The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-02

am rejoiced to know that two more
towns in Johnston county went dry
last Monday-KenIy and Clayton.
felt sure that Kenly would vote TO free
itself of the odium of liquor selling, for
l had confidence in the heightened
morality and Christian sentiment OF
that intelligent and progressive peo-
pie. They voted to establish a dis
pensary a few years ago, as stepping
stone to prohibition, and felt all the
time that though it was a better thing
than a regular grog-shop, the dis
pens1ry was not an institution which
good people ought to encourage.
I'm liquor seller no longer, thank
the Lord" said good citizen of Pine
Level a few days ago. Il voted to es-
tablish the dispensary thinking it
would help things morally; and
reckon it did. But when 1 remember
ed ! had an interest in a grog-shop
that was making men drunkards just
like other grog-shops. / couldn't sleep
we'll at night, for / knew that, turn
and twist the thing as | would the fact
was. l was in the liquor business, and
was encouraging drunkenness Now
may Kenly joyously say: THANK
God, I'm out of the liquor business!
Keep men from drinking? Certain
~ not if they can get anything TO
drink; but, because men are so weak
they cannot Withstand temptation,
makes ii our duty to remove tempta-
ton from them.
l used TO know very talented man
who lived in this city who said, if he
never saw nor smelt liquor he could
keep as sober as anybody: but if Ia
even got a Whit of the whiskey odoT
he'd have some or die. And, | have
heard him say. the scent of a rotten
apple would set him crazy for a drink
of brandy. At such a time, said he,
Il would march up to the mouth of 81
cannot to get a drink, if | knew that
I'd be blown into atoms
| have seen that man, many time
going home from a bar-room drunk,
with his wife right behind him. She
had found him in some downtown
grog-shop, and no sooner did she
speak to him than he'd put right out
for home. she following about tel,
steps in the rear, he walking. for dear
life. 1t was such a common thing to
see her marching him home, the peo-
pie got in the habit of saying when
they saw them going THE madam's
found her stray yearling that lay out
last night
Yes, he was a talented man, but he
could not withstand temptation. How
much better it would have been for
him. and how much better it would be
IOI lIlOuStildS lONsS IL Jul Couiibl
had never been cursed with the liquor
traffic! Poor man. He died at last
drunkard, and the world lost the bcne-
fit of what might have been a most
successful and useful long life.
Yes the book is out and a copy has
been sent to every person who has
forwarded a cash order; and, | must
say. | am hopeful from the way the
orders are coming in, that ] shall soon
dispose OF enough to cover the cost of
publication. AS / have to pay the post
age amounting to II cents per copy /
am asking my friends, who have or
dered, or may order the book. to let
the cash accompany their orders. They
are doing it, I am pleased to say. and
every mail carries out copies of the
book to the four corners of the world.
Let your orders come, friends. and by
the next mail yOu'H get a copy, post
paid, and have nothing to do but go
to reading.
P. S.-Sickness in my family has
kept me so anxious and unsettled in
mind. it has been almost an impos-
sibility TO write. But. thanks to tbs
Doctors and to a kind Providence, the
sick wife is improving and WILL, ]
hope, be entirely we'll soon.
Raleigh, y. G.
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