29 / 100
but nothing was said until the smell from the package became
so disagreeable that it was opened and the ingenious but dis–
creditable fraud was discovered.
Temperance Almanac,
i869.
AN APPRECIATION OF NEW ENGLAND
I
SEE
much to admire in New England. I like your skule–
houses, your meetin-houses, your enterprise, gumpshun &c.,
but your favrite bevridge disgusts me; I allude to N:ew
England rum. It is wus nor the korn-whisky of Injianny which
eats threw stone jugs and will turn the stummick of the most
shiftless hog. I seldom seek consolashun in the flowin bole, but
t'other day I swallered down sum of your rum. The fust glass
endused me to sware like a infooriated trooper. On takin the
sekond glass I was seezed with a desire to brake winders; and
after imbibin a third, I knockt a small boy down and pict his
pocket. People of New England, adoo.
From Artemus Ward.
Q.UITE SO!
""
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W
E
have no interest in either party and nothing against
them unless they get in the way of this child of the
church.
If
they do we do not care by what name they
are called, we will trample them under foot and destroy them
forever.
Report of speech by Clarence True Wz'lson,
N. Y. Tz"mes, July Ist,
i929.