Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — The Boy’s Discovery. [ARTICLE]

The Boy’s Discovery.

We have “the” smart boy in Centreville. To explain all, I must first tell you of his father. Like many gentlemen here he takes his cod-liver oil and whisky each morning. Of course such an opportunity of impressing temperance principles upon the youthful miud could not be lost. So each dose wont down with a shiver, terrible frown and exclamation, “Boo! I could stand the cod-liver oil, but this whisky”—another shiver—“is dreadful.” Our boy listened and stored it all up in his youthful mind. The other day he was cleaning out the .top shelf of a closet for his mother. “ Ma, what’s this?” .Mother looks and cautiously smells. “Oil! rancid cod-liver oil.” Soon another bottle is handed down, another and another; contents varying from a feaspooifful to half a cup, all “spoilt cod-liver oil.” At last the youngster raised his eyebrows and gravely remarked : Ma, it’s funny that pa let’s all this good cod-liver oil spoil, but never a drop of the whisky!” —Alameda lieporter. The Russian Mennonites, hitherto exempt from military service, will this year furnish a contingent to the army. Stop coughing at once by the immediate use of Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup; 25 cents a bottle.