Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1915 — Beer is Strong for the “Laying” Business, You Bet. [ARTICLE]

Beer is Strong for the “Laying” Business, You Bet.

A dispatch from Reading, Pa., says that beer caused his hens to lay. Well, beer also causes men to “lay.” Some times they “lay” down on the street or in the alley and sometimes they try to sing or cackle a “lay” and make such a poor job of it that the town marshal “lays” hands on them and the city judge “lays” on a fine and the unfortunate is required to “lay” in jail to satisfy the laity. Frequently they are “layed” out for good in the very prime of life and as they are “layed” in their final six feet of ground the sheriff “lay” hold of all they had left in life except the poor widow and children and the widow “lays” on a washboard for the balance of her life. Every now and then some person given to the use of beer or engaged in its manufacture or sale promulgates some claim that beer has just been discovered to be of real economic worth, but so far as we have ever been able to see its influence is destructive and its users are slaves. If this Pennsylvania hotel keeper who says he is making beer a daily diet with his poultry to cause them ..to lay eggs expects any one to believe him he will have to eggsplain eggsactly how much of the beer the hens get and how much he uses himself or the public will not eggsonerate him from the charge of eggsageration.