The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-08

water until it looked as if the we'll would
run dry. 1t would have done Murphy's
heart good to see the rushing business and
| increasing demand for his pet beverage.
| 1t was water, water everywhere but moth
ing to drink After hard days work the
drawer showed q deposit OF $3.50. This
shrinkage of the exchequer set Hendricks
to thinking. and as result he adopted Q
line of tactics. He purchased forty pounds
of cheese several boxes of crackers, fifty
cents worth of croton oil, ten gallons of
cheap whisky and pint of peppermint.
Taking the cheese into private room, It
was cut up in delicate squares and nodded
into fanciful shapes, the beautiful symmetry
of which are engrafted on the minds of all
critics on free banquets who are vulgArly
termed "lunch fiends" and ''can-cannere."
Then with Mephistopeles air, he dipped
quill into the croton oil and punctufed
each one of those tempting blocks. 1t was
old cheese.
In the morning, instead of the salt,
savory tripe and ixings, the menu had
changed to crackers and cheese. This
style of diet made many of the guests hes
ltate as to the policy of buying two boiled
eggs as breakfast in the restaurant adjoin-
ing, or indulge in some Washington pie
or Dolivars that looked temptingly out of
the window on the opposite side of the
them concluded it would be an affront to
the host not to partake of the bounty he
had so literally provided for their special
benefit, and, consequently, the egg, pie
and bolivar schemes were tabled.
Hendricks, in the meantime, had gath
cred together q number of empty bottles
labeled "Martell Brandy, 1S48, !" into which
was poured the cheap whisky.
The advocates of temperance then be-
gan to show signs of business. The water
account was no sooner opened than the
buyers were plentiful Hendricks, with
usual suavity. handed out the "dew," and
generally managed to set it down in the
Immediate vicinity of the crackers and
cheese to Q hesitating customer. The first
man who got the ''cholera" came up to the
bar pale as a ghost, and wanted to know
where the nearest doctor resided. Hen
bricks, after obtaing a diagnosis of his
trouble, said: You don't need any doctor
l know what IS the matter with you. You
have been eating lot of those bad oysters
and stale gingerbread they sell out to the
fair ground. That together with the
change of water and climate, don't agree
with you. Troubled that way myself
when first came t. st. Paul. Know all
about it. Brandy and peppermint cured
me and only had to take six doses" Of
course the countryman took the medicine,
anu tne cneap WHISKY was Iaken anu IOFty
cents shaken out of the victim, who fstter-
ed himself upon obtaining medical advice
SO cheaply,.
The cheese disappeared rapidly, and
finally there was lull in the water trade
and the medicine" traffic became exceed
ingly buoyant. One would suppose that
Hendricks would have spared his victims
and kept them away from the enticing
cheese bowl after they had interviewed Il
once. But mol Mercilessly, heartlessly
and fiendishly he would again invite them
to partake of his bounty.
There was real circus about that hotel
on that day. Hendricks never dare di-
vulge the hidden cause of that epidemic
until six months afterward. The receipts
for medicine were $57 0.-[Fruit and
Farm s.