The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-24

Tell His Experiences"
II was a commercial traveller. I
had nice job. a good salary, a nice
home, "a nice bank account There
are two things a man cannot stand
who drinks whiskey. One is pros
perity; the other adversely. II he
has prosperity, he will celebrate; II
adversely, he viii try and drown his
sorrow.
Il was having prosperity. had
Just sold fourteen cars OF goods IN
Little Rock, Ark, in three days 1
was getting SIS car commission IN
connection with my salary, so ! was
not n starved our drunkard. ! was
asked home for dinner with a hnlsht
Templar friend. lie had wine on
his table. Now, II he had known
what one drink meant to me. he
would not have put that wine on MS
table He was a church member.
could not drink booze and be a chris
tian any more than ! could lie or
steal or burn your home and be
Christian, one drink or whiskey
would snap the communication be-
tween my soul and God and put me
under condemnation. Red liquor and
the grace of God will not stay in the
same hide at the same time; drink
goes In. grace goes out. Under the
pressure Of business and nice home,
I took the wine with a promise to
myself that 1t would be the last, The
next morning / took whiskey straight
and "A celebration began. Six long
weeks / kept II up and never wrote
a line to my wife. When / am at
myself / write to my wife every day.
have written to my mother every
week for years.
Give Women Vote.
THE curse of the whiskey bust
ness largely falls on the women and
children. AS long as there is a IL
Censed saloon, our boosted protection
OF womanhood is a lie. Men, II we
want to protect them, why give them
the ballot and let them protect them
selves.
Kansas city, Me. was my next
towQ. ! hit Kansas City celebrating.
/ Kept 1t up until ] had spent my
expense money; kept 1T Up until
had checked out of my bank ac-
count $3.50. and would have check
ed out more. but I had got SO seedy
no one would endorse for me. For
four weeks I had not slept in a bed.
/ had not shaved or donned clean
linen. l had not eaten meal at
table; ] had lived off free lunch and
rum
n then soaked my watch. a pres
VIZ itbAtI dfiNitbE' b0IfA l. LNtH lAldAls
/ would have soaked 1t just the same
if 1t had been the bishops own
watch. The money soon gone--I got
$40 on tho watch---I then sold my
coat for S150. Expense money gone.
1850 checked out. watch soaked.
coat solid was walking the streets
Of Kansas City, begging o cents from
the passer-hy to get a drink
His Conversion.
Mr.. Williams then told of his ex-
perience when he begged for drinks
Ia saloons. of his discovery by
friends his arrival home to find hts
wife sick and delirous, his insanity.
his cure at the Kelley institute, and
Of his conversion,
off TO the Kelley institute at Hot
Springs Ark That night they say
/ Jumped off the train. They say |
Jumped out of the Kelley institute.
don't know thing about IT, /
was In the Kelley Institute nine days
before / knew where ] was. one
morning the doctor came into my
room, ! said, Doctor, where am II
He said. You are in the Kelley
How did ] get here2' Your Knight
Templar friends brought you here.
Re quiet nov. We did not think we
would pun you through, SO we sent
for your wife. She and your boy
Doctor Ny wife and boy came up
She was an old Ohio crusader, and
kneeled down TO prayers She prayed
until that old Keeley seemed to
breathe with the presence of God.
she said: Papa, have the assuran nee
you are going to get we'll did not
know what she meant 10y assurance;
but l know now. thank God.
1T my ward abide in you and
ye abide in me, we shall ask what We.
viii and II shall be done unto YOU
That is assurance.
My wife went home and sent me a
blbIe with three verses marked. and
asked me to read them. So one night
! got out Of bed, and read and prayed
over the verses. L got the Calvary
cure on top Of the Kelley cure.
NOW, have told ye.- -. the last
romp with the tiger. / will have an
other rotnpi not with the tiger. but
with the hon Of the tribe of Judah"