The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-03-21
MISCELLANY.
aHr SACK UsDnn THE v1rfns rAso.
IAN By REV. c. II. FOWLER, D. D.

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In the viper's mouth are two small peforat-
ed fangs or teeth. hung enihinges. When the
viper is DORMANT, or love-makipg, or on a
journey, or doing any thing except, making
war, these fangs are tipped back in his mouth,
out of the way, not unlike a sword in its scab-
bard, THAT is, only out of the way when it is
out Of the scabbard, fiashn in the fight y
quite like lions claw when lion is not
lionizing A little cord under the vipcr's will
witches these fangs up to an end, whose large
ends rest overa little sack wherethe malig-
nant nature of the viper is distilled into avail
able venom. The fang thrust into your ANGLE
is, by this process, pushed back upon the
sack. This forces the poison through the
perforated fang into the wound, and You be-
come swollen and dizzy and die.
Professor Draper has been dissectng Solo
mons adder, looking for the sack. He has
found it. 1t is filled with 6 fusi OIL" Every
body is familiar with it, only they call it
French Brandy, and g Pale Brandy, and
bourbon New York city is stunned for once.
Fifth Avenue /" st. Nicholas, 1.-THE A.
tor and every liss.-cass bar in the city, has
been nursing its guests on the sack under the
fang They retail raw whiskey, tannin, tusl
oil, and deadly decoctions Of drugs for pure
brandy at fcrty cents or fifty cents per drink.
If the merchant princes get tannin and fusil
oil at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, what must the
" blood-tubr aud "dead rabbits" get at the
Five Points *aas a +
In uncapping these authorizations we enter
into a field Of crime aud debuchery and ma
lightly that beggars all descripti N. 1t most
make the old enemy himself blush. Alcohol
not bad enoughi What bottomless depths
must be sounded to find the assassins the
monsters, to adulterate liquor aud make 1t
worse than 1t is by nature! They are the
ripe fruit of the liquor traffic. M
This work of admiration is not modern
invention Homer speaks of it nine centuries
before Christ. The Hebrew practiced It long
before the days of Solomon. Edward ILL.,, of
England, legislated against 1t. 1t Is the
growth of centuries. Liquor, to be marketa-
ble,s must contain the Intoxicating power
Knowing what is to be done, it is not difficult
to- obtain substitutes. Some Of the specific
requirements are these 1t must irritats the
membranes of the body, benumb sensation,
dim the vision, and produce dizziness and
stupefaction Decoctions containing these
requirements can be manufactured for three
or four cents per gallon. "a The chief poisons'
used are strychnine, stramoui,tnl, helladonna,
cocculus, and opium These do the work.
Stryohnine is known to be a deadly poison.
stmmonium is made from the jmson weed.
! It is common ond very cheap. Itcramps the
stomach, as experienced so often among
! Juice. The taste Of the poppy juice Is killed
by potash. This compound produces dizzi-
ness, limness of vision, and delriup. Bel
ladonna is deadly right shade. II is all
poisonous, roots, leaves, stalks, juice and all.
! Its symptoms are Intoxicating, hilarity, VIC
| lent gestures, laughter fallowed BY stupidity.
1t is very cheap two cents worth win make
a gallon Of liquor When one knows the
symptoms it is not diflicnlt to Recognize them.
Nor does it require a supernatural scent to
detect its presence in the liquors Of the saloons
and shops. .xIm}l nsae
One UuSflcl VI tuc oiiSt cVtu viii Vu'J ihHhc
three gaIous Of whiskey bnt a little styrch-
nine easily raises the quantity to four galloos
This is so universal that four gallons to the
bushel Of corn is now the average yield. One
drug house in London, in 1867, sold more
strychnine TO one liquor honse than the whole
city could use incidentally. Mark the progress
in evil distiller adds one.foufth by theuse
of stryehnine. The wholesaler takes this
adulterated stock and doubles II by the use
Of stramonium and opium. As the Yankee
turns over the Connecticut River every mile
to get the power out it, SO the retailer gives
this another turn. He doubles it again by
the use Of belladonna. This brings ten cents
a drink. and here is the motive power. This
is the practice all over TIE land. Dir. Cox
was appointed in 1866, by the Legislature Of
Ohio, inspector of liquors for the city Of Gin
cinnati, and In two years of thorough, aud ex-
tended examination he found more than
ninety nine percent. of the liquor adulterated
by the yilest poisons. Books are familiar to
the trade teaching how to make these adultsra-
tions. Often we see our streets and avenues
posted with advertisements of men who will
hire out to prepare and compound liquors"
Let me give short list Of the drugs used
in these authorizations, remembering that
these adulterants are themselves, adulter,-
tions.