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ar Katonton ar 12:30 pm
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12;25 pm ar Atlanta-ar 11 ;25pm-7 ;30 am
xo 2S From Fort valley xo 21
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xo 2 From Atlanta x 054 xo 52
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11 ;15 pm ar Atlanta arl2;2opm
- vufaula ar 4 :4K pm
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THE GOLDEN RULE.
Years ago a renowned son of
Georgia publicly proclaimed that
the rising sun on each successive
morning, found the people of Geor
gia poorer than they were the day
before. For this declaration ana
themas were hurled upon him from
Georgia's mountains, hill-tops, val
leys and plains. \\ bother this
assertion was true or false, the histo
ry of Georgia’s people will decide.
For twenty years almost count
less orations have been delivered
and numerous learned disquisitions
have been published, each and all
suggesting plans, for the reclama
tion of the losses sustained by the
late martial conflict between the
states and for regaining the fort
unes, Which tiie storms of that war
swept away. These suggestions
have passed into history while not a
lew of the suggesters have gone to
their eternal home, and what is the
result and how stands the question
to-day? How many of these plans
have taken definite shape, have
been put into actual practice and de
veloped favorable results? Have we
the people rebuilded the waste places
and regained our lost fortunes? Arc
we, the people, ol Georgia, yea of
Monroe county richer and in a bet
ter condition financially than we
the people were twenty years ago ?
That much improvement is manifest
and progress has been made in many
respects, and that Georgia as a unit
is wealthier now than twenty years
ago, we presume none will deny.
But where is Georgia’s property?
Who owns and who controls it?
Wherein does it consist? Come
home to our own county which will
compare favorably with any in the
state and ask, “what about the
financial condition of her people ?
Are they building up? Are they
recuperating? Are they growing
wealthier each year ? Having asked
these questions we leave the answer
to our readers.
Leaving out of the consideration
moral principles, without the culti
vation of which, no people, nor race,
nor nation of people, can move
peacefully and joyously into the
haven of success we seem to have
entered upon the labors of rebuild
ing purcoun try and effecting pros
perity among us under the motto,
“every man for himself and the
devil take the hindmost.” If this
be true and we persist in it then the
prosperity possible to us, like the
mirage of the desert will recede as
we advance. Why? Because it is
in violation of that principle wherein
it is said, “a house divided against
itself” can not stand. No grand
edifice was ever erected by one man,
or by men operating singly. The
completion of Solomon’s temple
never could have been an accom
plished fact upon any such principle.
If we would sow in such a manner
as to reap a general harvest of
prosperity, there must be by us all
concert of action and community
of interest; there must be upon the
part of each individual the exercises
of as sacred regard for the rights
and interest ofothers as for himself,
and a harmonizing of all elases into
a common purpose, and that pur
pose, the good of all. So long as
one interest or set of interests is
prosecuted and pushed forward to
the detriment of other interests, so
long will the center of gravity in out
pillar of prosperity fall without the
base and a collapse be invited. And
as long as the rich strive to become
richer at the expense of and with a
total disregard to the interests and
needs of the laboring poor, so long
will the leverage of our prosperity
have no proper fulcrum, and our
labors be expended to no profit in
prying against the great stone of
misdirected effort.
When God said to all men,
through the page ot inspiration
“Whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you. do ye even so to
them” he laid down tor every man,
the corner store of success. Herein
exists the grandly towering princi
ple that should always actuate every
living soul ; herein stands couched,
in language that shall live bevond
the wreck of worlds that golden rule
the strict observance of which by
every man. will spread prosperity
over all lands as the waters cover
the ocean's bed. Obedience to this
rule will beget, in the breasts of the
strong, charity to the weak, will
cause the favored rich to reach out
and grasp the uplifted hands of tiie
down trodden poor, to help them,
and will harmonize varied interests
into one grand confederation for
mutual aid. Scientists may delve,
agriculturists may write, political
economists may scheme, and county,
state and national conventions, may
plan ; but it their schemes and plans,
be they never so wise, form a tan
gent to the golden rule circle, jar
rings. disturbances and inadequate
results will obtain and periodical
depressions will prevail.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE I\' 1885.
