- - OREGON
FEIDAY,
- - APBIL3.1891
LOCAL AJTD PERSONAL.
Birds In their little nests Sffree,
And 'tis shameful sight,
When two "retired ministers"
Fall oat and chide and fight.
Dr. Davenport, the dentist of Wamic
was in town Friday .
C. P.Healdof Hood River gave ns
pleasant oall Saturday.
John Parker the Hood River saw mill
man was in the city Friday.
Mrs. Thomas the milliner of Dnfur
was in the city .Friday. .
Fred Skibbe and N. Harris went
Portland Friday morning. ,
to
John Roth of Kingaley left Friday for
Port Townsend with a car of beef cattle.
Walla Walla is afflicted with measles.
There are said to be 160 cases in the
city.
Five car loads of wheat were shipped
from" the Wasco Warehouse Saturday
morning.
An immense amount of freight is now
being handled at the freight depot and
warehouses at the East End. '
A freight team was being loaded today
at the Wasco warehouse with supplies
for the Baldwin Land and Live Stock
Company.
Mr. C. P. Heald of Hood River informs
ns that he never saw a brighter prospect
for fruit in his section than there is this
year. ..
Milt Akin and Elisabeth MacPherson
both of this city , were married . at the
Cosmopolitan hotel Thursday of last
week. -'
. It is understood that Representative
Carter of Montana will succeed L. A
Groff as commissioner of the ' general
land office.
. The court house is getting a nice new
coat of red paint on the outside. . When
finished it will greatly add to the beauty
of the structure.
During the last ten days 19,000 bushels
of wheat were bought and shipped by
the Wasco warehouse. The average
price paid including storage was ' about
65 cents.
The Wasco Obterver says : It is quite
a relief to our waste basket that the dis
appointed politician "(T) of Emigrant
Springs now pours forth his woes in the
Mountaineer.
ine new . granger, store is now open
and ready for business all but the show
windows, and Pap Chandler bid ns say
nothing about them till after he closes a
treaty with China, .
A telephone system, for the use of the
fire department, has just arrived. One
will be placed in the Umatilla House,
one in the company's shops and one in
the city engine house. .
Mr. John .Bonn of this city baa pur
chased 20 acres of land in the Hood
River valley, and we understand he' in
tends going to reside there. Mr. Bonn
is an excellent citizen and we shall be
sorry to lose him. ,
A carrot of the white Beligan variety
is on exhibition in front of the store of
Barnett & Rice of Clarence Barnett of
Lower Fifteen Mile, and on high prairie
land without irrigation. It weighs 7J
pounds.
From Mrs. John Barnett, who retur
ned Saturday from Huntington we
learn that her sister Mrs. Monroe Grimes
is still very low and very little hope is
entertained of her recovery. Mr. L. Tir
ril is still living but may pass, away at
any .moment, .r
From the Wasco Obterver we learn
that there is considerable sickness on
the ranch of Messrs. Kerr and Buckley,
in the Grass Valley section. Mrs. Buck
ley is sick and twelve hired hands are
also under the weather. Dr. Beers
made a trip out there last week.
The sheep-raising industry, with all
its risks, has never before had such a
S remising future. But it is harder to go
lto it now, because of the high price of
the animal. To procure a sufficient band
would take a large sum but those who
are in the business must be careful to
stav in, for they, have before . them a
rapid fortune by the certain increase of
the price not only of the meat but also
the wool of their animals. Grant Coun
ty Newt.
Mr Norton's surveying party have got
as far as the ranch of Mrs. Dick Brook
house, on Lower Fifteen Mile Creek.
They have met with no difficulties, and
report that the farmers, through whose
lands the road is being surveyed, are so
well pleased, that no trouble will be ex
perienced in procuring right of way. '
The Dalles dailies are engaged in tell
ing the truth, so they say, about each
other. Michell's latest is that Gourlay
is an . ex-pounder of the Gospel. - It
strikes us that both gentlemen used to
l 1!x1 1 A. 111. 1 J 1
preach a little, but this would never be
suspected from their editorials. By the
way, didn't the pot make some personal
allusions to the kettle? Hood River
Glacier.
Marshal Gibons has got word two or
three times of a crazy man who is out in
the Kingsley neighborhood accompanied
by a boy and who undoubtedly is the
man Tecrarden ' who registered at the
Umatilla house last ' week. It is to be
hoped he may be arrested and his state
inquired into before he does any damage
to himself or any one else.
- The state of Washington has passed
one good law which escaped the veto
power of governor Laughton. It is
law "giving any person who may do any
labor upon any farm or land, in tilling
or sowing, harvesting or - threashing
any grain, as laborer,, contractor or
otherwise, a lien upon such crops for his
work or labor, and every landlord shall
nave a lien upon the crops grown or
growing upon demised lands, for rents
during the year ; the liens shall be pre
ferred hens.''
