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A Critical Moment.
Burnett at COyelvn. Both are good He will never be hanged for leav­
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speakers, but they appealed to me ing his drink behind- him. He
I was talking a few weeks ago
The Iowa Idea of Reform.
much as I once felt when in a drinks in season and out of season. with a clergyman at the West, who
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literary society; ’ I waff called to In summer because he is hot, and said he returned to his fa'her’s
IT HAS COME TO STAY.
oppose the question “ The exter­ in winter because he is cold. A house in Boston, aild his brother fl
How They Did It.
mination of dogs in a civilized com­ drop of beer never comes too soon, son in the family, came in intoxi­
BY H. H. HEDKI^.
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munity would be a blessing.” 1 and he would get up in the middle cated ; and he said when the in­
NUMBER III. .
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could say nothing but what I felt of the night for more, only he goes toxicated son had retired, “ Mother,
After the campaign opened out sure I could have more than an­ to bed tipsy. Water is this gentle how do you »stirtid this?” “Ohl”
igCRt. of the county ¡>apers began swered myself. I noticed that all man’s abhorrence, whether used in- she replied, “I have stood this a
to advocate the adoption of the • the saloon keepers and riffraff sifltf or out, but most oi all he good while; but it don't worry mu
amendment, Most of the large generally, with a few good, but dreads it taken inwardly, except now. T found it was woirying file
dailies steadily opposed it; the ex­ mistaken people, applauded-almost with spirits, and then the Jess, the to death, and I put the w hole case
ceptions were the Iowa Stàte Regis- every thing these speakers said. It better, lie- says that the pump > in God’s hands, and said, ‘O God !
ter, at Des Moines ; the Cedar Ra- reminded me of, the story, of the would kill him, but he never gives I can not endure this any longer;
picls Republican and the Muscatine drunk man who went to a crowded it a chance, and he will» never die tuke care of my sun, reform him.
through the badness of the water save him,’ and thete 1 left the
•Journal. These, with many ex­ hall to hear a noted Uni versa!ist
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cellent weeklies, diu noble service preacher. The. seats were all taken from the well. It is a pity that he whole thing with God; ami 1 shall
for the amendment. Then all the so the drunk man reclined against does not run the risk. Drinking never worry again.”
religious press, tire 1*rohibfiiohistj a post which supported the ceding. cold water neither makes a man —4.-The next day,” saiJ the clergy­
of D.-s Moines, and the Ar. IK. He wanted to hear the preacher sick nor in debt, nor his wife a man, who was talking to me in re­
News, of Davenport, all fought most prove that everybody would filially widow ; but this fine ale of his will gard to it, " I met my brother, and
valiantly to the end, and now re­ be saved. So to encourage the do all this for him—make him I said, ‘ John, you are in an awful
joice in the victory. The State preacher about the» middle of the worse than a beast while he lives, position.’ ‘ How—ao. C said he.
Register receives the crown of sermon the drunken man called and'wash him away to his gravt ‘ Why, mother told ,me that she has
praise, and it is worthy. No one out: “Make it stick, if you can,old before his time: They say that left you with God; she 'doesn’t pray
in the .State wields a mure potent fellow7, for if you don’t I am a gone drunkenness makes tome men Idols, for you any more.’# ‘Is that so?
pen than its editor, J. iS. Clarkson, succer.” So these saloon men some beasts, and some devils; but Well, I can not contend with the
hnd its circulation both as a ’dàiiy \4canpid their speakers to prove that according to my mind it mqkes al! 'Lord ; I shall never drink again."'
and wee klj reaches more people prohibition could not prohibit. But men fools, whatever else it ’dobs.