USE OF TOBACCO.
DOES IT CAUSE CANCEROUS
AND OTHER TROUBLES?
ASKS DR. TALMAGE.
A SERMON ON INDULGENCE.
“LETTHE EARTH BRING FORTH GRASS
AND HERB-YIELDING SEED.”
abstain from usingthe weec
Is the Ailvice Given by the Great Brook
lyn Divine.
IT INJURES THE MIND.
And is Hurtful to the Entire Physical
Organism of Man.
Before the sermon in the Brook
lyn tabernacle Dr. Tahnage read
from the first book of Kings con
cerning an alter upon which men’s
bones were sacrificed, and remarked
that there is more sacrifices of hu
man life now than ever before, al
though the alter may not be admit
ted. Dr. Talinage’s reading of the
scripture lesson is peculiar to him
self. and excites as much interest in
the audience as the sermon preach
ed. The reading is a running com
mentary, with practical lessons in
terjected.
The subject of the sermon was:
“Does the use of tobacco cause can
cerous and other troubles?” The
text was from Genesis i., 11 ; “Let
the earth bring forth grass and herb
yielding seed.”
Dr. Tahnage said :
The first born of the earth were
the grass-blade and the herb. They
preceded the brute creation and the
human family—the grass fin- animal
life, the herb for human service. Tina
cattle took possession of its inher!'-
tance, the grass-blade; and man too 1 :
possession of his inheritance, the
herb. This herb we have for food
in case of hunger, for narcotic in cas t
of insomnia, for anodynas under pai
oxysm of pain, or for stimulus whefl
the pulses flag under the weight o'
disease. The caterer takes the herb
and serves it up in all delicacies
The physician takes the herb am
compounds it for physical re cupel’s
tion. Millions of the human race;
take it for ruinous delectation of
body and mind. The herb, divinehl
created and for good purposes, ill
cases without number is prostitute if
for evil results. There is a Rjwful
and unlawful use of the herbaecoivj
kingdom.
There sprang up in Yucatan : q
this continent an herb which has
witched the world. It crossed
Aifan£ic~bceaTrnTThe f’liiceiVYn
tury and captured Spain. Then it
captured Portugal, and then the
French Enbassadors took it to Paris
and it captured the French empire.
Then Walter Raleigh introduced it
into England. The botanists ascribe
it to the genus Nicotiana; but you
all know it as the inspiring, the ele
vating, the empamdising, the radia
ting. the nerve-shattering, the dys
pepsia-breeding, the health-destroy
ing tobacco. I shall not he offen
sively personal while I speak on this
subject because j'ou all use it, or
nearly all. Indeed. I know from
personal experience how it soothes
and roseates the world and kindle
sociality', and I know what are its
baleful results. 1 know what it is to
be its slave, and, thank God, I know
what it is to be its conqueror. I
have no expectation that 1 will per
suade the great masses of you to
change your habits upon this subject,
but I thought i might help you in
some advice to your children.
You say, “Didn’t God make tobac
co?” You say,
“isn’t god good ?”
Oh. yes. “Then God when lie crea
ted tobacco must have created it for
some good purpose.” Oh, }*es; it is
good for a great many things—to
bacco is. It is good to kill moths in
the wardrobe and tick in sheep, and
to strangulate all kinds of vermin,
and to fumigate pestiferous places,
and, like all other poisons God crea
ted, it is for some particular use. So
he did henbane, so mix vomica, so
copperas, so belladonna, so all those
poisons which he directly created or
iiad man to extract. But the same
God who made the poisons also cre
ated us with common sense to know
how to use them and how not to use
them. “Oh,” sa}' some of my friends,
“don’t people use it without seeming
harm to themselves and are there
not cases of plethora which absolute
ly need this depletion?” Oh, yes!
