Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-21
The Creates t Modern Discovery.

STORY OF A POOR KNOCK-KNEED, PALLID IN
VALID, WHO WAS CURED BY HOT WATER.
From the New York Sun.
~ tell you, gentlemen" said red.nosed man
as he walked up to the bar in the Hoffman
house the other day, '.the greatest discovery OF
modern times Is neither cocaine, vaccination.
preferred creditors, nor the block signal system,
but it is the use of hot water. Look at me, for
instance. What was one month ago? A poor,
round-shouidered, knock-kneed and pallid
Invalid; my hands shook, my head ;ched
and the more drank the worse felt. I took
twenty grains of quinine In the morning to
or ae up my n stomach and ate nothing but oat
TOOK teaspoonful of scOrbutic medicine for
the purpose OF taking off the Inning of my
essences OF beef fat to build up the lining of the
stomach. wasn't able to take more than ten
a fn,iH night during all that time without
g!oomiest hue Imaginable. Many and many
niGl have strayed out with the boys, irving
to cheer up, till 2 or o'clock in the morning,
ana carried nome my share Of half q dOze,l
bottles of wine and number OF two-bit drinks.
what effect did it have on me the next day?
ful, and the more medicine l took the worse I
grew. One month ago to-day became con-
WINGED that the hot water cure must amount to
enthusiastic over it. I then dropped ali medi.
cine and took to drinking hot waller l drank
Pints of 1t, steaming not. before ] took INV
to take it. would pour down as muci, US
could stand. 1t was very hard lines for the
first week, but after that got things in order.
GU see, spent large portion OF my life hold.
ing up the bars of New York city before that
and 1t has often bcen said to my credit that
never went back on the booze. This is not y
choice or elegant term, but there's many a man
IN New York who spends the best portion OF
his life In earning the reputation that il gives
him. At the early date OF my experiment
with the hot water cure received rebufis TINT
Wouid have broken any other mans heart.
when went up to u bar where ! was known
and asked for q glass or hot water the bartende1
would simply shove out the whiskey bottle ay,d
large goblet and go on cheerly abOut, his
work. II ! insisted upon having hot vale,
ne thought was guying him, and If / made q
positive demand for IL he looked Eurt n,
giieved, and not infrequently displayed ex.
hioitions of Ill temper that astonisbcd me. In
some places they sold the water for fifteen
cents and in some places for twenty cents n
g ga; There Is no pride about the proprietor Of
DAY stand hofore you veritably cured man.
tnis niue lecture, Of course, may sound like .
patent medicine advertisement, and / am moi
winning wide popularity by repeating II in bar
rooms; still, it goes"
do you think tho fact that you STOPPED drink,
ing had anything to do with yourcufe, coloneI:'
asked the barkeeper, putting out the bottle me-
S, .,s and Withdrawing It with ueep
WELL" said the colonel, gently feeling his red
inoustache, and rubbing his hands over q mon.
strous waistcoat, perhaps IL had; but NO ms
can stop drinking unless he starts somethi 4
clSe. Let drunkard cease drinking and =
come crank on hot water and he q save , = :
sure as shootin'." =