Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-01
WATER WAGON STARTS OFF WITH A HEAVY LOAD
Wyoming Correspondent Gives Vivid Description Of How Bisbeeite lmbibers Climb up
 and Fall Off Aquous Vehicle.
iEncampnent. wyo.. Herald.

| tEncamp.nent, WyO., beraId-J
 This is the gladsome time of year said the barkeep, when the average rounder and good fellow turns his thoughts toward swearing off. Some how the new year has always been q popular date for elamboring onto the water wagon, and the week after the most likely time for falling off-and we might just as well begin to prepare for the usual number of suds-sippers saved from snakes-and also witness | the annual crop of water wagon was CTS of week ago. It's a peculiar fact that when one of this sort decides to banish the booze bug for a season he immediately gets so busy and aggres- siYe agin alcohol agitation that his work would make 8 modern w. c. T. U. convention look like distiller's assembly.
 For the first three days you would imagine him to be the original White Ribboner who wrote the ritual for the Rum Rescuers Ready Relief Reform CTS. He goes about among his former bibulous trlends and tel them if they don't can the craving for corn cheer and hop-dope the first thing we know we'll have nothing but limp leather Things to brave the battle for beet for the babies, and why don't We tax tumble to ourselves and tin that terrible tanking thing tight for all time like he .as; then he draws a pic ] ture of our wives at home darniug our socks and making our pants over while We are down town slowing the seeth- ing suds to secure a slipperTy, slobsr- ing souse and letting go of our hard earned dollars to decorate the dealers in Demon Damnation with diamonds And SO he goes about buttonhOling his booze brigade brother, warning him that unless he leaves or having high balls hell will have him for a blear eyed Bourbon bum; tells you he's been thinking for a good while that you'd have to ditch the daily drench directly or Demon Desire would drag you to the dreary dippy-house or dis nal death.
 He delights to stand around in his repousse reformer's raiment and boast that he's had heaps in his'n and that it's no more the merry mixers of mirth, music and mint tulips for mine. | He delights to repeat and reiteTate | ming, and that from this time on it's him for a seniors seat in the social set of the Seraphic Sons of Sobriety. l In about four days this same saver lCi suds soaked souls who p0mpoasly Ipreached personal perfection perambu
 lates into my place with bun on, tha lrsminds you of Heinz's fifty-seven va irieties, he's so thoroughly piekled When he gets a grip on the bar stron; enough to steady himself and I asl hm why this ting-a-ling so soon aftel
 scaling the slippery sides of Jh,
 sprinkling wagon, he shouts:
 'Y'ze 'sthiZ way; l wuz doin' fine Is silk til 'smorlin' when b'wife 'siste,
 baby'd said 'Da Da' when = wuz onl,
 eight months old, an I knew't wu when he WIZ only seyen-see? Brok
 my heart, an If go to tn devil nov
 m wife's tblame.'
 And that's the way 1t goes Whel
 yer see a man whose wabbling ways Iwill wreck what's worth while unles
 he turns from the topsy-turvy tangle
 foot track to the tTemens trying ti
 toss the terrible thirst-and I know
 he's in earnest and really wants tt
 snake the studs sure to slide the skid
 frcm under him if he keeps up tn,
 dizzy dippy-house dog-trot much long
 er-I'm the first man 10 wish h'H , well and the last man to lay tempta ion in his way. But these sentimelta skates stimulating sobriety for Q sea son and then falling off the wagol
 because their wives dyed their eye
 brOws-or didn't dye them-get thu hippy-hooray and the hurry up honk honk from Heinie."