The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-02-18
UNCLE TOMMY THRILLED WITH
THE THIRST OF HIS JERSEY.

Z beast. he said decidedly. But when a re-
! spectacle Jersey cow turns herself into an
| animated distillery. it's time 20 call a
halt It's bad for the cow and Will get
the internal-reyenue people after her
| owner
$50 Uncle Tommy shut the COW on
, from booze OF course. after having be-
come accustomed TO a liberal supply of
st.mulants n made the cow nervous and
irritable 20 be entirely cut OF.
,"She almost Ceased giving milk. and the
customers said that what she did give
was far below the former quality Uncle
Tommy was az his wits end.
" ITS cruelty 10 that Jersey 10 turn her
at one move into teetotaler cow j
told him; IT'S nearly as hard on her as
IT would be on YOU. The proper thing To
do is TO seek out some booze cure and
send her 10 it,
"Uncle Tommy agreed that l was right
The next day he went To the city and
visited a gold-curc establishment. Yes.
they treated people for the drink habit
said the physician in charge. Did Uncle
Tommy want 10 take the cure?
No, replied Uncle Tommy positively.
Personally l haven't amy wish 20 ac-
quire distasto for good liquor. But I've
got a prize Jersey cow who needs treat
ment badly
II you think we're running a bovine
gold-curc, said the physician, there are
several more gucsses coming 10 you. It's
the services of butcher. not of an emf
nent physician, that are required by your
COW.
GOLD CURE FOR THE cow.
But Uncle Tommy insisted that the
COW was the pride of his heart and the
glory OF his declining years. and that
something ought To be done 10 save her.
Seeing that he was I'm earnest and ready
10 pay good money the gold-cure man re-
Tented lie took Uncle Tommy into his
office There ne fixed mp bottle OF some
mixture. Tueu he handed the bottle and
big syringe and a needle TO Uncle Tom
my.
When you get back home he told
Uncle Tommy, give your COW big in
lection of this mixture. IL may not cure
her right away. but IL viii make whisky
taste like overripe eggs. so that she will
not care 10 drink any more of it,
1T seemed To Uncle Tommy that IL was
mighty cruel thing to spoil a cows
taste that way. But IL was the only way
TO redeem his pet from the drink habit, so
he hardened his heart against the
thought OF her suiferings. As soon as he
got home he gave the cow a big injection
OF the mixture.
"She didn't like the operation but Il
unquenched thirst. And she showed I'm
the plainest way that there was going To
be trouble II she didn't have a drink pret-
" soon.
You won't like it, said Uncle Tommy
warninely. as II the COW could under
stand him. You had better try and go
without II tonight
But drink that Jersey wanted. and
drink she was going TO have, or wreck
the oarn So Uncle Tommy trudged into
the house and returned a minute later
with little pan of the whisky. lie
placed the whisky I'm front OF the inn
patient COW
She took one Whit OF &C. without tast-
ing. Then she looked at Uncle Tommy I'm
the most reproachful way. as IL She was
asking him .ow he could have the heart
10 put bad eggs in her whisky.
= The whisky is all right. insisted Tn
Gle Tommy
Then he poured out little I'm glass
and drank IT To show the cow that II
wasn't the fault OF the whisky He placed
the pan back i'm front OF the COW. She
evidently didn't like the smell, but sum-
moning her courage she took a big drink
The next instant she was the sickest
looking and most disgusted Jersey i'm the
country
/" i told you that YOU wouldn't like Il,
said Uncle Tommy apologetically.
LOST FAITH IN WHISKY.
But that COW felt that she had been
tricked. She turned her head To the wall
and would have nothing more 10 do with
Uncle Tommy. Her faith i'm both human
nature and whisky was gone. Aud Uncle
Tommy wandered gloomiiy back into the
house. his conscience reproaching him for
what he had done.
THE next morning Uncle Tommy and I
went out To the barn To see how the prize
COW was getting on There in her stall lay
the poor Jersey, dead.
4 was the medicine that Killed her
said L. A cows constitution can't stand
the gold cure.
Uncle Tommy didn't agree with me.
She ed of broken heart he insist
ed TO find that good whisky tasted like
overripe eggs IL blow that would Kill