Again it becomes our duty to record a
very sad death that occurred at a happy
home in Klickatat valley, about fifteen
miles from this city last night at about
10:30 o'clock, when the wife of Larsen
O'Brien passed away with only about
fifteen minutes, .warning, in her 48th
year. At eight o'clock yesterday even
ing she appeared to be in as good
health as she ever was in her life. Two
hours and a half later she was dead.
The trouble was heart disease. She
leaves a husband and one girl of ten
years to whom when the warning came
she had barely time to say good bye.
She will be buried next Sunday at 4
o'clock in the Catholic cemetery at this
place beside an infant child already laid
thsr.
THX SALLKS,
Editor. Chronicle. A man and boy
answering the discription of the missing
ones from the Umatilla House were here
Tuesday going towards Prineville, and
went as far as Mutton mountain and
seeing snow on the high points turned
back, fearing they might perish in the
snow. They were seen the same day
going towards Tygh valley. The man is
evidently off. Not heard from them
since.
Steve Kertner and Miss Nettie Confer,
of this place, were married yesterday.
Their many friends gathered together at
the home of the bride's parents. In the
evening a splendid supper was spread,
after which the dancing was kept np
until the wee' small hours. They ex
pect to make Portland their future home.
Your humble servant got in . on all the
good things and hopes that Steve will be
as happy as he deserves.
A larger amount of grain has been
sown here than ever before. Prospects
are fine. Every one says good for the
Chronicle, it is shouting for a road up
the Tygh hilL 8. E. F.
Looking- out a. New Koatf.
Emil Shanno and Charley Schmidt re
turned last night from Hood River.
They and Jim Hamilton of the Cascade
Locks were appointed by the last county
court to survey and locate a new county
road in the mountains south of Parker's
Mill. They did so, but under such
difficulties as one may imagine when he
is informed that three to four feet of
snow lay over the route, and Emil says
it snowed like well like Sam Hill dur
ing the time they were at work and had
it not been for the service of a guide
they would have been lost. Mr. Shanno
says the new road will tap as fine a body
of tim'ier as he has ever seen.
Advertised Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the postoffice at The Dalles
Oregon, March 28, 18JI. Persons calling
for same will please say ' Advertised."
Bagley Mrs L (2) Burr C E
Frazer Walters Carlson Charles
Harris Mrs W G
Hartman Rosena
Hinman Henry
Kernel! John
Moore Fred
Ramsey Herbert
Smith Dick
Wone Bosh
Walter Mrs Lusie
Harper Mrs C
Harmon Miss Nina
Eaidera Miss Mary
Ludwig Miss Emma
Pewrser Joseph
Smith Mr
Stone D A
Wallich Geo E
Weiler Mrs Clara
L
Tourtillott Thomas
Richardson Mrs Mary A
Turner Albert
M. T. Nolan, P. M
A Queer Find.
' Salem Statesman.
Mr. Van Man, a farmer near Zena, in
Polk countv, was engaged in cutting
cordwood on his place. He chopped
down an oak tree of about three feet in
diameter at the butt, and alter sawing
it into proper lengths, proceeded to split
ft in the usual manner, in the section
about five feet from the ground he stuck
his ax into what he supposed was
bunch of knots, but as the chips un
mediately crumbled he made closer ex
amination and discovered a great
curiosity one that will put the Eugene
pe trifaed dwarf away down in the lower
class of museum specimens. The
curiosity consists of the rieht side of
pair of deer horns imbedded into the
very heart of the oak tree. There are
evidences that it had five prongs, and
from the growth "rings" of the tree, has
been m that position for at least
century and a half. The tree is thought
to be a least ZUU years old. ' flow the
horns got there is a query, but different
conjectures are numerous. One is that
the quadruped who first possessed them
might have been scratching his head
against said tree and just at that particu
lar time shed them where they remained
and were drawn into the embraces of the
oaken shrub. Another is that Mr. Deer
may have become enraged over the idea
that the legislature would not vote an
pproprlation for Oregon's display at
the world's fair at Chicago, and at
tempted to scrape tho moss off his skull
ornaments, thereby becoming entangled,
and hnaiiy grew fast.
A New Band Stand.
The elder Mr. Crandall has drawn
very neat design for a band stand which
the citizens of The Dalles intend to build
for the use of the band boys during the
ummer evenings just as soon aa they
are able to procure the right to a suit
able location for it. It is an octagon
figure fourteen feet in diameter, with
wainscoting on the outeide reaching six
feet from the ground and eight feet from
the top of the wainscoting to the eve, or
fourteen feet in full height. The enter
ance will be from a door in the side
reaching to the center from whence steps
will lead to the stand proper. The roof
will be in form of a minaret surmounted
by a handsome flag pole. It is intended
to be lighted by electricity and will be
an ornament to the place on which it
happens to find a location. We know
not what the powers that be may think
about it but there is one place above all
others where it ought to be located and
that is on the open space on the east side
of the court house building, and we hope
the county officials may see the matter
in fie same light and grant permission,
if it be so desired, to place it there.
