Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-18
GREAT MODERN DISCOVERY
story OF Il Poor, raIIid Invalid who
was Cured by Hot Water.

story OF Il Poor, raIIid Invalid who
was Cured by Hot Water.
New York Sun.
Il tell yon, gentleman said red
nosed man . lie 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
kheed and pallid Invalid, my hands
shook, my head ached, and the more [
drank the worse / felt. / took twenty
grams OF quinlne in the morning to
brace up my stomach, and ate nothing
but oatmeal for breakfast to pull 1t
down. AT noon took teaspoonful of
scorputlc medicine to take OF the lining
OF my stomach, and before dinner took
concentrated essences of beef fat to build
up the lining of my stomach. wasn't
able to take more than ten drinks a
night during all that time without feel
Ing unhappy and life had the saddest
and gloomlest hue Imaginable. Many
ana many night have L stayed out
with the boys, trying to cheer up till
two or three o'clock In the morning. and
carried home my share OF two bit drinks.
What effect did it have on me the next
day? had sR elled head, felt miser.
able and mournful, and the more medl.
cine L took the worse { grew. One
month ago day | became convinced
that the hot water cure must amount to
something, or SO many people would not
be SO enthusiastic over it. / then drop
ped ell medicine and took to drinking
hot water. / drink pints of il, steaming
hot, before / took my breakfast, and
during the day, when l had time to take
1t, would pour down as much as |
could stand. 1t was very hard lines for
the first week, but after that | got
things IN order. You see, spent a
large portion of my life holding up
the bars of New York city before that,
and 1t has often been said to my credit
that L never went back on the booze.
This is not a choice or elegant term, but
there's many man in New York
vino spends the best portion of his life
In earning the reputation that it gives
him. AT the early date of my expert
ments with the hot water cure receiy-
ed febuifs that would have broken any
other mans heart. When 1 went up to
bar where L was known and asked for
glass of hot water the barkeeper would
simply shove out the whisky bottle and
large goblet and go on cheerily about
his work. If insisted upon having hot
water he thought was guying him, and
If | made a positive demand for it he
looked hurt, or grieved, and not infre.
quently displayed exhibition of i'll
temper that astonished me. In
some places they sold the water
for fifteen cents, and some places
for twenty cents a glass. There is no
pride about the proprietor of the aver
age New York barroom. Well, sir to-
day stand before you veritably cured
man. This little lecture, OF course, may
sound like patent medicine advertise
ment, and | am not winning much popu-
larity by repeating it In barrooms; still
it goes"
"Do you think the fact that you stop
ped drinking had anything to do with
your cure, Colonel 2" asked the barkeep-
Ell, putting out the bottle mechanically,
and Withdrawing it with a deep blush.
"Well," SAID the Colonel, gently feel-
ing his red mustache and rubbing his
hands over monstrous waistcoat, ssper.
haps 1t had. but no man can stop drink
ing unless he starts something else. Let
drunkard cease drinking and become
crank on hot water, and he is saved as
sure as shootin."