Danger
Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885
English
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DANGER;
OR, WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND.
BY T. S. ARTHUR,
AUTHOR OF "THREE YEARS IN A MAN-TRAP," "CAST ADRIFT," "TEN NIGHTS IN
A BAR-ROOM," ETC., ETC.
PHILADELPHIA, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO.
1875
PREFACE.
ALL efforts at eradicating evil must, to be successful, begin as
near the beginning as possible. It is easier to destroy a weed when
but an inch above the ground than after it has attained a rank
growth and set its hundred rootlets in the soil. Better if the evil
seed were not sown at all; better if the ground received only good
seed into its fertile bosom. How much richer and sweeter the
harvest!
Bars and drinking-saloons are, in reality, not so much the causes as
the effects of intemperance. The chief causes lie back of these, and
are to be found in our homes. Bars and drinking-saloons minister to,
stimulate and increase the appetite already formed, and give
accelerated speed to those whose feet have begun to move along the
road to ruin.
In "THREE YEARS IN A MAN-TRAP" the author of this volume uncovered
the terrible evils of the liquor traffic; in this, he goes deeper,
and unveils the more hidden sources of that widespread ruin which is
cursing our land. From the public licensed saloon, where liquor is
sold to men--not to boys, except in violation of law--he turns to
the private home saloon, where it is given away in unstinted measure
to guests of both sexes and of all ages, and seeks to show in a
series of swiftly-moving panoramic scenes the dreadful consequences
that flow therefrom.
This book is meant by the author to be a startling cry of "DANGER!"
Different from "THE MAN-TRAP," as dealing with another aspect of the
temperance question, its pictures are wholly unlike those presented
in that book, but none the less vivid or intense. It is given as an
argument against what is called the temperate use of liquor, and as
an exhibition of the fearful disasters that flow from our social
drinking customs. In making this argument and exhibition the author
has given his best effort to the work.
WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND.
CHAPTER I.
SNOW had been falling for more than three hours, the large flakes
dropping silently through the still air until the earth was covered
with an even carpet many inches in depth.
It was past midnight. The air, which had been so still, was growing
restless and beginning to whirl the snow into eddies and drive it
about in an angry kind of way, whistling around sharp corners and
rattling every loose sign and shutter upon which it could lay its
invisible hands.
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