Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-12-01
What Booze Did for Or. Abernelhy.
philadelphia North American


sent out to a selected list very spe-
cial offer" of ''private stock whiskey"
at low Introductory price"
Among those who received this Of
fer was DR.. A. II. Abernethy, of
! Greensboro, n. c.. He paid no atten-
ton TO the form letter, so later was
| favored with a "follow-up," express
ing surprise that he had failed to
take advantage of this rare oppor-
tunity'-"the greatest offer we ever
presented to the men of America.
| Thousands of men jumped at the op-
| portunity to try this superb whiskey,
and we cannot understand why we did
not hear from you. Now, we ask you
as man to man-can't you use q
quart OF rich, pure whiskey IT, your
home? Stop and consider
| what we are offering. Don't
put this off as you did before. Slip
your remittance in the order card
| herewith, and we'll see that the goods
go forward by the first express
Doctor Abernethy did pay atten-
ton to this second letter. He an
| swercd it at some length, and his re-
ply, as recently printed in Everything,
| Greensboro paper. was as follows:
you did not hear from me. Yes. and
| |, too, am surprised that you have
not heard from me. | have used your
rye whiskey in the past, and I have
| used the red rye whiskey Of other
diStillers of your kind, and | am sur
| priscd shat they have not all heard
| from me-
You should have heard from me
when drew a fortune of $4,000 out
| OF the banks and wasted it in riotous
| living, reveling with other unfortu-
| nate men under the demoniac al
chemy and spell of your devilish de-
coction. You should have heard
from me when threw away repu-
| tatiOn equal to that Of any young
man in America for the privilege of
| making an outcast and wreck of my
self drinking your vile whiskey.
Il will admit, | have been remiss
| in not letting you hear from me long
| before this time. | should have writ
ten you with a pen made from the
plumage plucked from the bird of
| paradise that ! drove from my con-
| tented and happy home; ] should
| nave ponncd you in my hearts blood
on the occasion OF the burial of my
| Sray-haired mother, whose heart
broke by my conduct while under the
| deViliSh influence of your damnable
stuff. ! should ave kept you in
| formed. | should have reported pro-
| greSs.' When ! awoke to the sad re-
alizatiUn that. from a man carrying
| degrees and titles OF honor from the
greatest universities and started well
up the ladder Of recognition as the
author of more than nineteen histor-
ical works, | had fallen into mental
moral, physical and financial bank
ruptcy, | should have called on you.
| should have wonded my way into
your richly decorated private office in
Dayton, the walls Of which are GRIM
soned with the blood of thousands of
human wrecks, and there demanded
OF you that you give me the reward
of my faithful vassalage to your
devilish. demoralizing, disease-mak-
ing, mindwrecking business.
But if | have been remiss in let
| ting you hear from me, remember
| that you Will hear from me in the flu
| ture. | am now a preacher of the
Gospel, and ! am making it my busi-
ness to let not only you, but every
other manufacturer Of the liquid
damnation that is utilized in hell's
communion service, know that | am
| being heard from. You make your
appeal to me as man to man: and it
| is because you are not a man and be-
cause your internal business unmans
men that am fighting it to the bitter
end with all the reconsecrated pow
ers left in the former man that your
demoraliZing dope could not destroy.
You speak of talking as man to
man. Why, You would not dare stand
before man and insult his manliness
| MI : I,, ;.
nerves, disorder his digestion. dis
turb his heart action. muddle his
mind, demoralize his demeanor.
abuse his activity and cloud his con-
science Wi:h the i:GG o: %Gur material.
You urge me to stop and consider;
and it is because | have stopped and
! considered that | am eternally and
cvcrlaStingly the sworn enemy to
your nCtariOuS business so long as |
shall hereafter be permitted to live"
OF course, the Dayton distillcr had
not time to look up each Of his "prOs-
poets" before sending out the letters.
But even if he had looked up Doctor
Abcrnethy he might II; e had trou-
Bile in getting needed details, though
the Christian Advocate now supplies
the lack. as follows:
"Doctor Abernethy is a man with
Il history, the son OF minister. born
in college presidents home, a scho-
lar with high degrees, a college pro-
fessor himself, an editor OF learned
periodicals and the author Of half a
dozen volumes. His nalnc and work
nscd 10 fiji two inches of space in
Who's Who. but appears there no Ion
| ger"
And IN his letter the doctor en-
plains why his name now is omitted
! from that book!