Item - The Dime Youth's Speaker and Reform Orator

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers — no. 16
Alternate Title:	The Dime Youth's Speaker and Reform Orator: Comprising Topics of the Times, Treated in Beautiful Extracts and Original Discourse. Prose and Verse
Subjects / Tags:	Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Contents:	A Call to the Field! (Work, pages 9-10) To Retailers! (Work, pages 10-13) War, War to the Death (Work, pages 13-14) Adjuration to Duty and Honor (Work, pages 14-16) The Crusader's Appeal (Work, pages 16-17) A Boy's Testimony (Work, pages 17-19) I Have Drank My Last Glass (Work, pages 19-21) The Spirit-Siren (Work, pages 21-22) Rum's Maniac (Work, pages 22-26) Life Is What We Make It (Work, pages 27-29) Taste Not (Work, page 29) The Evil Beast (Work, pages 30-41) Help (Work, pages 42-43) The Hardest Lot of All (Work, pages 43-45) The Curse of Rum (Work, pages 45-47) The Two Dogs—A Fable (Work, pages 47-48) The Source of True Reform (Work, pages 48-49) The Rum Fiend (Work, pages 49-51) True Law and False (Work, pages 51-52) In Bad Company (Work, pages 53-54) The Only True Nobility (Work, page 55) The Inebriate's End (Work, page 56) A Drunken Soliloquy (Work, pages 57-58) The Work To Do (Work, pages 58-60) The Labor is to Pray (Work, pages 60-61) The Successful Life (Work, pages 61-64) Better Than Gold (Work, pages 64-65) Seed Time and Harvest (Work, pages 65-67) Invocation to Cold Water (Work, pages 67-68) Now (Work, page 69) The Great Lesson to Learn (Work, pages 70-71) The Toper's Lament (Work, pages 72-73) God's Liquor (Work, pages 73-74) Value of Life Work (Work, pages 74-75) "Accept the Situation" (Work, pages 75-77) Died of Whiskey (Work, pages 77-78) A Story With A Moral (Work, pages 78-80) Breakers Ahead! (Work, pages 80-81) Ichabod Sly.—An Ancient Tale With A Modern Application (Work, pages 82-84) Effects of Intemperance (Work, pages 84-85) The Whisky Why Is It (Work, pages 85-88) Local Option (Work, pages 88-91) Be Good to the Body (Work, pages 91-92) Worth Makes The Man (Work, pages 92-94)
Date:	1874
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	10314348
Edition Description:	Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	94 pages
Notes:	"The title reads: "The Dime Youth's Speaker and Reform Orator: Comprising Topics of the Times, Treated in Beautiful Extracts and Original Discourse. Prose and Verse." It was copyrighted in 1874, but the exact date was not found."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels