Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-01-21
A CURE FOR THE GRIP.
Some Facts About the Kind of
Medicine to be Used.
PURE LIQUOR URGED AS A REMEDY
AND PREyENTIvE-THE BEST IN
THE COUNTRY CAN BE OBTAINED
IN F2EELAND.

In order to stave off the grip and take
proper precaution against the malady, it
is the belief of many that the mod
crate use OF, good liquor applied inter-
nally in small decoctions, is safe
remedy, or at least a good prevention
against the disease. This is the belief
of many whom we have conversed with
on the subject; and it is being used for
that purpose, even by those who have
not heretofore been using such. 1t is
published in the public press that
Duffy's malt whiskey will cure the
grip. Now, there is better malt whiskey
in Freeland than Duffy's. There is
malt whiskey in Freeland, imported by
the writer in 1873 and awarded the
prize at the Centennial Exhibition in
1876. so that is more than can be said
for Duffy's malt, with all its celebrity as
grip medicine. Somebody has said that
all kinds of whiskey are good, but
that some kinds are much better than
Others" Now if this proposition be ad
mitted. and it cannot be well denied, as
it was decided in the affirmative over
two years ago at the polls by over five
millions of people in Pennsylvania, then
good whiskey should be superlatively
efiicacious.
We desire to inform the people of this
community that we have in bond, under
seal of the government the best brands
of rye whiskey in Pennsylvania, viz, the
Gibson. Dougherty and Meadvile pure
rye whiskeys, part of which is in stock
in this store. Now these are the best
brands of whiskey in America, and they
come to this store directly from bond;
pure as they are distilled, as the com
FOUNDER has no chance of Iampering or
mixing them. The Gibson rye is dis
titled with 20 per cent. of barley malt,
which makes it unrivalled in the
market We have also in stock the
Hennessy French Brandy, the best
brand imported, and nobody can say
nay.
Now we have no hesitation in saying
that in no other liquor store in this
county is such a variety of straight
rye whiskeys kept, and looking for
straight pure rye is like hunting for
needless in a haystack. So it should be
an accommodation in any community to
have one place in which pure liquors for
medicinal purposes can be had when re-
quired, but it seems like casting pearl,
etc." in keeping such goods where they
are not appreciated.
Besides these whiskeys we have
always in stock old pale ale of the finest
and best quality, one barrel of which
costs more than two of lager beer and
intrinsically is worth three, and still
some people prefer the lager, as it is
sweet. Babies like candy-"where ig-
norance is bliss tiS folly to be wise"
One is the extr of barley and hops
and is consequently most nutritious and
substantial, while ie other contains "a
per cent. of water and six of alcohol,
with little sweetening and some other
ingredients to give it a head. Like old
whiskey one improves with age, while
the other sours and rots in few days;
"but in trying to convince man against
his will he is of the same opinion
STILL" If people would use better judg-
ment and less talk in their dealings they
would show better sense-even in
five-cent cigar there is difference in
quality. Manufacturers and producers
of all kinds in these days vie with each
other in making the lowest grade of all
kinds of goods, and although the in
feriority be there yet many cannot see
it, nor will they admit of it, 1t is not
human to admit of poor judgment.
Now we have dverged from the sub
ject, but we shall state few more peril
nent facts thereinto
Some people there are who think
themselves wiser than their fathers and
who have all their grip medicine sent by
express from large city and from "A
large establishment, such as smith,
Jones d Co. for instance, men whose
integrity is beyond suspicion and from
whom they expect something superfne.
Bet alas! for human expectations. Lit
tie do these wise men know that all the
wholesale dealers in the city are licensed
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but in plain wor,s mixers for which
privilege they pay the governments of
the State aud Nation some two thousand
dollars yearly.
These compounders mix probably one
fourth rye with three-fourths common
'rot-gut' whiskey, or as it is called,
Jersey lightning" or "kill at forty
rods" and with these and some syrup
and other ingredients the "blend" is
wel-cooked and when finished is GER
tainly palatable. So would a little sugar
and water be and when the man who
drinks all at home tastes the blend, :"
by imbibing twenty grains, he smacks
his lips and says TO his bosom crony:
"That is most delicious Life's elixir"
Little he knows what the component in
gradients are. but what man does not
know does him no harm, and the things
which some people do not know would
fill a great book But the blend" is
there and this wise man can't see it, and
we would like to see the man who can
tell the proportion of the constituent parts
of the ''blend" or mixture. He would
be an oracle.
Now our purpose is not to write an
essay on the liquor business We have
written more than we intended. A
knowledge of any business is not ac-
auired in day, and he who embarks in
any business, without a knowledge OF
the same and without sufficient capital,
his labor is vain. Somebody said:
"If a man have a good thing for sale he
should let others know he has it." Sc
our object in writing this is to inform
this community that if any one may at
any time require pure domestic or i'm
ported LIQUORS for medicinal or other
purposes they can be found here with.
out deception or misrepresentation and
where all are treated alike. We do moi
sell two kinds of liquor out of the same
spigot at two different prices or blend
whiskey, as we are not licensed com
Founders. The liquors come directly
from distilers and importers through
the government bonded warehouses
and they are sold at their value anC
there is no house can give better value
as the goods are bought for cash and il
quantities, with some knowledge of th'
business If anybody dispute thes'
facts let him come hither, equipped