6G THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1807. TAVERNS, Thoy Cursed an Italian Village In £6. Paul's Time. LN Btrong Drink is the World's Greatest Foe ~At Nays Its Patrons and Destroys Thelr Homes A Glowing Tribute to Neal Dow, Rev. Dr. Talmage's was a powerful plea for the cause of temperance. annihilation. lis text was Acts “They came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns.” Seventeen miles south of Rome, Italy, | unfortunate | name. A tavern is a place of entertain | of the! there was a village of ment, and, in our time, part entertainment is a provision of cants. One such place you think would have been enough for that Italian village. of them, with doors tainment and obfuscation. has You remember the condition on one occasion, and of Abigail's band, Nabal, and the story of Belshaz intoxi- for The stimulating dr of open never lacked Noah wine in old bottles, and whole para- sands of years before Neal Dow born; and no doubt there were whole | shelves of hotels which gave the name to the vile | Be to | Paul's friends s the’ ancient lage, where meet him, In vain I for some satisfying acco village seacoast Actium, the last road Paul traveled n that vill came namely Taverns ree search ography of Two roads from the to that and the came beine veiling There offices. bu All we had a laverns gree rves of Charleston than two days out the ship struck the rocks A lifeboat all its passengers. A standing with her child was launched, but sank with mother was seen on the deck of the steamer in her arms A wrenched the child from the arms and rolled it into the s¢ mother leaped after it sailors rushed to the of tl oat and drank themselves drunk Wave mother's » and the bar Ninety five human beings went down wm the of the of the But not until the judgment day when the Both up the story of earthly disasters shall be fully told, will it be known how many yachts, steamers, brigantine war and ocean greyhounds been lost through captain and made in. competent by aleoholie dethronement At the first 6f the three taverns the wines are of eclebrated vintage, and the whiskies are said to be pure, and they are quaffed from cut glass, at marble side tables, under pletures ap proaching masterpieces. The patrons never to rise, or to be ficated up amid he fragments What w the A drunken sea captain beach wreck, ne Cn se disaster? shall dead, and give its 5, men-of have crew pull off their kid gloves and hand their | silic hats to the waiter, and push their hair with a hand which is a cameo, are apt to stop visiting that place, It is not the money that & man pays for latest sermon | He describes the evils of | the saloon and prophesies its complate | 28:15: | would | No! There were three | enters | world | inks. | hus- | {| morning, and left on the sidewall, zar's feast, and Benhallad, and the new | was | inflammatory liquid in those that | | at the last it biteth 1! on one finger of | But those patrons | ‘drinks, for what are a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to a man of large income-~but their brain gets touched, and that unbalances their judgment, and they can see fortunes in enterprises surcharged with disaster. In or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down to tavern the sees ond, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion, and the small table is rougher, and the castor standing on it is of German silver, and the air has been kept over from the night before, and that which they sip from the pewter mug has a larger pers centage of benzine, ambergris, sote, henbane, strychnine, prussic acid, coculus indicus, plaster of paris, cop peras, and nightshade. The patron may be seen almost every day, and pers haps many times the same day at this tavern the second, but he is preparing to graduate, Brain, liver, heart, nerves, are rapidly giving away. That tavern the second has its dis mal echo in his business destroyed and family scattered, and woes that choke one's vocabulary longer Creo. Time passes on, and he tavern the third; a red light outside; a hicecoughing and be- sotted group inside. He will be dragged out about 2 in the be- cause the bartender wants to shut up, enters of doors o'clock The poor victim has taken the regular graphs on prohibition enactment thou- | course in the college of degredation. He has his diploma written on his swollen, bruised, and blotehed physiog- nomy. He is a regular graduate of the Three Taverns. As the police take him up and put him in the ambulance, the wheels seem to rumble with two rolls ‘Ta OK not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for of thunder, one of which says ike a serpent and der.” The other like an =a thunder roll says stingeth “All drunkards shall in the that ith fire and that to have their place lake burneth w brimstone Notice a profound mj these Italian register tells the names of at the book taverns; as to how there is n jug to suggest what what are the physiologi- drink, what it of the of strong he tisues liver and the ventric the brain; and ns did not les of where. generat) thei a3 olLer rea.ize until bodies were generation is before it sua is before & the abyss y Lhires eras these last Three Tas their of the 'H-up wili take that « Te exampie lass, aware they have been | turn their be back upon the satisfied with the natural beve rages God ine tended for the stimulus of the race the Java coffee plantations furnishing the best of the and the Chinese tea fields the best of the And some day the barroom will be crowded with people at the and the auctioneer’s mallet pound at the sale the appurtenances. The second of these last three taverns will take down its flaming sign and extin- guish its red light for and two that one, other vendue will of all and close its doors, working classes will have con- to buy their horses and furnish their own beautifal homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their and nstead of the the brewers, and liquor sellers with wardrobes and mirrors and And the next time that second tavern Is opened it will be a drug store, or a bakery, or a cluded own own wives daughters, proviaing distillers, cart dry goods establishment, or a school, 11 hen there will be only one more of the three dissipating taverns left. I don't know in what eountry or city or neighborhood it will be, but look at it, fag it is the very last. The last in- ebFiate will have staggered up to