The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
How TO Overcome the Love q H..

A novel idea in the use Of ;rto.
ing stimulants came to the not;oa acas.
CAL reporter yesterday in tba y ?
an old friend, who some time aoo wa =
the living personification Of t5e nmmy
Old story OF a brilliant mind cIo,SSa ,
from the effects of intoxicants 3
rapidly went down hill, and am efro..s
10 rouse him to a sense of his daora
dalton were futile. The reporter 7aa.
saw him in this condition over ! ass
ago. One day last week ha mo-
spruce and well-dressed man who 49,
a remarkable resemblance to tbis
friend, but whom he did not recorn;ss
until the individual threw ont h;s
hand and called the reporter by nama
II suppose you hardly know me i
he said, a smile Wreathing mis- health.
blooming face. The reporter admit
ted that he at first had hardly haa,
able to, and then becoming confdan-
tial, as old friends do on meeting Il
soon learned the cause of the change,
YES" said the old friend, 81 used Il
be a very hard drinker, as you know,
/ tried several times TO quit, but couId
not. The appetite for strong drinL
was too much for me. If I went with.
out it for a while l 4 became a nervous
wretch. l had to drink or die. 4
thought was suggested to me ole day.
and | made up my mind to make one
supreme effort TO rescue myself.
reasoned this way: A man takes
liquor into his stomach. and the slim
ulant, through the blood, affects the
brain. Now ! thought If / could SAT-
isfy my appetite without the liquor at.
fecting my brain | would be al right.
If l could get the taste of the liquor.
the aroma, the essence of it, without
taking i into the stomach, I knew |
could drink at pleasure and not get
intoxicated, as drunkenness could not
ensue if the liquor did not enter the
stomach. / say this idea was sug.
gested TO me, and it was in this way:
| had noticed that men who made a
business of buying and selling wines
in large quantities sampled them, and
ascertained their quality and bouquet
by taking two or three mouthfuls in
succession, rolling it around their
tongues, as n might say, bathing
their palate in tin short, subjecting
1t to the severest tests by the organs Of
taste-and then ejecting it from the
mouth without swallowing any. The
remembrance of this came upon me
one day when | vas perfectly sober
but terribly Respondent. l resolved
to try it. / did, and met with the
most gratifying uccess You may
laugh, but it is the solemn truth. /
took a large drink of liquor, but in-
stead of letting it pass into my STONE
ach / checked II in my throat and gar.
gled il for q minute, and then spat 1t
out To my joy | found my thirst for
it almost as much appeased as though
/ had swallowed the liquor. tried
again and again with the same effect.
/ was not made drunk. / have fol-
lowed this plan ever since, although
j have gargled the liquor, V s'FTai-
lowing a drop, as many as q dozen
times a day-the same number OF
drinks I used to take. The plan is a
very simple one, and is, l believe, the
only one for q slave of the cup"
''Has your appetite increasedp"
Son the contrary, 1t has decreased.
By the means l adopted, my brain has
become clear and strong again, and
my will power is as good as It ever
was before I became a hard drinker.
In gargling the liquor | get all the
benefit of the flavor, and all the salts
faction of my appetite, without losing
M senses. San FrGacisco Call.