The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-03-08
called over at Tommys house. Heze.
ktah was q temperance worker, q
teacher in the Sunday school, a pillar
of the church and a good man gener-
allv
Was tho Best MIX Ever.

of the church and q good man Rener-
ally.
Was tho Best MIX Ever.
GIVE drank milk all my life.' said
Hezekiah earnestly, but never tasted
milk that could compare with yours.
It's not only rich and creamy, but IL
has peculiar, fascinating taste that
l never noticed in any other milk.
And I never found it even in yours un-
til recently
Uncle Tommy thought water was
meant to wash with and milk to sell.
but he had never believed either was
meant to drink. He couldn't account
for the taste Hezekiah referred to. but
supposed 1t was an especial richness
in the milk given by his pet Jersey.
If vow have any Of that milk
handy, I'll just take drink now,' said
Hezektah sort Of longingly.
Uncle Tommy brought out glass
of milk. Hezekiah downed it in short
order.
= Guess I'll have MOTHER he said
litEe thickly. 'Bes' milk ever tasted
"Hezekiah took another glass. and
then another. By that time 1t was
plain the good man was the possessor
of a jag of enviable proportions.
The Moral Problem.
"a drink here and there, If at fire.
auent intervals. never harmed man
or beast he said decidedly. But
when respectable Jersey COW turns
herself into an animated distillery, It's
time to call halt. It's bad for the
COW and will get the internal revenue
people after her owner
$50 Uncle Tommy shut the COW of
from booze. OF course, after having
become accustomed to a liberal sup
ply of stimulants 1t made the COW nerv-
GUS and irritable to be entirely cut of.
She almost ceased giving milk, and the
customers said that what she did give
was far below the former quality. I'M
Gle Tommy was at his wits end.
It's cruelty to that Jersey to turn
I told him; it's nearly as hard on her
as 1T would be on you. The proper
thing to do Is to seek out some booze
cure and send her to it.
Uncle Tommy agreed that was
right. The next day he went to the
city and visited a gold cure establish
ment. Yes. they treated people for the
drink habit, said the physician in
charge. Did Uncle Tommy want to
take the cure?
No. replied Uncle Tommy positive
ly. Personally haven't any wish to
acquire distaste for good liquor. But
I've got prize Jersey COW who needs
treatment badly
If you think we're running bovine
gold cure, said the physician, there
are several more guesses coming to
you. It's the services Of a butcher, not
OF an eminent physician, that are re-
quired by your cow
Bossy Must Be Saved.
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 to save
her. Seeing that he was in earnest
and ready to pay good money, the gold
cure man relented. He took Uncle
Tommy into his Office. There he fixed
up a bottle f.some mixture, Then he
handed the bottle and a big syringe
and q needle to Uncle Tommy.
When you get back home he told
Uncle Tommy, give your cow big
infection Of this mixture. It may not
cure her right away. but 1t will make
whisky taste like overripe eggs, so
that she will not care to drink any
more Of it,
1T seemed to Uncle Tommy that it
was mighty cruel thing to spoil a
cows taste that way. But 1t was the
only way to redeem his pet from the
drink habit. so he hardened his heart
against the thought of her sufferings
AS soon as he got home he gave the
COW big injection of the mixture.
She didn't like the operation. but II
didn't bother her nearly SO much as
her unquenched thirst. And she
showed In the .plainest way that there
was going to be trouble il she didn't
have drink pretty soon.
You won't like it. said Uncle
Tommy warningly, as II the COW could
understand him. You had better try
and go without 1t tonight
But drink that Jersey wanted. and
drink she was going to have, or wreck
the barn. So Uncle Tommy trudRed
into the house and returned minute
later with little pan Of whisky. He
placed the khisky in front OF the Inn
patient COW. She took one whiff Of It.
without tasting. Then she looked at
Uncle Tommy In the most reproach-
full way, as II she was asking him how
he could have the heart to put bad
eggs In her whisky.
It Was Good whisky.
The whisky is, all right insisted
Uncle Tommy.
Then he poured out a little in a
glass and drank 1t to show the COW
! that 1t wasn't the fault of the whisky.
He placed the pan back in front Of
the COW. She evidently didn't like the
smell, but summoning her courage she
took big drink. The next instant she
was the sickest looking and most dis
gusted Jersey in the county.
told you that you wouldn't like
it. said Uncle Tommy apologetically.
But that cow felt that she had been
tricked. She turned her head to the
wall and would have nothing more to
do with Uncle Tommy. Her faith in
both human nature and whisky was
gone. And Uncle Tommy wandered
gloomily back into the house, his con-
science reproaching him, for what he
| had done.
THE next morning Uncle Tommy
and went out to the barn to see how