Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-02-27
SILVER CITY, NEVADA, SUNDAY, FEBRUAR
\ Useless EXPERIMENT.
Inv Mrs. Snifles Tried to Make
a Temperance Man Of
Ner Husband.

o Temperance man VI
Her Husband.
Mrs. sniffiss has had more trouble
with Lycurgus, and has been
s.,nn-tbeped in the belief that he is
to.sIiy Unlike other ',ien--in iact'
,ssotsiiy unlike many Of them. He
h.d been on long sober stretch up
ns month ago. About that time he
learned that his only aunt, rich old
isdy in St. Louis, had died and lett
him an Immense fortune-o get II
he could. This was a sore disap'
pointment to our friend, tor he had
expected to be made rich man oy
the death OF this (once respected) rel
alive. Never was the news OF an
annt's death read with more poign-
ant grief by surviving kin. A post
.cript to the letter conveying the sad
srtellieence. stated that the good old
soui had bequeathed her entire
wealth to a benevolent institution.
This was the rusty rod Of iron that
r,erced his soul aud made murky
Tho fountain of hope. He tore the
letter to pieces, and bent his Catering
s,sos to the nearest saloon. lie
drsnk--he fell.
rThose stars represent drinks
forty drinks to the stsr.l
Mrs. Sniffies was in despair. She
had thought his reformation was
complete, and now "the old man
WAS drunk again." with no sign OF
ever letting up. Finally she be-
thought her of the system In vogue
at certain inebriate asylums--that OF
mixing liquor with every article OF
food until the patient acquires last
ing distaste for alcohol. She deter
mined TO try that plan on Lycurgus.
She procured u gallon OF the worst
whisky to be had, and put some OF
1t in the old mans coffee to begin
with. II has been his unvarying
custom to drink but one cup at
meal. That night he passed his cup
back to be refilled, saying, as he
smscked his lips
"Better coffee than usual, old
womsn."
Next morning she increased the
dose. He drank three cups and fell
from his chair as he was reaching for
"a fourth. He slept uatil noon and
went out to dinner. There was beef
soup and whisky--half and half.
Snifiies ate it all, and said, as he
wiped his mouth:
"You're git'n to be better cook'n
anybody, m'dear,. But yer didn't
make soup huff"
AT supper everything was saturated
with whisky, and Snifiles ate until he
became helpless, and his wife had to
drag him to bed.
The gallon of whisky was soon
gone, and the only change that Mrs.
s. noticed in her husband was that
while 1t lasted he came to his meals
with greater regularity than usual.
She is not the woman to give up
anything without a fair trial. She
got another gallon, and came near
starving herself to death while she
fed it to Snifiles in everything that
he ate and drank. His appetite in
creased at fearful rate, and he COM
plimented her every day on her new
iy acquired skill in cooking.
The second gallon soon went the
way Of the first, and after two or
three meals had passed without the
seasoning OF which Sniffics had be-
come 90 fond, he said, in tones that
would have touched the heart of a
tax collector:
"Mirander, dear, the victuals don't
taste as good as they used ter. Seems
90 be somethin' or 'nuther missing =
Is 1t any wonder that the poor
woman gave up in despaira-Bruns-
wick (Mo.) News.