Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — A Temperance Reason. [ARTICLE]

A Temperance Reason.

“My! my!” said a temperance advocate to a friend of his, whom he met coming out of a saloon. “I didn’t know you went into such places.” “ Ah, indeed! Then you have learned something this morning?” “Yes, and I’m sorry I have learned it.” “I don’t think it very wrong.” “Ah, my friend! that’s where the harm is. Your finer senses are blunted such associations, and the demon drink is changed in your sight to a beautiful siren, whose song transforms you into a beast. Why, dear friend, O, why, do you go into those places ?” “Well, really, old fellow, I can’t say, Snlesa it is that the darned saloonlepers have become so aristocratic "they won’t bring-it out to a customer and let him' drink it on the street. I’m bpufld to liaveut, so, yon see I’ve got to go in after it,”jfQrchant Traveler. “Aha exclaimed Mr. Popinjay from bejiind. his paper. “I see that our friend Simpson’s prize ox has been gored. ” “Indeed!” chorused the girls. “How handsome he must look cut that way! Do you think he will be exhibited again this winter?”—Burlington Free Preen. Alligator farming has become “a regular business” in Florida.