The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-10-09
KELLEY NOT FIRST.
A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS RE-
PORTED FROM THE LONG AGO.

out skiing the doctor"
It was aboat the meGicated whisky
cure which we proposed to speak. To
DIR. Kelley. who, liviDg down at
Dwight, is almost 4 neighbor, credit is
generally given for being the first per-
son who enpioEed the pharmaeopnia
for tie purpose Of killing a ~drunkard's
appetite. But Dr.. Iaeley is by nc
means entitled to this credit. The first
physician whose medicine ever cured a
drinking man Of his thirst was a long
haired, specialized old tourist who called
himsel, 1.-THE Indian doctor, and who
operated down in the neighborhood OF
Bclpre, Q.
The doctor did rot tell the secret
of his ~medicament, bat three or four
boys who lived near the farmhouse
where he boarded had an inkliug, be-
cause the boys had the contract for
catching the toads for which the doctor
paid them 10 cents a dozen.
While the doctors abode has been
spoken Of as q farmhouse it was more
than that, for, being near a seockyard,
where trains clay over it was also q
boarding house, or tavern, WHITTIER the
drovars came for entertainment.
Among the stockmen whose duties
brought them frequently to the yards,
and therefore to the farmhouse board
ing place. was anoan named Joe Robin
son. who had drunk whisky all the way
frCm st. Louls to Baltimore, Win spe-
Ga! reference to Piedmont and the
country along the II mile grade Of the
Baltimore and Ohio. Robinson was a
firm, vigorous and vigiiant drinker, n
who allowed 10 guilty dramshop to es-
cape. He was such a shining light that
at least IL temperance societies were
working upon him at opce, for it was
known that the credit for his reforma-
ton would mean much. But he resisted
all their entreating efforts.
This brings things up TO one May
evening. Robinson had arrived at
Belpre with seven cars Of hogs and a
large, Gommodioas and farreaching jag.
He took the hogs into the stockyards
and tie jag to the city Of Parkersburg,
W. Va, just across the river, for he
wanted to trim and ornament it 4 little
before retiring. Now it so occurred that
it was a damp night, and Harry Stone
and Hughey Drain, the boys who had
the contract for supplying hoptoads to
the ealve making Indian doctor, set out
On their own hook ard without consul
tatiol: with their employer to get a -four
bag full of toads. They were e~nlinently
successful, and at 6 O'Clock they ap-
pearea at the boarding house with a
peek Of kicking, piping, shrieking spoil.
,Fo3 Cd measure they had on this &C.
,caslua added three bclated garter snakes,
two lizards and a boot owl. The family
was not Happy.
Mrs. 6ruce directed the boys to carry
their burden. OF the character of which
she .ia! no IDEA, up to the Doctors
room, ne being out. The boys did So
or at least they thought they did-but
they turned the wrong orner at the
head Of the stairs and deposited the
sack II the room to be occupied by Joe
Robinson.
Mr.. Robinson came home from Par
kersburg about midnight. The evening
had been a most successful one. He had
found II new saloons. He entered the
room, i'll the boarding house with the
'presuli ntion that he was either the car
of Russia Or Napoleon Bonaparte, but
was not quite sure which. In his doubt
he collided with the paper flour bag
full Of hoptoads and things. There were
"a few words Of wicked derivation, and
then, turning up the light, Mr.. Robin
son looked to see what he had found.
Who're you, feller?" he inquired,
addressing the bag. Won't answer,
hey? Too p'lite to talk to a drover,
huh? 'Lri! Take that!" And he aimed
an unsteady kick at the doctors. ingre-
dents. Then things happened.
An active garter snake left the bag
in midair, and, alighting on a picture
frame, twisted and squirmed before Mr..
Robinson's view. Then the toads began
raining around him, and when he felt
most surprised and interested the owl
came forth and few at the lamp. The
sack fell to the floor and a lizard shot
into heightened view and the rest of the
hoptoads leaped out into comparative
liberty. Mr.. Robinson clambered in
fright upon the bed and found himself
in the presence of half a dozen of tho
batlschian invaders which had been
flung upon the counterpart by the force
of that very vigorous and masterful
kick. He crept behind the bureau and,
loi a garter snake dropped therefrom
and mace fer the shelter of the closet.
In the middle of the floor there were,
me believed. about s 1852 varied kinds of
hopping visitors, and with a wailing