Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-30
. ONE HEN" KNOCKS
OUT PROHIBITION
Kentucky Mountaineers in Dry"
Country Circumvent Laws
With New Concoction.
SHE HAS A FEARFUL KICK.
Recipe: Cornmeal, Red Pepper, Sugar
and Rain Water Left in Sun for
Three Weeks.

infee weeks.
There hasn't been no shooting nor
similar entertainment in this town for
more'n a month" remarked a police
man as he looked down almost deserted
Main street. in Middleboro. Ky
Main street is a lively thoroughfare,
Moutaineers cross over the gap from
both Tennessee and Virginia 90 buy
strong liquor. Seldom comes Sunday
without some kind of excitement
When them Hi boys gifts their skins
full OF corn juice they Jest must be en-
tertaiueds explained the policeman,
and they fight usually. for entertain
ment Now they're doing their fight
ing across the gap. and they're doing
considerable of IT," he concluded.
They can't buy Ticker thar, savin
nloonshine. and that's scarce. OWN 10
the Government a-raidin' OF stills. but
Ole Hen is doin' fine business. Shes
a-runnin the licker trade here and
maxim this town uncomfortable quiet"
who is Ole Hen? If you amt met
her, son you mighty soon will. ole
Hen has took up whar corn Juice aud
nothin' for still raiders and the wider
this here prohibition movement goes,
the better she likes il. ole Hen has got
mule kick and O stFangIe hold to her.
She kin make any man fight and fight
hard. If ole Hen ever got a rabbit un-
der her influence she could make said
rabbit spit in bulldog'e eve. Ole Hen
is a regular devil, an take il from me,
son. she's got prohibition hog tied and
Government agents standin' op-eyed
and skeered.
"Ole Hen" is the latest substitute for
whisky. It has really landed a body
blow on prohibition AS "0ld Hen"
is brewed. any man can be his own
brewer and inside ten days for little cost
have sufficient refreshments in wash
tub to keep himself and his neighbors
drunk for weeks. She was first made
in Greenbrier county. West Virginia,
after that State went dry. Although
she gets one decisively drunk and those
who partake of her acquire superla-
tive headaches, those who make her vio-
late the law, either State or Federal.
cole 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 Tb aaixture is placed where the
hot sun "a reach it and left to set"
for three weeks. That is why il is call
ed "Ole Hen"-three weeks being the
gallinaceous period of incubation. AT
the end OF that time il is ripe and ready
TO hatch more fights than could be eX-
tracted from the products of the gamest
of game chickens. A local paper
writes: 1T has kick that makes one
want to vote the Republican ticket"
Elemental knowledge of chemistry Will
demonstrate that "Ole Hen" has all the
principles and provocations of fermen-
tation and will surely give adcolohol
in a yirulent form. 1t is a new blend.
Ii is not a distilled liquor. neither is il
a malt liquor. Although made of corn
meal as corn Juice" ii is not corn
whisky, its friends assert
1t is a thing unknown to science ex-
cept the simple and natural science of
the mountains, which devotes itself
largely to the organization OF intoxi-
cants and intoxication with the crudest
means and by the most direct route.
"Ole Hen" is the product of the same
patient experimentation which has de-
veloped some previous great discov-
cries. such as that a few dried peaches
dropped into corn liquor day old will
give It the appearance OF ripe age; that
some horsechestnuts mixed in still
will put beautiful bead" on the rank
est and meanest stuff still ever yeld-
ed: that ball of caustic potash to the
barrel will ad one year to the taste and
flavor of whisky, while deducting sew
eral from the life of the ineautious
drinker, and that il is possible to make
corn whisky from corn bread in a
coffee pot in Jail.
The cayenne pepper is said to give
"Ole Hen" a kick and bite, the sting
ing of a sturdy and picked mucuous
membrane dear TO the taste of the
mountain epicure. The sugar besides
serving other purposes, gives a color
similar to that of red Ticker. The
combination Of the FIVE elements-wa-
ter. cornmeal, sugar, cayenne pepper
and heat-produces result over which
the most consistent, experienced and
hard working drunkards shake their
heads. 1t is drunk. but with the nov
elites. variations and eccentricities
And the headaches-it' said TO exceed
and excel all headaches previously
known in the mountains.