Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — Advice to Drinkers. [ARTICLE]

Advice to Drinkers.

Barkeepers in this city pay on an average $2 per gallon for whisky. One gallon contains an average of sixty-fiw drinks, and at 10 cents a drink the pooi man pays $6.50 per gallon for his whisky. In other words, he pays's2 for the whisky and $4.50 for handing it over the bar. Make your wife your barkeeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon of whisky for a beginning, and every time you want a drink go to her and pay 10 cents for it. By the time you have drunk a gallon she will have $6.50, or enough money to refund the $2 borrowed of you, to pay for another gallon of liquor, and have a balance of $2.50, temperance lecture.