The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-07-06
I ,,h;bition Prosperity in the
pun South.
rrrom the Lewiston SUM-

rEr0ul the LeWiStoh 0uhsl
,.,rnded out year, just before the
',' we spent in small settlement
3d. .,..on County KY, known then as
N -. uin." In that little village was
w ,-sry kept by Mr.. Henderson
foSsg nd ready with right hand up,
F7 hat it W as an unmitigated curse
@'' rounding commu nifty. "The
our ~. serpent was over them ALL"
'- but over the many. When
ATen was young and lived in
H. battered away his liberty by
l ledge never to taste, touch nor
N ,ee cup that intoxicates and he
1E Kat though living in the shadow
81 .,ryerv neither he nor his boys
-aste of whiskey. He was still
ads Of iniquity-still shackled,
" vsl Of liberty, still wearing the
.r.in. while his neighbors were
u nh, enjoyment of the greatest
ie fbe world" the unrestricted
10 deprive those dependent on
w IRON the pursuit of happiness.
ION live was a veritable death
r.. MANY. The young men | knew
r.ai. good fellows, and treated
a. whether drunk or sober, and
- 4ssant thoughts of them abide
!. g.. stil' All gone down the tide
w. where they shall hunger no more,
1- thirst any more, or if they thirst
-rs rink of the water of life, of
s.J that God brews and not the
. 3D.. henderson made many efforts
..... the shackles that bound me
,es eat into great and bound
5.r-r but he didn't seem to make
ol it. 1t so happened that l
-..- ssed by wise father and
,-- faught me to shun the cup
..-- a- son should be stunned. And
.r. the odor of the pines of dear
n AL entered the blood and
....- he whiskey odor of ''Poe's
s MESSED that strong drink
as-a f. long temptation and it is
oz,. nay quite probable, if all
-ras Of Maine for the last so
u. a-rslsJed in holding the bottle
aa4-r my nose, ] might have
m- INTO a tipsy liberty-free
aii and chain. Henderson
and was himself accursed,
ss scrabble death and in poverty
n t.s ago. No whiskey now at
I'll \re the conditions better
.r.- Nat and cosy cottages stand
stood ramshackle and I'M
t $, and other improvements
r- steadily forward. Whiskey
.r. lHa0re, not a help. This is a
= If Poe's Mills and history
is J-e in any place and in all
.,-, wide world over.
,-.ser correspondent of Atlanta,
..- 1t is peculiarly significant
-r- the greatest number of
letting married they have
a- asst enforcement of the Pro-
- avs. Another says: Never
seen business better than
rs and the heaviest business is
h rg goods business" not the
T. understand. And still an
= y to our eyes in business. Too
sk. Business good and COL
.y, -e' The Standard Furniture
s-rtst that "people must be get
os-l in punches, Judging from
they are selling furniture. So
--e Nashville. -
work in a directly opposite
u3 saloons pop up like poison
a5 all over Maine? There would
q. SIS be a rum boom, but in nothing
! ~ht if there be business man
rl a,g u in any other who wishes
on his acknowledgement"
8, would change from dry goods
lei lr.s IS he thinks to get rich quick
+ stripping off the family underwear
by putting it on. He may be in
'r-.r about the matter outside of his
S.me people are built that way,
pnsatrng that they are their
he, 1e-per 1t is common report
a.~ was one of that stripe, after
a-E Abel's brains out. AS regu-
Dr. does not regulate, turn the spigot
l- run: An ideal situation. When
pa-lt you have scored a run and
a. oa Your hands and take your
= rae bat when you get good and
is. W. We are not umpiring the game.
os= Eour own umpire out of your
:. ~. ers, Democrat, Republican or
a's- We only stipulate that he
-"t blind as old.Bartimeus, nor so
r.'.at he can see double.
John.