Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-01-20
THE cpAvING FOR WHISKY.

THE cpAvING FOR WHISKY.
Did l drink for funp Did l deliber-
ately set out to become o drunkard?
Did you ever hear of a man going to a
hospital and asking to be shut up for a
week to prevent his going on a drunk?
l can not give the date just now, but
the books at the Carney Hospital,
South Boston, will show that l, James
Dunn, did that very thing.
have said that whisky was my ia.
vorite drink, but I thought l could
drink a glass or two of ale and attend
tony business. Finding that ale didn't
quite fill the bill l became alarmed. l
had considerable money and knew hat
if l commenced on whisky it would
soon be in other hands. l went to the
Carney Hospital and asked to be taken
care of for a week, stating that l was
about going on a spree and that l could
not help myself. The good sisters re-
ceived me kindly, gave me a nice room
and commenced doctoring me with de-
licious broth and dainty morsels. Not
withstanding their doing all in their
power for me the craving for whisky
became so o~verpowering on the fourth
day, | think, that it seemed as if l
would 60 mad. finally asked for my
money, which had given up. must
60 to the city to attend to some very
important business (?). The good sis
tiers, suspecting what the business was,
urged me to stay as l had promised for
a week. But no, out l must go, and
out did go after having recovered my
money. l headed for the nearest sa.
loon, where l could quench that burn
ing thirst, equaled only by the con-
Stunning fires of hades.
l had my two weeks drunk. Then
followed the SOLDERING up process, the
horrors of which even tho drunkard
who has been redeemed is powerless to
describe.-Co Banner of Gold.
DRINKING ON THE wANE.
1t only is a natural deduction from
other facts that the drink habit is fall
ing off. One of these is the common
practice of railroads and other corpor-
atoms to require not merely temper
ance, but total abstinence on the part
of their employees. This at once with
draws from the saloons the patronage
of a large body of men, most of them
young men, who are the best patrons
of such places when they patronize
them at all. The Christian Eudeavor
movement which has had such won
derful success in gathering young men
to its banner, is another potent enemy
of drink, and withholds from the sa-
looms many thousands yearly.
Still another adverse influence is that
of society. There is plenty of drink
ing done in society, and society smiles
on it, but, all the same, when o mans
character is under discussion in society
the admission that che drinks a little
now and then, - always counts against
him. That is really the meaning of the
screened doors and frosted windows of
the saloons. 1t is not reputable for a
man to be seen drinking, and this con-
sideration has its influence in restrain.
ing the habit.
1t is tolerably plain, then, that the
use of intoxicating liquor is on the
wane. 1t will be a long time before it
will cease entirely, if it ever does, but
each succeeding generation is soberer
than the n before it. In time, per.
haps in comparatively few years, drink
will become the dissipation of the few
instead Of, as now, the vice of the
many.-Brooklyn Citizen.
H DoMINIEs n H woAK PEOPLE.
Bishop Potter has, by a recent de-
cision, while serving as an arbitrator
of differences between employers and
their men, endeared himself to the
working men by deciding in their ia
vor on the broadcast grounds of human
ity and not on the technicalities of the
dispute. And now Rev. DR.. Rainsford,
following the lead of the Bishop, makes
an address to several thousand bakers,
constituting the International Jour
neymen Bakers Union. He praised
trades union, congratulated the bakers
on the passage of the bill compelling
the inspection of bakeshops in order to
put them in sanitary condition, and
then he said that in 1897 the bakers
would have to vote for a new city ad.
ministration. He said that the Demo.