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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some Less

Curing TheLiquor Habit

A group of farmers, gathered together in the country store, got to discussing liquor, liquor-drinking, and finally whether or not a confirmed liquor-drinker could be cured of the habit. Conflicting opinions were ofiered. Some said it could. Others were doubtful, but finally one old fellow spoke:

"Well, they do say that there is a sure cure for the licker habit. Over in Jones Caounty they tell me that Silas Simmon's boy Zeke had been drunk fer 'bout three years hand runnin', an' Silas heerd of a cure fer it, an'he done gave the cure to Zeke not long ago. They took the insides of three green gourds, an' two pounds of green tobacco stems,

Ccrlled on Mills

Clint Laughlin, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, has returned from a three weeks' trip calling on the mills in Northern California and Oregon.

an' they put 'em on the stove an' biled 'em til they come to a simmerin' stew. Then they run the licker off this here stew, cooled it fer drinkin', an' they served Zeke a pint of it sudden-Iike, airly one mornin'."

The crowd was interested. One of them "Did it cure him?"

The old farmer said: "They cain't tell yit. It wuz three weeks ago they give this stuff to Zeke, an, he's jest gittin' so now that he kin hold orl his stummick a bit of water biled on the white of an egg. An' every time he sees a green gourd or a piece of tobacco stem he gits that excited they think he's got Saint Vitus dance.,,

Los Angeles Visitor

Sam Wilcox, O'Malley Lumber Company, phoenix, Ariz., was a recent Los Angeles visitor, following a trip to the Northwest.