The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-04
How Billy Took His Beer.

'Boy Billy wac the adopted son of
Christian Zende, at nest German, who
was much shocked day at seeing
the boy in a lager-b, .locn, tossing
off a foaming glass or beer. He babe
the boy go home, but said nothing till
evening. After tea, Zende seated HIM
self at the table and placed before him
a variety of things Billy looked on
with curiosity.
"Come here, Billy" said Christian
Zende. "Why were you in the beer
shop to-day? Why do you drink beer,
my boy?"
..o-o-because it's good" said
Billy, boldly.
''No, Billy, it is not good to the
mouth. did never see so big faces as
you did make. Billy, you think it will
taste good by and by, and it looks like
a man to drink; and so you drink. Now,
Billy, if it is good, have it, / will not
hinder you from what is good and man.
ly, but drink it at home, take your
drink pure, Billy, and let me pay for
it. Come, my boy! You like beer.
Well, open your mouth. | have all the
beer stuff, pure from the shop. Come,
open your mouth, and l will put it in.
Billy drew near, but kept his mouth
close shut. Said Zende: Don't you
make me mad, Billy. Open your
mouth"
Thus exhorted, Billy opened his
mouth, and Zende put small bit of al
UNI in it. Billy drew up his face. A
bit of aloes followed. This was worse
Billy WINGED The least morsel of red
pepper, now, from knife point, made
Billy howl.
"What, not like beerr' said Zende
'Open your mouth" a knife dipped in
oil of turpentine made Billy cry.
"0pen your mouth, the beer is not
half made yeti
And Billy's tongue got the least dust
ing of lime, and potash, and saleratus.
Billy now cried loudly. Then came
grain of licorice, hop pollen and salt
peter.
''Look, Billy! Here is some arsenic
and some strychnne which is used to
Kill ratsr'
81 shall die! O-O-O-do you want
to kill me, Father Zende?''
''Kill him. just by a little beer, all
good and pure! He tells me he likes
beer, and it is manly to drink it, and
when give him some, he cries 1 kill
him. Here is water. There is much
water in BEER
Billy drank the water eagerly. Zende
went on.
"Taere is much alcohol in beer.
Here! open your mouth and he
droppe four drops of raw spirit care
fully on his tongue. Billy wet dancing
about the room, and then ran for more
water.
''Come here" the beer is not done,
Billy, and Selling him. he put the cork
of an ammonia bottle to his lips, then a
drop of honey, taste of sugar, drop
of molasses, drop Of gall. There,
Billy! here is jalap, copperas, sulphuric
acid and nux vomica. Open your
mouth. :"
.Oh, no, nor said Billy. "Let me
90. / hate beer. I'll never drink any
more! I'll never go in that shop
again. On, let me go! | can't eat
those things. My mouth tastes awful,
now. Oh, take them away, Father
Zende %
'eTake them away Take away good
beer when have paid for it. My boy,
you drank them fast to-day"
''Oh, they make me sick,' said Billy.
"a man drinks all these bad things
mixed up in water He gets red in the
face; he gets big in his body; he gets
shaky in his hands; he gets weak in
his eyes; he gets mean in his manners.
Billy was satisfied on the beer ques-
tion.--Littie Star, from the German
GERMANY's appetite for spirits grows
apace. In 1872, 3,442, 40 hectoliters of
spirituous liquors were consumed and
only two years later 4, 10S, 698 hectoliters.
The 1886 whisky distilleries of Prussia
used up whole potato crop in four
years and a whole rye crop in twelve
years. Among the lunatics twenty-five
per cent are drinkers, and in one Rus
sian institution eighty-six per cent. were
such