With the release of this film the jug of rum takes its place in history, occupying without question the niche so long filled by that famous apple from the Garden of Eden. As usual, the man is innocent of all blame, for he was a to...

Jug o&apos; Rum

With the release of this film the jug of rum takes its place in history, occupying without question the niche so long filled by that famous apple from the Garden of Eden. As usual, the man is innocent of all blame, for he was a total abstainer, and as far as he was concerned Aunt Maria could have been as militant as she pleased in her determination to keep liquor out of the hands of her husband, her son, the farmhands and every other man who crossed her path. Even little Toodles, her granddaughter, had learned that the stone jug in the hay loft with the word "poison" painted across its width was good for rheumatism, but young Henry didn't know that. He was growing lazy, it seemed to Aunty, but the truth is that he was deeply in love with Helen. Hired man, though he was, his heart was deeply wounded by her indifference, and at last he decided to end it all. So he got a rope and the jug marked "poison" and tied himself to the elm tree. The hanging process, he found, was more painful than he thought, so he took a deep draught of the jug, then another, then still another, until the contraband liquor rendered him helpless. And it was just his fortune to be so found by Aunt Maria, and that good soul promptly decided that poor Henry was the real guilty party who had been encouraging drinking round the farm. And that same, poor, innocent Henry is promptly subjected to the Keely cure in its most primitive form, beneath the old farm pump.

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Jug o' Rum

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