Skillful and prudent physicians have
sometimes prescribed it, just as they
sometimes prescribe arsenic, and
they prescribe it well. -There can be
no doubt about it being poisonous.
There was a case reported in which
a little child lay ujion its mother’s
lap, and a drop from her pipe fell on
the child’s lip and it went into con
vulsions and into death. “But.”
you say, “don’t people live to old
age who indulge in this habit?”
Yes ; so I have seen an inebriate 70
year old. There are some persons
who, in spite of all the outrages to
their physical system, live on to old
age. In the ease of the man of the
jug, he lasted so long because he was
pickled ! In the case of the man of
the pipe, he lasted so long because
he was turred into smoked liver.
But. my friends, what advice had
we better give our yonng people? I
say, in the first place, let us advise
them to abstain from this habit, be
cause all the medical fraternity of
the United States and Great Britain
pronounce it the cause of widespread
and terrific unhealth. Dr. Agnew,
Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Olcott. Dr. Barnes,
Dr. Woodward,'Dr. Rush. Dr. llo
sack. Dr. Harvey, Dr. Mott-—all the
medical fraternity, allopathic, home
opathic, hydropathic, eclectic —de-
nounce the habit and warn the com
munity against it. One distinguish
ed physician says: ‘‘This habit is the
cause ot seventy different styles of
disease. This habit is the cause ot
nearly all the cases of cancer of the
mouth." What is the testimony of
the late Dr. John C. Warren, of Bos
ton, than whom there is no higher
authority. He says : -For more than
thirty years I have been in the hab
it ot inquiring of patients who come
to me with cancer of the tongue and
lips whether they used tobacco, and,
if so, whether they chewed or
smoked, and if they have sometimes
answered in the negative as to the
first question, I can truly say that to
the best of my knowledge and belief
such cases are exceptions to the gen
eral rule. When, as is usually the
case one side of the tongue is affect
ed with ulcerated center, it arises
from the habitual retention of the
tobacco in contact with this part.”
Their united testimony is that it tie
presses the vitals of the system and
brings on nervousness and dyspep
sia, and takes off twenty-five per
cent, of the physical vigor of the
people of this country, and dama
ging this generation, damages the
next, the accumulated curse going
on to capture other centuries.
IT INJURES THE MIND.
Another eminent physician, for a
long time Superintendent of the In
sane Asylum ot Northampton, Mass ,
says: “Fully half the patients who
have come to our asylum for treat
ment are the victims ot tobacco.” It
is a sad thing, my brother, to dama
age the body; is a worse thing to
damage the mind ; and any man of
common sense knows that the ner
vous system immediately acts on the
hi •ain. More than that: nearly all
reformers will tell you that it tends
to drunkenness. It creates unnatu
ral thirst. There are those who use
this narcotic who do not drink, but
nearly all who drink use the narcot
ic, so that shows there is an immedi
ate affinity between the two drugs.
It was long ago demonstrated that a
man can not permanently reform
from strong drink unless he gives up
tobacco In nearly all the cases
where men having been reformed
have fallen back, it has been shown
they have first touched tobacco and
then surrendered to intoxicants.
The broad avenue leading down to
the drunkard’s grave and the drunk
ard’s hell is strewn thick with tobac
co leaves. What did Benjamin
Franklin say ? “1 never saw a well
•nan in the exercise of common sense
who would say that tobacco did him
rany good.” What did Thomas Jef
iferson say when arguing against the
culture of tobacco? lie said: “It is
j-ydture productive of infinite
B.etViess.” Horace Greeley said
:%lt is a profane stench.” Dun
ewSfeT 1 hiiid : —-if f.vte —nu-S-
--must smoke, let them take the horse
shed.”
One reason why there are so many
victims of this habit is because there
arc so many ministers of religion
who smoke and chew. They smoke
until they get the bronchitis, and the
dear people have to pay their expen
ses to Europe. They smoke until the
nervous sy-stem breaks down. They
smoke themselves to death. I could
name three eminent clergymen who
died ot cancer in the mouth, and in
every ease the physician said it was
tobacco. There has been many a
clergyman whose tombstone was all
covered up with eulogy which ought
to have tho honest epitaph: “Killed
by too much Cavendish.” Some of
them smoke until the room is blue
and their spirits are blue and the
world is blue and everything is blue.
Time was when God passed by such
sins, but it becomes now the duty of
the American clergy who indulge in
this narcotic to repent. llow can a
man preach temperance to the peo
ple when he is himself indulging in
an appetite like that? I have seen
a cuspador in a pulpit where the
minister should drop his cud before
he gets up to read “Blessed are the
pure in heart,” and to read about
“rolling sin as a sweet morsel under
the tongue;” and in Leviticus to
read aoout the unclean animals that
chew the cud. I have known Pres
byteries and General Assemblies and
General Synods where there was a
room set apart for the ministers to
smoke in.
Oh, it is a sorry spectacle, a con
secrated man, a man of God, looking
around for something which you
take to be looking for a larger field
of usefulness. He is not looking for
that, at all. He is only looking for
some place where he can discharge
a mouthful of tobacco juice! lam
glad that the Methodist church of
the United States in nearly all their
conferences have passed resolutions
against this habit, and it is time we
had an anti-tobacco reform in the
Presbyterian church and the Episco
pal church, the Baptist church and
the Congregational church. About
sixty years ago a young man grad
uated from Andover Theological
Seminary into the ministry. He
went straight to the front, lie had
an eloquence and personal magnet
ism before which nothing could stand;
but be was soon thrown into the in
sane asylum for twenty years, and
the doctor said it was tobacco that
sent him there. According to the
custom then in vogue, he was allow
ed a small portion of tobocco every
day. After he had been there near
ly twenty years, walking the floor
one day he had a sudden return of
reason, and he realized what was the
matter. He threw the plug of tobac
co through the iron gates and said :
“What brought me here? What
keeps me here? Why am I here?
Tobacco! tobacco! O God, help!
help! I’ll never use it again.” He
was restored. He was brought forth.
For ten years he successfully preach
ed the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I
then went into
A BLISSFUL IMMORTALITY.
There are ministers of religion to
day indulging in uarcotics, dying vq
inches, and they do not know what
is the matter with them. I might in
a word give my own experience. It
took ten cigars to make a sermon. I
got very nervous. One day I awak
ened to the outrage I was inflicting
upon myself. I was about to change
settlements, and a generous whole
sale tobacconist in Philadelphia said
if I would only come to Philadelphia
he would, all the rest of my life,
provide me with cigars free of
charge. I said to myself; If in
these war times when cigars are so
costly and my salary is small 1
smoke more than 1 ought to, what
would I do if 1 had gratuitous and
illimitable supply? And then and
there, twenty-four years ago, I quit
once and forever. It made anew
man of me, and, though I have since
then done as much hard work as
any one, I think 1 have had the best
health God ever blessed a man with.
A minister of religion can not afford
to smoke. Put info my hands the
moneys wasted in tobacco in Brook
lyn, and I will support three orphan
asylums as grand and as beautiful as
chose already established. Put into
my hand the moneys wasted in to
bacco in the United Stases of Ameri
ca, and 1 will clothe, feed and
shelter all the suffering poor on this
continent. The American church
gives 81,000,000 a year for the
evangelization of the heathen, and
American Christians spend $5,000,-
000 in tobacco.
Now I stand this morning not
only in the presence of my God, to
whom 1 must give an account for
what 1 say to-day, but 1 stand in
the presence of a great multitude of
young men who are forming their
habits. Between seventeen and
twenty-three there are tens of
thousands of young men damaging
themselves irretrievably by tobacco.
You either use very good tobacco or
cheap tobacco. If you use cheap to
bacco I want to tell you why it is
cheap. It is a mixture of burdock,
lampback, sawdust, coltsfoot, plain
tain leaves, fuller’s earth, lime, salt,
alum and a little tobacco. You can
not afford, 1113" young brother, to
take such a mess as that between
your lips. If, on the other hand,
y-ou use costly- tobocco, let me say I
do not think you can afford it. You
take that which y-ou expend, and
will expend, if 3-011 keep the habit
all 3’our life and put it aside and it
will bii3' 3’ou a farm to make 3 r ou
comfortable in the afternoon of life.
A merchant of New York gave this
testimony : “In earl}- life I smoked
six cigars a day at six and a half
cents each—the}* averaged that. 1
thought to m3 r self one day ‘l'll put
aside all the money lam consuming
in cigars and all 1 would consume if
I kept on in the habit find I will see
what it. will come to by command
Interest!” "And'fio^gtVeS"l!?usYtre
men dons statistic; “Last July com
pleted thirty-nine 3-ears since by the
grace of God I was emancipated from
the filth}- habit and the saving
amounted to the enormous sum of
$29,102.03 by compound interest.
We lived in the city, but the chil
dren who had learned something of
the enjoyment of country life from
their annual visits to their grand
parents, longed for a home among
the green fields. I found a very
pleasant place in the country for
sale. The cigar money now came
into requisition, and I found it
amounted to a sufficient sum to pur
chase the place and it is mine. Now,
boys, }"ou take }-our choice, smoking
without a home or a home without
smoking.”
Listen to that, young man, and
take another thing into considera
tion, and that is, vast amounts of
property are destroyed every y-ear
indirectly b} T this habit. An agent
of an insurance company says:
“One-half our losses come from the
spark of the pipe and the cigar.”
One young mail threw away- his ci
gar in one of the cities, and with it
he threw away $3,000,000 worth of
propert}- of others that blazed up
from that spark Harpers’ splendid
printing establishment, 3-cars ago,
was destroyed b}- a plumber who,
having lighted his pipe, threw the
match away and it fell into a pot of
camphene. The whole building was
in flames. Five blocks went down.
Two thousand employ-es thrown out
of work, and more than $1,000,000
of property destroyed.
BUT I AM SPEAKING OF HIGHER VAL
UES TO-DAY.
Better destroy a whole city of
stores than destroy- one man. Oh,
my young friends, if }*ou will excuse
the idiom, 1 will sa}- stop before }-ou
begin ! Here is a serfdom which has
a shackle that it is almost impossible
to break. Gigantic intellects, that
could overcome every-other bad hab
it, have been flung of this, and kept
down. Someone is seeking to
persuade a man from habit. The
reply was: “Ask me to do any-thieg
under the canopy of heaven but
this. This I can not give up and
won’t give up, though it take seven
years off my- life.”
I must have a word also with all
of those of my friends whom it does
not hurt, who can stop any- time
they want to, and who can smoke
most expensive cigars. My- Chris
tian brother, what is y-our influences
in the matter? How much can you
afford to deny yourself for the good
of others? It was a great mystery
to many people why Gov. Briggs, of
Massachusetts, wore a cravat, but
no collar. Some people thought it
was an absurd eccentricity. Ah,
no! This was the secret: Many
years before, he was talking with an
inebriate and telling hhn that his
habit was unnecessary, and the
inebriate retorted upon him and ;
said : “We do a great many- things
that are not necessary. It is not ,
necessary for you to wear that col- !
lar.” “Well,” said Gov. Briggs, “I
will never wear a collar again if you ■
won t drink.” “Agreed,” said the ]
inebriate. Gov. Briggs never wore i
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, a collar. They both kept their bar
! gain for twenty years. They kept
it to the death. That is the reason
Gov. Briggs did not wear a collar.
That is the gospel of the Son of God
—self-denial for the good and the
rescue of others.
