow in the mud
But my friends, this is not all that am going to tell
you. | have been employed in the wholesale drug busi-
ness for twenty-five years and have acquired know
ledge of Drugs and their effects and feel it my duty to
call your attention to the most common diseases that pre-
vail in county as Consumption, Pneumonia Scarlet
Fever LaGrippe Small pox, and Typhoid fever.
But OH my Friends there is Fever that does
HARM and the ruinaton of community than all
IS the fever want to you of to beware Of 1t is
catching 1t is takngl And whenever you have once,
YOU are liable to get back set.
I know it by experience. | had it myself and am now
taking the for it at the Hotel Dubois, Ferdinand
Volmer Proprietor, American and European Plan
We ale warned of the danger of poison. There are
several kinds of poisOns Arsenic, NerdlgreSSe, Corrosive
ubmae and sublimate of mercury, (Qucksver all this,
kil by inflammation of the bowels and stomach.
Opium Morphine. Beadona, Stramanium, called jim
weed All these will kill by paralytc strokes and
lameness. The action on your Nerves and brain and
senses by producing dizziness sleep desperation These
called narcotic pOsons and to these whisky belongs
1t produces the same effect. Drinking it. in small guam
titles it produces sense of happiness veness and over
exertOn of the IN large quantities it brings on
ezness loss of memory ameness of the tongue stuter
ing your Speech falling down, not able to stand up and
sleep but worst of ALL it will kill the best gift, the Lord
has gwen to men, it will kill our soul and you will be the
murderer and only by drinking this poison, whisky. ;
The worst OF ALL is that already have the dis
ease without knowing it. Some of you will say Il drank
whisky regular every day all my life and none the
worse for it, Another will say 81 know men so years
old who drank whisky all their lives and today healthy
ana hearty That can all be so, but man is not like
another They have different constitutions and different
natures and not every man has the wpower to with
n the saloon. He will meet friend, neghbor; you
VIII call hlm up, and say take something. He won't