The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-20

OF the good bishops midst" This little
incident of his return gained publicity
through the exactions of the Dingley
plll-that made the worthy man go
down into his pocketbook for some $40
or -Whereupon the omnipresent
reporter snapped up the item and gave
it wide circulation in print. His rever-
ence has had to submit to some good
natural joshing from the press, no
toriously lenient towards whisky, If it
is good; but the published fact has
brought perturbation into the souls of
those well-meaning folk who cannot
enjoy brew of hot Scotch themselves
and, therefore, wish to deprive all
others of the comfort of "wee dhrap
aV the crathur.%if
A somewhat Bitter experience makes
us cautious gof venture upon Biblical
quotation, and some graceless scamp
book that once enjoyed an elegant
leisure on the shelves Of the G b e's
library, but we have a faint impress
sion that in it somewhere somes one
wasn't it Paul?-enjoined another
brother-was it Timothy?-to take a
little wine now and then for the sake
of his midst" We feel quite con-
fldent that it was wine that was pre-
scribed, and this was due probably to
the fact that whisky was then I'M
known. Certain it is that that in
spiriting kind made when willie
breWed peck O. malt" from bold
John Barleycorn, was thing unknown
and undreamed of when Paul advised
Timothy. Had there been any such a
thing in his day as good Scotch whis-
ky, to be modified with hot water and
fortified with a bit of lemon, we are
certain Paul would have recommended
that instead of wine. In fact, with
these discoveries of more or less au-
thentlc writings of those early days,
and with the liberty the revisers are
taking with the old, orthodox trans
lations, it is by no means sure that it
will not be ascertained that something
that passed for whisky was not what
was advised
We remember reading in the Outlook
a year or two ago some charming
letters written by DR.. Van Dyke, if
memory series we'll, from Scotland, of
tramps over the heather, and of the
solicitude for his health of the good
dame whose roof sheltered him and
table nourished =, when, on his re-
turn from his roaming, often wet with
the mists, the good soul brought out
her black bottle of cheering Scotch
and urged him to take some to fend off
cold. And we do not recall that
the doctor put the tempter behind him.
or the temptation anywhere else but
down the usual channel for fluids. We
doubt not that our worthy bishop read
the same delightful letters and bore in
mind the infallible remedy against
chill; proved it's efficacy himself when
there, and brought home a supply to
repel the raw east wind that makes
risk for health in the city of his resi-
dence. But whatever the motive,
whatever its excitation, we think that
the bishop did a very sensible thing,
and, if he erred, it was in not bringing
back an equal Quantity Of old Irish
to keep its Scotch brother in good
humor. Some day, when temperance
shall be the common condition and
the extremes of intemperance that
show in scottish indulgence on one hand
and bigoted prohibition on the other
shall be the exceptions, it will bring
grief to no soul should bishop, priest
or layman stock his cellar with any
kind of whisky, provided only it is
good.