Evening star., 1896-03-25
EFFECTS OF DRINKING
Object: Lessons stforf Orators on the Tenn.
psjanos Question.
Many Unfort0Hles of This Glass I'm
the P67iHe Court This
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There was material enough in the Police
Court today totfurtish temperance orators
years.
In the cells this morning there were sew
| eral men whose conditions were horrible
| in the extreme, and had been made so by
| the excessive use Of rum.
| Judge Kimbal says that the use Of rum
| IN any quantity is excessive, and frequently
| tells those VINO take time-limit pledges that
II such pledge is good for short time
it is good for lifetime.
All the victims agree that the judges ad-
| vice IN this regard Is good. and when In
| court they make good resolutions, but when
they get outside they soon fall by the way
side.
Some Of them, however, have been able
| to keep their promises, and did not for
| get the courts kindness, but were after
ward in position to thank the judge for
| his leniency.
| When Policeman Flynn reached the cell
| In which offenders against the minor ordi-
| nances were confined elderly man. with
| white hair and beard, stood looking
| through the bars, awaiting the appearance
| of the officer and caterer with the coffee
| and rolls.
| Hold the cup" said the officer, passing
| tin cup in between the bars.
The man, who had lost all control over
| against the bars.
There's nothing the matter with me-"
he said, except that l was full yesterday,
and that's nothing, for I've been drunk be-
| fore
Blood had clotted m his long beard, and
had almost covered his face. How he had
received the wound the old man did not
| know ror did he appear to care very much.
! for with all his trouble he was inclined to
joke about what had happened, and only
thought he would get full again when he
| got an opportunity to do so.
Caterer Baker poured the coffee In the
cup which the old man held close to the
| bars, and several Intellectual attempts We're
nade to lift it to his mouth, and finally one
of the colored prisoners volunteered to
| help him, and with his assistance the
nervous man managed TO drink the hot cof
fee.
Andrew Ague was the name he gave, and
| he says he is an old soldier and lives near
| Takoma.
| In the adjoining cell was his companion,
| Samuel Jackson, who also lives at Takoma.
He came here from distant city with the
! Coxey army, so the police say, and he was
very much worried at the thought of hav
| ing to go before Judge Miller.
Like his aged companion, Jackson was
| somewhat shaky, and blood had been spill
ed in his fall from a wound on his nose.
| Andrew Guy had been arrested with them,
| and his condition last night was no better
tfan that of his companions. He is also
an old soldier, and had 81. on him. When
arrested he was not dsorderly and so he
Was released TINS morning.
The members of this trio of victims of
lntemperance We're arrested last night by
Policeman Stuerman. They were on Piney
Eranch road not far from BriSntwood, and
we're so much under the influence of liquor
that they had been tumblnE over the
stones on the road, aid it was in this way
| tfat they were wounded
| Il belong In Montgomery county," said
Jackson, and how got over the District
| line l don't know
A raz) not in good condition was found
| on jackson. and for this a charge of con-
| tealed weapons was preferred.
! No charge would have been preferred
| against the old man had he behaved him
self after being placed under arrest but
there We're ladies' on the road on their way
| nome from the church at Brightwood and
the language he used was very shocking
! to them.
In the sad condition stated the two men
| appeared before Judge Miller In addition
| 10 the blood-stained faces, their clothes
were covered with dirt, and they explained
| as pest they could the circumstances under
| which they We're arrested
| Ague met an old soldier friend from
| Virginia. said jackson, "and we went TO
Woods and got to drinking"
| And what caused the troubleo"
! we got drunk. and the old men got to
| talking politics and religion"
Asue was questioned. ard he said he
krew nothing of what happened last night
| Are you q drinking man?'
| Il get drunk periodically" the old man
answered. ''''-''- '7~
Mat do you call periodically?' ,--.
| three or four times year.
| Every pension day.
| 'YeS, sir
Jackson said that he had gotten the razor
at a friends house, and was going to take
| 1t home.
Judge Miller sent for Lawyer Could. who
llVes at Iakcma and he gave Jackson a
| good reputation, and was very much SIR
prised to find him in this sad plight
| sentence vas suspended in the razor
| case, and MIR. Gould paid fine of s. in the
| discrderly case for him. -.'s-. ~
| The cid man was sent to the hospital for
| treatment.
| Another Example.
| Michael Lanbady, a man who had been
i in court many times before, because of his
| incorporate habits, was in this mornings
| procession.
| He Is nearly sixty years old, and is
veteran CT the late war, who might now
be enjoying the privileges and luxuries of
| the Soldiers Home if it were not for his
| intemperance.
| Several years ago, after having lived a
| life of respectability, Mike fell from grace
and appeared in court at long intervals
! for drunk and disorGerly conduct on the
| public streets, and later his appearances
became more frequent and the charges
| more serious.
| 'Habitual drunkard' was the charge pre-
| ferred, and when he got so far down that
| money was scarce he begged for rum as
well as for money, and anything else he
| could get.
| Not many months ago he made an effort
to regain his. PLACE in society, and for
several weeks he refrained from the use Of
| liquor, but again he fell from grace, and
now he is almost as bad as ever
| "Are you guilty or not guilty?" he was
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