A Dry Story

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 136, 27 April 1886, Page 3

A Dry Story

A travelling man relates his troubles in lowa under the Prohibition laws, as follows ; — * I went into several saloons in different towns, aud was always met witb til* same stery : 'Don't sell .any liquor ; got nothing but pop and ginger ale.' I tried some of the ' fiszes," but they were Very weak and I soon got sick of it. ' See here,' said I, 'I'm trarelling for a Chicago liquor house and haven't my samples here. I'm very dry ; I've got to have liquor. Here's a dollar ; let me go down the cellar.' I got the liquor. After t&at I had no trouble. I found whisky in a eereamery iv a can with a false bottom ; drew beer out of a coffee-tank bj a a; found brandy in a molasses barrel, was treated by t a man who took a c but of lOs cork leg. , I got whisky «verjwhere. At a farm where I stopped fe ftet a drink of water I was surprised at jmmping whisky out of a well. There's pfemty of liquor in lewa, but prohibition hi made it all bad.

'* in Sweden the Government runs the dfiftrng salooas. Eveiy country has its pacd&ar eustems. Ia America, for exaiqpfcfrfhe dnnkrag saloons run the Go- -■• vernment. " An Austin man started m the hvery ; lyusineae lately, and the first thing he "did was to have a big sign painted, representing himself holding a donkey by the bridle. "Is that a good likey ness of me ?" he asked of an admiring " friend. c< Yes, it is a picture of you ; but- who is fellow holding you by the bridle?"