The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-22


neither food nor drink. That white,
dazzling. splendid. corlscant, sc.nt:l-
liant point of light. set high in air. has
for them a strange, fatal fascination.
They dash against its guard with their
wings, they shater themselves against
it's hard metal screen. EGry the next
morning persons passing along tbs
street see thousands of them crushed
and dead under the great glass globe
extinguished by the nilder, steadier
,adience Of the day. Then the wound
led survivors disappear and atc seen
no more
How prohibition IS sweeping tie
Icountryi We anti-salOor lcaguers
have il in for Salisbury next, and
then they will round up the cam m:.aign
by swooping down on Wilmineton,
and knocking the wickedness out Of
that city. The recent prohibition vic
tory at Asheville was wonderful, and
what revelation it made! From the
figures of the election returns it is
.evident that there could not have been
lmore than a corporal's guard Of the
imorally stunted up there; and yet that
thirsty little squad, according to the
Hon Locke Craig, had been drinking
up 81 900, 900 worth of good whisEey
every year, while the rest of US were
skirmishing around behind barns, in
back lots, and down blind alleys, after
half a pint of blind tiger abOInina-
ltion.
And how they had TO struggle and
iorganize, to get to the polls, and show
that they did not intend to cease their
nefarious practices, and be gOOd-bat
Ting there through bands Of praying
and singing women, and exporting
preachers, and the roll Of drums, and
ieers, grOans, yells and Kisses, when
they put in a wet vote, 1t was
worse than charging Quatre Bas,
Ligny andHougomount at Waterloo.
When Governor Glenn, With his
cohorts and the next legislature shall
have wiped off the face Of the earth
SIG, 900 600 worth Of liquor which he
says that North Carolina has been guZ-
ipy-and sober.
.ne Greensboro News of October IL,
has some temperate editorial reficc-
ttions on the prohibition question,
brought out by the recent slump III
AsheVille. TO the man who ahstains
altogether from liquor it has no advice
to offer and nobly bids him God-speed
/ in his resolution to have naught TO
do with what is at best a dan ngerOus
49, 10, nn iI-0 rrIGl l-c-
| of grog OceasiOnally-and The
industrial News knows many eStlnla-
BILE citizens who dot recommends
more care in getting good wnAkcy
} to drink, for il appears that there IS
as much difference between pure Whis-
| key and poor WhiSkey as there is he
tween pure water and poor water.
he readers of The Messenger will re-
call old story Of the superior court
: judge, who got badly off at a supper
given by the local bar at the tavern
? | in the town where he was holding
{ court AS he sat somnolent in his
chair at the head of the table, a wgg
of lawyer gathered UP the silver
spoons around the board, and hid them
? in the pockets Of the ermne. The
next morning, when the judiciary came
to itself and found in the pockets the
spoils of the previous evening, invOl-
untary larceny was the horror-striken
conviction.
AS the old judge sat On the bench
next day, "docky" repentant, me-
taphorically in sackc1otn and ashes, a
member of the bar, who had case of
stealing in court, and who knew OF
the symposium Of the night before,
conceived bright idea. When his
case was called, by his instructions his
client plead: Guilty but drunk.
whats that?'' asked the judge, rous-
ing up, and bending forward He
pleads guilty but drunk, your Honor"
| said the lawyer. why, that's very
extraordinary plea" said his Hol Or,
gazing long and thOughtfully at the
defendant Where did you ge! your
liquor?''
AT Sterrett's, please your honor. >
Mr. clerk, enter a mol pros in this
case That liquor of Sterrett's is mean
) enough to make a man do anything.
/ l got drunk on it myself last night,
and store all Sterrett's spoons"
Yes, liquor it a lad thing, and then
l again it is a good thing it its place;
. and sometimes we are disposed to
, view it with indulgence, even when It
} | is not in it's place. once knew man
/ in a respectable but lowiy walk in life:
= an honest, Industrious mechanic wno
= lposed more than ninety-nine one
Ihundredths of his life in sobriety. But
on one day Of every year, the oecas-
i lion of a great anniversary, he put
. away his tools, and closed the door
5 of his workshop. Then he .'celsbra-
ted and by sundown he was siol i
: Iously tight" He never became quar-