Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-03
HIS FIRST DRUNK.
An influence that tho Governors of
North and south Carolina Had.
Little Rock ARK \ Gazofto

An influence that tho Governors OF
North and south Carolina Had.
Little Rock (Ark4 Gazette.
II an sixty years old, and never got
drunk till day before yesterday" remarked
old Uncle Jesse White, as he sat on a salt
barrel in front of a grocery store. II have
lived in Arkansas for forty years-cum here
from East Tennessy-and the thought
that l got drunk in the evening of my life,
when / can just see my gray hairs shining
in the twilight, 10 enough to make me
throw myself into the river"
"Tell us how it occurred, Uncle JESSE"
asked a bystander.
"Well, sonne time e up in my neigh
borhood," and he stopped talking and drew
his pipe vigorously to see if the fire was out,
81 Good Templars lodge was organized.
All the young people in the community
jlned, and pretty soon they came arter me-.
NY con Ike was the leading man, and he
says to me, Pap, 1 want you TO line this
thing Ike, says l, II don't know the
%jinen." pap says he, we want your in.
%luence. We are gwine to vote on the
local option law pretty soon, and We want
you publicly identified with the work ,
Then my daughter came around and urged
me to iine. Susan says /, you never
seed your old father take q drink No,
pap says she, but we want you to help us
frown down the curse Of intemperance.'
Next our parson come around and sot nv
wife on me, and when they all got to drum.
min had to j,ne. I Jined IN a Friday
night. and on the following Saturday I got
on the boat to come down here. Somethin'
aSyAA NJ SnnnnShSnb 1v1~A..-s V---s-
White. you ANITA free man. It bothered
me. and when saw one of the deck hands
turn up jug, l wondered If be had ever
taken the pledge. and when he set the Jug
down l walked around and looked at it.
took hold OF the corn cob stopper, walked
awav and smelt my tingers. went up Oh
deck ard sat down in front. Pretty soon
two men came out and sat down. After .
while one Of them eaid: The governor of
North Carolina said to the governor of
South Carolina and without finishing the
sentence, both men laughed aud drank ont
Of . big black bottle. Thar was some,hin'
10 that governor business that took M. 7
had heard my father talk q it and laugh.
! had often heard 1t, but no one had ever
been positive what it was that the governor
SAID, only that the time between drinks had
been rather long. Pretty soon one Of
the men reached down, took up
the bottle, took out the cork,
and said: The governor of North
Carolina said to the - Then both men
laughed and drank. never felt 90 curions
10 my life, I looked around at the trees on
the bank and women who waved their hand
kerchiefs at us Is We passed. Those gov.
einors had . ring about them that tineled
through my old blood. just then one Of
the men turned, held the bottle toward me.
q said: "The governor of North -.1
Before l knew it l had hold of the bottle.
! turned it up and drank. All ! thought
about was the governor, and when the
shadows OF Ike, Susan, the parson and INV
wife fitted through my brain, the two gov.
errors, tall and grand. stalked right NO and
ran over them. ''The governor Of North