The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-12-11
DRUNKENNESS.


It's Eecentrieitles s-or,raysd by George
W. Eungay.
When a man is manufactured into 8
dFunkard lie depFeciates IN value, be-
cause =" the raw material is worth more
than the article that is manufactured >
besides, 1t won't hold water, and the
market Is overstocked. In glanoing at
the unhappy and unfortunate men who
drink to excess, We see how differently
they are affected by habits of intemper-
| ance. One man Is like the old fashioned
spirit rmometer-the-liqac rises to
the bulb, and his head Is drunk, while
the rest of his body seems to be sober.
He stands up straight, and walks IN q
direct line, but all the faculties of his
mind are staggering and reeling under
the influence of rum.
If he has taste Cfor anything but
liquor, It is perverted and. tips7. His
understanding (save that part of his per-
son on which be stands) is drunk. His
tongue staggers in speech, and his words
come sprawiing over his lips, like sim
pletons hustled out of a saloon at mid
night. He looks at YOU with drunken
eyes,. Hood says yOu can tell when a
man has been at his cups by the size OF
his saucers. Another man, instead of
getting drunk at the top first, appears
70 be hollow, and what is poured into
him seeks the lower extremities; hence,
his feet re affected first, and seem to be
entsngled with invisible twine. The
topper moves as though he was stepping
on tread-mill. He carefully lifts his
ieet high above the ground, and then
permits them to fall suddenly-a proof
That great bodies do not al ways move
slowly. He would walk on both sides
of the road at the same time If he could,
bat that is 8 feat no feet can perform.
The more he fills up his BODY with
liquor, the less power he has to keep
himself up; so he falls, and when on his
back he feels upwards for the ground.
Gin and gravitatiOn are too much for a
man of calibTe. His head is not SO far
gone as his heels; he is down st the
heels" and his head is "above water"
not much above whisky and water.
A very little of the ardent viii intQ Q-Icate
some finely organized persons, while
others viii swallow the poison with all
the stiffness and solidity of junk bottles;
and one viii have to pour a great deal
Of new wine into SUI b old bottles before
they will burst. Talk about the drachms
that make a scruple, they viii take any
number of drains without scFuple. The
morning sling, the Roontide drink, the
evening tOddy, the eye opener, the ap-
petiter, the digester, the settler, the
night-cap, the sIeep-soother, are q few
of the leading drinks they take, and the
spaces between them are filed up with
treats and calls. Such a driDkist is a
walking puuch-bowl. Touch him with
q lance, and he bleeds punch walk him
out in the hot sun and he perspires
punch appeal to his tender sympathies,
and tell him he can't have another drop,
and he weeps tears Of punch; tell him q
funny story, and his laughter sounds
like the gurgling of punch spilled from
the bowl. A man of this stamp boasts
of his capacity to hold large quantity
of liquor. He looks cOntemptuOusly
on the poor tippler who only holds
pint or less. There is the facetjOus
toner, who, If Darwin's ideas of the
origin of man are we'll founded, must be
the descendant of an ape he chRtters
over the first glass, he becomes frisky
over the second, and cUts up 6 monkey
shines" over the third, and degrades
himself in the dirt and filth of beastli-
ness over the fourth he laughs when
there is nothing to laugh at in himself
or in his associates-'' j7l ViSao Ueritd8.
He mistakes the pump for police Off
Ger. aud expresses a hope that the officer
will not strike him with his club. He
wonders what makes the ground undu-
late and heave beneath his feet. Is it
an earthduake that makes him quake
The conbati7e driDker is always spoil
ing for a fight he is the greatest enemy
to himself he cannot master himself
he is ever on the alert TO resent real or
imagined grievances with fist, dirk, or
pistol, and represents that cruel and
pesfiIept class of sots who keep the
calendar of crime red with innocent
blood. They are the wolves # society,
but tenfold more dangerous than any
beasts of prey, and their scalps are
worthless.