Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — Is Everybody Drank? [ARTICLE]

Is Everybody Drank?

Among tbe many stories Lincoln used to relate was tbe following: Trudging along a lonely road one morning on .my way to the county seat. Judge overtook me with his wagon, and invited me to a seat. Wefcad not gone far before the wagon began to wobble. Said I, “Judge, I think your coachman has taken a drop too much.” Putting his head out of the window, the Judge shouted: “Why, you infernal scoundrel, you are drunk!” Turning round with great gravity, the coachman said: “Bedad! but that's the firs’ rightful s’cision your Honor's giv’n 'n twei’monfcl” If people knew the facts they would bo surprised to learn how many people reel in the street who never “drink a drop.” They are tbewictims of sleeplessness, of drowsy days, of apoplectic tendencies, whose blood is 6et en tire by uric acid. Some day they will reel no more—they will drop dead just because they haven’t the moral courage to defy useless professional attendance, and by use of the wonderful Warner's safe cure neutralize the uric acid in the system and thus get rid of the “drunkenness in the blood.” —The American Rural Home.