The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-16
ole HEN" SOON Be
POPULAR IN GEORGIA
IT IS A NEW BEVERAGE OF THE
DRY BELT In THE BLUE
RIDGE REGIONS.
1T HAS VIOLENT PUNCH IN IT

A COncoctoin Which Violates No Law
Yet Has Jolt, the COmbativeness,
the Joy, the Songs, SObs and Head
aches of ''StiII Licker.''
What's Ole Hen?
If you lived in the dry belt south
of Mason and Dixon's line you'd
mighty soon find out.
There hain't been no shootin' nor
similar entertainment in this town
for moren a month" remarked the
lone policeman of Middleboro, KY,
the other day, looking down the SOM
nolent Main street.
Usually, on Saturday especially,
Main street is lively thoroughfare.
Mountaineers cross over the gap from
both Tennessee and Virginia to buy
strong liquor Seldom comes Sun
day without some kind of excitement.
when them Hill boys gifts their
skins full of corn juice they jest
must be entertained" explained the
policeman, and they fight usually
for entertainment.
Now they're dom their fghtin'
across the gap, and they're dom con-
siderable of it," he continued.
They can't buy Ticker thar, savin'
moonshine, and that's scarce, OWN
to the government a-raidin' of stills,
but Ole Hen is dom fine bizness.
She's a runnin' the Ticker trade here
and maxim this town uncomfortable
quiet.
''Who is Ole Hen? Eff you haint
met 'er, son, you mighty soon will.
Ole Hen has took up war corn juice
and red ticker left off. She don't care
nothin' for still raiders, and the wild
er this here prohibition movement
goes the better she likes it.
cole Hen has got mule kick and
strangle hold to her. She can make
any man fifht and fight hard Ole Hen
is a reg'ler devil, an takeit from me,
son, she's got prohibi&6A hog-tied
and government agents standin pop
eyed and skeered.'
Ole Hen is the latest substitute for
whisky 1t has really landed a body
blow on prohibition. AS Ole Hen is
brewed any man can be his own brew
er, and inside ten days for little cost
have sufficient refreshments in
washtub to keep himself and his
neighbors drunk for weeks.
First Glass Drank for Little.
Ole Hen is constructed by taking
one peck of cornmeal, six pounds of
brown sugar, four ounces of cayenne
pepper and ten gallons of rain water,
and mixing them together in wash
tub. The mixture is placed where
the hot sun can reach it and left to
set" for three weeks. That is why
it is called Ole Hen-three weeks
being the gaIlinaceous period of in
cubation. At the end of that time it
is ripe and ready to hatch more fights
than could be extracted from the
products of the gamest chickens.
A local paper writes: 1T has a
kick that makes one want to vote the
republican ticket
Has a Violent Punch i'm 1t.
Elemental knowledge of chemistry
will demonstrate that Ole Hen has
all the principles and provocations
of fermentation and will surely give
alcohol in a Virulent form. 1t is a
new blend. 1t is not distilled liquor,
neither is it malt liquor.
1t is a thing unknown to science
except the simple and natural science
of the mountains, which deyotes it
self largely to the organization of
intoxicants and intoxication with
the crudest means and by the most
direct route.
Ole Hen is the product of the same
patient experimentation which has
developed some previous great dis
coveries-such as that few dried
peaches dropped into corn liquor
day old will give it the appearance of
ripe age; that some horse chestnuts
mixed in still will put beautiful
dead" on the rankest and meanest
stuff still ever yielded; that a ball
of caustic potash to the barrel will
add one year to the taste and flavor
of whiskey, while deducting several
from the life of the incautious drink
er, and that it is possible to make
corn whiskey from corn bread in a
coffee pot in jail
Cayenne Gives 1t a Kick.
The cayenne pepper is said to give
Ole Hen a kick and bite, the sting
ing of a sturdy and picked mucous
membrane dear to the taste of the
mountain epicure. The sugar, be-
sides serving other purposes, gives a
color similar to that of red Ticker
The combination of the FIVE e1e-
ments-water. corn meal, sugar cay
enne pepper and heat-produces
result over which the most consist
ent, experienced and hard working
drunkards shake their heads 1t is
drunk. but with novelties, varia-
tions and ecceDtricities.
1t is a new kind of drunk, but it
has the jolt, the combativeness, the
hilarity, the sobs and the songs of
the old familiar drunk, arriving in
the new way.
And the headache-it's said to ex-
caad and excel all headaches Yreyri-