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Show SOON RAN OUT OF WHISKY Unreasonable to Expect Liquor to Last Long In Family That Could Not Keep Cow. A veteran surgeon of the Civil war, who still practises in the Piedmont section of Fauquier county, Virginia, where his patients include the wealthy horse fancier of the bluegrass and the shiftless, poverty stricken mountaineer mountain-eer of the Blue Ridge hollows, was recently re-cently summoned to the bunkslde of a lank, chin-whiskered hill-billy strick en with a sluggish fever. Some two months prior a barrel of whisky had been added to the mP!l'e possessions of the hill-billy's family-the family-the ethics of the acquisition does not enter into this tale-and of th s the good doctor had learned; not how ever, through any member of t h ' "m billy's family. 1 UlG hl- Desiring to tone up the nation ,., a stimulant the doctor enn ? W'Ul instructions thus concl"ld his "Now, madam, the best thing for toy it. neither!" Il,ollo f"r "What, no whlskv'" doctor severely '"l i 0X('1"I"1 the h"- of It hero uL y"U l"'1 "Yslr. I know " ,m,,,,hW Pxplanutlon; "but' 7"" U' l,r"Pt don' ln. l01R bam,, . v alToi-d tor keen r f..W',,lt n i Kvl Post Cmv! - Saturday |