The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-12
TIE WHISKY HABIT.
How an Old Topper Ovcrcame His Appetite
for Whisky.

A novel idea in the use of Intoxicating
stim"!ants came to the notice Of a CdH
reporter yesterday in the case of an old
friend, who some time ago was the living
personification of the old, old story of a
brilliant mind coudcd from the effects of
intoxicants. In his start in life this
friend had bright prospects for grand
future. The appetite for liquor, however,
Increased upon him to such an extent
that he was soou almost entirely incapac
itated for work. He rapidly went down
hill, and all efforts to rouse him TO q sense
of his degradation were futile. The
reporter last saw him in this condition
over year ago. One day last week he
met spruce and we'll dressed nun who
bore n resemblance to this friend, but
whom he did not recognize until the
individual threw out his hand aad called
the reporter by name.
suppose you hardly know me-" he
said, smile wreathing his health bloom.
ing face. The reporter admitted that he
ut first had hardly been able to, aud then
becoming confidential, rs old friends do
on meeting. he soon learned the cause OF
the change. eyes," said the friend, II
used to be very hard drinker, ns you
know. tried several times to quit, but
could not. The appetite for strong drink
was too much for me. If went without
It for awhile became a nervous wretch.
had to drink or die. A thought was
suggedted to me one day, though, and l
made up my mind to make one supreme
effort to rescue myself l reasoned this
way: A man lakes liquor into his
stomach. and the stimclant, through the
of "a .asx IL L A
If could satisfy my appetite without
the liquor affecting my brain, I would be
all right. If ] could got the taste cf the
without taking it into the stomach, l
know could drink at pleasure and not
become intoxicated, as drunkenness could
not ensue II the liquor did not enter the
stomach. say this idea was suggested
to me, and it was in this way: I had
noticed that men who made business of
buying and selling wines in large auan
titles sampled them and ascertained their
quality end bouquet by taking two or
thrao mouthfuls in succession, rolling it
around their tongues, as one might say,
bathing their palate in tin short
subjecting it 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 was perfectly sober but
terribly respondent. I resolved to try 1t.
did, and have met with the most graft.
flying success. You may laugh, butit 10
the solemn truth. took large drink
Of liquor, but instead OF letting it pass
into my stomach checked it in my
throat and gargled it for minute, and
then spat it out. To my joy / found my
thirst for 1t almost as much appeased as
though ! had swallowed the liquor I
tried it again aud again, with the same
effect. l was not made drunk. lave
followed this plan ever since, and have
not been drunk since, although I have
gargled the liquor, never swallowing q
drop, as many rs dozen or more times
day--the came number of drinks used
to take. The plan is very ample one,
and is, believe, tie only one for slave
to the cup" =
"Has your appetite increased ?"
"On the contrary, 1t has decreased.
BY the means / adopted my brain has
become clear and strong again, and my
will power 10 as good ma Il ever was before
became hard drinker. In gargling
the liquor / got all the benefit Of the
flavor, and ali the satisfaction to my
appetite, without losing my senses."-
San FFonciaco Call.