Connecticut western news., 1879-09-03
In Two Chapters.
CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER I.
 From the Prairie Flower, Aug. 15, 1879.]
 Our most esteemed fellow citizens, Messrs. Shandoine & Co., the well known brewers of Prairie, will please accept the heartfelt thanks of the editors and the boys of tho Prairie FloaOer office for a keg of their choicest and best lager beer which they so generously sent us to-day. It is now an acknowledged fact by the most learned savants that of the drinks brewed or unbrewed lager is the best. Lager is healthy, and in proof of this we point to the healthy condition of our German fellow citizens with whom it is a beverage. Lager is not intoxi- eating and in proof of this assertion we again point to our German fellow citi- zens who, drink it as they will, are never intoxicated. Lager is life-giv ing, cheerful, soothing, self-sustaining, invigorating drink, and we shall quaf the generous gift of our distinguished fellow citizens Shandoine $ Co.,, and while we quaff shall wish that the Faderland ayant the seas" had given us more of just such men. Before the Pro5rie FioaOer again greets our read CTS we and ours shall have quaffed the flowing lager, and we trust and believe that under it's refreshing influence we shall be able to give our readers bet ter and brighter and a fresher paper than ever before. Nows verrons.
 CHAPTER II.
 From the Prairie Flower, Aug. 16, 1879.] We write more in sorrow than in anger, but we write in deep humiliation to-day. We write with 8 parched throat, an aching head and throbbing brow. Only yesterday morning we indu]ged in 8 vain and delusive hope. We said that our fellow citizens, Shandoine & Co.,, had sent us keg of their lager. We, and we speak for all of us, wish that Shandoine & Go. had been in Germany and fished up as conscripts by Bismarck ere they came to this country to thus poison us with their seductive lager. We wrote that lager beer was re- freshing drink and not Intoxicating. We write now to say, and we speak for all of us, that we wrote under 8 del1sion, and to put it in its mildest form, we lied. Lager beer is not refreshing it is in toxicating, and if any living man will look into the Fzoa0er office to-day and say that this is not the case, we'll apolo- gize. Lager beer is the most internal poison that ever found it's way down g mans throat. In proof of this (and we speak for all of us) we point to ou1 own throat to-day. It burns like lime kiln our temples throb like cracked buzz saw; our head aches like an assail. ed politician s character. The vilest rot gut whiskey ever made is not so bad as this deceitful, throat destroying, villain ous lager beer.
 We preached the keg yesterday, and aE the seductive looking stuff poured ou we quafed it. We thought we had strucl the fountain of Lethe, and then there came blank.
 At daylight this morning what a sigh the Flower office developed. The kes was empty. Bob, the pressman, la. asleep under his press. Tom and Jim the compositors, had turned in on tn imposing stone, and all the standing advertisements were knocked into pie Harry and Billy and Fred, the boys, ha' had fight over which should be allowe' to sleep in drawer under type fram and frame and type had gone to smash As for ourselves, we had crawled int the wood stove. Our esteemed assistan
 had found soft and easy resting plac
 in the washing trough, and the dew ! snored vigorously from the interior (
 an ink barrel. The Pr0irie Fzoa0e , office looks as though it had been duste , out with the end of an enraged Texs steers tail, and it will take six month ! to get it in order again. We ask th sympathy of our readers in this the hot F of our af1iction, and we desire that $ D much of our leading article of yesterda f as begins at the first line and ends at tl
 last may be set down as an internal n'
 such a-thing. ---Peaa and Press.