Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-11-17
The Drinkless Drink.


written about beer tablets, but they seem to
have existed only in imagination. Leastways,
none have ever made their appearance in this
section and it stands to reason that if they had
existence they would have found their way in
to a state which. so far as the law can Makel
is the dryest country in the world. This story
of dropping tablet into a glass Of water and
have it converted instantly into glass of de
icous, folming beer was only d pleasant dream
born of cruel imposition.
Now we are to have whiskey drops, or a tab
oid drink Perhaps this is only another cruel
imposition, and yet lis so circumstantially and
and infinitely described that it encourages the
belief that it must be a thing of body and sub
stances and not merely cruel deception held
out to the thirsty. Unless thad been actually
seen and tested, how could it be described as
we find in one of our exchanges as follows:
"The tabloid drink" looks like cherry gela-
tine nesting in a salve box. Itsmells little
like old rye. Itcan either bee hewed or drunk.
1t is guaranteed to reach the right spot, and
produce the desired effct either way. To take
it dry one only has to turn the box upside down,
1t is said that this paste is really and truly
evaporated whiskey, the real stuff, and not
chemical compound or a concOction of some
sort to serve as substitute. If all that has
been said about it is true one may carry this
tabloid drink in his pocket and chew up
glorious jag whenever prompted to it by the
feeling of thirst
But this brings up another question, Of
course it is thirst that makes people drink, just
as it is hunger that makes them eat. If there
be no thirst there would be no drinking This
being the case how can paste or powder or
gum that is to be chewed quench thirst? Isn't
a drnkless drink an impossibility tantamount
to joyless joy? For what is the JOY in taking
on q jag, if not in the drinking? Surely not
'sthe morning AFTER when the head feelsas bigas
pumpkin, and full ofal kinds of unpleasant feel
ings9 Surely not in the jag, which tangles the
feet befuddles the mind, and sinks the man be
low the level of the brute? No, the JOY of the jag
lies in the drinking, to guzzle down the fluid,
drunk for the purpose ofquenching thirst while
looking into the bottom of the glass or hearing
the melodious google of the jugs
Away then with this imposition Men may
chew the rag after they have acquired the jag
but they will not take to chewing gum or any
other substance when thirst calls for something
drnkless drink is q meaner nature fake
than was the promised beer tablet, 1t is
delusion and snare.-AugustaH Herald.
Fitzgerald Pull Out
The Southern girl of the ante beIIum period
she rose of the old regime, was hearts delight
she was never firt. There isa difference betwee
ti,rt and coquettc-the kind of difference there
between hummng Bird making dainty preten
of kissing jasamine- and cat playing with
mouse. Coquctry with the Southern girl of tn;
bv-gone day was the unconscious chalens
of feminine woman accustomed to homage.
never verged upon coarseness or cruelty-nevt
lost her the mans esteem, which remained to hi
after the hot whirl of the senses had subsidized ur
der the cool surprise of her look. No. the Souther
yirl was no flirt. She was sentimental. 1t wa
her sweetest charm--the drop of dew in the hear
If the rose keeping it fresh forever. Her sent
nent was not sickly, The girl who cherished
lead flower her lover had given her, would binC
ID his wounds on a bloody battlefield or rid
hrougha storm of bullets to warn him of DANCE
or cook his dinner or lion his shirt when he wa
Ter husband and had lost his patrimony and heater
lis sword into a plowshare. They were capable o
wing with broken hearts-those girls-but dyin,
18th uncovered colors. -Mary E. Bryan, in Uncl
.amus,s Maoazlne