WATER VERSUS BEER.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 286, 19 April 1919, Page 11

WATER VERSUS BEER.

The liquor superstition that <1 man cannot do a hard day’s work without booze has received another deathblow. Rev. 11. C. Hill, a well-known Methodist minister of this State, an swering a statement that “abstainers were no good for solid work,” which was made by the strongest and toughest hay-pitcher in the district) challenged the man to a day’s hippitching on the following day. 1 his he declined, but accepted for the following Friday, ostensibly because he* had been celebrating “Peace Day,” .ind wanted to recover. \ great deal <*f interest wav evinced, and the conditions were that work was to be commenced at 0 a.m., continue all day, and pitc h on loads, the* parson t<> work on water, his opponent to have as much drink as he desired. The water-waggoner was in his place at the* appointed time, but “the* disciple of liberty” (?) did not put in an appearance. howe ve r, the defender of sobriet} went ahead and pitched alKcut twenty tons of hay, and could have pitched another ten or fifteen if his opponent had been there. Manx j»ersons, including the* local constable and town c lerk, inspected his hands, hut not a blister did they find. The local Red C loss benefited to tin* extent of £1 5s as the- result of the day's work by thio valiant Chnstian, who is already famous for his leadership during a recent bu>h fire, with no stimulant excepting a lemon. Bravo! — “Patriot.”