Evening star., 1914-04-26

if he kept drink on tn premises, but.
cautioning tn king that It wud be as
much as his job was worth to have it
known. he conducted him into TIL back
yard, opened tn cellar dure, an led him
down into TIL darkness. Thin he lighted
candle, an. afther burrowin' in pile
iv potatoes, projooced bottle marked
Extract iv Vanilla" an told tn. king to
take a pull at it. His majesty was very
ill tn mex day.
Its hard f'r me 10 think " a timp-
rance navy. Somehow or other me idee
iv sea fightin' an booze fightin' is so
wound up together that there amt amy
romance in wan without TIL other. I
niver see man-iv-war III me life but
tn brick wan they had al TIL wurruld S
fair. but I always had pitcher iv wan in
me mind with til sailors below broachn'
a cask iv rum an dancin a sailors horn
pipe an tn officers on tn roof standn'
around a long. table an dhrinkin Sweet
hearts an wives i'll a punch that wud
burn a hole in tn deck if they spilled
amy iv it, which they didn't. ] thought
an admiral wud be disgraced if he wint
aboord befure he was loaded down to tn.
Pimsoll line. ] figured til raison tn cap
tain paced tn quarther deck was because
he had set up late tn night befure an
cuddent stand still.
An now I find that tn seamen don I
get anything to dhrink but tea an tn
officers has been subsistin f'r years on a
kind iv drink that was vinegar befure it
got sour. An aven that has been cut out
he Josephus Daniels. I wondher what
lawn Paul Jones wud think if he wint
on wan iv thin floatin masheen shops
with lot iv boys studyin' Fr-rinch in
wan part iv tn foundry an tn officers
settn' around tn dinner table an sayin'
to each other: Don't touch that sasprilly,
Percy; it's corked.'
Sure there's NANNY another old fellow
in other thrades thin tn sea wud be sur
prised if he come back an found how
things has changed since til days whin
gintleman was not gintleman if he
wasn't cross-eyed by siven o'clock at
night King Alcohol no longer rules til
sea or tn land. TIL ladies have got that
binivolint OF dishpot on his knees begin
f'r mercy an they're sayin' to him. Did
ye have mercy on us?' an ARE Settin'
ready to chop off his wicked Of head
Take drink me boy, whether ye need
it or not. Take it now. 1t may be ye'er
last | used to laugh at TIL pro-hybtion
lists used to laugh thin to scorn. But |
laugh no more: they've got us on tn run.
! wudden't be surprised at amy minylt II
had to turn this emporium into an ex
change f'r womens wurruk. Whether we
like it or not. in few years there won't
be amy saloons to lure tn marrid man
firm his home, furnish guests FIR our
pr'reat asylums an jails, an brighten up
III dark sthreets with their cheerful
glow ] don't care. / Wudden't mind if
ali III liquor in tn wurruld was poored
into tn lake. 1t wud make people pay
their wathcr tax with lighter heart.
4: i:
But what I'd like to know is, whin
all tn breweries an wine presses ARE
shut down. an tn pizened ivy f1ourishcs
on tn rooms iv tn magnificent distilleries
iv Peory, what's gon' to happen? This
here moppin' up iv alcohol is quare
thing an I can't make it out. I've been
studyin 1 r NANNY years an it looks to
me like kind iv a way men have "
shakin off TIL harness iv civilization. tn
same as yc see an oil horse whin he is
turned loose in pasture kick up his
heels an roll in tn mud, an TIL older
he is tn more ondignifled he looks do1n
it. Hogan says that iNer since man wint
around with nawthin' on him but an
apron made iv skins he has burrowed
in tn earth an climbed threes to find
something that looked innocint which he
cud convart into booze. He says pigs an
nachraily to alcohol. He says there amt
har'ly anything that grows on TIL top
iv tn arth that can't be turned into this
wonderful karosene It's made out ~
sugar cane, wheat, corn, potatoes, grapes,
oats, palm threes, cactus, mares milk,
beets, apples. carrots. rice or artichokes,
an man wud make it out " morn1n
glories, egg plant or rubber boots if he
cud find nawthin' else. Hogan says that
ia times gone by, whin our ancestors had
no more thin shed their tails, they wint
out an broke open a bee hive, ab-