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Title: Danger; or Wounded in the House of a Friend
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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