Show An mmI Drunk I The oldt temperance society 10 the world It the abstaining commune In i Achlki In Siberia all ot whose mem hers are strict teetotalers t every day In ho year except one llegularly on the first day < < ot September year after year all tho adult members of the com muno assemble In the pirlth church and every ono take a solemn vow lie tore hue altar to drink no wine beer or spIrIts from the morrow of tIme following fol-lowing day for tho whole year The clinton from hue Morrow It I Introduced Intro-duced In order to give them a roward for their virtue In tho sliipe of n wholu lay ot drunken carnival Aa lOon at they leave the church thmey begin to In luigo In a horrible bacchanalian drinkIng drink-Ing which continues throughout the diy until ncllher man nor woman In lbs village It I sober ThIs It naturally followed by contlderablo physical tuf erlng and then mental remorse whereupon where-upon the penitent parish enters upon It It twelvemonth ot model sobriety and all live like the Itcchabltea Borne students stu-dents Imagine that this queer proceeding proceed-ing may bo a prehistoric tribal custom |