The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-12
BY Georre w. Peck.


Augusta. Me, July 11.-No railroad
trip could be more pleasant i'm June
than one from the great free laugh.
ing west, across the beautiful coun-
try from Milwaukee to Boston. through
rich states that are not hypocritcal,
and whose people eat and drink what
they want to without apologizing to
any one, or without going behind the
door to do 1t. Through the states OF
Indiana, Ohio. Michigan, New York
and Massachusetts,. a man is proud to
meet the citizens and hear them talk
freely and without looking furtively
over the shoulder 10 see II anybody
is listening If there ever was a free
people on earth. they live in such
states as one passes through in going
east, and the country outside the
speeding train shows It, and the crowd
at the stations, of clean. well-dressed,
laughing citizens. with no one having
crouch, clinches the argument, and
the traveller knows he is among the
best peoI @ TO be found anywhere
Boston Is always most interesting. for
In Boston you get your first fresh
Goldfish, and as you eat IL you reflect
| on the fact that the cod.sh did more
to welcome the Pilgrims and make
them fat and brainy than anything
they found I'm New England. and but
for the Goldfish. which fairly yearned
to be caught, and would bite at any
| thing thrown into the water. our fore
| fathers would have starved and frozen
| to death the first winter on bleak
| Cape Cod. and as you think of these
I . 81. hu4
/ has made the Goldfish its trademark
| by erecting and keeping in its state
/ capital, In public place a bronze
| Goldfish, rampant. But when you re-
/ fleet further, about the carp, and
| suckers, and dog-fsh that you have
/ eaten ior salt Goldfish, put up either
| by these YanKee admirers OF the cod
| fish, or some wicked. imitation Yam
/ kee YOU are saddened, and want to
| kick. In Boston It seems that the
most OF the stores are conducted for
/ the sale OF liquor. either for home
consumption, or TO help out neighbors
! WHO are dry. Some OF Boston's sub
urbs are awfully dry. but by crossing
the river and striking the sacred soil
of Boston, tho first building is always
saloon. and the first man to greet
the suburbanite Is a bartender. Many
parts of Massachusetts are dry. but
Boston tries its best TO Keep such
places from cracking open from the
drouth. as II has done for hundred
years to all the world sending its
Medford rum wherever there was in
telligence enough among the natives
To manipulate n corkscrew. and II Is
wonderful how quick the weakest
brain of the most depraved race on
the face OF the earth will comprehend
the workings of that great invention,
the corkscrew. But for the cork
screw the people OF the world would
he digging corks out of bottles with
scissors and dinner forks. pushing
part Of the cork into the bottle and
drinking the cork I'm instalments.
Next to the steam engine and the cot
ton gin, the corkscrew is one OF our
greatest discoveries, and ! wish
knew who discovered IT, for he ought
to have a monument. The best Of II
is. one does not have To take les
sons in the use Of a corkscrew. Put
corkscrew into the hands of a child,
a blind person, lunatic or politi-
clan. and instinctlvely they begin 10
work H. ! suppose the use of cork
screw is bred into MS all, like walking
on all fours, and creeping.
| knew that IL would come to this
and that | should eventually land in
Maine, but ! stood off as long as pos
sible. could go TO near prohibition
states, and jolly the people because
they were trying TO initiate Maine
but | thought IL well 10 keep away
from Maine. because the people in
that state are just truly good, do not
want to drink, and II must be a crime
to make fun of them | thought eve"y
man, woman and child in Maine had
been brought up to think that any
! liquor beer or wine was sinful to
think about, and that probably in that
Pine Tree state there was not a case
of thirst, though they religiously eat
salt cod, and that probably In the
whole state there wouldn't be more
than couple of gallons OF liquor
kept for sudden attacks OF heart fail
ure, and only used as a medicine
To ask lJr or expect TO find a drink
| In Maine was to me like expecting &c
, find a burglar teaching in Sunday
school For fifty years, since Nea
low llintt niu tnOuBnt OF MAINE
as the only truly good state, and ha
noticed all my life that temperance
workers pointed to Maine as the No
hammedan would point TO Mecca, anC
the wonder TO me was that all the
temperance agitators of the last hal
century, who were 50 saddened az tn'
way things were run where salooni
1 were allowed, did not move to Maine
where all was dry and peaceful. anC
nobody was Incorporate SO when
was properly located in Portland 70
a few days | said, Now we will Sc,
a community of sober, Industrious pee
Pile, and during all the time spent hor
there will be no sound of revelry b.
night, and no smell OF liquor will
tant the atmosphere" The frs
night | walked up TO Monumen
square. the busiest part OF the town
with a couple of travelling men, AM
we saw a crowd around the body o
III an aDDarently dead hoy of "a lyinI