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Show ! men would be too severe to inflict upon a merchant who sells liquor to growing boys. A life termin the penitentiary would be u mild : correction.-j-r-STa?ta Press.' , ; 'Down Jiere in Dixie we don't haye to got bitters, Jamaica ginger and other "villainous compounds." The home made wine of this region re-gion is subject to so many variations varia-tions in j its manufacture that almost any grade of liquid "damnation" "dam-nation" can be had without resorting resort-ing to grocery, store stocks, , It is said, however, by those who know, that repentance is more sincere and lasting after an over-indulgence in Dixie grape juice thau from any other beverage. As to whether the Dixie wine route to hell is any shorter or has less crooks and curves than the. bitters, r '? ' 1 1 Jamaica ginger or lem on extract roads we are not prepared to state, being of, a strictly temperate nature na-ture ourself. . ?' v A traveling man who was in The Press office a few days ago, among '.i other- things said that' it would ehock anyone not familiar with ; the facts to know of the foothold ; ' ' intemperance is gaining in all the Bmaller towns of Utah, young men J and even boys falling victims to the vice.' He cited a number of : ' ' towns in Millard county as illustrations. illus-trations. It is coraracn for coun-; coun-; try merchants . to handle various " brands of "bitters", Jamaica' ginger, gin-ger, etc., and many of them sell tnese villainous compounds to anybody any-body having the money to buy. Thu3 it happens that boys hold . , wild orgies at ' night, become beastly intoxicated, and start off .pn the road to hell. Jo punish- . ; a , . . i ' ' - , t , , . . . f ' ' , ; . . ... |