Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

DANGlili IN THE DARK. 139
That winding stairway you see in the center, that
looks so mnch like a corkscrew, leads up to a billiard
aloon, magnificently fitted out for the accommodation
of gentlemen of leisure. Well now, you must see
there is a great deal of money in an establishment like
this. prohibitory law, such as you talk of, would
kno k the whole busiuesa on the head, take from these
m nth ir liv lihood, ruin their occupation, and reduce
the ln f th ir pr rty I"
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e untold wr teh dn and d tit ti
the occupation of th se men; the s r nd h ndr
th y ruin by their iniquitou lling W You 100 n
Uponthis picture, but have an abundance of tears to
be ponred out for the authors of so much mischief and
misery-because, forsooth, in the event of the passage
of a prohibitory liquor law, they would be compelled
to abandon their worse than useless business t You
remind me ~ery much of the tender-hearted Frenchman,
who was one day traveling in a stage-coach
through the hill-country of Kentucky, in company
ith a number of male and female passengers. The
spirited steeds were dashing on in a sw ping tr .
ow descending a short declivity, their speed w
considerably accelerated; immediately in the track,
lying at his leisure, lazily chewing his cud, there
chanced to be a little scrub-breed, crumply-horned
bull. Being somewhat stupid in his habits of refleetion-
not very unlike tain other animals I've