Real Estate Transaction.
T. J. Keen an and wife to Rosa Perry,
lot Fin block 29, Fort Dalles Military
Reserve Addition to Dalles Citv. Con
sideration $900.
Hood River Town Site Company to
trustees of Riverside Congregational
church. Hood River, east half of lot F,
in Hood River proper. Consideration
87.50.
To stop the bleeding of a horse or other
stock from a snag or wound, says a cor
respondent make an application of dry
manure, and it will stop the bleeding of
a wound every time. This information
may be worth a (rood deal to many,
While away from home recently, a wean
ling con oi mine DroKe tnrougn a barbed
wire fence and cut bis tore leg badly,
It had been bleeding for eight hours
when I got home. I took dry . horse
manure and held it on the wound for
one minute and the blood stopped at
once.
" Re Is Now a ttood Indian.
Colfax, Wash., March 30. "Hush
Hush,"a pawnee chief of the Snake river
Indians died last night at his home on
Snake river. A runner was sent this
morning to call the tribe together to
participate in the funeral.
- ' The Beautiful Geraldine Married.
London, March SO. Miss Geraldine
Ulmar, an American actress until re-
centl prima dona in "Lagigale" was
married this morning to Ivan Carill a
young Belgian musical composer at St.
George's church.
Jno. Woods shipped two cars of cattle
from the stock yards to Portland this
morning.
Filoon Brothers have just received a
car load of Baker barbed wire from
Chicago.
Brief History of a Leading- Drug House
of The Dalles.
Jt is the intention of the Chronicle
to write up a short discription of the
different business houses of this city, and
of its various manufactories and thus
spread that information to the world.
As fast as time and space will permit
this object will be pursued until all are
reached. In pursuance of such course
we today have looked over the drug
house of
SNIPES A KINKKSLY
And give a few facts in regard to that ex
tensive concern. The firm is composed
of Ben E. Snipes and O. Kinersly. Ben
is one of the well-known characters of
Eastern Oregon, a man full of pluck and
daring, who was one of the early stock
men of this part of the country and with
whose deeds of bravery and various es
capades all the old settlers are familiar,
and many of Ben's doings have passed
into legends. He has won a fair share
of this world's goods and is yet in active
life and bids fair to largely augment
them. He is now a resident of Seattle,
but will always retain a warm spot in
his heart for The Dalles.
Mr. O. Kinersly is the resident partner
and has the entire management of what
has grown to be a fine business. He is
a young man with a level head and full
of pluck and resource, and every year
the business is growing in volume under
his skillful handling.
THE BUSINESS
Was established in 1864 by H. J.
Waldron, who ran it until January 15,
1879, when it was purchased by Snipes
& Kinersly. Their store is 30x100 feet
and three floors are constantly packed
full of goods. They are in the heart of
the city on Second street between Wash
ington and Court streets, and their loca
tion could not be improved. The store
room is a very handsome one and is
filled with everything that can be
thought of in the line of drugs - and
patent medicines, as well as artist mater
ials, toilet and fancy goods. Their trade
in cigars is a large one. They carry
Key West, imported goods and many
favorite brands of choice cigars, and
many of pur smokers drop in there for
the fragrant weed.
THEIR WHOLESALE TRADE
Is a large one. Snipes & Kinersly buy
direct from the patent medicine and
drug manufacturers and as they have
capital to buy extensively, have built up
a large wholesale trade. Thev have a
number of customers at Prineville and
on up the country for 230 miles, and
their customers are constantly increas
ing. The firm carries a stock of about
(40,000 and all doing a business of some
50,000 per year with a fair prospect of
greatly increasing that amount in the
near future.
THE EMPLOYES.
Mr. F. J. Clark is the book-keeper,
while Mr. R. L. Simmons and Mr.
Donnell are salesmen. All are popular
and obliging, and draw much trade to
the concern. They are all good fellows
and have the Chbokicle's consent to
hold their positions till The Dalles has
50,009 inhabitants or they grow rich
enough to set up large establishments in
North and West Dalles.
It is with pleasure that we can point
to the growth and success of as fine an
establishment as that of Snipes & Kiner
sly's and we hope from time to time to
chronicle their increase of trade and
popularity. The trade of the country
around us make such establishments a
necessity and it speaks well for all that
they are so successful.
Is Disease a Punishment?
The following advertisement, published
by a prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as a pumsnment lor sin :
"Do you wish to know the quickest
way to cure a sever cold f We will tell
vou. lo cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tied in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in nature's way,
that as a punisltment for some indiscre
tion, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it oft bv
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is a dry, loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by a profuse watery expectoration and
the sneezing bv a prosuse watery dis
charge irom the nose. In severe cases
there is a thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? It isonlvnecessarv
to take UhamDeriain s uough Kemedy in
double doses every hour. That will greatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will ettectually counteract it.
and cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two days time. Try it
and be convinced." Fifty cent bottles for
sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists.