Hu-never did drink again. He
than any uther paper in the State. alas ! these saloon men are «loomed Certain neighbors of mine laugh at went to the far West; and at a
It did most because it (Vas able to .to leave this fa«r State .of-. Iowa, or me for being a teetdtalci, and 1 banquet in St. Louis given to him;
do most. Others of mure limited like < >tlieolp,r their occupation is might well laugh at theiiTfror being a lawyer just come to the city,
territory did as well, in fact many gone. They have their orders by7 drunk, only I feel more inclined to there were many guest*«, ami there
did so well that I feel that further near 30,()(f0 majority, and just as cry that they should be such' fools was-much wine poured, and they
comparisons would be unjust: The soon as’the executive counsel pro­ Oh that we could get them sober insisted that this reformed lawyer
Register galantly gives all the claims the result, July 27th, every and then perhaps we might make should take his glass of wine; and
praise and glory to the women, and saloon in the State will be an un­ men out of them ! We smile at a they insisted until it became a
surely they are worthy of no small lawful presence.
tipsy man because he is a ridiculous greakembarrassment, as they said
share. Among tho,e who wrote in
creature ; but w hen we see how he to him, “Ah, you don’t seem to
Hè Swallows a Farm.
opposition, Hon. Sam. (’lark, editor
is ruined, body and soul, it is no have any regard for us, and you
of the Keokuk Gate City, was the
joking matter. How solemn is the have no sympathy with our hilari­
The
man
who
swallows
a
farm
is
most manly and candid ; when
truth, that “ No drunkard shall in­ ties.”
pressed for discussion with the always dry because he drinks too herit eternal Lie.”
Then the man lifted the glass
T rarear Clipper, he said he was much. He is a loose fellow who
Solomon says the glutton and the and said, “ Gentlemen, there was in
opposed to license; if he could he frequently gets tight, lie is no drunkard shall come to poverty, Boston some years ago a man who,
would remove eveiy saloon as a sooner up of, a morning than he and that the drinker does in time. though he had a beautiful wife an I
common nuisance; and, although opens wide -his mouth and begins | He gets more and more down, at two children, fell away from his in­
opposed to prohibition, he did not to let his. money run down his the heel, and as his nose gets red­ tegrity and went down into the
know what to offer in its stead. throat. A glass of beer costs more der, and his body is more s apdlen, ditch of drunkenness. He was re­
Mr. Clark’s articles, doubtless, made than five square jards of good he gets to be more of a shack anU formed by th’e grace of God ar:d the
votes against us, but his criticisms farming land, and every time he. more of a shark.
prayers of his mother, - and he
on the amendment and the theory takes beer he swallows five yards
His trade is gone and his credit stands before you to night. 1 am
< f prohibition in general, sharpened I of land. Then, in consequence of is run out; but he still manages to that man. If 1 di ink this glass I
and stimulated the efforts of our drinking the beer, h<? wastes his get his bier.
shall go back to my old habit and
best thinkers, and will yet prove a time and makes bad trades, so that
Now, if we try to do anything to perish ; I am not strong enough to
blessing to us ; he served in this as only a few years arc necessary to shut up a boozing house for guz­ endure it. Shull I drink it ? If
much as Douglass did in the fight consume a good farm, ami still he. zling,, we are called all sorts of bad you say so; 1 will.”
against slavery,
while
Scott goes on swallowing.
names, ami the wind up of it all
A man sitting next lilted a knife
If you ask him how he is, he . is,“ What! rob a poor man of his and with one stroke broke u»f'jjhe.
Howell, one of the proprietors of
the same paper, was truly his Lin­ says he would be quite right if he beer ?” The fact is that they rob a bottom Of the glass; and all the
coln, and his ai tides in reply to the could moisten his mouth. He is a poor man by his beer. The ale jug men at the table shouted, *' Don't
editor, will be read as long as pro­ walking barrel, a living drain-pipe, robs the board and the table, starves drink ! don’t drink !”
a moving swill-tub.
hibition is questioned.
the wife, and strips the children.
Oh! that man was a hero. He
Hon. W. U. Hobbs, of St. Louis,
They say, “ loath to begin ami It is a great thief, housebreaker, had been » going through a battle
formerly of Iowa, Rev. (.-. (J. JLiur loath to Jeave off but he never and the best possible thing is to year after year; that was a great
nett and J. 1*. Irish were the most needs persuading to begin ; and tt * brcuk. it (o pieces, or kcep.it on the crisis. What a struggle’■ f trit
prominent speakers against us. ] to ending- tliat is out of the ques­ shelf
bottom upwards.— John you this incident because 1 want
heard Mr. Hobbs in this city and tion while he can borrow a nickle. Ploughman.
you to know that there arc a great
Temperance Department.
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