Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-02-05
Getting Liquor for a Sick Wife.

man, and when he walked into u
store where "wines and liquors for
family use were advertised for sale,
he gazed carefully around before
making known his wants. Then
he called the proprietor to him, and
leaning over the counter, inquired
in low tone if he had any whisky
he could positively recommend to
families in case OF sickness. The
proprietor stated, in a snbdued
! though no less confident voice, that
he had. He had used it, he said,
in his own family, during critical
periods of illness, and he hadn't
the slightest hesitation in endorsing
it, even though the applicant was
| the President of the United States.
81 am thus particular explained
! the austeTe man, 'because it is
rarely that | have any thing OF an
intoxicating nature about my house,
and never then except in cases of
the direst necessity
81 understand" said the liquor
man, nodding approvingly; al am a
good deal that way myself, although
/ in the business
Then he took q bottle ont of q
case that stood on high shelf, and
busting it of carefully, almost fond
ly, because the whisky it contain.
ed was so very rare, handed it to
the man, with a remark that he
might take out a search warrant
and hunt through all the private
cellars in Bourbon County without
being able to find its superior.
81 don't know any thing about
it," said the stern customer, with an
inpatient wave of the hand
"don't ever drink it myself, and
can only take it ony our recommend
alton. My wife you see, is very baC
with sore throat, and
"Capital thing for sore throat,
said the proprietor, rolling the bot
tie up in a piece of brown paper
"My wife tried it for that not long
ago, and it did her world o
good.'
Cant you put it in a difieren,
looking parcelT asked the anster'
individual. 81 don't like 10 be
seen-
sob. of course, got just the thing
for it here: look like package OF
thread or something of that kind,
and he put it into square paper
box that fitted it exactly.
"My wife has tried every thing
for that throat of hers" said thu
austere man, as he counted out thu
change, "and | thought maybe {
little ardent spirits just as sh'
r went to bed
r "Nothing better in the world,
A., interrupted the supplier of famil,
distur-wc mean wines and liquors
lyon :, t. said the man, placing
2 the parcel IN the inside pocket o
/. his ovcrcoat and bHttoning the Goa
, carefully around it, 81 abhOr an.
thing of an intoxicating nature
bat in this CASE"
b "You do perfectly right sail
!. the dealer, opening the door 70
=, him. "An ounce of whisky
mean of prevention, is worth
pound Of cure
= "She's so delicate" pursued til
n austere one. "catches cold wit
every change in the weathe
Things would not notice at a
II make her down sick. | am afrai
fl she's not long for this world,' Wit
II piOus congh.
- 1.-THE weather is very bad ft
g delicate constitutions suggeste
the liquor man.
ESPECIALLY for hers" added Il
person of austerity. about to stt
out. Then he returned as with
ii sudden thought and said, 81 su
O. pose if | gave it to her with b
10 water and n little sugar it would
II. all the better, would not itF
Is "Oh, much better. Don't forg
lis the not water and sugar.
IN The liquor dealer turned to
IF with a smile as the man left, al
Ir. said
nd "Wonder if that man thinks
n. is humbugging anybody. But til
as is the way some folks get the
rd whisky ,
he "Wasn't that story about /
III. sick wife correctT we asked.
Ter "Sick wife! sick fiddlestick.
'er hasn't any wife, and never had, b
ed he doesn't know that l know 1t.
DIV meet with lots OF such cases; m
ed who come here and buy whiskey
,es drink on the sly, endeavoring