Show WAS IT JIMJAMS A Fearful Illustration of what Dixie Wine Will Do How and Why Tribune Man Saw Spooks People in this country and particularly i par-ticularly the southern portion of it have long been accustomed to look upon Dixie wine as a semi harmless beverag and being a home production it has not been so much under the ban as imported grape juice It was supposed to contain con-tain none of the many objectionable features so strongly complained of as being peculiar to all wines not producedat home For this reason if for none other its use has become i almost universal in the Dixie country coun-try Very few travelers pass through that section of the Territory Terri-tory without having the wine offered to them mora than once Beyond the fact that a tooliberal use Was productive of very bad headaches the day following and for more than that period in some casesno serious results have been reported But the time seems to have gone by when the favorite beverage of Dixie can be looked upon as harmless The terrible effects experienced by Rover as he details them in Fridays Fri-days Tribune should teach people that its use can not be continued with impunity As a warning to all who are in the habit of indulg ing in Dixie wine I clip the following follow-ing extract from Rovers letter in which he describes the phantom train Oa themorning of the 21st of May I left Silver Reef Utah on horseback and proceeded to St George where I transacted tome little business after which I repaired to the little vihsge of Hemlock arriving there about 4 oclock in the afternoon Being tired and somewhat some-what hungry I rested for a couple of hours during which I fed my horse grain bad some supper washed down by some very fair Dixie wine Feeling refreshed re-freshed and the evening being a very beautiful one I took my departure about 6pm for Mountain Meadows Before reaching the flat I passed a camp of freighter the four wagons being plainly visible in the moonlight to that after proceeding a mile or so I was not I much surprised on seeing a large train of prairie schooners What surprised me most on beholding them was the direction direc-tion in which they were traveling for being slightly acquainted with the topography of the country although not with the exact locality where the immigrants were ma3a sreed I was pretty certain that the teams i were not on the road While uiedilat ivg on this and the etraogeness of a large train traveling at such an unusual hour I reached a little kcoll on the road which brought me within IOC yards of the caravan Directly on reaching the knoll the first intimation Ihad of anything wrong was the actions of my horse which stopped suddenly laid back his ears and began to tremble as if he was going to pieces t l 4 i T t I very believe that my hair stood on end as the perspiration poured forth from every pore like water from Io sprinkler Even if I had the nerve to proceed to a closer inspection of the ghottly procession which I did rot I could not induce my horse to move a step the poor animal being almost scared to death As it was wa remained like a bronze statue while the train moved slowly on unmindful of Jar prei encs the large blooded stock snowing to perfection In the mellow moonlight of the beautiful night Fascinated I Fas-cinated beyond description I gazed after the retreating wagons until i saw them form a corral in the centre of the valley after which they were quickly surrounded by yelling Indians who made charge after charge only to be repulsed by the brave wagoners After the last charge the Indians retreated out of sight when a party of while men bearing a white flsg made their appearance from a little grove of chapperal on the eatern side of the train approaching to about 100 yards of the wagons when they halted one of the number going forward until he met one of the train party when a consultation of some minutes seemed to take place between them after which the male immigrants left the train escorted by the mounted strangers in the direction of the chapparal grove4 W nat followed after he admits that he could not tell but he heard morunful cries and infuriated < l yells and then his horse bounded away with him bringing up his up his mad flight in the friendly town corral After reading the bloodcurdling narrative above I think my readers will agree with me that it is time some stringent measures were passed looking to the utter annihilla tion of the wine production of the southern country A wine that will produce such imagining in the brain of even a Tribune scribe ought no longef to be tolerated tolera-ted One does not now know when he takes a drink of It just where his imagination may lead him and besides it is unfair to sell as a homemade article a liquid that will paralyze not only the man who swallows it but hishorse also Of what grape can a wine be made that will make a horse stop sud denly lay back his ears and tremble as if he was going to peices e and raise the riders hair straight on end as the perspiration poured forth from every pore like water from a sprinkler and then even while both horse and rider were in the above tremulous state they remained like a bronze statue while the train moved slowly on unmindful of their presence The spectacle of a bronze statue with the horse trembling violently and and the mans hair straight on end with water flowing from every pore like the aqueous fluid from friend Watsons sprinklers ought to have been enough to have brought the troin to halt even though it had been what he seemed to think it wasAs to why the wine should have caused Rover to see things as he claims he did I shall not endeavor to explain I prefer to leave that to tho general public It may have been better quality than he had been accustomed toutoo rich for his blood so to speakbut whatever the cause one can see at a glance the disastrous effect the grape juice had upon him With a kind admonition for Rover I Ro-ver Lto go his way and drink no more or if he does drink not to tell the Tribune about it i ARGEETEE I |