Notice to tax 1'ayers.
All state and county taxes, become
delinquent April 1st. Taxpayers are here
by requested to pay the same before that
date in order to avoid going on the de
linquent list. The county court has
ordered the sale of all property in which
the taxes have not been paid, f lease
call and settle before the time mentioned
and save costs. D. L. Cates,
Sheriff of Wasco County.
FOK SALE.
A choice lot oi brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock-
wood Jr.," "Planter." "Oregon Wilkes."
and Idaho Uhiei, same standard bred,
Also three line young stallions by
"Kockwooa jr." out oi hrst class mares.
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. W.Uondon, or J. H. Larsen,
rne Dalles, Oregon.
On Band.
J. XL. Huntington & (Jo. announce
that they are prepared to make out the
necessary papers lor parties wishing
to nie on so called railroad land. Appli.
cants should have their papers all ready
before going to the land office so as to
avoid the rush and save time. Their
office is in Opera Hose Block next to
main entrance.
Merino Sheep for Sale.
I have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting of 67 bucks.
aDOut &H) ewes and about zUU young
iamD8, wnicn i will sell at a low price
and upon easy terms. Address,
D. M. Fbenxh,
The Dalles, Or.
Stock Strayed.
Three 3-year-old fillies (2 sorrels and
one bay,) two 2-year-olds (both bays) all
branded i on the left shoulder. I will
give $5 apiece for the recovery of the
same. J. W. Rogers.
Boyd, Or.
Improve Tour Poultry.
If yon want chickens that will lav eggs
the year round without having to pen'
them up to keep them from setting, get
the pure bred Brown Leghorn. Mrs. D.
Cooper on the bluff, near the academy.
has the eggs for 75 cents per setting.
New Addition.
For one week I will sell shade trees.
elm, maple, ash and box elder, also sur
plus fruit trees at half price. j
J, A. VaMIT. 1
TAL-
Prkem ess Is the Topic and This Is
Che Text, "Noah Planted a Vineyard,
and He Drank of the Wine and Was
New York, March I. Dr. Talmage
continued today the series of sermons he
commenced last Sunday on the "Tea
Plagues of New York and the Adjacent
Cities.' The plague which he places
second on the list is intemperance, and on
that subject he discoursed this morning in
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and this
evening in New York. At the close of the
service in the New York Academy of Music
Dr. Taimage went over to the Union
Square Theatre, where his son, Mr. Frank
De Witt Taimage, was holding an over
flow meeting, - and briefly addressed the
crowded house. Both the New York ser
vices are under the auspices of The Chris
tian Herald, of which Dr. Talmafrs is editor.
The text of the doctor's sermon was taken
from Genesis lx. 20, 21: "Noah plantaul a
vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was
drunken."
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. He built an ark
against the deluge of water, but intro
duced a deluge against which the human
race has ever since been trying to build an
ark the deluge of drunkenness. In my
text we hear his staggering steps. Shem
and Japhet tried to cover np the dis
grace, but there he is, drunk on wine at a
time in the history of the world, when, to
say the least, there was no lack of water.
Inebriation, having entered the world, has
not retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the flocks of Nabal, her
husband, from confiscation by invaders.
goes home at night and finds him so intox
icated she cannot tell him the story of his
narrow escape. Uriah came to see David,
and David got him drunk and paved the
way tor the despoliation of a household.
Erven the church bishops needed to be
charged to be sober and not given to too
much wine, and so familiar were people of
Bible times with the staggering and fall
ing motion of the inebriate that - Isaiah,
when he comes to describe the final dislo
cation of worlds, says, "The earth shall
reel to and fro like a drunkard."
A WORLD WIDE TEMPTATION.
Ever since apples and grapes and wheat
grew the world has been tempted to un
healthful stimulants. Bat the intoxicants
of the olden time were an innocent bever-
flxtt- a harmless nrfincpjulft. a aniet Kirnn n
peaceful soda water as compared with the :
liquids of modern inebriation, into which a '
madness, and a fury, and aglooni, and afire,
and a suicide, and a retribution have mixed
i and mingled. Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until a thousand
years after Christ that distillation was in
vented. While we must confess that some
of the ancient arts have been lost, the
Christian era is superior to ail others in
the bad eminence of whisky and ram and
gin. The modern drunk is a hundred fold
worse than the ancient drunk. Noah in
his intoxication became imbecile, but the
victims of modern alcoholism have to
struggle with whole menageries of wild
beasts, and jungles of hissing serpents, and
perditions of blaspheming demons.
