Show stand mis support from the lf vision saturday journal an old gentleman who was in trade in a kennebec village for more than half a century used to relate an anecdote oi a business rival who was a famous liquor seller in the days that everybody kept it the temperance agitation of 1814 had changed the notions of many persons in maine as to the propriety of belling liquors and at length the matter of for or against the traffic came up for a vote in town meeting the seller alluded to was very strenuous in his opposition to all restraint in his business and labored heartily with the voters to resent encroachment croach ment on their but in the course of the vote it became necessary to have a division of the house all for alio traelic went to one side oi the room all opposed to the other alie common nse of elco bolic drinks had left its mark upon alio faces of its victims and the crowd that assembled on one side of the town house to insist on their customary toddy was not so pretty as it might have been to the surprise of every one the famous old aeller after a moments hesitation deliberately went io the temperance side what are you over hero for the astonished people beean to question you dont bolink here sido over there the old man looked around with disgust and retorted you dont suppose I 1 am going over there in that crowd of scabby loees do you A look at the uncanny assemblage of big customers bad appalled him |