Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-05
SUBSTITUTE FOR WHISKY.

Habits of the Ginger Drinkers Of Georgia.
Terrible Results.
"a man can't get drunk on ginger, can her
druggist was asked.
"Well, if you could see some Of my regular
ginger drunkards at times you would think
50. Ginger is made from alcohol and ginger
root The root is ground and put into one of
these funnel shaped percolators, after which
the alcohol is poured upon it and soaks
through it, dropping into the jar, in the
mouth of which is fixed the funnel This
tincture is, as you know, If you've ever tasted
it, as hot as liquid fire, and teaspoonful is a
big dose for an ordinary man. One pound
of ginger will make two quarts of tincture,
and many prefer it to whisky
'How much does a confirmed ginger
drinker take at dose"
There are one or two men who ere rcgu-
lar ginger drinkers, that take as much as
four ounces at a time, or to show you the
difference, thirty two teaspoonfuls. II yon
or l or any other man unaccustomed to
drinking ginger should take that much at
once it would kill u.s. We would be apt to
have convulsions at first, followed by a com
atose condition, in which state death would
/ comen
"How much to make man drunkr'
II have seen one man get drunk on -four
ounces, and then again I've seen a man who
drank the same quantity have a sort of cpl
| leptic fit, lasting for several minutes
What effect will the drinking of ginger
produce in the long runF'
1T is far more injurious than whisky AM
will kill a man who drinks it regularly il
from two to three years time. Ii you shoult
hold tablespoonful OF ginger in your moutl
a minute it would blister the inside COATING
of the mouth, and you can imagine what tn,
effect on the stomach would be grapplini
with two or three tablespoonfuls of ginge
every day
Can you tell ginger drinker from al
ordinary man, or, in other words, will tn
drinking of ginger affect the personal ar
pearance of n man as whisky does"
Whisky drinking makes mans face red
Ginger drinking makes it pale as the ginge
draws the blood away from the surface t
the center Of the body. I've watched thes
ginger drinkers closely and I've studied ther
a good deal. I've learned that habitua
ginger drinker, like a morphine eater, lose
all regard for the truth, and would rather Ii
than tell the truth. They also become hypC
chondriacs and imagine they are affecte
with every disease under the sun. One da
they'll come in with long face declarin
they've got cramp collie and must have gil
ger. Another day they'll have heart diseas
and will surely die unless they can get gil
ger. The next time they have dyspepsia {
rheumatism, but no matter what they hay
: they seem to think ginger the sovereig
r remedy, and nothing else will do them tt
: trouble with them is the ginger drinking, fl
it ruins the digestion, infamas the stomacl
1 and throws the whole system into disorder
5 is there any advantage iu buyin. 81
= gerT'
? "Ginger costs 81 pint, while whisky sci
!, at from 50 cents up The people who drir
/ it, and they ara numerous, both men and W
8 men, are for the most part mere physic
0 wrecks who were confirmed drunkards VIII,
t prohibition came upon us, and their unns
o ural appetites must be satisfied, SO tn,
, bought ginger as the next best substitute f
r whisky. We ship ginger by the barrel
Q prohibition towns, as the old topers think
|, is the best substitute for whisky and on
b they get accustomed to it they prefer it
b whisky. Atlanta Journal.