Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-12

tence when he was getting ever q ft Of
into&leatlon but he announced boldly
that he didn't intend to give mp his
times-onlv, III Difference TO the morbid
seusitiyeness Of his family. be might
agree to have rather fewer of them. l
assure you be would argue the matter
cool as a darky with a chicken under
his hat. TWAS a redeeming trait of my
gentleman that be WASH t Il little bit Of
a hypocrite. You have no idea, Roger,
what a glorious sensation it is to let
yourself go, says he. You deadly re-
spectacle fellows that are forever chok-
ing your natural passions and handcuff-
ing any instinct that is bit wild, you
don't realize the tremendous exhilara-
ton there is in the gallop.
At this he swung round in his chair,
and says he, / say, Roger, were you
ever drunk =
well, said Rogers sister, for Rog-
er had paused.
II told him, . answered Roger, THAT
once in my college days, when our base
ball team won, | had made all the diff
ferent kinds of an ass of myself, includ-
ing that, and / had awakened the next
morning with my head like a sawmill
gone wrong, and my throat like baked
leather, and my stomach beneath con-
tempt; had spent several days in ours
ing myself and paying my bills, and
had never repeated the experience.
That's odd, said Jimmy affabIy
i never even have headache until l
get quite done up, you know, and 1
don't think | make an ass of myself.
You do, ! raped out, and par
ticularly nauseous one. / wish you
could see yourself,
But he simply laughed and asked
me to lend him i double X there was
no moving Jilam~ / made every ap-
peal my imagination could suggest. /
even talked about his mother, who was
broken hearted over him Then he lost
his temper for the first time lie smoke
like q much injured man, demanding to
know why we allowed Mrs. Cunning
ham to guess anything about his earous-
ais. Didn't he te6e particular pans, he
asked with an tir 81 indignant virtue,
to keep them rom hers And here was
that ehulnp Ralph toddling over to her,
or writing every time ise was late ut the
office! And he had always treated
Ralph So sararely; always gave him
warming when lie was going 60 tako
week oll yes, and put of his fun when
there was rush Of business sometimes
Ralph TO talk
lie might have added though he
didn Jimmy WASH { ca eited---that
sober he was q particularly valuable
man. Ike had plenty az energy and
plenty OF industry. and the simon pure
business instinct, which, you know,
ism lying around loose either Con
found hint I wouldn't ask a better
clerk or . better partner III he would
only keep straight, ] have heard Ralph
wall dozen times. There it was Jim
NY wonld not keep straight TO look at
him, with his delicate face and curling
hair and pensive eyes, always So trim
and dainty IN his appearance and so
gentle Of manner, you could not suspect
him Of degrading vice Aud, besides,
when Jimmy was sober, be was 50
strlkingly, 50 Immediately sober. /
don / mean that he didn 6 touch liquor
that was the wonder ST it % some peo-
PIE. He could touch liquor ~ could
drink moderately occasionally, l5ke any
abstemi0os but NOT totally abstaining
man, and yet mol seen tempted by his
moderate driuhng And he would walk
for months in the paths Of temperance
until the next time Suddenly the de-
sire, Or the WEAKNESS Of temperance, or,
call it what you will, the thing would
be on him and he would drink and
drink and drink for days, for weeks,
until the physical power to keep liquor
in him left him Of until he was raving
in deliriun. And the clean. decent fell
low would be as neglected and degraded
looking a sot as ever rolls in the gut
ter Il was pretty bad for the women, /
can tell you Well, never mind that
part. | won t enlarge either on our ef-
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