The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-16
ICED TEA.
The Pedls that Linger in the Distance Around
the Cooling Beverage.


Singular enough, science has not yet
assailed iced tea. But it will not do to
permit people to enjoy this cool, delight
full beverage simply because its taste Is
gfatefal to the wesried system during
this scorching weather. We must dc
cur duty, Though science may shrink
from it, and the people may cry out
against us, There is danger in iced tea,
aud, if ycu would live long and well ,shun
the cooling cup. We have not the space
to devote to su extended discussion OF
the matter, and can only cite few in
stances from long series of carefully
made experiments. which can not fail to
carry conviction to the most incredulous
mind.
Hempstesd, of West Hill, began to
drink iced tea at dinner and supper. He
kept up 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 q silver into the bali of his thumb
so far that it made his teeth ache when
he pulled it out. His clothes were also
considerably torn. When he went home
that evening he learned that his eldest
boy had been whipped at school for
sticking a pin asfar 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 50 well in his life, but may
be he lies about it.
Henry Esterieldt, ef Eighth street,
drank iced-tea regularly every summer
for three years. He noticed that, after
drinking it sbout two months, his boots
began to run over at the heel. He per-
sisted, and one Sunday afternoon, while
he was out driving, his horse ran away
and smashed Sl7 out of borrowed bug
gy. He paid the money, but neglected
the warning. He went on drinking iced
tea, and in less than six weeks some one
poisoned his dog. These statements can
all be verified by writing to Mr.. Ester
feldt, 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 fam
lily OF Ralph Henderson, of Maple street,
became addicted during the summer to
the use OF iced tea. She soon ran sew
ing-machine needle through her thumb,
and for many days, whenever she picked
up cup Of iced tea, sharp pain ran
through her thumb. She refused to
obey the warning, however, and in six
weeks she was carried away. The man
who carried her away married her first,
and they are now living in Sagetown.
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tlemen Of Burlington took a strong,
healthy oIack-and-tan dog and immersed
him in a tub of pure cistern water, into
which a weak solution of iced tea had
been poured. They held the dogs head
under the water fifteen minutes, although
he struggled violently; thus showing the
natural and instructive aversion to a
substance which intelligent human beings
blindly and eagerly drink, and when the
gentlemen took him out OF the tub he
was quite dead If a tescupful of iced
tea in a tub full of water will kill a dog,
think for yourselves what must be the
effect of strong, undiluted cup Of this
decotion upon the system of a weak
woman.
Last summer a lumber puller in the
employ of F. T. Parsons & Co., of this
city, declared that he could live on
iced tea. Before he had time to go up
to his boarding house, however, he fell
off the raft upon which he was at work,
and drowned.
A single drop of ice tea poured upon
the tongue of living rattlesnake will
produce the most startling effect, in
stantly causing the man who administers
it to fly for his life. and his life will be in
imminent danger, unless he distances the
snake before the first turn.
Eleven grains OF strychnine mixed in
a teaspoonful of iced tea will kill the
oldest man in America.
These instances and facts might be
multiplied by scores. We have said
enough, however, to warn every person
of the danger that lies in the tempting
goblet of iced tea. If suffering and
death ensue from its continued use, the
Hawkeye feels that it has done its duty
and washes its hands of all responsibility
in the matter. Il Hawkeye.