An arch fiend arrived in our world, and
he built an invisible caldron of tempta
tion. He built that caldron strong and
stout for all ages and all nations. First
he squeezed into the caldron the juices of
the forbidden fruit of Paradise. Then he
gathered for it a distillation from the har
vest fields and the orchards of the hemis
pheres. Then he poured into this caldron
capsicum and copperas and logwood and
deadly nightshade and assault and battery
and vitriol and opium and rum and mur
der and sulphuric acid and theft and pot
ash and cochineal and red carrots and pov
erty and death and bops. But it was a dry
compound and it must be moistened, and
it must be liquefied, and so the arch fiend
poured into that caldron the tears of cent
uries of orphanage and widowhood, and
he poured in the blood of twenty thousand
assassinations.
-And then the arch fiend took a shovel
that he had brought up from the furnaces
beneath, and he put that shovel into this
great caldron and began to stir, and the
caldron began to heave and rock and boil
and sputter and hiss and smoke, and the
nations gathered around it with cups and
tankards and demijohns and kegs, and
there was enough for all, and the arch
fiend cried: "Aha! champion fiend am I!
Who has done more than I have for coffins
and graveyards and prisons and insane
asylums, and the populating of the lost
world? And when this caldron is emp
tied I'll fill it again and I'll stir it again,
and it will smoke again, and that smoke
will join another smoke, the smoke of a
torment that ascendeth for ever and ever.
I drove fifty ships on the rocks of New
foundland, and the Skerries, and the
Goodwins. I .have ruined more senators
than gather this winter in the national
councils. I have ruined more lords
than are now gathered in the lipase
of peers The cap oat of which I
ordinarily drink is a bleached human
skull, and the upholstery of my palace is
so rich a crimsSn, because it is dyed in hu
man gore, and the mosaic of my floors is
made up of the bones of children dashed to
death by drunken parents, and my favorite
music sweeter than Te Deum or triumph
al my favorite music is the cry of
daughters turned out at midnight on the
street because father has come home from
the carousal, and the seven hundred voiced
shriek of the sinking steamer, because the
captain was not himself when ha pat the
ship on the wrong coarse. Champion fiend
am II I have kindled more fires, I have
wrung out more agonies, 1 have stretched
out more midnight shadows, I have opened
more Golgothas, i have rolled more Jug
gernauts, I have damned more souls than
any other emissary of diabolism. Cham
pion fiend am I!"
THE KATJON'B GREATEST KVTU
Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this
nation, and it takes no logical process to
prove to this audience that a drunken na
tion cannot long be a free nation. I call
your attention to the fact that drunken
ness is not subsiding, certainly that it is
not at a standstill, bat that it is on an on
ward march, and it is a double quick.
There is more rum swallowed in tins coon
try, and of a worse kind, than was ever
wallowed since the first distillery began
its work of death. Where there was one
drunken home there are ten drunken
homes. Where there was one drunkard's
grave there are twenty drunkards' graves.
It is on the increase. Talk about crooked
whisky by which men mean the whisky
that does not pay the tax to government
I tell you all strong drink is crooked.
Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked
schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine,
crooked whisky because it makes a man's
path crooked, and his life crooked, and his
death crooked, ana his eternity croozea.
If I .could gather all the armies of the
dead drunkards and have them come to
resurrection, and then add to that host all
the armies of living drunkards, five and
ten abreast, and then if I could have you
mount a horse and ride along that line for
review, you would ride that horse until he
dropped from exhaustion, and you would
mount another horse and ride until be fell
from exhaustion, and yon would take an
other and another, and yon would ride
along hour after hour and day after day.
Great host, in regiments, in brigades.
Great armies of them. And then if you
had voice stentorian enough to make them
all hear, and you could give the command.
Forward, march!" their first tramp would
make the earth tremble. I do not care
which way yon look in the community to
day the evil is increasing.
HSBKDRABT APrKTRK.
I call attention to the fact that there are
thousands of people born with a thirst for
strong drink a fact too often ignored.
Along some ancestral lines there runs the
river of temptation. There are children
whose swaddling clothes are torn off the
shroud of death. Many a father has made
a will of this sort: "In the name of God,
amen. '. I bequeath to my children my
booses and lands and estates; share and
share shall they alike. Hereto I affix my
hand and seal in the presence of witnesses."
And yet perhaps that very man has made
will that the people nave never
ism, ana case dm ec pssm jhvu hi hki
THE SECOND SERMON IN DR.
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.
read something like this: "In the name of
disease and appetite and death, amen. 1
bequeath to my children my evil habits,
my tankards shall be theirs, my wine cup
shall be theirs, my destroyed reputation
shall be theirs. Share and share alike shall
they in the infamy. Hereto I affix my
hand and seal in the presence of all the ap
plauding harpies of hell."
From the multitude of those who have
the evil habit born with them this army is
being augmented. And I am Borry to say
that a great many of the drug stores are
abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold under
the name of bitters. It is bitters for this
and bitters for that and bitten for some
other thing, and good men deceived, not
knowing there is any tfaraildom of alcohol
ism coming from that source, are going
down, and some day a man sits with the
bottle of black bitters on his table, and the
cork flies out, and after it flies a fiend and
clutches the man by his throat and says:
"Aha! I have been after yon for ten years.
