Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-05-24
.yOB PRINTING.
How TO make a Horse Drink.

Our friend Judge Edmonds, who, amid all his
dry labors, relshes joke well as another, tells
some pleasant stories of incidents which some
tines occur on his country circuits. Among them
iso one connected with the temperance cause, which
Two or three years ago disturbed the State and ag
hated all classes, by reason of the submission TO
,be ballot-box on the question whether any licen-
sss to sell liquor should be granted. The Judge
was holding court in the country at the time the
vote was taken, and for week or two afterwards
and looked on with curious eye TO see how the
matter worked. He observed especially the fact,
that the strongest vote against licenses was gener-
aly given in those towns where there was the
most drinking, and that in those towns, and in
deed generally, persons who had been in the hab-
it Of drinking, now drank harder than ever, ap-
parently out of spite and to show that they could
drink if they pleased, and would, law or no law.
lie there fore remarked that he never saw so many
drunken men in his life. When he landed from
the steamboat, the men who ferred him over the
river were drunk when he left the small boat
the man who took him up into the village kept his
horses on the run, and, drunk as lord, prided
himself on driving within a few inches OF the
edge Of the road without precipitating his load,
hundred feet down a ravine. Every body, in
short, seemed to be intoxicated witnesses and
parties came in court half seas over. One wit
hess fell in his whole length when leaving the
stand; another got asleep in court, rolled off the
bench, and had to be carried out of the room-and
another was so very Jolly" as they called it,
he could not give his testimony IN sober word
at all One afternoon OF delightful day, early
in the season, after the court had adjourned, the
Judge was sitting on the porch of his hotel, with
several gentlemen around him, whose attention he
was calling to the number Of drunken men then
within sight; and he and they were specula-
Ing upon the effect Of the law, and upon the
Odd sort of feeling which had produced such re-
suit, when man came up TO them most particu-
arly tpsY. He had some business with one OF
the party, and, boozy as he was, showed that he
was smart, shrewd fellow, and withall full OF
iun When he had got through his business, the
Judge said 10 him
suppose, my friend, you didn't vote on the
No License side, this election %
Didn't |, by -!'' was the reply; "yes
did though, tell YOU"
You did!' inquired the Judge; "how did
that happenl"
why, Judge, I'll tell you what it is,' hic-
cupped the fellow, " I'm pretty likely man, when
let liquor alone; it's only when get rum aboard
of ne that l make fool of myself"
swell, why don't you let it alone, then1"
Oh! you see Judge, that's easier said than
done When I'm any where's where it is, must
have il so voted to shut 'em all up"
It's great pity" said the Judge, " for SO
shrewd and intelligent man as you seem to be-
to have acquired such habit What has done
nv
Oh! you see, Judge. was constable five or
SIX years, and then deputy sheriff three years, and
ihen sheriff three years and then constable again;
50 I've been about good deal among the boys,
and got to drinking, and now can't stop. Judge.
III tell you what" he continued, with an apparent
chanee Of the subject that no one could account
or, I" am the universal horse doctor down in the
highlands, where live, and if any body's horse
gets sick they come to me. The other day fell
low came to me and said his horse was sick. /
asked him what was the matter with his horse
lie said he wouldn't drink, and he asked me, what
ne could do to make him drink. | told him to
eject him constable, by thunder--he'd drink then
lsS' enough I'd tried it, you see, and know -