sUCKING HARD1CIDER.
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It was the beautiful remark of Roman


Consul" that hard-cider, when sucked through a


straw lost all its disagreeable and intoxicating


qualities, and by the richness of its flavor, and its


happy action the brain, introduced the 6rtu-


nate drinker at once, Imagination at least, into


the gardens of the gods This most agreeable


employment sucking hard-cider-was much IN
vogue in this State in 1910; and we are pleased
to remember, that some of our most eminent di-


vines and lawyers engaged in it with great profit


10 themselves, and to the lasting edi6cation of a
number of the sovereign people. Passing o, er


the enjoyments realized in the cder-sucking line
by the Editor Of the Star, and his most appropri-


ate -yoke-felow, Parson CRUDUP, we come at
once to the performances Of Mr. BADGER This
gentleman, in his Granville speech, furnished to
his friends most happy " "eEperience" on this


subject, in the following words and letters to


wit:


eyes, Harrison drinks ciler-he drinks hart-cider


This is a matter Of tGste-seme like it hard, and
sSeetand some in state between the When
was boy, FEked to drinkEt through a stro,o when


newly pressed"


Now, who docs not admire the proprioty and
excellence of Mr., BADGERS staste2 Frowning on
the agst dlwning of any attsmpt Is offer him
goard; and turning supercIiously aside from the
use of bright lineup he Aourishcs his straw in
serts it. in the bunghole of the deifed barrel, and
sucks the beverage in manner altogether pecu-
liar to himself What an example for the ina-
tion of the little Whggiesl Who, hereafter, will
turn up his nose at any sort of cider, when Mr..
BADGER-the erudite, the proud, the accomplish
ed Mr. BADGER-teTls US that he even conde-
scends to suck it through a straw2 Who, here,
afer can be- loss to know one Whis princi-
pie at least-to know that no man can Be true
Whig, who does not suck hard-cider through a
straw2 Mr.. BADGER, it is true has not told us
what sort Of straw we ought to usc-whether
wheat-straw, rye-straw, an oatstraw-and
this, feft to presume, is also "a matter of!
taste"


From present indications it is thought it will be
the duty of the approaching Wing Convention to-
furnish the fortunate nominee for Governor with
straw, to be exclusively devoted to the purposes
and inasmuch as the ChronicIer
of the nundatious of Roanoke, TO wit the Editor |
of the Roanoke Republican, is known to be exten-
sively engaged in the ale, salt and straw line, we
seize the occasion to intimate to- him that il would
be we'll for him, If he wishes to serve his party
more efectualfy than he is now doing, to preserve
the soundcst and largest straw he can find, and
send it on for the inspection of the assembled wis
dom of the Federal Wing party. The straw
should be about two feet tong-wth an open bar
rel--sound joints-and of a CIaycolor Mr.
BARTHOLOMEW F. MooRE will, we make no
doubt, be more than happy to bring it on, and in
the name of MIR, BADGER present it to the Con-
vention.