I have got you now. Down with youl
down with youl" Bitters! Ah! yes. They
make a man's family bitter and. his home
bitter and his disposition bitter and his
death bitter and his hell bitter. Bitters!
A vast army, all the time increasing.
It seems to me it is about time for the
17,000,000 professors of religion in America
to take sides. It is going to be an out and
out battle with drunkenness and sobriety,
between heaven and hell, between God and
the devil. Take Bides before there is any
further national decadence; take sides be
fore your sons are sacrificed and the new
home of your daughter goes down under
the alcoholism of an imbruted husband.
Take sides while your voice, your pen,
your prayer, your vote may have any influ
ence in arresting the despoliation of this
nation. If the 17,000,000 professors of re
ligion should take sides on this subject it
would not be very long before the destiny
of this nation would be decided in the right
direction.
THE CUBSK OF STRONG DBHTK.
Is drunkenness a state or national evil?
Does it belong to the north, or does it be
long to the south t Does it belong to the
east, or does it belong to the west? Ahl
there is not an American river into which
its tears have not fallen and into which its
suicides have not plunged. What ruined
that southern plantation? every field a
fortune, the proprietor and his family once
the most affluent supporters of summer
watering places. What threw that New
England farm, into decay and turned the
roseate cheeks that bloomed at the foot of
the Green Mountains into the pallor of
despair? What has smitten every street
of every village, town and city of this con-
I tinent
; drink.
with a moral pestilence? Strong
To prove that this is a national evil I call
up two statesin opposite directions Maine
and Georgia. Let them testify in regard
to this. State of Maine says, "It is so great
an evil up here we have anathematized it
i as u state." State of Georgia says, "It is so
: great au evil down here that ninety coun
. ties of this state have made the sale of in
toxicating drink a criminality." So the
' word comes np from all parts of the land.
Either drunkenness will be destroyed in
this country or the American government
will be destroyed. Drunkenness and free
institutions are coming into a death grap
ple. Gather up the money that the working
classes have spent for rum during the last
thirty years, and I will build for every
workingman a house, and lay out for him
a garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth
and his daughters in silks, and stand at his
front door a prancing span of sorrels or
bays, and secure him a policy of life insur
ance so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead. The most per
sistent, most overpowering enemy of the
working el rumen is intoxicating liquor. It
Is the anarchist of the centuries, and has
boycotted and is now boycotting the body
and mind and soul of American labor. It
annually swindles industry out of a large
percentage of its earnings It holds ou
its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or
operative on his way to work, and at the
noon spell, and on his way home at even
tide. On Saturday, when the wages are
paid, it snatches a large part of the money
that might come to the family and sacri
fices it among the saloon keepers. Stand
the saloons of this country side by side,
and it is- carefully estimated that they
would reach from New York to Chicago.
This evil is pouring its vitriolic and
damnable liquors down the throats of
hundreds of thousands of laborers, and
while the ordinary strikes are ruinous
both to employers and employes, I pro
claim a universal strike against strong ;
drink, which strike, if kept up, will be the
relief of the working classes and the salva- I
tion of the nation. I will undertake to say
that there is not a healthy laborer in the
United States who, within the next twenty
years, if he will refuse all intoxicating
beverages and be saving, may not become
a capitalist on a small scale.
CANNOT SOXKTHXHG BB POKE?
Oh, how many are waiting to see if some
thing cannot be done for the stopping of
intemperance! Thousands of drunkards
waiting who cannot go ten minutes in any
direction without having the temptation
glaring before their eyes or appealing to
their nostrils, they fighting against it with
enfeebled will and diseased appetite, con
quering, then surrendering, conquering
again and surrendering again, and crying,
"How long. O Lord! how long before these
infamous solicitations shall be gone!"
And how many mothers are waiting to see
if this TiqHonl curse cannot lift? Oh, is
that the boy who had the honest breath
who comes home with breath vitiated or
disguised? What a change! How quickly
those habits of early coming home have
been exchanged, for the rattling of the
night key in the door long after the last
watchman has gone by and -tried to see
that everything was closed up for the
night! .
Oh! what a change for that young man.
who we had hoped would do something in J
merchandise or in artisans nip or m a pro
fession that would do honor to the family
name, long after mother's wrinkled hands
are folded from the last toil! All that ex
changed for startled look when the door
bell rings, lest something has happened;
and the wish that the scarlet fever twenty
vears axro had been fatal, for then he would
have gone directly to the bosom of his
bavioar. dux, aiasi poor old soul, sne nas
lived to experience what Solomon said, "A
foolish son is a heaviness to his mother."
