Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-29
ICED TEA.
The Pcrils That Ltnger in the Distance
Around Cooling Beverage.
From the Burlington Hawkeyc.


Around the Cooling Beverage.
From the Burlington Hawkeyc.
Singular enough, science has not yet as
sailed iced tea.. But it will not do to permit
people TO enjoy this cool, delightful bevcr.
age, simply because its taste is grateful to
the wearied system during this scorching
weather. We must do our duty, though
science may shrink from it, and the people
may cry out against us. There is danger in
iced tea, and if you would live long and
we'll, shun the cooling cup. We have not
the space to devote 10 an extended discus.
sion Of the matter, and can only cite a few
instances from a long series of carefully
made experiments, which cannot fail to car.
ry conviction to the most %incrcdulous mind
On June 10, of this year, John G. Hemp.
stead, of West Hill, began to drink iced
this practice for nearly three weeks, and
then one day. going down the Division
street steps, he slipped and fell, abrading
the skin on both legs, and running a silver
into the ball of his thumb so far that it
made his teeth ache when he pulled it oM.
His clothes were also considerably torn.
! When he went hon that evening he learn.
ed that his eldest boy had been whipped at
school for sticking a pin as far through
another boy as the head would let it go.
He was warned to quit drinking iced tea,
but he persisted in the Practice, and is now
sleeping in the valley, between west and
north hill, where he lives, and says he never
felt so we'll in his life. But may be he lies
about it.
Henry Esterfeldt, of Eighth street, drank
iced.tea regularly every summer for three
years. He noticed that, after drinking it
about two months, his boots began to run
over at the heel. He persisted. and one
Sunday afternoon, while he was out driving,
his horse ran away and smashed ST. out Of
a borrowed buggy. He paid the money, but
neglected the warning. He went on drink.
ing iced-tea, and in less than six weeks
some one poisoned his dog. These state
Es,erfeldt. who is now living in Kansas
City, the father of eleven children, all Of
whom. inherit their fathers vice.
A young woman who did plain sewing in
this city while employed in the family OF
Ralph Henderson. of Maple steet, became
addicted during the summer to the use of
iced tea. She soon ran a sewing machine
needle through her thumb, and for many
tea a sharp pain ran through her thumb.
She refused TO ODE. the warning, hnwever,
ard in six weeks she was carried away.
The man who carried her away married her
first and they are now living in Sagetown.
Last week, at the beginning Of the heat
ed term, two eminent scientific gentlemen
of Burlington took Il strong, healthy black.
and tan dog and immursed him in a tub Of
pure cistcrn water, into which a weak solu
tion of iced tea had been poured. They hello
the dogs head under the water fifteen min
utes, although he struggled violently; thus
showing the natural and instructive aver
sion to a substance which intelligent human
beings blindly and eagerly drink, and wher
the gentleman took him out of the tub ht
was Quite.dead. If teacupful of iced tet
in o tub full of water will kill a dog, think
for yourselves what must be the effect Of
strong, undilutcd cup of this decoctlon upor
the system Of a weak woman.
Last summer a lumber puller in the EN-
ploy Of F. I. Parsons & Co., of this city, de
clared that he could live on iced tea. Be
fore he had time to go up to his boarding
house, however, he fell off the raft upol
which he was at work, and drowned.
+. A single drop of iced tea poured upon tn,
tongue Of a living rattlesnakc will produce
the most star. ling effect, instantly causing
the man who administers it to hy for hi
life, and his life will be in imminent dan
ger, unless he distances the snake befor
the first turn.
Eleven grains Of %strychnine mixed i'll
teaspoonful of iced tea will kill the oldes
man in America.
These instances and facts might be multi
piled by scores. We have said enough
however, to warn every person Of the DANCE
that lies in the tempting goblet of iced te,
If suffering and death ensue from its contir
ued use, the Hawkeye feels that it has dor
its duty and washes its hands Of all respo,
sibility in the matter.