IN A " TEMPERANCE " TOWN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8010, 10 October 1892, Page 2

IN A " TEMPERANCE " TOWN.

Mr George L. Owen, of Whitybush, writing to the Milford Haven Telegraph, relates his experience of a " temperance" town. He «ays:— l have seen a town whore the tale of intoxicating liquors wai absolutely prohibited. A few years ago I was in America, staying at a lovely spot at the foot of tho Bocky Mountains. I may mention, by way of parenthesis, that during my wholo stay in America I was a teetotallor, and, therefore, write with no sonse of personal grievance. One day my travelling companions and myself drove some few miles over the prairie to visit Rechabito City. The "city" was rather larger than Karberth, and not quite as large Havorford West, but we wore in a free country, where people and places may call themselves what they please. So most blocks of buildings are cities, and the majority of men are " generals" when they are not "judges." This, howevor, is by the way. It was a blazing hot day, and as wo neared the city tho driver (who was a Welshman and not a total abstainer) turned and asked where he should put us down. My friend suggested that he should stop at the first place where ho could get a drink, as "he was dying for one." Our Cymric friend, with a grim smile which I did not then understand, informed us that the sale of intoxioating drinks was uttorly prohibited in Eechabite City. F. (my friend) used somo language which I calculated would have beon appraised in Great Britain at <ibout 5s per word for the benefit of the revenue, and suggested a return. To this I demurred. I told the driver to go whore he liked. He apparently liked a sort of general store, for he stopped there and hitched his horses on to the ring that it placed for that purpose beside the pavement in American towns. Having some previous experience of a dry humour iv my Swansea friend (the driver) I stood by to watch events. Advancing into tho (tore, he walked up to the counter, and, putting down two quarter-dollars, asked for two lead penoils or something of that sort. I don't quito romombor what it was, but I distinctly romember that wo did not take it away with us.' The storekeeper then remarked that it was a hot day (which it was), and that wo should find it cooler in tho book parlour (which, we did) while he looked for the goods. Wo entered, and found several other visitors, who appeared to find it cooler there than in the store, and wero further moderating their temperatures by imbibing varieties of American drinks, of which whieky appeared to be the bueii, and to whioh they helped themselves. My friend and our driver joined tho social circle, and I think paid for two more lead pencils on leaving. Our next experience was at a linen draper's, where the same thing went on, and I believo we made three other experiments. In tbe interests of political economy and then in the interests of my own neck (as " Swansea " had to drive us back, and there was no definite road across the prairie), I put a atop to these scientific investigations. We lunched at a boardinghouse ktpfc by one of tho many distinguished ■' genorals " who grace the " Land of Stars and Stripes." I was told that this particular " general " obtained an honest livelihood by retailing the non-transferable unused halves of railway tiokets to New York, etc. Ho was an astute person and on loafing I asked him what he thought of Bechabite City, focussing it under the temperance laws. It took him some time to reply, as he had to remove a considerable quantity of foreign matter from his mouth before he had room to think, but when this difficulty was overcomo he said, " Well, sir, I guess it is tho drunkennest little place in the States ! " To my inquiry why someone did not inform the authorities of this illicit practice in a temperance city, the genoral opined that it would not be greatly to the advantage oE tbat person in a free country, as he would probably obtain a gratuitous ride on. a fir-tree rail across the prairie, with a gentle intimation that if he returned he would find a purely teetotal entertainment awaiting him in toe form of a bucket of tar and a tack of feathers. Tho moral of this brief narrative — faithful in all save in the name of the city — I dedioato to the temperance supporters of the Welsh Sun? d»y Closing Act.

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