Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1914 — SOON RAN OUT OF WHISKY [ARTICLE]

SOON RAN OUT OF WHISKY

Unreasonable to Expect Liquor to Last Long In Family That Could Not Keep Cow. A veteran surgeon of the Civil war, who still practises In the Piedmont section of Fauquier county, Virginia, where his patients Include the wealthy horse fancier of the bluegrass and the shiftless, poverty stricken mountaineer of tbo Blue Ridge hollows, was t> cently summoned to the bunkside of a

lank, chin-whiskered hill-billy, stricken with a sluggish fever. Some two months prior a barrel of whisky had been added to the meager possessions of the hill-billy's family—the ethics of the acquisition does not enter Into this tale —and of this thq good doctor had learned: not, however, through any member of the hillbilly's family. Desiring to tone up the patient with a stimulant the doctor concluded his Instructions thus: "Now, madam, the best thing for

you to do is before each meal to give Jim a good, strong whisky toddy.” /‘‘Laws sakes, doctor,” replied the woman of the house, “we-all aln’ got no whisky an* aln* got no money ter tp buy IL neither!** "What, ho whisky!*’ exclaimed the doctor severely. "I know you had a barrel of It here two months ago.” “Yassir, I know,” came the prompt explanation; "but a barrel o* whisky doh* las* Ibng in a fambly what can’t afford ter keep a cow.'”--Saturday Evening Post