G THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BE LLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, JUNE 1897. VICTIMS OF DRINK. Rev, Dr. Talmage Preaches a Strong Sermon to Them. of All Classes Family and Damns the of All Those Who Indulge In It. Rum is the Great Enomy It Robs the fouls sermon of the populs ine was an arraignmer denune enom Haggai earneth with holes.’ the reign of Dariu he people did not y, but did not keep it In Persia, under Hystaspes They made mone) e people w put money, Drospe: They were lik ho have a sack in which they that the sack is torn or eaten of moths or in incapable of holding valuables. 3 fast n was put not knowin SOMmMe way as the col t out dropped ference v lost 5, earnetin has water or flee in fights 1@ soldier who has whisky % man to ' has only one contestant, that i the street forth to marches easier Drink helps arner tut when he goes great battle he wants no the Russians go passes along the breath of every sol his breath a liquor, the maintain sa country When corporal nme for God and his irink about him to line and lier If taint of intoxicating man is to the barracks. Why? endure fatigue All our know this, When they for na regatta, or for an athlete wrestling, they Our working will after awhile, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences they will put {nto co-operative associations and so become capitalists, If the workingman put down his wages and then take his expenses and spread them out so they will just equal he is not wise. 1know workingmen who are in a perfect fidget until they get rid of their last dollar, The following circumstances came under our observation: A young man worked hard to carn his six or seven hundred dollars yearly, Marriage day eames. The bride had inherited $500 from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in the third WAr n smells the there be in sent back He young Aare cannot men preparing ub, abstain for a ball ¢ or people be wiser Then the young mau took ex- s)hmonst work, yet story. tra evening cmployment; hausted swith the day's evening employment eX took It nimost extin- Ww hy did he a the guished his eyesight. evening employment to ployment? To get money he want to mont hingr for a rainy get his 1 his death bh gar? No to the da somet fe insured, 3 wife wou put the work wor t $150 to Fhe sister achievement eclipsed She and sh sat Up working neariy id ! night t great while until A seals p skin cont 1 have not heard { Lhe re- sult on street street was who are the every bod full of those but | and that and that th incomes, $1 PpPOse spread Kin cont t and cried, practically, not literally ‘Though heavens fall, we n t have a seal the Kin ! people rhisksy he wine flask vill not be more appropriat ) ie working classes hess classes the and the pro u ) . when nist ! A gone with strong dr he it ing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can He him hand and put stop any time he wants to cannot The and foot, out his ey Philistines have bound and shorn his locks es and are making him grind in the mill of He can- He knows ourse is bringing ruin upon He he w a great horror not that himself stop I will prove it his « loves himself. If he could He his course upon his He would stop if he could stop ould knows is bringing ruin family wes them He He months to Kedws he « three him he cann Perhaps he could not Just ask month; he cannot 80 he does not try. drunkard in files on every nerve, and muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with every flame, and and pulls at What reptiles sleeping limbs! What his midnight pillow! What groans tear his ear! What hor rors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Juggernaut-he feels them all at once, Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital where these inebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driving back the attendants, thelr volees sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says: ‘‘Hidsh, mow be still! Stop making all this noise!” now stop for a annot, God only knows what the suffers, Ja travels ever stings with every poison, him with every torture crawl over his flends stand by | But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon as the keeper they begin again: 0 God! 0 God! Help Help! Drink! Give me Help! Take them off me O God!" And then they shriek. and then they raw they pluck i eir hair by and bite their nails into the « then the thes they bla is gone drink and | and ersto kil me! me! thi the this of von coming Again, he much he if this mastered Passio strong him he will do the thing and, if drink his How nu rageous [| xt Kt § sell in that 8 An Y¢'12 your Indval IAD Oe oked often upon ti ing next to \ pos thare re » ages there are ag wful ¢ Aw in } rage De po pe wier mug, foam at the white letters Bp to our soul, Beware! judgment 000,000 drunkards come up to get their I want you to that I. in the fear of God and in the love for told you, with all affection and all kindness, to that which has already exerted fluence upon your family, of lights—a premonition of the blackness of darkness for ever, Oh, if d only hear ance with drunkard’'s bones drumming 4 books of are open, and 10 doom, bear witness your soul, with beware of its in blowing out some its you coul intemper- on the head of the liquor cask the dead methinks the very glance of a wine cup would make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the blood of the soul, aud the foam on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the maniacs lip; and you would kneel down and pray God that, rather than your children should become captives of this evil habit, you would like to earry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery, and put them away to the last sleep, until at the eall of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave—sweel prophecies of the resurrection! God has a balm for such » wound; but what flower of com. fort ¢ver grew on a drunkard’s sepul cher? march of immortal souls, Preserve Their Color, Roses discovered in tombs containing Egyptian mummies often have their colors perfect, even though some of those found must be over §,000 years old, [CLIMATIC EXTREMES, | PARTS OF THI PECULIARITY COUNTRY WITH ONE OR ANOTHER, | The Yellowstone Has the Greatest Range of Temperature Denth Valley the Hot. Where It Hil test Viace Huins Every Day. Over the From Winter to Summer, y Tun abo ti nited tales a Uilaritics as has rvation The | temper piace having ture of familiar is stone | y winter the 11 valley. J infrequently mercury tumbles down to H0 | degrees below to 120 rang rang known in summ to climb up degrees above f 1 LEO astern slop ! 1s of snow |} ¢r than the » cars in a lon inding lan : by the Ww Ones thn lun ined on the rthem 1 the Great North behind western han an ETrass rivers ing their in Januar yor Lh whole dis JON you have travers bring alx tion is less than The most peculiar « with which 1 mati region am familiar is the sound basin, in the state of It is separated from the west by the rugged snow the Olympic mountains, boundary is the still loftier range of the Cascades. The sound is connected with the Pacifico by the broad strait of Juan de Fuea, and up this strait pours a groat volume of moist air, brought by the Japan current from far out to sea. The mountains of Vancouver island on one i Washington, | ocean on the | side and the Olympics on the other make of the strait an enormous funnel, and | the moisture laden winds are condensed | against the cold, snowy ranges on either | hand and are precipitated in frequent | showers upon the shores of the sound It rarely snows there, but it rains a lit tlo almost every day from October to June, The result is to produce a dense vegetable growth in the forest consisting of immense troes—firs, hemlooks, sprooces and oodars—and of undergrowth so dense that it is almost impossible to foroe your way through it without hard work with an ax. A St Paul man of my acquaintance went out to that region to seo what ho called his farm. He owns a tract of land five or six miles from Olympia, the eapital of the state, and had often boasted about that farm to his acquaintances, Ho set out from Olympia on horseback to view the land, but after three hours’ hard struggle in the forest ho turned back without even getting sight of his possessions, and was follow. od rw far as the clearing by a cougar, which hastened his progress by its dis mal and menacing howls Chicago Times Herald in the | roofs of | BOOK ped | wagh | Pacific, or Puget | clad range of | and its eastern | MOTHERHOOD. How Good Constitutions Are Transmitted to Children. icycles Columbia—nor Grestest Bicycle Fact Bra H . las are —because none so good ismade.” 100 TO ALL ALIKE Hartfords are next best, “A thousand dollars would not a better bicycle than the ‘just as good” $60, %50, *45 POPE MFG. 0, Hartford, Conn. W re than vy Acres Flo ER t Space. A. LL. 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