Show Dr drunkenness unee aness IN THE OLD TIME A law to prevent drunkenness drunken ness by pro hi biting the public promiscuous sale of intoxicating drinks was by no means original in the state of maine the tho vice is as old as burrace our oun race our ultimate ancestors the vikings drank fire wa ter upon earth and quaffed mead in paradise our more recent progenitors in great britain drank gin and grovelled grovel led A agn gin shop in southward South wark london Ii ondon one hundred and thirty years ago had this alluring sign drunk for a penny dead drunk for clean straw for noth nothing hig big il what more could man th the bimage image of his maker ask people often died of drunkenness in the taverns and there was a temperance party even then that thai demanded a prohibitory law and they succeeded in carrying a bill through parliament to tax so beav heavy y that it became too costly for the poor and which prohibited r 0 habited the sale of drama ote oge sir R r t walpole whose boozing orgies at haughton are not unknown finally acquiesced in the law mar Zar harpet harper pers magazine it has been related that the emerald isle has haa produced a physician who being called to examine a man who ha hait hail 11 been killed by a neighbor said I 1 this person was so ill th that at if ho he had bad not been murdered he would hayg have died aled half halt an hour before an orator I 1 who becoming very angry augry at an eng eug lahman cried awill I wiil punch your impenetrable head and let the brains out oue of your empty skull skuli an editor who wrote of the wrongs of his native isle her cup of misery has been of ages 1 overflow overflowing ingi and Is not yet full P and a discriminating historian who stated that in t the he first place ireland was di vided aided into in t 0 four kingdoms then it was divided I 1 nto into three kingdoms next into two kingdoms and finally it tt was divided in into 0 one mn everything we add to our know knowledge leM iem A a dds adds to our means of usefulness i KI kindness eidness lid iid ness nesb justice ce and ier forbearance b barance T W to 0 ward others beget towards us |