The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-01
THE 0HASrLY FACE.
Why Young Man Threw a Glass oi
 Wine from the Car Window.


 Wine from the Car Window.
 A large party ot excursionists. guests oi the company, were on an Arkansaw rail- way train. enroate to visit the advertised lands of famous pine district. Baskets oi champagne had been provided, and the excursionists, in that unrestrained con. viviality which steals along 90 gently with the alleged juice of the grape, soon became unable to distinguish one kind of land from another or to recognize the difference between pine log and sye- amore sapling
 At WAY station young man boarded the train and took the only vacant seat in the Cat, beside a rather old gentleman who did not seem to )oln in the festivities of the intoxicated occasion.
 Ioin us. eapn," said red-faced tel- low. handing him glass. Fill CT up to the brim, pouring ou, the see,hing enemy to clear head. Everything goes. and he passed on in answer to the summons Of an uplifted glass at the other end oi the car. lust as the young man sas abou, to drink, the old gentleman said
 Will you val, until tell you s,ory before you drink tha, =
 The young man looked in surprise al the old gentleman.
 won't detain you along. This re- minds me so much of something that oc. cured years ago Tn my life ,ha, l eanno, i refrain rom speaking oi t."
 ] His earnest manner impressed the young man. and. as he held up the glass ] and looked fof moment at the shining beads arising from is stem like bottom, he replied
 les. will wait"
 Thank you" and in manner still more impressive the old man began l had been away from home for number of years and was returning on a steamboat. when fell in with a party vey much like thls one. Champagne vas as free as water, and with ;ha; deoei,:ul idea of hospitality winch wine iispiiss. vas snJ1,asa iu drink. shuddered a, the thought. My father had died drunkard and my elder ! brother was m a drunkard's grave. l had eser been sober, and my mother, the gentles, of women, looked to me as the solaoe of her feeble years, the one embodiment of purposes, rescued from the wreck of our household ship. say ! iha, l shuddered m the mere eontcmpia- ton oi taking the wine which they insis,ed d tha, should drink and se escape the noisy crowd went 10 my ststeroom, bu, this was no safeguard agalns, their hilarious persis,ency. for they beat upon the door and declared that f 1 did no, come out they would break il down. Thus. was compelled 10 Ioin them, but still l refused to drink. Finally, very respectable look l ing and quie, old gentleman said to me Take glass or so if won, hau you. A little champagne IS no more huriul than llu!e water. Here and he filled l a glass and handed II to me. l drank, and soon felt that the old man had well advised me. for 1 fcl; no inconvenience, ,bu, on the contrary, decidedly improved. took another and Another, and the crowd seemed to be less noisy. wen, with the men who had knocked on my door and prevailed upon another young man to drink. laughed irnmodera,ely and though, tha, had never before seen 90 gay company. Once my mothers 5 often repeated words, my son. would rather see you in your coffin than to sec you drunk sounded like distant kneil, ringing from away back in childhood. but they became fainter and fainter until at last l heard no warming. The old man who advised me to drink. came to me and said: Look here, you have had enough laughed at him. Enough Who ever had enough wines had be- come nsh. knew well enough ,ha, had but litsle money, but somehow wal rich. The boat seemed 10 be A,ies down the river, and laughed at the trees as they seemed to whiri along the bank l had a great scheme op hand. and after that was going to drink nothing bu. vine 1 thanked the old gentleman time and time again for introducing me 10 { dina 70 delightful, and 1 thought what . fool men were to toll in discontent when shey could drink vine and be happy. Afsi awhile the pleasureable feelings Jeff