Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-31
FIRST AID TO J. BARLEYcoRN

FIRST AID TO J. BARLEYCORN.
LEAR We! Hear We! Hear ye!
= Gather closely about all ye
thirsty,
Step bhthely forward, We parched
old soaks whose tongues are hanging
out.
Let hope revive, all We consumers
of potash and other wares of the
festive bootleqqer!
For you have a chanHRion in the
land.
Succor has came!
And from whence?
From none other than our good
old friend, the state commissioner of
agriculture.
What! you gasp
Yea, verify it is so.
If you failed, by any chance of
connecting with said succor, we will
Put you hep, us the poet says. The
first aid to John Barleycoln, as it
:. ne to our attention, took the form
Of four inch advertisement on the
back page Of the Market Bulletin"
Is weekly publication issued for free
distribution through Georgia by the
State Bureau Of Markets, Georgia
Department Of Agriculture, bearing
n prominent type in the leading, po-
sition on the front page the name of
j. j. Brown, commissioner of agricul-
ture. In the issue of December %
appears the advertisement just re-
fcrred to, and because Of the posi-
billty that it has escaped the attention
Of some who would appreciate the
message of hope it brings, it is be-
ing reprinted here, except for cute
little Illustration. The text of the ad
follows:
Free one Electro Condite, value
$500.
A beverage Purifier.
"CLARIFIES, STERILIZES AND
MELLOWS all Drinks instantly
Makes hard WATER soft. Kills
Germs. Takes poisons out Of liquids
and dissolves YEAST. Equals 20
Years in Barrel. Great for manufac-
turers with permits to make alcoholic
drinks and want to AGE quickly to
make liquors fit for drinking.
I'VE also make complete line of
COPPER WARE, tubing, etc.
"Our Canadian Imported strongly
concentrated Flavoring Extracts, are
wonderful. Each bottle will flavor
gallon of your own. Trial case of
6 bottles So; case of II bottles SIS,
until DECEMBER 49,, WHICH is
ALSO THE LAST DAY OF FREE
OFFER:
. Write at once for FREE OFFER,
information and Catalogue with ev-
erything in this line"
1t being our policy not to give free
advertising to distant concerns, we
are emitting the signature and adj
dress, which happens to be New York
City, but undoubtedly those desiring
the missing information may obtain
it by writing the department of agri-
culture.
We leave it to our readers to be
the judge whether this vital advice
in these saharic times, with our
shores washed chiefly by poisonous
home-brew and fusil-oiled, potashed
distillates, will not prove greater
boon to mankind in Georgia than that
once previously dispensed urging far,
mers to hold their cotton for 40 cents
and better.
But, seriously, we have never seen
$50 fragrant an invitation to violate
the law appearing in public print-to
say nothing of it appearing in a pub
LEGATION issued by state department
and collected for by that department.
Not even the far-famed pink-paged
Police Gazette, teeming with adver-
tisements of water STILL" tells how
one may quickly age alcoholic liquors
and make them fit for drinking.
We presume the commissioner will
make use of the same old abb we
have used many times ourselves in
the past and which every publisher
uses-lay it on the printer But you'll
have to hand it to We printer, if he NC.
cepts to shoulder the blame as no
probably will and as all dutiful print
ers do. He certainly slipped in a
hum-dinger.