Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-05-17
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY,

md In many .sountrles-f0r instance, Amer
p of the kind at all = Why,
sir, says fe we can easily see how it
comes about here. Our city supports
public house for every fifteen families
All our poor people suck in whiskey as they
suck in the air. $50, while there are some
that escape free, many acquire Incorporate
habits; and where these are, as we we'll
know, there can Ieneisher health, wealth,
nor decency. You sec before you the dregs
Of the cup; but all through the homes of
the working-clssses there are degrees of the
same vice, end tiIessame Einl Of consequen-
ces, Dfiiia : tsslaans e tie poor man,
90 yes, Bowtell, there can be no doubt
Of that. They might all be very well off
if they only would keep sober. IF they
will make beasts Of themselves how can we
help I'll?
fTightRtt, tie jug is empty. Shall
ring the bell?i
If you please--thank you.'
By the way, how is your stock of For
ty-one? Getting low, fear
Rather. I shall soon be driven up to
my Forty-four, I suspect. However, For
ty four is turning out a capital claret, and
| have lately been laying in an additional
half-pipe of it,
8 hear that lForty-eight is to be the
next good claret, and [ understand it is be-
ginning to be in request in the metropolis
We must be on the lookout for it, Tight
fit should not care if joined with you
for pipe of it, though I dare say it can't
be fit for drinking for two or three years to
come
Very well y0u kthow I am always dis
posed to be neighborly in those things
Shall I write to Paris, or shall we deal
with your London friend Perhaps But
ler would like to go in the same venture
possibly Wells too. What say you, gen.
tlemen? Shall we have half pipe each,
making two altogether"
The money spent en- whiskey by these
poor people is absolutely astonishing
From five to ten shilEngs week may be
considered as an average allowance for drink,
out of the weekly wages of very large
proportion Of our artisans. Glasgow could
support the whole civil list of Great Brit
ain out of her own speldings in this way.
There need not be poor man in the coun-
try, barring the old and disabled, and
scarcely even them, if only drink were ta-
ken out of her way
Come, Bowten, pass the decanters but
first help yourself, if you please
And just think hss,1 little there can be
of noble morality, or Of any aspiration
toward things out of and above this life of
ours, where the only relief from long hours
of toll is in the coarse enjoyments of the
tavern. 1t is the opinion of many that an
improved class of amusenen is necessary,
as part of the proper md ans for elevating
the industrious orders; ahd I heartily wish
! that something of the XII Id were set about,
: while not neglecting di1sct appeals to the
higher sentiments, such Is the clergy and
others would wish to make. Some think
q to wean men from puBlic-houses by the
. charms Of a scientific capre; but it is all
: in vain. A tavern parlSr with small
band of musicians, and Vocalist or two
- carries it hollow from the lecture-room.'
h Il must say, Tightftt, ldon't like that
% Port of yours quite SO nj llch as what We
rs had from you at your last party fortnigh
ago. It is not quite the same, I think.
T. Careful inspection of.eelOr, and an air 0
70 strong mental introspeetion on the counte
nance Of the speaker, as if he were follow
!, ing something down his own throat.)
l. Why, what is the difference, thin]
st ct you?'
" Il can hardly tell. Quite as good bou
quet, | should say, but not just the sam
fine farewell flavor the last had. Is it rea
as ly the same?'
Try bottle of different lot which
od think [ have had rather longer q civ
= particular orders to anattendant, who erit
ed And to think how poor people are {
,os once drugged and pilliged at those becl
90 places they frequent 7-how the stuff fl
~ which they lose tke world and everythin
of most precious to them. is, afte.' all, a mocl
W. ~ cry and cheat O, 4 have reall Y no p
~ tience with it !
ch well, here is 50 pPcimen of the 9th,
re- re- lot of Port--tell me, Quartley, how th
= pleases you
- 'Ah, this is very diEetent! That mu
all be the right thing at lyst.' [Decanter ci
ion ION culated under neutrality-suspicious. of sat
~ faction. was ratEer eramused to discov
to to afterward, that, by mistake, the wine W
~. ~ precisely the same as tie last
;th Notquite thesame Romeo, as our frie1
hin hin Jones calls it. By the way, did you he
of nf what that bitter wrekh Sharpe said
,l11 Jones's last party?'
,nS No tell u.s.
'Why, when asked wat sort of affair
,th- had been, he answered il his keen way
n haven't much to say oft, but just this
are that the wine was all c9ked, and the co
ing pany all screwed
lad, Ha ha ha =
has Not so bad, after al, IS what he s.
2 to Of Whites first party
nily What was that p
erty Strange fare, SIR said he: we
llch brown soup at dinner; then brown SC
lnty again under the name of port-wine after
5ton ner; and, finally, brown soup once m
gh. as coffee in the drawing room Deac
isn't he?
suE Without education, to enable the Z
to see their present habits in aproper Ii
or a and train them to aim at better thing
ou don't see how W" are permanently to
:. prove their condiolon Raggedschools
lany merely a remedy, and an imperfect
sO,' for the mischief after it has taken place
ness What is wanted is really improving {
) it, cation for the whole community
out must be brought to set their hearts