Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — A Telling Temperance Lecture. [ARTICLE]

A Telling Temperance Lecture.

Two colored barbers, one an old man and the other a young one. The young one took off his apron and started out of the door. “Yo’s gwan to get a drink, Jim?” asked the older. “Dat’s what I’s gwan to do.” “Go and gityo’ drink. I yoost to do do same ting when I ivuz young. When I wuz fust married dah wuz a gin mi 1 next to de shop wba’ I wu ked, and I sp?nt in it flity and sebenty cents a day outen de dollah ’a half I eahned. Wall, one mawnin’ I went into de butchah snop, and who shood cum in but de man wat kep’delikker shop. “Gib me ten or twelve pounds po’terhouse steak,” he said. "He got it and went oat. I sneaked up to de butchah and looked to see what money I had lef. “ What do you want?’ said de butchah. “‘Gib me ten cents wuf ob libber,’ wuz my remark. “It wuz all I cood pay fur. Now you go and git yo’ drink. Yo’ll eat libber, but de msh wat sells yo’de stuff will hab his po’terhouse steak. De man behin’ de bar eeats po’terhouse steak—de man ie front eats libber. I ain’t touched de stuff fo’ thirty yeihs, and I am eatln’ po’terh u e mys-lfTarboro [N. C.) Register.