Newspapers / Spirit of the Age … / Dec. 4, 1868, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Spirit of the Age [1873-1???] (Raleigh, NC) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
v is u r u -is THE FRIEND 0F TEMPERANCE, IS PUBLLSHED ETEBY FRIDAY, AtXo. 1, FaycttevilU? St., Haleigli, N. C., '-'' '.. v-' : -;v -R v - : ' I-:- ! It. II. WIIITAKGR, Cditor. THE FEIEND OF TEMPEBAHOE. 1TB r1 ri II ADVERTISING RATES: A limited number of adrertbrmmts wflrC? in-erted at the following rmt: - V ' : : i -.- ..'i, One sqnare. one insertion, .1 $1 C9 For each subsequent Insertion Jf Eight lines or less constitute Libentl arrangements will be made with par :.t ....... .. mm, XSJ 0tee orcr iV. C Boole-Store, THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ORDEIt .OF THE FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE. KfnrrfaVnnv- I push in ftdranee.1 ' . . . . ft I An i;FiTeopie, T " j ' - ....., o au 12 50 ......... 20 00 .Ten . - " Twenty " " - VOL. IT. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1868. 4 1VO. 32. 4 urs wismng 10 aurerue or me uonia or year. 11 lilHI - urn i p y um i ONE HUNDRED. YEARS FROM NO W. Itr MISS XKM.IK MAIlSIJiLf- . Vbe lips of time have lightly prcssM , i ; Tht nhow ol my.young brrw; UoVmanj will they have caress'd ! ; Oae hnnMreA1 years from now? kit - i'Sn r-A-i'-.----::- '.r'...i ' rf'X. cf-t. irif' iTho minsbmc Mantes on the hill, ' Mist tangs o vr the mead, , ' I Vhere flowers arc struggling np to filling Through bramble,1 brier and weed;' AlftwSabt and sbiue. mill fadeaway, - ' '.' :Anl mead yield to the plough, Ami flowers and brambles low be laid, ; One hundred years from now ! ' r - ;" ) : i . , :i: j J .: ; V-i : - - j ' - The leaves are green on hill and wold, , And will be green again; Tho rver sweeps through Holds of gold, To meet the smiling m iin ; f ' And merry! birds are warbling gay i Upon each leafy bough, lint they will wing uo songs fur mo , One hundred-years from now ! i 'The weried and solemn stirs serene That gem the brow of night, Thro' lapsing time have ver been As changeless, cold and bright; And though they now look smiling'down Uxn my girlish brow. , -"TbryMl smile the same upon my grave ' Cne hundred years from now! lt U a aid. sad thouight to mo, And. starts the teii'ler te-irs. When gazing down I the vistas graj Ofd m uncertaio years; . To fel that over all I love M tit gather mould and rust. And that the friends I hold so dear Will sometime turn to dust ! i Jtsein a long. long tim" to wait For years. to' come and go. And yet my be.irt do' !i truly feel It surely nnst beLso. O. m iy my lif.. le true nn l sweet. i ; No fiiadow gloom mv brow ! V lfray.(F I. with m, "twill all be well One hun Ire 1 years from now ! 5W York,18l8. I ir v V V V VVV V V V From the Soldiers Friend. GERTRUDE. THE EXILE ASD REUKION. In one of the interior counties ol "New .York State, about thirty years ngo, there lived a mneh-esteemed fam4 ily having an only daughter, beautiful j and accomplished, the delight of her parents' hearts, and a general favor ite among her associates. We will call her Gertrude C . In an .evil hour, she mot and became acquainted with a young gentleman who was said to bear a good repn tat ion . Ho had polished manners' ami a fine intellect, And soon became the .accepted visitor nt tho house of Gertrude. He made iv proposal for her hand and was ac cepted; but, before their marriage took place, her parents removed to the far West, hoping and believing that their daughter would accompany them, and thus, wean her affections i kOin the man to whom she had be come engaged. It had previously been intimated to the. parents that this young man was a moderate drink er, that he often tarried long at his wine; and it did not take the . ladyfs fatherdong to decide that he was by jio means a suitable companion for his daughter. In vain did he plead yvith his clild to cast him off. ; Fruitless were his endeavors to point out o Jier the probability that the moderate drinker would become an habitual drinker; j and when he saw his advice find counsel unheeded, he determined ko go tothe West, striving to per uado Gertrude to go with them and make them happy in their old age.j Put the daughter would not consent; jibe bad promised to marry Mr. J iiud did not wish to be released from Jier engagement. He was the only jnan that she had ever truly loved, and with all the ardor of a woman's pure lieart did she bestow upou ' him her . entire affections. Her parents left ; but Gertrude remained in' her native town, and, in process of time, became the wife of Mr. J ; The first year of their married life passed away very pleasantly to both; but soon the re poit was circulated that he spent much of his tiroo at the village tavern. The devotedWifevas forced to be- lieve this, for she could see it in his eye, and read it upon his countenance, and felt it in his words ' of anger as they pierced her heart-.' Now, she be gan to realize her forlorn condition in life, and ponder upon the connsel of her kind father, and began to regret that she had not heeded his roice of warning, as he said to her: ' Ger trude, the moderate drinker will make a confirmed drankaYcfrsome tyne.A The years- flew by; they -sfemed qnick:io her after they were i" gone, but very slow and long while they- were passing. Four bright, active children were now with them in that house- hold, which might have been a happy one were it not that the husband ami father loved the. intoxicating cup more thrm his wife and children, and the ale-house better than his home. Poor J had expended his little fortune that had been left by a de ceased relative, and lfow he was to de pend upon his six hours through the day to bring him the means of his in dulgence, for he was seldom able to labor longer. His onc;e vigorous and manly frame showed signs of prema- I ture decay; his hand was tremulous, his foot unsteady, 'his body bent, and ij scarcely any qne would have recog i nized in him the tall, handsome man j of eight years before. As very little j of his earnings reached his home, his ; wife sought to provide for herself and I children as seamstress and laundress. Being of a delicate constitution, this oppressive labor,' together with, the torture of her mind, wore upon ( her, so that she finally became prostrated, and for a long time her life was near ly despaired of. This sickness instead of reforming him' in the least degree, seemed to incense . the .fiery ; demon within him ; he accused her 4 of false pretense and indolence because she could not earn her daily bread. Then, with a loader tone, the echo of the fa ther's voice seemed wafted to her J in the Western breeze, saving: "Ger saying: trude, the moderate drinker will some day become a confirmed druukard." Slowlv she began to. recover health, and applied herself to her accustomed avocation; but, still the inebriate hus band was not satisfied. She never did enough, although she diligently plied her n&cdle,until a late hour at night, and arose long before the approach of day, when her exhausted body needed rest. Business became dull. 'Ger trude could not sget employment in those times of panic and stagnation, which will live in the memorv of all wjio passed through them. Then came the crisis. She had a proud spirit; she could not . let her suffering be known, until her sunken eye and haggard cheek spoke plainly to her neighboi's of her destitute con dition. They questioned her concern ing her domestic affairs, and, after much evasion, she acknowledged her distress. If her brutal husband was unkind to her when she was striving to obtain a livelihood, . now when he saw her hands idle with nothing to do he treated her in a more cruel man ner, seldom coming into the house without using violence. Yet Ger trude was ever silent concerning her unhappy life and the ill-treatment by her husband. She scarcely ever spoke ! his-name, .but when she did it was ! with reverence thai would have done! honor to a better man. The eldest child was now ten 3Tears of aje, tl:e youngest four, when she resolved to : al ut tuev to. ready accep Jeave forever the home that had been I tace to be altogether fake: naiiD-ht but one of miserv and contin ual sorrow, friends, and She went!, among her , V - .. succeeded m hndmg homes for the three eldest children telling no person what she intended to do. She saw them comfortable in . , j . their new inmps: and the fcrst onnor- ! ' . 1 tunny mat presentea useu sue nirea a boy to take some baggage to the railroad station. At night when all was sua sue ook ner 1 Ml .1 a 'It .. .. .... . 1 ana wenaea ner way neany a mne through the darkness of the night, and reached the cars, whose lightning speed was to 'convey her far away from the loved ones she had left to the care of utrangers, and from the place that to her would have been a paradise had her husband never be come a drunkard. She -went no one knew whither. None blamed her for going, none were sorry. Her eleven years of married life ; had "been years of the greatest agony. ; Sae was now to find some placo sVere she might pass a few brief years Providence permitting, in quiet and alone. Oih er years passed away. She never re turned, nor was she agayi heard from in that vicinity. About ten years af ter his wife's departure, J died a horrible death of delirium tremens, in an old, unoccupied building, forsaken and alone, within a stone's throw of his brother's mansion The wretched man had suffered with this terrible disease three weeks, and at last had crawled upon his' hands and knees in to the oi l building to die. ' And there with no hands to press his ' aching brow none to give him a" drop of wa ter to cool his narchedr lins. ' in this awful condition, he breathed out the iat moments of his misspent life, and gave up his spirit to be reserved for the judgment:- Surely, it was proved' in his case that "the wav of the trans gressor is hard." 1 Their children grew up to .maturity. The two oldest, very much respected young ladies,' have married well; the third a -son, volunteered in the Union army, was wounded in an engagement with the enemy, and removed to the Lincoln General Hospital at Wrashing ton, where he was cared for by an el deMy female nurse. Poor L lay there for weeks, rack; th"-" est mm: but all thaW iBJ thiziug heart and ready:fcliatds' could do for him were being done; to alle viate his sufferings. His nurse was one of the faithful ones who spared not her own strength to help her fellow-creatures in distress. One day as Mie had bathed his fevered brow, and prepared to sit down and read him a portion from the Sacred Word, he re quested her to read from his i little testament that his mother had : given him when a little boy. She opened it what a sight met her gaze! She read: "Lorenzo J , township of C- , N. Y." She suddenly cried out: "Boy ! how came you by this testa ment?! am deceived 1 It cannot be! You my son ? and I your lost mother ? No ! no ! it cannot be !'': She looked at him again yes! his eyes were just as blue, and had sickness nut come .up on him, would have had the same ex pression as when his mother left him long years before. . Yes I it was her own son, and,abe was reading iu tiiat little book her ovYn hand-writing, the last that she penned before leaving her home. This unexpected intelli gence, and the excitement which it occasioned were too much for the poor, . wounded, ; emaciated body to bear; he vas taken that , evening with hemorrhage of the ' lungs, and after three days of languishing dropped asleep, to awaken no more, -until-the moming of the resurrection. The following familiar lines 1 On go ing to Church' have made their ap- pearance again, as one of those things which cannot be suffered to die. The views they take may be a little cyni- . I Some go to church just for a walk; ! B w- ' ! Some o there for speculation; , 6omfl J0 there fo observation: : Some no there to ineetti lover: D . " - .. Some the impulse oft discover; Some S tiere l? m?et a fri; Some co there the time to spend; , . . , . . - : fcome cro to learn tne parsou s name; .j Some go there to wound his fame; ! Many go there to doze and nod; : But few go there to worship God ! ' , WW 0f thirtv-five marriageable dauh W ; ; . ters. - DRINK A ESP 0 TISM. In February, lGG, a lady sent for a physician to se her husband, who was laboring un$er symptoms which she could not comprehend. ,He was a man with over jhree hundred thou sand dollars, waliighly esteemed and had a most interesting family. To an ordinary eye, Jhere was do special disease; there wa ho pain,t there was po strength, no appetite, no ; enjoy ment; but the physician, in the pecu liar condition, discovered that the pa tient was laboring under the influence of long-continued and incessant sttm ulation. He communicated his views to the wife as so&n as an opportunity offered and retired. The husband naturally desired to know the physi cian s opinion: f'He said, my dear husband, that you were under the in fluence v constant stimulation, and that unless you j renounce the habit, you cannot live - three months." "I can t do it," said he, and within the time he was buried. Every earthly consideration of i family, fortune and friends appealed! to him in vain, and failed to drag him away from his sui cidal habits; to all their calling him from despotic indulgences, he could only respond: I "leant do itr and yielding himself hopelessly to his captor he perished in his prime. ; It is related thiat a man, addicted to drink, was sent to the penitentiary for some crime; ;no liquor was allowed convicts, except! by special medical direction, and etery possible device having failed to (secure him a supply, he came running to the keeper one day, holding outthe bleeding stump ... . Ji the moment, a bbwl was handed him, into which was thrust the gory stump, and the next instant he gulped the contents at aj draught. Such are some of tho despotisms of drink, and the only certaiufmethod of preventing one from fallingrunder the influence of a tyranny so terrible, is never to 1 1 take a drop- such only are safe. Ini 1852, wheii the yellow fever ra ged so furiouslyj-in New Orleans, near ly five thousand of the supporters of grog-shops diedi: before a single tem perance man was attacked by the dis- ease, in tne verv same vear. wnen nine hundred dipd 'of cholera, only three were tetotft-lers; and when the pestilence swept off one in sixty of the entire population of Albany, N. Y., on ly one in the twenty-five hundred of the strictly tinperate were seized with the malady. Yet, with these facts before thepeop!e, and the dis ease at our ver$ doors, a very large number of ourfmerchants and .