The semi-weekly miner., 1883-06-20
9RBELHY AND RUM.
Bill Nys's Experience IN q Tenn
perance Town.
Bill Nye in Detroit Free Press.

Bill Nye in Detroit Free Press.
When I visit Greeley I a,u asket
over and over again as to the practi
cal workings Of woman suffrage il
Wyoming, and when / 60 back Il
Wyoming ana asked how prohibi
ton works practically in Greeley
Col. BY telling varied and pleasing
lies about beth manage to have 8
good deal of fun, and also keep The
two elements ON the anxious seat.
There are two sides to both ques.
ti0ns, and some day when get time
and have cenvalesced little more, ]
am going to write large book relat-
ing to these two matters. At present
Ijust want to say q word about the
colony which bears the name of the
Tribune philosopher and nestles so
lovingly at the chilly feet Of the
Rocky mountains. As I write,
Greeley is apparently an oasis in the
desert. It looks like fertile island
dropped down from heaven in q
boundless stretch of buffalo grass,
sage hens and ennning little prairie
dogs. And yet you could not come
here as q stranger and within the
colonial barbed wire fence procure q
bit of cold rum if you were president
of the United States with rattle
snake bite as large as an Easter egg
concealed about your person.
You can, however, becOme &C
quainted, if you are of social nature
and keep your eyes open. 1 do not
say this because I have been thirsty
these few past weeks, and just drop
ped on the game, as Aristotle would
say, but just to prove that men are
like boys, and when you tell them
they can't have any particular thing,
that Is the thing they are apt to de-
sire with q feverish yearn. That is
why the thirstful man in Maine
drinks from the gas fixture /; why the
Kansas drinkist gets his out of a
rain-water barrel, and why other
miracles too numerous to mention
are performed.
Whisky is more bulky and annoy
ing to carry about in the coat-tail
pocket than q plug of tobacco, but
there have been cases where it was
successfully done. I was shown yes.
terday a little corner that would hold |
six or eight bushels. 1t was in the |
wash-room of q hotel, and was about |
half full. So were the men who came |
there, for before night the entire
place was filed WITH empty whiskey
bottles of every size. shape and smell.
The little fat bottle with the odor of
gin and livery stable was there, and
the large fiat bottle that you get at
Evans, four miles away, generally
filled with something that tastes like
tincture of capsicum, spirits of am
monia, and lingering death, is also
in this great congress of
cosmopolitan bottles sucked dry and
the cork gnawed half up.
When came to Greeley, was
still following the course of treat
ment prescribed by my Laramie city
and with the rest, was
required to force down three adult
doses Of brandy per day. He used to
Easte the prescription at times to see
4 1t had been properly compounded.
Shortly after my arrival here l ran
out of this remedy and asked friend
% 60 and get the bottle refilled. He
was . man who was not familiar
With Greeley in its moisture produc-
ng capacity, and he was unable to
procure the vile demon In the town
or love or money. The druggist
wen did not keep it, and although
le met crowds of men with tears in
heir eyes and breath like veteran
,ung starter, he had to 90 to Evans
or the required opiate. This I use
externally now on the vagrant dog
Who comes to me to be fondled and
Who goes away with his hair off.
central Colorado is full of partially
aid dogs who have wiped their wet,
old noses on me, not wisely but too !
vell.