The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-24

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| question for The ArdmOreite and the
| Milwaukee SentinelD
New Orleans. May 23.-I never
/ land in New Orleans and walk along
| Canal street without blushing so you
could touch a match to my face and
| II would flare up as though you had
| touched II to red hot stove lid.
/ IL was on Canal street in this city
! that first disgraced myself. and
nearly ruined our beloved country. In
| 1864 | was stationed with my regi-
ment at Baton Rouge, as a sergeant
of cavalry. by one of those upheayals
! that come TO armies In the field,
/ | was commissioned second lieutenant
and sent TO New Orleans To he mus
/ tered In and paid my money Another
| fresh officer was with me, and when
we had mustered in, got our money.
cut of our sergeant cheNrons and
| had sewed on our shoulder straps.
We lokeed at each other and won.
dered what we would do with the
tainted money My friend said he
/ was for painting New Orleans so
/ red that circus wagon would look
/ shrimp pink. Being easily led astray
at 2i years of age, ! said | had
| thought that myself. So we wandered
| TO Canal street and In window OF
[ a saloon | saw quart bottle of
| champagne. and | said | saw IL first
and was going to purchase It and
| conceal IL about my person, as ! had
never tasted champagne. and those
/ officers / had seen drink il seemed
! Joyous and carefrce. He said he
would take the mate to IL, and we
went in and each paid five dollars
of Mr.. Lincoln's money. and had a
colored man remove the obstruction
and pour It out have always
I thought that quart of extra dry
champagne, on an empty stomach, in
fifteen minutes by the watch, was
going some | did not want any OF
the good stun to get away. So | never
left drop I'm the bottle. The first
half tasted better than the last
pint. and had great thoughts OF dis
tinguishing myself In battle, and of
telling Grant how the war could be
fought to successful termination,
but after | drank II all | did not
care so much What | wanted was
TO find q hospital, with a nurse who
carried a bag Of ice in her hip pock-
ct, and fresh air, 50 we went out on
Canal street and tried TO look So
ber. The people seemed to try to go
between me and there were several
collisions, and | made several people
apologize for their rudeness. o my,
O my, but what a night We went
to all the places that were open,
and discussed the conduct of the war,
and at daylight found a steamboat
bound for Baton Rouge, and we took
passage on some bales of hay, and
every pulsation of the engines of the
steamer raised the roof of my head,
and for three days | could not touch
my head or my hair with a feather
duster without my skull cracking
like tin roof in a cyclone, and fl
nally when my brain got so IL would
stay in my head and not try to get
out OF my head with jimmy and a
sledge hammer and / could get on
my horse without a derrick, ! swOre
on. and from that day to this
have been prohibitionist, as far
as drinking qu-rt OF champagne
az one fun swoop is concerned
And here | am in the old town again
where | have watched Mardi Gras
professions in years past, when the
crowd was 50 dense that | could only
sec the top OF the head of the Queen
of Beauty, when | wanted to see her
full length, and where no man can
successfully raise corns. Now | go
10 see the sights. monuments of Jack
son, who was the only man New Or
leans knows of. Other men may have
had their good points but Old Hick-
ory takes the cake here. / go out 10
the cemetery, whore departed friends
are buried above ground, lin sort of
marble soda fountain, because be-
low the surface of the ground II Is
so wet that the most cheerful person
would kick, and ask for oar locks
on the marble sarcophagus, SO that
II the river ever oyerflows the lovea
the departed friends could rise up
and could row 10 high ground. The
old French quarter is always inter
cstlug, but there must be some law
against icplIrrug, painting or mod
trulug the place. II rs as ancient as
egypt and the people enjoy it dirt,
fIth and an because 10 remains
just as { always was The residents
of the French quarter speak sneer-
ingly OF the American quarters,
whore skyscrapors are being built,
and where business is conducted
along modern lines by as enterpris-
ing a lot of business men as ever
lived. To build skyscraper they
must have TO drive piles down sew
eral miles, but they get there. all
the same.
Louisiana Is I'm the first stages OF
the prohibition craze, just getting a
little "nutty" around the edges. but
has not yet arrived az the stage OF
the disease where they "soe things"
and run amuck with the prohibition
torch aflame with incendiary benzine.
Some parishes. I'm the far interior,
have gone dry like a farrow COW
and below around Ike a Maverick
that has been eating loco weed. "a
parish in Louisiana is the same as
counties in the nOrth) But the level
headed citizens are out with the
lariat ropes OF good common sense,
! ~ rnnn ITO tho ,,.g,9 a,s,J HI