Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-12-18
Gelti,1q the Rum Demons Goat

Toward the end of the trip-it was on special
train-somebody suggested drink The button was
pushed in due and ancient orm and the slave Of the
ring promptly appeared to take orders. Two took
od.fashioned drinks; the rest took charged waters
Later, comment arose over the fact that only
few years ago 1t would have been different. The
suggestion OF drink would have come the first day,
and pretty early, instead ofthe last day, pretty late
Instead Of only two men taking real drinks most
all Of them would have spurred their systems with
an alcoholic shock; and there would not have been
one drink but many.
The discussion developed the fact that only few
years agoI would have been this way, If the
same me6Ihad formed the party.
One man said he quit because he found it didn't
agree with him.
Another man said he quit because he found him
self getting underneath the habit instead of top
Of tit was becoming, his master.
Another man said: II found l couldn't keep up
the pace in my business-its pretty swift, you know
when my head was fudded with drink or cobwebbed
with the katzenjammer attere1ects. So quit it,
Still Another man confessed that he had found
himself saying and doing indiscreet and foolish
things whep he had few drinks aboard. Il thought
that probably hadn't been endowed with any more
brains than ! needed" he said, "and concluded I'd
better not be mbibing something that crippled what
brains did have So quit And he wasn't lDan
anybody would suspect of a lack Of brains, either.
The fifth man said his doctor said he would have
to quit drinking or quit livng-"and was no soak,
either"
. And so 1t went. The two who had taken whisky
for theirs looked rather shamefaced, said the other
fellows Webe wise in "cuttng it OUT and added that
they thinking of doing the same.
The other story is about meeting of membersof
order that noted-or notorious. justly. or
unjustly-for its conviyiality. There than
hundred present during whole evening" and the
total sales at the bar amounted to four bottles OF
beer
That's the sort of thing that is getting the goat
Of the Demon Rum.
Not prohibition; not county option; not even
tightly adjusted lids; but the Widening realization
that the drinking man is not the efficient man, that
the pace Of modern competition is too keen for men
whose brains not clear that drink ne"er did any
man good in all the history of the world and has
done terrible evil to millions.
1t is change that you encounter wherever you
turn. lt;isa change that grows emphatic every
The drink evil will not be killed by the we'll meant
attcrts of people to govern the habits of other
people, but By the settled judgment of mankind that
i; is an-ey, that thousands are made worse by it
and none made better, and that man and the world
will be better OF without it.
That's what's getting the goat Of the Rum Demon
Duluth Herald.
Compulsory vaccination for the prevention of ty-
phoid fever in the United States army has given the
country practically ''mmunized" fighting force
but one case of the disease making it's appearance
during the first eleven months of 1913, according to
reports Just obtained from the office of Surgeon Cen
eral Torney, of the department The one soldier
hnt five av aft no
had enlisted and before ne had been immunized In
no other army is anti-typhod vaccination mandatory
So ef1caci0us has been the treatment in the army
that the navy has adopted the precedent and it is
today imn1unized with vaccine prepared in the lab
oratory of the Army Medical school
e In holding congress In special session until the
regular session opens President Wilson may not be
aiming GLOW at the mileage graft, but the blow is
administered just the same. And, Representative
Thomas of Kentucky put is, the creditors of many
congressman need the money, too
A Chicago judge announces that study of the
cases that have come before him shows that many
homes have been destroyed by mothersinlaw. But
the judge does not know and has no such easy
method of determining how many homes have been
Saved by mothers.inlaw.
Between the ultimatums presented by President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan, Special Envoy Lind, Gen
eral Agent and Charge dAnaires oShaughnessy, the
heads Of the Mexican government will be puzzled to
choose discreetly
IL Col. Blease goes to the Senate he need not
expect to n1onopolize the limelght. Hiram johnson
has announced his candidacy to succeed Senator
Perkins Of California.
Before Great Britain taunt the United States
about the revolution in Mexico she will have to quell
the nsurrection in Ulster. And Germany has similar
business to attend to It Zabern s