1 take a step further. In all ages
: the world has sought out some flow
; er or herb or weed to stimulate its
! lethargy or to compose its grief. A
drug called nepenthe was widelv
used among the ancient Greeks and
the ancient Egyptians for narcotic
purposes. The Theban women knew
how to compound it. You had but
to chew the leaves and your sadness
was whelmed with hilarity. But
nepenthe passed out from the con
sideration of the wordl. Next came
hasheesh, which is made from
Indian hemp. It is manufactured
from the flowers at the top, or work
men inleatherclothing walk through
the fields of hemp and the exudation
from the hemp adheres to the leath
ern garments, and then this exuda
tion Js scraped off and prepared
with aromatics and becomes an
intoxicant for the people. Whole
nations have been stimulated, nar
cotized and made imbecile with this
accursed hasheesh The visions
kindled by- that drug are said to be
gorgeous and magnificent bey-ond
all description, but it finally- takes
down body, mind and soul in horri
ble death.
I knew one of the most brilliant
men of his day-. Whether be ap
peared in magazine or in book or in
newspaper columns, he was an en
chantment. lie could in the course
of an hour’s conversation produce
more wit and strange information
than any man I ever talked with ;
but he chewed hasheesh, lie did so
first as a matter of curiosity to see
whether the powers ascribed to it
really belonged to it. He put his
hand into the cockatrice’s den to see
whether it would bite, and he found
out to his complete undoing. His
father, who was a minister of the
gospel, prayed for him and counseled
him anil obtained for him the best
medical prescription of the best phy
sicians in New York, Philadelphia,
Paris, London, Edinburgh and Ber
lin. lie said he could not stop. A
large circle of friends put their wits
together to try to rescue him, but he
went on down. First bis body- gave
way- in pangs and convulsions ot
of suffering; then bis mind gave
way- and be became a raving mani
ac; then his immortal soul went,
blaspheming God, into a starless
eternity-. He was only about 30
years of age. Behold the ravages of
the Persian and Egyptian weed call
ed hasheesh!
OPIUM DEMANDS EMPHATIC RECOGNI
TA N, •
-k
-whiio poppy, it is not anew dis
covery-. Weread of it t hree hundred
years before Christ, but it was not
until the Seventeenth century that it
began its death march, passing out
from the medicinal and curative,
and by smoking and mastication
becoming the scourge of nations.
In the year 1861 there were import
ed into this country 107,000 pounds
of opium, but in 1880, 533,000 pounds
of opium. It is estimated that in tiie
y-car 1856 there were in this country
-225,000 opium consumers; but I
saw a statistic more recent that said
there are probably now in the
United States at least GOO,OOO opium
consumers. The fact is appalling.
Do not think that they are merely
barbaric fanatics who go down under
that stroke. Bead the great Do
Quiucey’s “Confessions of an opium
eater.” lie says for the first ten
3-ears it gave him the keys of para
dise ; but it takes his own powerful
pen to describe the borrows conse
quent. Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
after conquering the world by his
pen. was conquered by opium. The
most magnetic and briliiant lawyer
of this century- fell a victim to its
stroke, unit there are thousands of
men and women—but more women
than men—who are being bound,
body-, mind and soul to this terrible
habit.
There is a great mystery about
some families. You do not know
why- they do not get on. The opium
habit is so stealthy, so deceitful and
so deathful. You can cure a hun
dred drunkards easier than you can
cure one opium eater. I have heard
of cases of reformation, but 1 never
saw any-. I hope there are cases of
genuine reformation, i have seen
men who for forty years had been
the. victims of strong drink thor
oughly reformed; but the opium
eaters that I have seen go on and go
down. Their cry- in the last hour of
life is not for God nor for prayer nor
for the Bible, but for opium. Per
haps there are only two persons out
side the household who know what
is the matter —the physician and
the pastor; the physician called in
tor physical relief, the pastor called
in for spiritual relief; but they- j
both fail. The physician acknowl- i
edges his defeat. The minister of,
religion acknowledges his defeat, for
it seems as if the Lord does not I
answer prayer for opium eaters, j
Oh, man ! oh woman ! are you tarn- j
poring with this habit? Have you
just begun? Are you. for the as
suagement of physical distress of
mental trouble, making this a regu
lar resource. I beg you stop. The
esfocies at the start will not pay for
the horrors at the last. The Para
dise is followed too soon by- the pan
demonium. Morphia is a blessing
from God for the relief of sudden
pang or acute dementia, but was
never intended for prolonged use,
and, what is the peculiar sadness of
it is, it comes to people in their ;
week moments. De Quincey say-s: !
