The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-30

company; they spoke to no one; they had simply left their homes to obtain whiskey.
 Speaking of the women going bare footed, am sorry to say it is too com
 mon sight even along the main artery of the city, Argyle street-women, boys
 and girls, but l never yet, in Glasgow, saw q man go bearfooted, however poor he might be. The disgusting and jappalling degradation of drink seems to ] fall heavier on the women than the men, and they sooner lose whatever
 sense of shame they may formerly have had. A painful, yet ludicrous incident, occurred just before I took the train on my first outing. In an open space near | Brdgeton Cross a Salvation Army band had formed circle, and the chief with bare head bent, was beseeching the Almighty to save Bridgeton, while men careesing big brass instruments groaned into them "Iallelujah" and | Amen" "We will now sing a hymn Pardon for All'-and the voice of a sweet faced girl rose above the sub- dued accompaniments As the strain | f1oated to the ears of the passers-by a youth befuddled with whiskey skipped along swinging this birl and that and waving his arms in imitation of the self f-denying band. The while thickly singing:
 You've got q long way to go; You've got long way to go;
 It's no use beating your blooming drum, And shouting Sinners, will you come like to hear you say
 You're going to glory Fla,
 But if you're only as far as Bridgeton
 Cross,
 You've got a long way to go;
 You've got ----'
 srGo to -, you -" hoarsely shout ed another whiskey laden worthy DO ye no see you're ihterruptin' the b. meeting? he' And the two worthies reeled into each others arms in a wild endeavor to retain their equilibrium
 Scenes of this kind are all too com mon in every large city, but seemed to feel the effect of them keener in Glasgow than ever I did in New York or London.
 
 whiskey-fed human nature man brushed past me with dark threats and mutterings far down his throat. He was either hurrying for doctor or for the river. had hardly time to specu- late when a little boy, the one moment off the pavement and the next on, was pursuing him and crying, "Faither, Father, don't go.'' I jumped into the middle of the street and saw the fleeing man halt and bend down to the boy, and grab him by the hand, seemingly better of 1t. the man turned and as he passed me looking to the ground, I heard him Erowl, By -! It will not be the delf, but her self that I'll smash" Nf
 It would be almost impossible to specify the street or district where 1 saw the largest number of reeling men and women, but this much I can say; that if the drunkards of the East End | and Clyde side streets were quite as re- volting in appearance, they were not so noisy or foul-mouthed as their confreres of Garscube road way Ca district to- | wards the north.) In proceeding thith- | ar stated took the train to Mary l hill The carriage l got into was dark, | and as I had for companions three men | finder the influence of drink--one of | whom, an old soldier, maintained that | lad the men in his day been called upon | o fight the Boers they would not have eft q - Boer standing-the time was | lot long in passing till reached Mary | ill, when alighted. Oh! how pure the lir seemed to be! I could scarcely be- ieve I was within such short dis ance of so much whiskey-reeking mis- ny. But I was soon recalled to reali- les. As I neared the vicinity of Cars ube road my nostrils were assailed with whiskey fumes, and my ears with he brawls and curses of it's slaves. Quick as wink crowd collected. Two women with hair hanging Ophelia- vise were in tongue the opposite side of er. They were frothing and angry, nd one of them tauntingly telling a oliceman that for not doing his duty he would take his-number He new his duty all right. In jerks he hoved her to the police station. Her ries were hideous. This was the first f series of many scenes I witnessed n this locality Men and women in all tages of drink stupefaction, from the lerely dazed to the uproarious, raging laniac of both sexes Again I came
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