McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-16
How to Overcome the Love Of Liquor.

A novel idea in the use of intOxicat.
ing stimulants came to the notice OF a
Call reporter yesterday in the case OF
an old friend, who some time ago was
the living personificatiOn of the old,
old story of brilliant mind clouded
from the effects of intoxicants. He
rapidly went down hill. and all efforts
to rouse him to sense of his degra-
dation were futile. The reporter last
saw him in this condition over year
ago. One day last week he met a
spruce and well-dressed man who bore
a remarkable resemblance to this
friend, but whom he did not recognize
until the individual threw out his
hand and called the reporter by name.
81 suppose you hardly know me-"
he said, smile wreathing his health
blooming face. The reporter admit.
ted that he at first had hardly been
able to, and then becoming cOntiden-
tial, as old friends do on meeting, he
soon learned the cause of the change.
"Yes," said the old friend, II used to
be very hard drinker, as you know.
| tried several times TO quit, but could
not. The appetite for strong drink
was too much for me. If went with
out it for while became a nervous
wretch. / had to drink or die. A
thought was suggested to me one day,
and L made up my mind to make one
supreme effort to rescue myself. l
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 all right.
If l could get the taste of the liquor,
the aroma, the essence of it, without
taking it into the stomach, 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:
L had noticed that men who made
business of buying and selling wines
in large quantities sampled them, and
ascertaired their quality and bouquet
by taking two or three mouthfuls in
succession, rolling it around their
tongues, as one might say, bathing
their palate in tin short, subjecting
1t to the seyerest 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 was perfectly sober
but terribly respondent. l resolved
to try it. | did. and met with the
most gratifying success. You ay
laugh, but it is the solemn truth.
took large drink of liquor, but in
stead of letting it pass into my stom-
ach checked it in my throat and gar
gled it for minute, and then spat it
out TO my joy found my thirst for
it almost as much appeased as though
| had swallowed the liquor. l tried
again and again with the same effect.
l was not made drunk. l have fol-
lowed this plan ever since, although
| have gargled the liquor, never swal-
lowing a drop, as many as a dozen
times a day-the same number of
drinks l used to take. The plan is
very simple one, and is, l believe, the
only one for a slave of the cup"
''Has your appetite increased"
Son the contrary, 1t has decreased.
BY the means adopted, my brain has
become clear and strong again, and
my will power is as good as it ever
was before l became hard drinker.
In garg ling the liquor 1 get all the
benefit of the flavor, and all the salts
faction of my appetite, without losing
my senses. San francisco Gail.