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Show Teetotallsm In Texas. When Gen. Horace Porter was In Texas ho camo across a man who went about telling everybody. In great surprise, that he "had struck a big thing hero." "What's tho matter?" people asked. "Why," he answerod, "I was sent down here by a temper-nnco temper-nnco Boclety In Kansas to distribute these tracts. Well, whenever I handed hand-ed a man a tract he glanced over it, haulod out n revolver from one pocket and a quart bottlo of whisky from the other and then said: 'Look here, you JubI havo a drink of that, or my gun'll go off.' Would you believe itl I haven't had to pay for a drop of liquor slnco I camo here to distribute teetotal tracts." |