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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1882)
■ <4 JP Destroyed Through Tobacqo. 9 HER ALD I shall tell you how it vas. I public smokers, however, break this law, and give great offense to that drunk mine lager; den I put mine part of the public who hate the hand on my head, and dcre vas one most distant fumes of tobacco.— great pain.' Den I put my oder hand on mine pody, and dere vas ....... ----------- k 14- anomer pain. D( !H I put my hand gentleman of refinement and taste There is no sign of the times more on mine pocket, and dere vas noth whom it has debased into l^ites. I liave known poets of high genius, encouraging to prohibitionists than ing. Sb I jine mid de demperance whom it has bound ifi a bondage the unconcealed uneasiness of the beepks. Mow dere is no pain in worse than the galleys. I have liquor dealers. The New York Re my head, and de pain in my pody known statesmen, law'yeis and tailer, after cautioning the retail vas all-gone away. I put my hand _ judges whom it has killed. I l‘i”KW ~4ealer«LaJohUixm-Luxieiu..con necting on mine pocket, and dere vas dwen- known kind husbands and fathers themselves with one of the pro dy dollar. So I stay nrjt de dem- \ whom it has turned into monsters. tective associations, says, “ Every perance beepies. I have known honest men of whom retailer should remember that busi I do in my conscience believe it has made villains. 1 have ness may be so seriously affected as that .intoxicating stimulants have known elegant and Christian ladies not to keep him busy in the future the west that sunk into perdition more men and whom it has converted into bloated There is , a cloud in . . . ' appears to us rejoicing in our women than found a grave in that sot“.”— Domestic Journal. strength and prosperity, no larger deluge which swept over the high How A Teetotal Governor Was than a man’s hand. But it is slow est hilltops, engulfing a world of ly rolling eastward, and we will do which but eight were saved.— Rev, . . Made. well To make ourselves secure as Dr. Guthrie. “ Some years ago the father of a possible, in season, from the impend A ten days’ gospel temperance family in Kansas^ daily ill-treated ing storm. State after state has mission-was recently held, in the his patient wife. His little son yielded to the clamor of prohibitive looked on while his mother was be- fanatics, and the end is not yet.” Metropolitan Tabernacle, Mr. C. H. Spurgeon’s church, London, by Mr. i11gTeat1• n "anTaT, ii se< 1, an’IT1 "fi; e I j tlIT Anoth er e n co u ragemeh ti s t h e fact R T. Booth. "Mr. S purgeuu, Canon of hatred to the drink and the drink that the distillers recently conven Wilberforce, of Southampton, and traffic, which caused .such misery in ed in Cincinnati, have resolved to others took part in the meetings. bis home, waaimplunted in his soul. reduce the production of whisky. As a result 23,447 blue ribbons As time passed on this abhorrence Some of us who have been working weie donned, and 12,0G2 pledges deepened into a fixed resolve that for posterity, and not expecting to he would attempt t> suppress, in enjoy the fruits of our labor, may, were taken. his native State, at least, the in ere reaching old age, find ourselves James Butler, Esq., Clerk of the Rox iquitous trade. Years roiled -on, in a nation where saloons And bury Carpet Co., Boston, Mass., em ploying eight hundred hands, in a late and that boy is now Governor St. drunkards are unseen. God hasten communication concerning the admira f ble working of an article introduced in John, of the State of Kansas, one the day ’— Church and Home. to the factory, says : The famous Old of the three States in the United German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil has af several cures among our men, of America which have passed pro The manufacture and sale of in fected have been badly hurt in working hibitory laws against the sale of in toxicating liquors as a beverage, is who in the factory, and they pronounce it a toxicating liquors anywhere within either right or it is wrong ; there is success every time. its territories. Through the efforts no neutral ground that any one can of that drunkard’s son aided by a occupy touching this matter. If noble band of Christian ladies and right, it should be placed on equal gentlemen, it will be impossible to footing with every other legitimate make or sell in a legal wav, any ol business ; if wrong, no amount of with horror at their fate. I have known non of the strongest and bey . T. DEwrrr talmage . clearest intellect, of vigorous resolu An agent of an insurance coin- tion, whom it has made weaker than from the spark of the pipe and the cigar.” One young man threw away his cigai in one of the cities, and with it he threw away three mill ions of dollars’ worth of the proper- ----- ty of nthera that.