, 1890-07-09

Was d. DOIICCU DICbuIO IL OuSlIOO CIV
from business for want of customers, her
sword and scales sold off, and mapping
comfortably, with her legs upon the table"
Still more amusing is the description given
by the HONORABLE Henry Murray, brother
OF the late Earl Of Dunmore, who had
occasion to apply to a magistrate in some
Western State in order to obtain his sig.
nature to a deed. The magistrate in this
instance was an lriShman, and also u shoe
maker. He was seated in Il room on tho
first floor, which was approached 10y IL
ladder from the street. When he entered
a little cupboard or sPntry-b0X at the
back Of his shop, he SOnOrOuAy announced
TO his visitor, sTh4 Courts in session.
When he left his official box "the Court"
was not only disposed to enter into very
unreserved conversation with the "gintle-
man from the Guild counthry,n but also to
take and do ample justice to as many
drinks az "the gintleman" chose to pay for
at an adjoining bar.
Such q scandal could not have occurred
at Edgerton, Kansas, if-as is usually the
case where the magistrates are females
the Maine Liquor Law, or some analogous
enactment, were in force among the inha-
bitants of that thriving little community.
Whether they are invested with authority
or not, nothing is more common than for
the wives of those citizens who habitually
frequent drinking saloons to Ego for" the
vendor of the "fOrty. rod whiskey' which
takes the reason prisoner and keeps their
husbands out late at night. Among the
many stories told, with more Or less TRUTH
of Abraham Lincoln, in the days when he
seemed as likely to be President of the
United States as Khan of Tartary. was one
for which we are indebted to the most
scurrilOus of his b~iographers. 1t represent
ed that Mr.. Lincoln was often in the habit
Of coming home to bed at midnight or a
still later hour, and that his sOrely out
ragged wife had vowed that she would not
open the door to admit him unless he made
his appearance at eleven o'clock or earlier.
One night. long after Mrs. Lincoln had
been in bed, she was awakened by a
handful of gravel discharged from below at
her bedroom. window. She raised.the sash
and was accosted by her husband, who
exclaimed in a iubilant voice, Come down
and let me in, for I've been nominated
Republican candidate for the Presidency
The answer rang out swift and ineXOraOle
on the night air, CHOW then, Abe, you
may stay out all night, for none but p
drunken man would talk such nonsense"
1t is said thai in some Western and South
Western cities it is almost impossible to
discover a man in the streets after nine
O'Clock in the evening who is not disguiS-
ed in liquor. OF all the offenders III MS
respect, none has a worse name than Lead
Vile, in Colorado, where the placard was
first hung up which requested gentlemen
not to fire with their revolvers at the
young man performing on the piano, who
is doing his level best" In Wyoming and
in parts of Nebraska, on the other hand,
where the right of suffrage has long been
con coded to women, ami sometimes I"
unmarried women, 1T IS claimed that
drunkenness is far less common than Ill
Missouri and Colorado, which share with
Arkansas the evil reputation ut beng
more partial to liquor than amy other
States in the Union When Mr.. Russell
Lowell was residing in this country as
American Minister he told Mr.. Gladstone
that the drunkenness Of no state and no
city in the Union could compare with the
horrible manifestation of that vice, espe-
cially in women, which saluted his eyes
every night in VictoriaSstreet where for a
short time he occupied apartments III
which he slept. Be that as it may, the
influence of wives is always on the side OF
temperance, and for this very reason the
Lady Mayoress and Board OF Il rwomen
at Edgerton, Kansas, may be dlStaStttul
to he male adults, whom no legislative
prohibition of liquor could keep away from
the whiskey bottle. AT Helena, III AT
kansas. which before the American Civil
Nv - - lo 4hn most Ia WlnGG and