' Oh! what a funeral it will be when that
boy is brought home dead! And how moth
er will sit there and say: "Is this my boy
that I used to fondle, and that I walked the
floor with in the night when be was sick?
Is this the boy that I held to the baptismal
font for baptism? Is this the . boy -for
whom I toiled until the blood burst from
the tips of my fingers, that he might have
a good start and a good home? Lord, why
hast thou let me live to see this? Can it
be that these swollen hands are the ones
that used to wander over my face when
rocking him to sleep? Can it be that this
swollen brow is that I once so rapturously
kissed? Poor boy! how tired he does look.
I wonder who struck him that Mow across
the temples? I wonder if be uttered a dying
prayer? Wake np, my son; don't you hear
me? wake up! Oh! he can't hear me!
Dead! deadl dead! 'Oh, Absalom, my son,
my son, would God that I had died for thee,
oh, Absalom, my son, son!' "
THE WOHDS OF THE RCM KIK.SU.
1 am not much of a micbematician and
I cunnot estimate it, but is there any one
here quick e.iouh at figures to estimate
how many uiolai-rs tiieiv are waiting for
something to be done? A;', tbnre are many
wiviit wjtithiu (or donntie rescue. lie
iruiise.l something difiV.-ren: from tixni
when, nil r the l'-ir; ajij .i.iiutaucc and sin
curcftil scrutiny, uf chaiiw-ier, thf !mnvl and
tiii- iic-jirt were o'.-e'i :id a'-c:';iuii. Vn.:t
a iiell un earth :i v.iinan lives in who iuis h
drunken 'lntsbaua! O death, b-w .v!y
thou arc to her, hu1 lioirsoft. ani vvarai
thy skeleton hand! The M.'ijiil-ii'-r ttt mi l
night in winter in kiiin drarin room
compared with that woman's home. It
not so mucii t-:if blow on t:ie head that
hurts an the !' v on the In-art.
The rum fienJ cnine to the door of that
beautiful home, nd opened the i or hii'J
stood there audsaid: "IcursethMiiiivHii:
with an nmvienlin;; curxe. 1 curse tual
father into a maniac, I curse t ii.it mother
into a pauper. I curse those sons into
vagabonds.. I curse thode daughters into
profligacy. Cursed be bread tray and
cradle. Cursed be coach -and chair, and
family Bible with record of marriages and
births and deaths. Coxae upon
Bhake these frosts of the second death oil
the orange blossoms! Yea, God is wzutang,
f hn iwvl whn WArVO thrnno-h knmtin in.
stru mentalities, waiting to see whether
this nation is going to overthrow this evil,
and if it refuse to do so God will wipe out
the nation as he did Phoenicia, as he did
Borne, as be did Thebes, as he did Babylon.
Ay, he is waiting to see what the church
of God will do. If the church does not do
its work, then he will wipe it out as be did
the church of Ephesus, church of Thya
tira, church of Sardis. The Protestant and
Roman Catholic churches today stanl side
by side, with an impotent look, gig on
this evil, which costs this country more
than a billion dollars a year to take care of
the 800,000 paupers, and the 315,000 crimi
nals, and the 30,000 idiots, and to bury the
73,000 drunkards. Protagoras boasted that
out of the sixty years of his life forty years
he had spent in ruining youth; but this
evil may make the more infamous boast
that all its life it has been ruining the
bodies, minds and souls of the human race.
THE POLITICIANS ARE DOING MOTHDKL 1
Put on your spectacles and take a candle '
and examine the platforms of the two lead- j
ing political parties of this eoonfary. and j
see what they are doing for the arrest of Oi
this evil and for the overthrow of this j
abomination. Resolutions oh! yes, reso-
lutions about Mormonism! It is safe to
attack that organized nastiness two thou- j
sand miles away. But not one resolution )
against drunkenness, which would torn
this entire nation into one bestial Salt Lake i
City. Resolutions against political cor- !
ruption, but not one word about drunken
ness, which would rot this nation from
scalp to heel. Resolutions about protec
tion against competition with foreign in
dustries, but not one word about protec
tion of family and church and nation
against the scalding, blasting, all consum
ing, damning tariff of strong drink put
upon every financial, individual, spiritual,
moral, national interest.
I look in another direction. The Chnrch
institution on earth. What has it in solid
phalanx accomplished for the overthrow
of drunkenness? Have its forces ever been
marshaled? Xo, not in this direction. Not
long ago a great ecclesiastical court assem
bled in New York, and resolutions arraign
ing strong drink were offered, and clergy
men with strong drink on their tables and
strong drink in their cellars defeated the
resolutions by threatening speeches. They
could not bear to give up their own lusts.
I tell this audience what many ef you
may never have thought of, that today
not in the millennium, but today the
church holds the balance of power in !
