Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — WINE BENDS HIS BACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WINE BENDS HIS BACK.

The Persian Carr es His Grape Juice Like a Bundle of Old Clothes. He looks like an old clo’ dealer, this fellow with the long bundle on hia back, but he isn’t, though. Yon wil surmise as much if you look down at his feet, which are covered with a sandal-like shoe, very Oriental in appearance. Yes, he is Oriental throng i and through. He is a Persian, an<

the strange pack on his back is nothing more than a big skin of wine which he is carrying from place to place. One can learn a lesson in carrying heavy weights by noticing the way in which he uses the stout cord, making a loop in one end and passing the other through it over the breast. By this means one hand is left free.

PERSIAN WINE CARRIER.