Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-07
A Hard Drinker for Thirty years Alb
stains by Force of VIII.

"Oh All! OF course. You refer To-
l lowell, to this noce p'
t. Precisely. But don't want to seen
to be Extensively personal"
"Don't apologize. l can afford to tall
: about it, because I'm ahead"
"Well, then, how did you bleach it?"
: by letting whisky alone. When
was in London some time ago met an
American physician there who said tc
me one day: Locke, can bleach that
nose of yours i'll three days. Been ex.
4 perimenting with certain chemicals fol-
twenty years. No humbug; honor
bright. can do the work. Haven't
made my discovery public yet, but I'll
give you practical demonstration of its
efficacy
with that he came at me with bot
tie of something or another and a cam
el's hair brush, and proceeded to paint
the red out. l wouldn't submit to his
manipulatiOns, but inasmuch as be is an
eminent authority on diseases of the
skin, have no doubt thai he can really
restore a rummy nose as he claims.
Name is Sherman, and / suppose he is
still in London.
"How did l happen to stop drinking?
Business, About the time 1 stopp ed
my business manager came to me one
day and told me that 20 per cent. of the
subscriptions of my weekly paper were
to expire in week, and that it was nec-
essary for me to jump into the breach
and prevent permanent dropping out.
appreciated the seriousness of the sit
uation, and swore that l would 90 TO
work in earnest. He said he must have
two or three serial stories, and tne best
Nasby letters that l could write, besides
a lot of other plunder.
"I had been hard drinker for thirty
years, and had lost my powers of intel
lectual and physical recuperation.
up to about 40 years of age | had
been able to go 10 bed religiously drunk
every night and attend to business with
reasonable industry every day. When
the crisis came OF which speak 1 was
swallowing more than forty drinks-I
estimate the quantity in gross at two
gallo ns-of raw whisky every twenty
four hours.
81 couldn't work. Application was
out of the question. would lie in bed
until II O'Clock in the morning, and on
awakening used to contemplate my boots
half an hour at time with not enough
energy to pull them on. Habitually
drank five or six whiskies before break
fast and then at breakfast would take
another nip, with couple of soft boiled
eggs-no appetite or ambition. When
tried to write l couldn't make it 60
brain sluggish, body emfeebled, and
final destruction near at hand. rr.
"Well, sir, | swore to get out the work
that was demanded of ue, but I'd keep
putting it off, nevertheless, helpless and
no, not hopeless. The last day came
around and still l had not produced
line. Then L fully realized what mis-
erable victim | was. One morning while
Z lay in bed, staring as usual at my
boots, suddenly resolved that would
never drink another drop Of alcohol.
dressed, went down to the office, told
the business manager that was asham-
ed of the manner in which had failed
to respond to Lis necessities and added
that he probably would not see me in
the Office again for three days. Didn't
say word to him about my resolution
on the whisky question.
;.All that day I smoked necessarily, |
Spending most of tie time on the docks |
walking bareheaded with my face
against the breeze. The weather was
warm, and was full of fever; but held |
out and at IL o'clock went to bed. Next |
morning to my great surprise / was able |
to eat small piece of porter-house |
steak-hadn't touched it at breakfast |
before in twenty years. That was |
hopeful incident. At noon ate fair |
lunch. This was better. At night / |
slowed away well mans dinner. That |
was best of all; for when drunken man |
can eat you may conclude that he is not |
lost. In three days coffee began to taste |
good and solid food had flavor that |
was delicious. Ny recovery was quick" |
did your craving for liquor continue |,
for some timer" -.
81 think not. 1t was a moral as well |
as physical overturning in nv case. |
That is, the better condition to which 1 |
had come so soon was cause of more |
pleasure and exhilaration to me than |
any quantity of alcohol could make ros-
sible. Isimply couldn't afford to put |
in peril that nationally happy condi-
ton"
do you never feel a desire to drink |
at this stage Of the fightT / 4 7 !
Possibly do. At least and at most. |
along about o'clock in the afternoon / |
feel deep depression-net for want of
nip so much as because am tired with |
work. The natural impulse then is to
stimulate, but | beat il down without
great effort, and in a little while it
passes. ....,s -
IL am absolutely certain that if we've
to take one drink should take forty.
Alcohol runs through my veins like
quicksilver. .. .rt. ...
"No, 1 don't believe shall ever re-
sumo. / inherited cast-iron constitu-
tion-ought TO live 130 years in all, hut
L threw away thirty years by dissipa-
tion. and so shall live TO be only 100.
Fun? Well, no. Can't say that
sOhpr man has p1t,ch Of tho cnrf Of sH,n,