The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-18
IR|P TO TEXAS ABANDONED
Tom Jones and Bill Sears Be-
come Suddenly Rich
Effects of jug of Corn Whiskey-
DisquisitiOn on the Inebriating
Cup-How it Effects Mind and
BOdy-Beauties of an Autumn
Day.
For The Messenger:


Let us call thh-devil.
am minded to treat the readers 81
The Mesenger to a disquisitiOn on al
coholic drinks; not from the viewpoint
of the prohibitionist or the anti-prohi
bitionist rather scientific in nature,
and speculative Of the outward and
visible signs of delightfully."- exhiliarar-
ing and strongly intoxicating bever-
ages on the mind and body-for in
stance how corn liquor makes man
twist up his legs, and double up his
fist, and talk, and plan enterprises or
great pith and moment and PICK
up money off the ground. Or, if there
be a thread Of pessimism running
through the gray matter Of the brain,
how "bOoze'' will make q man bemOan
himself and tear his hair and weep co
pious tears-maudlin like Dick SWiv-
eller, in The Old Curiosity Shop by
Dickens, who cast his hat upon the
ground and called upon the world to
to witness that he had been left an
unhappy orphan by his parents at a
tender age.
The old Latin adage, lin vino Neri-
The old Latin adage, in vino veVl-.
tas." may be freely translated, There
is truth in the cup means that a
man in his bibulOusness, taken off his
guard, lets out his predominant charac
terfstics Out Of the abundance of his
heart the mouth speaketh.
The i'll tempered man will be pug
nacious in his grOg; a liar will dis
count Baron MunchauSen; here one
NAV see man who can give Joh1
d. Rockefeller a good running start,
and here is another who is on his up
pers and down on his luck.
Warren in his great novel, Iea
Thousand a Year" gives a graphic
picture of the lawyer, Oily Cannon at
the dinner in the evening after he had
won the famous case Of Tfttlebad Tit
mouse at the YattOn asslZeS. Gam-
mon was a willy, shrewd, astute fellow,
whose whole life was a scheming effort
to take the world in. These qualities
were accentuated at the dinner with
every bottle of wine emptled. Ihe
drunker he got the wilier, shreWdeT
and astuter he got When the others
were boiSterous, he was quiet; where
they were garrulOus, he was silent.
he sat watching his companions lying
in wait to take them in; until finally
in the very intensity Of his astuteness
he found himself trying to take nlm-
self in. Then he rose unsteadily to
his feet took his bed room candle,
gazed solmenly and reprOachfully
bn n a n
bed.
But it is not always the case that
there is truth in the cup. Some vim
Gus developments are unexpectedly
and puzzling.
I know a man who is practical and
I know a man who is as practical ana
Drosaic as the side of barn; man
~Sf affairs, who thinks only Of business.
pHe gets "off" very rarely, but three
or four drinks make him drivel. He
has no use for his desk at such times,
but walks about, a silly, vacuous smile
on his face, boring people with the
veriest nonsense on earth. When the
wines in the wits out. | know anoth-
era charming fellow of correct life
whose talk is as clean as a woman s
His genial disposition renders an occa-
sional spree irrestible to him; and in
his ups he can out swear the Dutch
in Holland, while he will tell stories
that he wouldn't listen to with the
liquor out of him. The elder Laird OF
DumbiedikeS, in SCOTS Heart of Mid
Lothian was graSplng aVarlclouS
old wretch: but when full of Scotch
whiskey or smuggled French brandy
he diced, gambled and wasted his sub
stance in riOtiOus living, even to the
impairment of the patrimony of his
son. who wanted to marry Jean1e
courage to tell her so, until it was too
late. This conflict of the human pas
sions is a strange thing.
1t is said that the celebrated
English miser Elves who was
so stingy that he actually dieo
of half starvation, while princely for
tune was found concealed in old nOoke
and corners of his squalid bedroom
in his passion for gambling would
souander immense sums at the card
ftable.
P6rhdpS LIe 1u1lulTSl vi 'ilS IL OIL IA
dulgers and bibbers who cannot re-
frain fom looking upon the wine when
it giveth it color in the cup is the
man who gets soberer and soberer with
every additional drink, and continues
to look as wise as Il judge and as sol
emn as an owl long after he has got
past speech or locOmotion. The reader
will recall the dear, pedantic old Ba'
ron Bradwardine, the Laird of Teilly
VeolOw, in SCOTS ''Waverly and the
drinking covet, in which he and the
Laird of Balmawhapple were the he
roes, which eliminated in sword due
next morning before breakfast The
old baron's apology to his guest was
characteristic and inimitable:
"I would not have you opine captain
WaverIy that | am by either precep'