-blazed up from * that spark. Harpers’ splendid printing establishment, years ago was destroyed by a plumber, who, having lighted his pipe, threw the ,™ - it fell into a |M)t of camphene. The whole building was in flames. Five blocks went down. Two thousand employees thrown out of work, and more than a million dollars’ worth of I property destroyed. But 1 am speaking of higher values to day. Better destroy a whole city of stores than destroy one man. Oh, my young friends’ if you will excuse ”T<nomi,‘ I will sAy, Stop be fi > rryorr begin. Here .is a serfej^m which has a shackle that it is impossible to bieak. Gigantic intellects thut v cduld overcome every other bad habit have been Hung of this, and kept down. Some one was seeking to persuade a man from the habit. The reply w as : “ Ask me to do anything under the canopy of heaven but this. This 1 can not give up, and won’t give up, though ' it takes seven years of my life. “Oh my young friends I steer clear of that Dry Tortugas.— The Plagues Alcoholic and Narcotic. No One Who Drinks is Safe. Mr. Edward Baines, an English member of parliament, testifies as follows : “ I say boldly that no lean these harmful fluid-, throughout the 1 living who uses intoxicating drinks, State of Kansas.”— E'.c. is free from the danger of at least occasional, and if of occasional, ul Inexcusable Rudeness. timately of habitual excess. 1 my A great number of smokers seem self have known such frightful in stances of persons brought into to have lost sight of politeness:. captivity to the habit that there Their smoking makes them rude- seems to be no character, position Why should a smoker blow his or circumstances that free men smoke in my face, or allow the dust from danger. I have known many of bis weed to get in my eyes. 5 young men of the finest promise l*d Why should he think it not inde by drinking habits into vice, ruin cent to frequently expectorate in and eaijy death. 1 have known mj' presence ? 1 have as much right such to become virtual parricides. to scatter fine strong pepper and half I have known many trndesmeh blind the passers-by or my com whom it has, made bankrupt. 1 pauions in a railway carriage. 1. " have known ministers of religion, might answer ft pleased me, and of high academic honors, of splen- ^hey niuijtr ’ jrat lip with it. Men~ did eloquence, of vast usefulness, have no more right to smoke in whom it has fascinated and hurried public than I have to scatter pep over the precipice of public infamy, I per. Our pleasures ought not to with their eyes open, anl gazing1 be at the expense of another; all •W V 4 CHRISTIAN b DOLL./, license money can ever make right. Roll, juitout. »nd theORhATtsr NOVk’LTY wrqftrti Tint. The Doll it««lf 1» of «he fine«« * »“¿ch make, with wax uiad . P ai . hair , »nd flnett eye», »nA no different in •pp'-aranca from the beet of imported doll»» but within lte body 1» » mo«‘ in- geniou» machine, which.when » 1, lightly preeeed.caueeithe Doll to «mg one of the “/Tome, •««* eflhr3/ wa"‘ «• »• / ¿a “ There t» a »a,™ land. it Is it any wonder our boys become easy victims to the ruin demon when we make bar-rooms our loung ing phee; when we invite the li- ijuoj-selkr and liquor-drinker to our homes, introduce them to our boys, make them our boon compan ions ? Don’t wonder, father, at your boy’s ruin. You opened the door ami pointed the way.— Rechubite. •• (German), “IJ<*e Ba- •cAaft * (German), •• IWI Buy a broom, WaiKing ini talking doll» !>•« b<f“ made, but it high price«. »n<* liabletoRetquleklj out of order, and they do not afford the lluie one« h»if the enjoyment that our _ wonderful Singing Doll doea- <n XV» h«ee two eliee. No. 1. Ti inehee high, w»x head, rtal >'«lr, tine eye», »nd a eery beau O tiful face;-» Ste’.iA«?N»!l£ »inaina attachment. 2 E X -*• SSMS *7. but';«« 1??- when l*id down extra. C* No. •. — » inehee high, eitnj ® IM Ml head, real hair, «¿A Senator Vorhees, in a recent speech in Indiana,, said: “My farmer friends, what will you do Ltl country, if prohibition prevails He made a pause, and an old farmer spoke out: “We will raise pure * pork and less hell I” Yankee DoodU .” The singing attach- ment 1« * perfect munjeal inetrument, finely «»<*«• and will not get cut of orderj and the <Ml «»•<** /»' ?ithch«'ingeye*. >rice«.»r« ,*JO5A’..tï ÉfiSSassE m«ui' ItVtUmo4beamiZuw—ln the'mar- sad will affrnl mora amuaemaut tn« X M ati a <’HV«KTTB g, &&«- •v ' 0 •< ~