-multi- tudes of mechanics find it impossible to leave off the use of spirituous liq uors, even for jtfseason; with so terri ble malady staring them in the face, intelligent men Will drink and die I Hall's Journal W 'Health. In a certainj jonvention of temper ance philanthropists, ; a clergyman made a plausible defense of the moral riht of even prood men to drink and to offer alcoholic liquors. Tetotalism he denounced Is fanatical and un - scriptural. He talked glibly about the wine Used at Cana of Galilee though not very understandinglyand insisted that for one he should claim the right to use liquors at his own ta ble and in social gatherings. When he had concluded his sophistical ar gument, an old man arose under much emotion. His voice trembled i with grief.' Turning to the Convention, he said in substance to them. I know a young man. He is fast becoming an inebriate. I fear he is ruined. When he is urged to give up the wine-cup, he always pleads the example of a cer . .1 ... .1 -TT tain popular clergyman, jie savs that while that minister takes his glifis and defends it, he means to do the same. Orentiemen ! that poor in temperate youth is my son; and the clergyman whose eviL example he is following is the very same one who has just addressed ihe Convention ! THE ARMIES OF THE WOULD. At the present day the standing ar mies of tho world are larger than thejp have been since the wars of the first Napoleon. The army of the United States now numbers 5G,000 men in all. The cost of our army is $100,000,000, or nearly $2,00(),000 per 1,000 men. The army of France has been fixed at 750,000 men in the 'active army and 550,000 in the passive the latter be ing named the National Guard Mo bile. Total, 1,300,000 men 'available for war: A contingent of 100,000 men is annually available to recruit the ar-. The British army numbers about crf rr'r mi i ... iuu.uuu uieu. x lie uuik vi bills UTuy is at home, Ireland absorbing about 25,000 good troops. Of the colonies or foreign possessions, India takes the largest body of troops, the Dominion of Canada next, Australia next f The Prussian army numbers about 600,000 men. ; The Italian army now numbers 215,000 men, and is a very effective one. In one of its arms, the Bersagh eri, or; rifle battalions, it excels even the French army, whose Zouaves were supposed to be the first light infantry in the! world. The Austrian army numbers about 700,000 men; its cavalry is said to bo very fine. The government breeds its own horses, and thus secures good ones. ; -. . . The Russian army numbers about 800,000. It could be quickly increas ed to 11,200,000 in time of war. It is spread all over the empire, from the Baltic to the Caucasus.-- - -, . . The Spanish army is small, not ex ceeding 80,000 men, but it is very well clothed and disciplined. It is also re ceiving breech-loaders. ' The number of men maintained in the standing armies of civilized na tions, is not less than 3,600,000. All these .men are snatched away s from useful industries, and condemned to idleness and a vicious life, while tho aboring people are taxed for their support and the costly armaments hey require. Is it not an expensive fiolice force ? Would it not be cheap er to dethrone a few rascals? 1 ; 1 STRANGE LEGACY. A more extraordinary legacy than that bequeathed to his fellow-citizens yy Father la Loque cannot well be imagined.' At his death his body was bund stretched on a miserable bed in an attic of the Quarter de Greneller which is anything but a fashionable district of Paris. He was an old man had lived in the simplest way, sustain ing himself almost entirely on bread. His room contained hardly any furni ture, yet hid in a corner was found a little cupboard with numerous shelves and on these were sorted, with ..the j. j ... j. ,. . 1 ... '".... -.. .-,...-.- greatest order, regiments of corks.- In the centre was a manuscript writ ten by Pere la Loque, on which he stated that he had: formerly been in possession of considerable wealth, now squandered; that of all . his greatness there remained but these corks, drawn in better times to welcome many a friend who had now forgotten. Mm; that age and ruin had taught their moral, and on each cork would ; be found written its history. This . the old man did, hoping that it would serve as a timely warning, and that placed on the shelves of some mnsv- um or OI a pnnosopuer a siuuy, tuey might -be fouud to illustrate human nature. On one of the corks was an inscription to this effect: "Champagne cork; bottle emptied 12th of May, 1843, with M. B , who -wishes to interest me in a business by which I was to make ten millions. This af fair cost me $50,000. M. B es caped to Belgium. A caution to ama teurs." On another appears; tne fol lowing note: "Cork of u bottle of Cy press wine, emptied on tho 4th of De cember, 1850 with a dozen fast friends. Of these I have not found a single one to help mo on the dayt 01 my ruin." .
Spirit of the Age [1873-1???] (Raleigh, NC)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 4, 1868, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75