Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-19

How pleasant it Is 10 live IN a state /
where the drunkard has no show; where /
the warm. friendly grasp OF the hand Is
followed by two aAEilt doses Of Barley
corn's Stomach Bitters. which cheers in.
ebriates and leads 10 uxorcide-
Iowa has shown that there are many |
kinds OF drinks unknown 10 the wide |
open states ] heard a man say not long |
ago that the Barleycorn drunk was tho
worst known on earth and defied all BIZ |
carbonate of gold treatment. for no one I!
knows what antidote 10 use against .
patent medicine.
These bitters. and there are many
others ike them sold by the great gross
in Iowa. If used in large quantities pro-
duce a grateful feeling at first and are
then followed by an epidemic OF crime.
The interior OF the human stomach
after Barleycorn debauch is said 10 look
Ike the burning OF the great frecracker
factory on Staten Island Patent stomach
bitters in Iowa are working a great curse.
They are working it in blue crewels on
mourning background
Once in Iowa a beautiful and wealthy
lady with starry eyes. reminding me OF
Psyche as | saw her once at our house
when a boy. and with a coaxing dimple
In her cheek. held TO my lips a sparkling
glass of crystal IN which the Barleycorn
Bitteis bubbled and sang
Take one with me" she said. resting
her shapely little hand on my coat sleeve
as If it were little tame, tired white
rat. Take one with me. Twill cheer
YOU up and possibly loosen up an old
thought"
No" | said. looking down into her
soft brown eyes as far as thought
ought 10. Il cannot take IL. took one
once. and it swallowed up all my salary
that month to pay for the people l
manned Even now the pictures In the
advertisements remind me Of the things
| saw while was cheered up by this
beverage do not mind drinking the
juice out of lanyard, because | am
young and my digestion is good, but do
not ask me TO take an Iowa tonic"
Common wooden rolling pins are now
greatly sought after by those who wish
10 give cheer TO the long winter evenings.
One of the handles may be unscrewed, it
is said. and the odor of the nectar of the
blue grass country may be detected
II the genius used in Maine and Kansas
and Iowa alone for the purpose of evad-
ing the prohibitory laws could have been
turned In the direction Of useful science
and invention. we could have had In 1893
at least $4,000 people per day visiting
ha farr ND
ing In force also on Sundays.
The first copy of The Weeping Willow
a paper used as the vehicle for carrying
abroad the postmortem poetry which
may not be available TO other publ
cations, has Just been received. 1t is
living dark and listless on our table, like
sirloin steak on the bruised and beaten
brow of one who has told large man he
lied. Ii Is as depressing sheet as one
would crawl into at the Cockroach House,
where we hired two warm rooms and
slept In our overcoats and arctics
1t runs mostly to poisons. treating Of
accidental deaths, though sometimes
lung difficulties and Bright's disease are
also treated in verse.
The editor asks for a favorable notice
| will do the best l can. AS a general
rule am not in favor of using the bill
boards or the press for the bitter display
OF grief. Grief and public scrutiny do
not go wei together. but some of these
poems are SO weird and full of things
that one is not looking for that we almost
forget the general invitation to close the
store and participate in private wall.
give one little poem here to show the
general scope of the work. 1t goes to
show that with the death OF Browning
we have yet left with US right here in
America the material Of which corduroy
verse Is made:
WHEN PETITE DIED.
When Petite was taken I'll,
And disease was speedily
Taking his life.
How sad u made feel.
Lingering near his bedside
Administering things To him
Before>he diedi
We shall not forget soon how
Petite called To his side
To say " hat he was going to
Before he died.
Nor how hts face III mp
On eysther side
He ionged for promise from
His wayward relatives
On his wife's side
That they would meet him.
And then we saw how mentally he had
Before es died
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