Show HOLIDAY THE perusal of the dispatches during the past week has caused many a shudder to emanate from those unaccustomed to reading the daily calendar the details of bots nots and murders are enough to cause the moral portion of the american republic to almost wish that some secluded spot on this mundane sphere could be found where whiskey was not manufactured or imported nine tenths of the murders and outrages commuted commit ed during the holidays are traceable to liquor else the facts are misrepresented by the dispatches christmas comes only once a year and I 1 am goina to have a bood time says most of the men with this conviction they start in for the purpose of carrying out the above stereotyped expression some proceed in one way and others in another way very many are of the opinion that they cannot have a time unless they pet gloriously di unk this is all well enough it it would end there but unfortunately in many cases it winds up in bloodshed and loss of life some men while under the influence ot liquor are as harmless as does while others are extremely the opposite ibe latter lass ought never permit a drop of the ardent to pass their lips and if they cannot get along without it should lock themselves up until they are themselves again they would thus avoid making graves for then victims and ohp hooes tor themselves when sober no better citizens could be asked for but when liquor gets n reason boes out and they make rome howl then follows of conscience moments for reflection come ben prison birs shut them up from families and friends and they are waiting tor the arty the stern judae shall pronounce the sentence of ye u s in the pen tenoiar ten tiar and possibly death I 1 no man intends barm to any one when he tales his first drink it is the succeeding drinks that impels him on to perform deeds from which he would shrink with the utmost in his sober moments if few moments sober reflections were indulged in previous to the fatal drunks our criminal calendar would not be so full and if men would covern their appetites and not drink to excess suffering families would befar be far less numerous and children could enjoy many luxuries that they are now deprived of because of the excessive of their parents WALKER proposes running for congress in the third maine district next a the famous smoked thirty or forty strong havana cifare a day which had a ffoyd deal to do with his death his brother siro who has just died used fifty or cigarettes a day and abb doctors say the cigarettes killed him every man thinks he is tobacco proof iff is only after death that he finds out bow ho fooled himself |