America; and if Christian people the
men and the women who profess to lore ;
the Lord "Jesus Christ and to love purity
and to be the sworn enemies of all unclean- '
ness and debauchery and sin if all sucli
would march side by side and shoulder to
shoulder, this evil would soon be over- j
thrown. Think of three hundred thou-;
sand churches and Sunday schools in i
Christendom marching shoulder to slioul- ;
derl How very short a time it would take ;
them to put down this evil, if all the
churches of God, transatlantic and cisat
lantic, were armed on this subject?
Young men of America, pass over into
the army of teetotal ism. Whisky, good to
preserve corpses, ousht never to turn you
into a corpse. Tens of thousands of young
men have been dragged out of respecta
bility, and out of purity, and out of good
character, and into darkness by this in
fernal stuff called strong drink. Do not
touch it! Do not touch it!
LOOK HOT UPON THK WINK.
In the front door of our church in Brook
lyn, a few summers ago, this scene oc
curred: Sabbath morning a young man
was entering for divine worship. 'A friend
passing along the street said, "Joe, come
along with me; I am going down to Coney
Island and we'll have a gay Sunday."
"No," replied Joe; "I have Btarted to go
here to church, and I am going to attend
service here." "Oh, Joe," his friend said,
"you can go to church any time! The day
is bright, and we'll go to Coney Island, and
well have a splendid time." The tempta
tion was too strong, acid the twain went to
the beach, spent the day in drunkenness
and riot. The evening train started up
from Brighton. The young men were on
it. Joe, in his intoxication, when the train
was in full speed, tried to pass around from
one seat to another and fell and was
crushed.
Under the lantern, as Joe lay bleeding
his life away on the grass, he said to his
comrade: "John, that was a bad business,
your taking me away from church; it was
a very bad business. You ought not to
have done that,. John. I want you to tell j
the boys to-morrow when you see them !
that rum and Sabbath breaking did this
for me. And John, while you are telling
them I will be in hell, and it will be your
fault." Is it not time for me to pull out
from the great organ of God's word, with
many banks of keys, the tremolo stop?
"Look not upon the wine when it is red,
when it moveth itself aright in the cup,
for at last it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder."
But this evil will be arrested. Blncher
came up just before night and saved the
day at Waterloo. At 4 o'clock in the after
noon it looked very badly for the English.
Generals Ponsonby and Pickton fallen.
Sabers broken, flags surrendered Scots
Grays annihilated. Only forty-two men
left oat of the German brigade. The En
glish army falling beck and falling back.
Napoleon rubbed his hands together and
said: "Aha! aha! we'll teach that little
Englishman a lesson. Ninety chances out
of a hundred are in our favor. Magnifi
cent! magnificent!" He even sent mes
sages to Paris to say he had won the day.
But before sundown Blucher came np,
and he who had been the conqueror of
Austerlitz became the victim of Waterloo.
The name which had shaken all Europe
and filled even America with apprehen
sion, that name went down, and Napoleon,
muddy and hatless, and erased with his dis
asters, was found feeling for the stirrup of
a horse, that he might mount and resume
the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is imperial,
and it is a conqueror, and there are good
people who say the night of national over
throw is coming, and that it is almost
night. But before sundown the Conqueror
of earth and heaven will ride in on the
white horse, and alcoholism, which has
had its Austerlitz of triumph, shall have
its Waterloo of defeat. Alcoholism hav
ing lost its crown, the grizzly and cruel
breaker of human hearts, crazed with the
disaster, will be found feeling in vain for
the stirrup on which to remount its foaming
charger. "So, O Lord, let thine enemies
perish!" .
Pbolas, the Shell Miner.
The pholas, a small species of bivalve
shell having the remarkable faculty of
boring into the hardest rock, is one of the
greatest wonders known to the concholo
gist. Great blocks of granite and marble
that have fallen overboard or been sunk in
foundered vessels have been found years
afterward completely honeycombed by
these curious little borers, they themselves
being imprisoned in the cavity, obtaining
their food from the water that flowed in
and out. Many explanations have been
giveu as to the method by which they
bore into such extremely hard rocks. The
shell is known to contain aragonite, and
some suppose that constant fnction ena
bles the shell to subdue the rock.
Others, again, are of the opinion that
the shell secretes some corrosive fluid
which dissolves the rock and enables the
creature to bore its hole. Some of the
most interesting samples of its work
known to the scientists may be seen in the
pillars of the Temple of Serapis, Italy.
There the land became submerged long
enough for the shell to do its curious work.
After a lapse of ages the land has now
risen, and the holes with their empty shell
are plainly to be seen, the marble pillars
being completely permeated by them.
These and other exhibitions of its work
have caused -pholas to be called "the shell
miner," and, curiously enough, it is fur
nished with a lamp, a rich blue white light
that shines over the entire body. Some re
markable experiments have been made
with the shells of pholas. St. Louis Re
public Great pictures, great books, great ac
tions, great souls, are simple. A dozen
authors might be quoted to show how uni
form is the belief in the beauty of simplicity.
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