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Show Jhuitlh in a Nutshell. Judge Johnson, of California, in pissing piss-ing sentence of death on a criminal. made use of the following language: Nor sbali the place be forgotten in which occurred the shedding of blcod. It was one of those thousand antechambers ante-chambers of hell, which mar like plague-spots the fair face oT our S ate. You need not be told that I mean a tippling-ehop the meeting-place op Satan's minionSjand the foul cesspool which by spontaneous generation breeds and nurtures all that is loathsome, loath-some, and disgusting in profanity, and babbling, and vulgarity, and Sabbath-breaking. Sabbath-breaking. I would not be the owner of a eroggery for the price of this world converted into ore. For the pitiful sum of a dime he furnished the poison which made the diseased a fool and this trembling culprit a demon. de-mon. How paltry a sum for two human lives 1 This' trafhc is tolerated tolera-ted by law, and therefore the vender has committed an act not cognizable by earthly tribunals jbut in sight- of Him who is unerring wisdom, he who ' 1 - - deliberately furnishes the intoxicating draught which inflames men into violence vio-lence and anger and bloodshed, is par-tiepps par-tiepps criminis in the moral terpitude of the deed, Is it not high time that those sinks of vice and crime should o ' be held rigidly accountable to the laws of the land, and placed under the bm of ai enlightened and virtuous virtu-ous public opinion?" K, Y. Witness. |