its { counter and put down his pennies for his dram. Its last horrible adulters- tion will be mixed and quaffod to eat out the vitals and inflame the brain The last drunkard will have stumbled down its front steps. The last spasm of delirium tremens caused by it will be struggled through, The old rookery will be torn down, and with its de- molition will elose the long and awful reign of the mightiest of earth's abomns inations. The last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly blotted cut as were the three taverns of my text With these thoughts I cheer Chris tian reformers in their work, and what rejoleing on earth and in Heaven there will be over the consummation in a few days one of the greatest of the leaders in this cause went up to en- thronement, The world never had but one Neal Dow, and may never have an- other. He has been an illumination to the century. The stand he took has directly and indirectly saved hundreds of thousands from drunkards’ graves. the wharves at Portland, Me., covered with casks of West Indian rum (nearly an acre of it at one time), and the city smoking with seven distilleries, he began the warfare against drunken- more than half a ago. The good he has Rone, the homes he has kept the sense with has Seeing ness century . mors infused two neither to let die, inviolate, high he story 1 earth nor Heaven can atford Derided, belittled, ligned, for a which generations, is a at caricatured, quarter of a century as few men have been he has lived on un- til at his decease universal newspaper dom speaks his praise and the eulo- his side of the up by the cathe- glums of his career on sea have been caught dral the other for God when at half-past 8 o'clock in organ sounding requiem on His whole having been and the worl betterment the after noon of October 2 he left his home on earth surrounded by loving ministries, and entered ti gates of eternal residence, 1 i unusual him because yf wh hri ’" gone only for intensified wr are deciding the nt $ po alll 1 actment, he will help the right and rise up un In the last lismayed from temporary defeat this battle wiil be until and the smoke of Neal Dow vietory is gained, the last dis tillery has aud last tear of despoiled homesteads shall Oh, curled on the air, the ped away After you from your aepartie have BgeDariar good rest struggie YOArs and rist campaign began it will close with the supernatural; and the winds and the waves and the light- nings and the earthquakes will cote in the side; and our champions will on right ascended the world sees them or does not see them I donot think that those great souls departed are going to do nothing here- after but sing psalms, and play harps, and breathe frankincense, and walk seas of glass mingled with fire. The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post-mortem mission, with faculties quickened and velocities multiplied; and it may have been to that our dying reformer re- when he "} free!” There may bigger worlds than this to be return, whether ferred long to be be redeomed, and abominations to this ipline more gigantic be ever gotten here drill for a world, and overthrown than the may only be preliminary campaign in other perhaps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, be cause of their grander achievements in greater spheres, will not forget this old world where they prayed and suf- fered and trivmphed. Church militant und church trivmphant, but two divi sions of the same army-right wing and left wing, One army of the living God, AL His command we bow Part of the host have crossed the food, world ® Yi: Ana some Moxienn Chewing Gum. 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FAULK rev-al EOMEOPATEIC SPECIFIC Ho. r Waakn — a Nervous Debility, Vita af «Ff £22 wey BELLE eo TTT TT TE TP TT TT FT TT A PITT TH TPO TT TT TTI ITI TIT Ne CALL ON _——yg SHCHLER & (CO FONTE ee id aoe \ A111 l1] LAdddiijlliiliiiiiiiiiiiniiiigiionyg a at a a a a OBAMA RARE LRR LALA in All Eve, Ear, hose, All Eye Operations Throat, Lungs Diseases and Nasal Catarrh Chronic ~ { 1 » Successfully Performed. ‘| HE CURES AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL. | as 1a 1 de ¢hamb and other { Ribbon « tho material opth-patterned not imperative iho monaseling Though flow straw braid | mitrasting with lcome addition to He use a Gold is wrought into some of arming, with happy resulta n, 6 hat of fancy green fo and most sonsonabio Tho crown ie Ligh, but is almost hidden under a tangle of bluets, the slender, biadedike foli- ago being copied from Nature ss faithfully ss the flower. The brim, of medium size, is bent up at the left sido and a tall bunch of the lovel blossoms is fixed upon i. Toward the bac and also at the left wide bluets are arranged among loops of Nilegroen ribbon, a Rhine. stone pin supplementing tho trimming. The color yl is particularly charming. From The Deineator. IVED OFF BREAD AND MILK Fon For more than 5 years | catarth, stomach amd general cold continually. For one ar could eat only bread and milk ent doctors to get rd of my misery worse and worse So 1 went! 1o see for treatment. and today 1 am as strong as ever. can eal anvibing, don’t take any more cold, and consider myself cured of this terrible disease, JON MH. Kavresas, Mattawanas, Pa YEARS ad a bad case of d one CATARRYM AXD EYE TS 8 For more than 5 years | have ad a very case of eye trouble and eatarth. The eyes oon tinuall got sore and grew weaker weaker I always took cold. Dir. Salm cured mw y CLEVELAND KiMunuLy Withessed by A. J. Kimbely Mifflin county, Ma DONE GOOD WORK 1 had a very bad ease of eatarrh and oye for more than & years, and consequently i gave me i world of trouble, I was obliged to ree Dr. Salm: under his lreatment the change Is wonderfully rapid Tad and MeVeyton wore Diseases of Women. sueh as cured. All Eye Operations su My friends are astonished | think with me nderfy as well, and done another w Louis « that piece of Dr. Salm work SHANNON, Whitestown has Pa ACASE OF CATAREN AND THEOAT TROUBLE ¥ than three years our two children have been suffering from eatarrh and throat : i Y oS More rouble, also enlarged tonsils. They were con nually taking eold ; could hardly breathe at ight ir constitutions became undermined After a short course of treatment with Dr. Salm they have almost entirely recovored from theds miserable disease. J. F. 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