Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1885 — He Took His Last Drop. [ARTICLE]

He Took His Last Drop.

I hear you have bought a lot and are going to build a house. Is that so ?” asked Sanderson as Murphy came into the grocery. “Yes, I’m tired of paying rent, I’m going to have a home of my own. How much are cabbages worth now?” replied Murphy. “Eights cents; who’s going to build it?” “I thought I’d like Wells to build it, but he drinks go like a fish a man can’t depend on him.” “But he’s quit drinking.” “Is that so?” “Yes, took his last drop.” “ Well, I’m glad to hear that.” “Yes, he dropped from a scaffold and broke his neck. Yes, he’s quit drinking.”—Brooklyn Times. Mu. Fred R. Marvin, in writing of the rights of animals, after describing the terrible slaughter of birds to supply the demands of fashion, says: “It.is sinful intentionally to deprive an animal of life without sufficient and suitable reasbn. It is a great mystery, this animal world, by which we are surrounded and of which we are a part. For anything we know to the contrary, the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fishes of the se t have within them a deathless principle answering to the soul in man. Lamartine reverently epitomizes the great mystery in two lines: ‘My dog! the difference between thee and me Knows only our Creator.’” —Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly.