Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-05
FOPKINSVILLE CHRISTIAN COUNTY KY AUGUST 5, 1884

Now you are going to turn out just
as l thought you would all the time
a o-account dude, Have your folks
seen you?"
eyes, they have seen me-" said the
boy, as he put the head of the cane
in his mouth, Sand don't you call me
cub any more. | am growing so /
am almost as tall as you are. l am
only wearing these clothes for fun to-
day. You see our wash-womam has
been doing some washing for dude
down town, and he owed her eight
dollars, and he wondn't pay her, and
pa told her TO go and deliver his
washing this morning and take his
clothes, and he would be apt TO pay.
So she got his clothes before he got
up, and brought them up to our house
where she is at work to-day, and !
put them on, and when the dude
comes out of his boarding house with
his linen ulster on, and slippers, and
secs me, he will just lay down and
blat. l am only trying to help a
working woman collect pay for
her work. Say, what kind ofa mash
er would | make anywayT
80, you look too intelligent about the
head for dude" said the grocery
man. "But tell me has your pa got
to drinking again? have seen him
come out of several saloons lately,
and one day he had his hat jammcd
down over his nose, and another
time his coat tail was split clear up to
his neck and he smclt strong of beer.
1t is sad TO sec man go wrong that
way"
"No, pa has not gone to drinking
again. lie has joined new society
to prevent other people from drink
ing, and if hc don't get killed he is IL
able to do some good, but he has had
hard luck so far. This society pa be-
longs to believes in moral suasion,
and when any member sees man
about to drink, they go to him and
reason with him. Pa came home in
Il hack the first day lie was on duty.
lie went into a saloon and saw Il
man just blowing the froth OIL glass
o. beer, and pa went up TO the man
and touched him on the arm and said,
"If was in vOur place | would not
drink that!" Tn, man held the +
up to the light and looked through it
and said, 'Vosh dc maddcr fon dot
peer? pa said it was full of alcohol
and the man said well dot vos vot
Won't and pa told him it was full OF
headache, and woe, and sorrow, and
would undctermine his health, and
the man told pa to go away and mind
his own business, and pa said any
man that would take a viper in his
stomach, to steal away his brains
was a fool, and unfit TO exercise the
right of freeman, and vote. Iguess
that made the fellow mad, for he
took pa by the collar and poured tho
beer down the back Of his neck, in
side his collar, and the saloon keeper
came around from behind the coun
ter and threw pa out doors through {
wire screen. Pa didn't get his clothes
dry for two days, and he smells lik'
a malt house. That was the bee
you smellcd. Pa went in one othe
saloon and found an old man jus
pouring out some whiskey, and III
tackled that man, and the man tolC
pa to 90 and soak his head, but p;
isn't one of the kind ofmen that goe'
and puts his head TO soak every tim'
anybody tells him, and he talked u
that man real harsh. lie told tn
man he was taking poison, a deadl
poison that would surely kill him
and the man swallowed 1t and sal
: he had been taking that kind of pois
on for forty years, until he had t
have about so much poison regularl,
He wiped his mustache and then sal
] to pa, Now, look here, you temper
ance fellows don't want to tackle a
. old soaker like me. What you wal
to do is to save the young fellow
that are just leg ginning to drink. Thel
u is a party Of young fellows in til
: back room drinking wine, and VIII;
- you want to do is to reason wit
: them That was enough for pa, an
he went in there and found fou
= young fellows sitting around tabl
and they were pretty full. Pa bega
:, to talk to them about their cours
: and how they were going the rigl
: way to reach the penitentiary an
how they would ruin themselves an
their families. Pa says he thinks tt