Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-02
THE EFFECT OF SPIRITS UPON
NATTER,
AMAFdt Gras street MatesiaIiEatton
Sketch.


AMAFdi Gras street. NATURALIZATION
Sketch.
On Mardi-G ras nigh. our temperance
reporter met q cOntemplstive philoso.
pher Of this city who has looked at the
wine cup in sll its bearings and angles,
and who reasoned curiously enough con
corning the different effects Of different
drinks upon the same and different per-
cons. He insisted that every cause is
found to produce an effect at some time,
immediate or remote, and these effects
be regarded as being brought about by
the price OF whisky or other intoxicating
beverages. Take a man, for instance,
and let him drink twelve dollar whisky
Ut he can get itl and the resnlt pro-
duced upon his mind and organization
is e%xhilarating and not dissgreeable.
He either becomes good-natured and
contemplstively silent. or il disposed to
be boisterous gives utterance to noble
aud generous sentiments, expressive of
charity and benevolence; but il be drinks
six dollar whisky the effects are quite
different. He becomes qusrrelsome and
morose, oaends everybody and gives ut
teraDce to ignoble sentiments OF resent
meat and malice toward his fellow man.
Ii possessed Of q courageous nature he
wants 10 fight with everybody, aud gen.
orally puts q pistol or two ID bis pants
pockets with a view to expedite difficult
ties.
If he drinks but two-dollar whisky, the
same man changes again; he ia apt to
do mean things aud utter the most vul-
gar aud horrible expressions, seemingly
having no regard for the feelings, repu-
tation or honor of other people, DO they
men or women; and so 1t goes down the
scale, each effect depending upon the
specific cause.-The price of the liquer
per gallon which he drinks.
Michael Cassie, 0thello's lieutenant,
must have drunk cheap aud villainous
wine at that seaport town in Cyprus,
where be quarreled aud fought with
Roderigo and Montana. His opinion of
himself was as follows:
"Drunk2 aud speak parrot2 aud
squabole2 swsggerf swear2 aud dis.
course passion with ones own shadow
0 thou invisible spirit of vine, If thou
dast no same to be known by let US call
thee devil To be now a sensible man,
by and by a fool, and presently a BEAST
0 strangel every iuordinate cup is un-
blessed, and the ingredient is the devil"
etc.
Now had Lieutenant Michael Cassie
but considered the crooked whisky or
vine business properly; he would have
discovered that bis folly and deviltry
we're caused by drinking a cheap brand
Of liquor, and that the devlish ingredient
was nothing but the price Of it, the stoup
OF Cyprus wine having been procured
On purpose BY Isgo. Csssio's Ancient,
who put up the job on him in order to
avenge himself on the Moor 0thello,
whom he suspected Of being too friendly
with his wife Emilia.
Our p~hilosophising friend diseoursed
%learnedly on this theme, and referred not
ouly to the effect Of bad whisky and wine
but the inferior and adulterated brands
of ale aud lager beer, which be showed
clearly resulted in like manner as to the
effects produced on those Who drank
them to KEGS Our temperance man
listened with attention and ill.concealed
interest to the logical yet mysterious dis.
course, which was brought to an end by
the philosopher inviting him up to his
room where be said be bad a bottle of
the best Kentucky whisky ever brought
to Memphis. The suspicious of our rep
~reseutative we're aroused at once, and
after politely declining the seductive in.
v%itation by putting in a plea in bar and
one Of confession aud avoidance, by as,
serting that he just had q drink Ia weak
and pleasant fiction on his part), he more
closely observed the philosopher, and to
his chagrin made the discovery that the
%discourSing scientist was half full"
just then, but yet the logic Of the mar
was correct. He had been utteriAg ele.
waited and noble sentiments toward hu.
mauityi he had gotten drunk on good
and high priced whisky.