Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-03-18
Dire Results Of BootIessine.

Dire Results Of BootIeesing.
SlidelI Brown contributes the follow
ing to the Prohibition literature OF the
State through the columns of his ex-
cellent paper the Randolph Review.
A darkey named FLINDERS Twilley.
who was porter or janitor at a hospital
in Elkirs. was fired and before he left.
made raid on the Museum of An
atomy and Natural Curiosifies" Of the
hospital. whore all the tumors, growths
gall-stones. appendices etr are kept
preserved in alcohol, and poured the
| fluid eff Of them end filled the bottles
and jars up with water. The darkey
concluded that 1t was shame to waste
| that good booze, scarce as it is now, on
these specimens Of suffering buma ity
and so acquired quite coll ction OF
the fluid that clouds the brain ind
Etangles the legs, ard started out to-
peddle it among the thirsty soaks att
about 81 p r pint, and found ready buy.
RS. No body knows how mich he sold
but several parties who drank this
Pickle Brand, W, re made very III
and sitter finding out wber- it came
from they a had serious relapse ard
we are inform d that several of them
have sworn off and others are talking
about taking the Kelley Cure II any
thing in the world would break man
from drinking it would be an expert
ence like that and some thought it was
a other femme ance ory FOLD by the
Prohil ition people. but upon investiga
tion there iss no doubt about the truthl
of it, tt is further related that after
a few days the physician o. eurgeon
charge of the human relics or surgical
seuv mir d. psrtment of the hospital.
noticed that his curios were rot keep.
ling good but were turning and showing
a signs of decay. He thereupon ade a.
careful Investigation ard found that
water had bern substituted for The al
cohnl and upon further investigation
4 that the late gentleman of ell work
around the p arc, had been hootleeginp
4 White Horse" and that sume of big
i custom RS were very sick so the 'tcat
NE S. ont of the bag Tn Hon Flaud
ers Twille ia in Jail down at Parsons,
where he was arrested for riding a
freight train and showing fight. even to
q drawing a gun when the hreakman
tried to rut him off. If MIR. Flanders
|, knows when he Is well off he he'd bet
ter stew right in jail and if turn out
he had bette, head away from the
hauntsthat knew him here and ke pin
!. going for some tina. az his ''life iber-
4 tv and The PURSUIT of hsppiress,' az
guaranteed under the Constitution and
Four eenth Amendment. will be very
, uncertain. His victims are swearing
all Kinds of vengeance ard '.bsacE-
hurting" verv early in the sea on is
, Iial lie to result if he clouds the horiz n
/ with his ugly black face Fv rybedy
but the white Horse Campsnie /"
! with ap ,loe'es TO Conan Dnyle) are
enjoying tne joke and it will do more
i to pforo'e te RI nee and sohri t. in
this section than al the temperance
lectuses that have been deliver d for
wears. The 'sboot- leggers will have
few pair ms for some time to come ard
, the maining days of Lent will be W y
generally observed But just to see
the trouble that Fred Blue is causirg
and thu desperate situation lreuplt
about b. his extreme enforcem, MT Of
Prohibition laws: the illness caused ard
: now the cries for ven4 eance and pros
poets of a lynching, ven.
On that remote occasion VIII n tt e
Governor of North Carolina uttered hi
, memorable ohse walton concerning tie
chronologic Intervals between lib s
tions, little did he know what was start,
) ing.
It is indeed going to be long time
: between drinks in South Carol M. if,
as seei $ likely. the legislature passes
and the present governor signs bill
now pending. The bill permits each
South Carolinian to receive just one
shipment of corn Ticker" pc month
such shipment not to exceed one ga Ion.
Thus by legislative Interpretation. tie
the exact time between drinks has
finally been settled. It is one m nth.
80 days a the least, and to make mat
ters worse for the brethren, 1916 is 4
leap year.
i In The his toric words of a hardy SCION
Of Carolina. DO you al expect one
gallon o. corn Ticker to last forever
with six head O. children. when the
cows gone dry?''
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