THE ALLIANCE HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920.
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Continuing our interesting discus
sion, 6tartel in the last issue of this
.great moral compendium of knowl
edge, relative to too ease with which
the average citizen overlooks -violations
of trie Volstead law, it is com
iorung to realize that this tendency
is not confined to western Nebraska.
It's the same all over these United
States, ihe best evidence of this is
Been in the way the newspapers, which
reflect public opinion ia.riy accurately,
deal with these violations.
There is nothing surprising, of
course, in the fact tnat the Mew York
Morning Telegraph should print the
experience cl a fashionable booze
smuggler. New York has never fully
forgiven the rest of the country lor
fastening prohibition upon it against
its wishes. The New York newspa
pers still speak of the "great mistake"
of prohibition, and many of them fore
cast its downfall as often as once a
month.-
five years ago wouldn't have been
deemed worthy of notice:
Cut the Literary Digest is on a dif
ferent plane. When the Digest re
prints this kind of a yarn, with hu
morous comments, it is time for the
tern white-ribboners to sit up and
take notice. This is the way that
magazine treats , of an incident that
"A ger.'.r opponent of the Volstead
law from Virigina found himself in
Montreal recently with a powerful
hankering to take back with him to
his desert home a supply of the for
bidden fluid still being purveyed in
the land of the Canucks. Being among
those citizens who abhor the violation
of their country's laws, especially if
there is dunger of being caught at it,
the circumspect Virginian made dis
creet inquiry of the proprietor of a
Montreal liquor-stone whose wares
had made a hit with the thirsty Amer-
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ican as ynv vnuin.es iiukiu w ui
; his being able to cross1 the border
! with two or there unrta ot the best
i in the Canadian's stock. The latter,
after duo consideration, replied: 'You
may expect a raid in a Pullman-train
about once everyten days. When the
law enforcers in the States want to
give a party wouldn't it be natural for
! them to take up a collection of bottles
of the bonded goods? It's human, my
friend only human.'
"In telling the story when he
reached New York the Virginia man
suggested that while this liquor-dealer
appeared to be perfectly frank and
honest, it was just barelv posibl 1ht
he was mistaken and that his state-
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ment of the case may have been un
fair to the revenue men. However,
the dealer's conversation found favor
with the Virginian, and when the lat
:er boarded the train for the United
States there were artfully concealed
in his baggage two quarts of fine
Scotch whisky, one bottle of good
brandy, and two pints of absinth. Now,
whether the liquor man had been mis
taken in what he told the gentleman
from the land of drouth, or whether
this was one of the times the law
enforcers were out of accumulated joy
producer for another party nobody
knows. But, in any event, what hap
pened to the booze-bearers on that
train was heart-breaking, the harrow
ing details being set out in the New
York Morning Telegraph as follows:
lis remarks, I failed to hear him make
ihe statement that all that were alive
n 1925 would never die: but I so un
lerstood his remarks that millions
hat were alive at that particular time
ivould.go on to perfection and never
lie. I can quite agree with him that
n God's plan he will have living men
ind women in his kingdom here on
the earth and they will live and reign
with him a thousand years. But be
fore this condition sets in we mutt some five years' time ?
lave had the two world wars, the True, God moves in a mysterious
great battle of Armageddon yet to be manner. Yours truly,
fought in Asia Minor, that great city
yet to be builded of God, the holy city
"Jerusalem," at the restoration of the
Hebrew nation when fourteen nations
will rule the earth with a ml of iron,
wherein all shall speak one pure
language. Now can the mind accept
the idea that all this will happen in!
CHARLES FOLDNESS.
Maybe the man who want to go
over Niagr.ra Falls in a barrel only
want to show that there's still some
use for a barrel in this country.
Kalama (Wash.) News,
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' 'We were just getting out of Ma
lone, N. Y., when the revenue agents
boarded the train. They started in at
the rear of my Fullman and went
right down the aisle with as much
precision as- the conductor taking up
tickets. They had a big gunny sack,
into which they placed all the con
fiscated bottles. All they said by word
of warning or reproach was: "You
ought to know better than try to get
away with this stuff."
" 'There was no resistance and no
threat of arrest. One of the pas
sengers had evidenced such symptoms
of weariness that his was the first
berth made up. Fatal mistake. If
you are a booze-smuggler, don't ever
ask the porter to make up your berth.
Wait till he asks you if you are in
lower or upper 10. Ihe traveler who
had his bed first prepared for an un
easy sleep was instantly the center of
the search. In his pajamas he was
dragged forth from his berth, blink
ing like a fellow who had forgotten
how to play blind man's bluff, while
the revenue men threw out his pillows,
sheets, blankets, and even the mattress.
" 'Then came the bottles more than
a dozen which were quickly trans
ferred t& the official bag. This detail
of the work occupied at least five
minutes of valuable time, and in the
nterval the rest of us were thinking
and scheming. One man from Phila
delphia, who was opposite me, was
quickest to act. He had two quart
bottles, the necks of " which were
slightly bulging above the glass body.
He produced from his pocket a twine
string, tied his two bottles securely
around the necks, onened the
and suspended his treasures on the
outside of the Pullman, then closed
e window tightly.
" 'There was one woman in the mid
lie nf the iav uhst i'o o v..
hand-baggage. Fromv a hat-box she
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-mmiy iook two Dottles or champagne.
One of them she placed in a wrap that
was beside her novt iho niclo nr.. I ih.
other she deliberately covered with
tne loms oi ner traveling gown, so
that it resembled the curve of her
leg-
"When the revenue men came along
they readily found one bottle, but they
were too polite to disturb the woman
passenger, who seemed to be transfixt
with awe. She saved half of her
'tore. When thev cot to
feemed to be in a very good humor,
ana i saiu: "un, what s the use; my
only regret is that I have onlv thr
quarts to give to my country." They
took the three bottles and one of the
men replied, "You have done nobly."
"'When they had left us all the
men adjourned to the smoking com
partment, where we held an indigna
tion meeting. The last passenger who
joined us was the man who had tied
his hopes to a twine string. He had
the necks of the bottles as proof of
his resourcefulness, but that was all.
His two quarts of Scotch had been be
stowed upon that side of the Pullman
when we were rounding a curve in the
Adirondacks, much the same, but
without the ceremony, that a maiden
vessel goes down the ways at a ship
yardthe sponsor who does the chris
tening keeps the ribbons or the twine.
" 'We reviled ourselves for not hav
ing a celebration in the diner before
we crossed the Canadian line. What
a treat it would have been! And
what a pack of fools we were. The
conversation became louder and loud
er, though no one was really angry.
"'And then a strange thing hap
pened. It was worthy of the climax
in a great comedy founded on the Vol
stead act The curtain of the smok-ing-compartment
was suddenly thrust
aside and we saw the pallid features
Of the Woman who Vinrl snvorl nno k
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tie of champagne. I thought she was
a ghost, as she stood there. AnA
raising the bottle aloft, until it looked
ime a torcn on the Statue of Liberty.
one Bum: uoys, li tnis will help
any, go to it"
SAYS ONLY THE ELECT
WILLLIYE FOREVER
Hemingford, December 4. To the
Editor of the Herald: Your article in
last Tuesday's paper is somewhat in
error. Attending the lecture at Red
dish hall last Sunday eve and giving
the speaker my closest attention la
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