“I took it for a rheumatism.” Cole
ridge says : “1 took it for insomnia
or sleeplessness.” What do you
take it for? For God’s sake do not
take it too long.
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ing down from the highest and
wealthiest classes and from the most
fashionable circles of New York and
Brooklyn—going down by hundreds
and by thousands. Over 20,000
opium-eaters in Chicago, Over 20,-
000 opium-eaters in St. Louis. In
the same proportion that would
make over 70,000 in New York and
Brooklyn. The clerk of the drug
store says: “I can tell them when
they come in. There is something
peculiar about their complexion,
somq* 1 ling peculiar about their ner
vousness, something peculiar about
the look ol their eyes that immedi
ately reveals them.” In some fami
lies chloral is taking the place of
opium. Physicians first prescribe it
for sleeplessness. Then the patient
keeps on because lie likes the effect.
Whole tons of chloral manufactured
in Germany! Baron Liebig say's that
he knows one chemist in Germany
who manufactures a half ton of chlo
ral every- week. There arc mulit
tudes being taken down by this hab
it. Look out for the hydrate of
chloral ! But 1 am under this head
speaking chiefly of opium. There
ought to be ten thousand pulpits
turned into quaking, flaming, thun
dering Sinais of warning against
this narcotic. The devil of Morphia
in this country will be mightier than
the devil ofaleohol.
My friends, it is all important that,
by personal example, in every- possi
ble way wo contend against all influ
ence- injU , : OQ‘ 4,1 spefoty. Our op-
TM -UA-Ljjy fht m
ci.ee is Hunted, W mit wr
better do right away. The clock
ticks noviq and we hoar it. After
awhile the clock will click, and we
shall not hear it. Seated by a coun
try fireside, I saw the fire kindled,
blaze and go out. I gathered up
from the hearth enough profitable
reflection. Our life is just like the
fire on that hearth. Wo pul on fresit
faggots, and the fire bursts through
and up and out, gay of flash, gay of
crackle—emblems of boyhood. Then
the fire reddens into coals. The
heat is fiercer, and the more it.stirred
the more it reddens. With the
sweep of flame it cleaves its way, until
all the hearth glows with the intensi
ty- —emblem of full manhood. Then
conies a whiteness to the coals. The
heat lessens. Tiie flicker}- shadows
have died along the wall. The fag
gots drop apart. 'The household
hover liver the expiring embers. The
hist breath of smoke has been lost in
the chimney. Fire is out. Shovel
up the white remains. Ashes :
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we saw the strangest snake si_rht, < f
our lives. Beyond Mr. Bay- Camp’s
there is a small branch that crosses
the road. On the other side of the
branch the railroad crosses the wag
on road, and just beyond this wc be
hold a scene that beats anything of
the kind wc ever saw. A large
eoachwhip had wrapped his foil sev
eral times around the top of a stiff
scrub post-oak bush and had caught
a sow and was holding her fast. His
head part had three wraps around
one of the sow’s hind legs and ho
was making the hold doubly-sure by
holding with his mouth. The sow
was moving first to the right and
then to the left on three feet, aiid
had already described two segments
of a circle on terra firms. “Whoa,
Morgan!” said the senior editor, and
jumping out of the .buggy lie grab
bed a }Kle to kill the snake. Strange
to say the snake turned loose as soon
as he saw the scribe approaching
with the pole, arid as he stretched
out his full length to make his exit
he looked fully as long as a fence
rail. Our junior pard let go a half
dozen or more jaw breaking words
as long as the snake, which
we cannot remember. But the
snake and hog went in opposite di
rections. and it is hard to tell which
went the faster. As we rode off we
could hear the old sow running
through the woods, “blickety-, blick
ety-, blickety, whoo, boo whooh.”
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had three teats full, and appeared to
have only three pigs. But his snake
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