Part 162 (1/2)
”No, sah, Ah doan't neber ride on dem things,” said an old colored lady looking in on the merry-go-round. ”Why, de other day I seen dat Rastus Johnson git on an' ride as much as a dollah's worth an' git off at the very same place he got on at, an' I sez to him, 'Rastus,' I sez, 'yo' spent yo' money, but whar yo' been?'”
Beneath this starry arch, Naught resteth or is still; But all things hold their march As if by one great will.
Move one, move all: Hark to the footfall!
On, on, forever.
--_Harriet Martineau_.
PROHIBITION
A bone-dry nation means a life full of sorrows without any chance of drowning them.
_Cla.s.sic Thoughts on Prohibition_
I love fools' experiments.--_Darwin_.
The rising world of waters dark and deep.--_Milton_.
Earth a failure, G.o.d-forsaken, Ante-room of h.e.l.l!--_Kingsley_.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.--_Shakespeare_.
The law is a a.s.s, a idiot.--_d.i.c.kens_.
Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.--_Holmes_.
The remedy is worse than the disease.--_Bacon_.
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts.
And men have lost their reason.--_Shakespeare_.
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.--_Fletcher_.
The h.e.l.l of waters!--_Byron_.
The frigid theories of a generalizing age.--_Disraeli_.
O, happy, happy Liver!--_Wordsworth_.
--_E.H._
”Do you think there's a chance of prohibition's being repealed, after all?”
”I hope not,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop; ”anyhow, not soon.”
”I thought you didn't quite approve of prohibition.”
”I don't, quite. But for years folks have been talking about a lot o'
chaps that 'ud be such wonders if they didn't drink, an' I want to see 'em get a little more time to make good.”
”It is indeed a pleasure,” remarked the man who approves of prohibition, ”to be able to walk the streets without seeing a saloon on every corner.”
”And yet,” returned the unregenerate one, ”it's a great comfort to know they are there, even if you don't see them.”
Prohibition doesn't prohibit; it just provokes.