Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-12-22
CORRESPONDENCE,
Editor Republican,

EetitoT RepI0HcGR:--
LAKE Mills Dec. Is.
Litigation is the oder of events here.
The village Board have been taken-Aunt
Dinah like-W;th one Of their spasmodic fits
of clearing things out, and so that cumber-
some old vehicle, the law, has been set
! agoing, in order to run down the illegal
traffic IN ardent spirits. The delinquents of
course are greatly enraged, and one of them
declares that he-"nix cares for bolitics,
bu: ven You cooms along nit der tam liq
uor law, und dakes away mine goot lager
peer, den Ply Noses for tan. dat ish anoder
ting Whereupon all tbs suckers, Teuten-
ic, Celtic, Yankee-tic, John Bull-tic and
Rheumatic, lift their eyes and voices and
say yoWi In the prosecute on of these cases
great difficulty is experienced in finding
among the Pograms and Bascoms, residing
at "this ere cross roads" any who can re-
member even how whisky tastes, much less
whether ley have ever drank any at the
defendants bar. / was really beat, when
L saw the 10 ok of forgetfullness which
spread like mud over the features eff these
witnesses. Taken altogether it affords
mournful commentary upon the terrible
effects of nowadays whisky. Poor elbows!
| can remember when, but a fewyears ago,
these unfortunate owners of bankrupt mem
eries, were considered as ''fair to middling
sort of men. But, alcs it is all over with
them now. They couldn't remember a sin
gle thing, and when I saw their utter ina
bility to tell (poor men, they were honest in
it too, whether they had drank sweetened
water or W Risky it went straight to my
heart.
Some of the people here are greatly lack
ing in charity, and were inclined to the
idea that this inability to remember was all
CANNON. But think differently. In my
opinion it is all owing to the poor charac ter
of the whisky.
kno'c, for tri ed some one night and it
created terrible confusion of ideas and
when I got home my very apparent absent
mIndedness caused my wife, (poor misgaid-
ed woman; she don't see any fun in such
things, to sit bolt uprig IN bed and watch
my uncertain movements with eyes, it
seemed to me, as large as the pulpit win.
down in the new Methodist church Fin
ally, says she-"my husband, are you sick?"
| That's the boat for me, thought I, and so
putting on Jalup and SIENNA kind of ex-
preston to my countenance, told her |
thought | was. Well, in short, she got up
and aid the whole house under contribu-
ton, from cellar to garnet, and such an ar
ray of diabolical compounds as she poured
down my devoted neck Ugh it makes
me SILVER to think of it; and it is very
queer to me how she could enjoy it as she
! appeared to all the time, when to me the
circumstance and the medicine both wer e
| Oery bitter. But then you know there is no
accounting for tastes. | don't know what
| this country and all our glorious male lib
| critics are tending to, if the women are al
lowed to administer emclics in this indis
criminate way. And contempt ating the
/ future as they did, from this nauseons point
OF view, is it any wonder the Philadelphia
medical stud ents-gallant fellows-sbould
molly battle as they did, even to the extent
Of making asses of themselves The pres.
ent with all its se.fshness may deny them
! justice, but every future generation ofmules
will rise up and call them blessed.