The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-08-16

demands that business makes. This
change is in The use of alcoholic liquors
A striking illustration Of IL was to be no.
iiced during the canvass for the speaker
ship. Not single glns' of liq1or was
set out by any Of the candidates. did |
not see n single member of Congress un-
der the influence of liquor during that
canvass, nor have since. The bar
keepers and the hotel proprietors Say
that the decrease in bar-tippling is so
great as seriously to ourtail receipts.
Tue three leading candidates for speaker
used to use stImulants sometimes to ex-
oess. Two of them are now total alb
stuiners aud baYe been for some years,
while the third only uses wine in mod
crate quantity at his diuner.
can count q dozen Senators who ust d
to tipple who have not drank drop in
two years, and there is not Senator,
With perhaps an exception or two, Who
is not prudent and most temperate in
the use of liquor. Nearly oil Of them do
not touch anything except light wine
at dinner 1t is so in the House. II is
so with most of the public men. There
has grown mp sentiment that man is
. fool who uses liquor immoderately,an and
that he is better off without any of it,
In the social entertainments here, also
: less and less wine is used, and the mum
Der of guests who refuse 1t is constantly
increasing. In the old days a man used
to fire up with rum before he started of
in speech, and politics and rum used
to mix we'll. But nowadays men who
nsed to dsdain business are finding em-
ployment in 1t, and they seem to have
learned that it requires cool head, and
th 1t there is far more enjoyment in de-
velopinq successfully an enterprise than
, there is in getting drunk or in picking
in whisky.
During Ben Buffers recent visit to this
city several unsuccessful efforts were
made to ascertain the nature of the busi.
ness that called him to the capital, snd
also to get an expression from him Ms tc
the political situation. He remained
movements were shauowed aud his per
= sonal friends were ql, STONED, when thu
c crafty Ben lett bis stone house on Capi
o lol Hill and returned to New York, th,
{ object of his trip to Washington was shl
l. II mystery except to a select few. A larg
e landowner in Virginia aud West Vlr
e ginia while in this city few days ago
d spins the following yarn about Butler
j. snid lie. Ben Butler is investing ex
l. tensively in land in our section of th
y country. He purchases in bis own nam
i. and also in the name of other parties
lie generally Euglish CAPITALISTS. A shor
e time ago l received a letter from Gen
!. Butler stating that he would be in Wash
e lngton at a certain time, and requested
E. ne to call at his house on Capitol Hi
IL te CONSULT tDOul oNiLe lhnu hS 10 W Eul
n chase from me. When l arrived at hi
:. house the servant informed me that tn
10 General wns not at home, but she Nai
,- it in such mnnLer that l new better
leld the girl I was there ut the IT ques
10 OF the General, and assured her that
- was not a newspaper man. She fnall
. omitted that the General was at tn
q. time engaged with another gentleman i
IN the library. l WAS then invited to take
- seat in the parlor l coul hardly bel
of hearing portions OF the conversation thu
10 was going on in the next room. d
~ not know who was with the General, Lu
nj whoever he was, he was trying to driv
D, some kind of political bargain. dis
III tincily heard the stranger promise thu
:. the General should have the governor
.. ship of Massachusetts, if he would com
ST out openly aud support-Q could nc
r. hear whether he said Blaine or Clevt
,e land,l The General positively decline
~ this proposition. 1t was next propose
+. that tue General should have a cabint
t. position.