PROSECUTING THE “TREATER”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 24

PROSECUTING THE “TREATER”

The victom of an “incurable" thirst is not always so frank about his failing as to avertise it, and ask the public to aid him to conquer bis weeklies. That was the device adopted by a resident of Nassau in the Bahamas, who, being unable to cure himself of his drinking habits, inserted this announcement in the. Bahama “Gazette": —"Whereas, the subscriber. through the pernicious habit oi drinking, has greatly hurt himself in purse and person, ami rendered himself odious to all his acquaintances: and tinding there is no possibility of breaking off from the said practice, but through the impossibility to find the liquor; he, there-

fore begs and prays that no person will sell him, for money, or on trust, any sort of spirituous liquors, as he will not in future pav for it, but will prosecute anyone for ah action of damage against the temporal and eternal interests ot the Public’s humble, serious, aud sober servant This strange document was signed by a witness in proper legal form, and the signer evidently anticipated that it would bo effective, ns lie desribed himself “sober servant." The threat to prosecute anyone who supplied him with liquor -is a novel method of securing personal temperance reform, comments the “Glasgow’ Herald."