The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-26
GINGER DRINK ERs IN GEORGIA.
Effects of Queer Substitute for
Whisky in a Prohibition Region.

EH6CUS OF a queer SuD5ClLut6 LOT
Whisky in a Prohibition Region.
From the atlanta (Ga.) Journal
"a man can't get drunk on ginger, can
heF druggist was asked.
"Well, if you could see some of my regu-
lar ginger drunkards at times you would
think So 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 il, as hot as liquid fire, and a tea
spoonful is 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 are regu-
lar ginger drinkers, that fake as much as
four ounces at time, or, to show you the
difference, thirty-two teaspOonfulS. If you
or | or any other man unaccustomed 60
drinking ginger should take that much at
once it would kill us. We would be apt TO
have convulsions at first, followed by a
comatose condition, i'll which state death
would Gomez
How much to make a man drunkW
81 have seen one man get drunk on four
on cas-, and then again I've seen a man who
drank the same quantity have sort of
ep,i4p;ic lit, lasting Tor sever Il minutes"
~. Gat effect will the drinking of ginger
produce IN The long runs"
At lar more Injurious than whisky,
and Will kill man who drinks it regularly
in from two 10 three years time. IL you
sh uld hold a tab spoonful of ginger in
you routh minute it would blister the
ins.de coating OF the mouth, and you can
ina ile wha' the effect on the stomach
A. l..
81 o1fulS If giager every day"
"CaH you tell a ginger drlnker from an
ordinary nan. o., in other words, will the
drinking of ginger affect the personal APP
pearauce of n man as whisky doeSi"
"Whisky drinking makes a mans face
red Ginger drinking makes it pale as the
gin -er draws the blood away from the sur
face to the center of the body. I've watched
these ginger drinkers closely, and I've
studied them good deal. I've learned that
a haoitual ginger drlnker, like morphine
eater, loses all regard for the truth, and
would rather lie than tell the truth They
also become hypocnondrIacs, and imagine
they are affected with every disease under
the sun. One day they'll CONS in with
long face declaring they've got cramp collie
and must have ginger. Another day they'll
have heart disease and VIII surely die unless
they can get ginger. The next time they
have dyspepsia or rheumatism, but no mat
ter what they have they seem to think gin
ger the sovereign remedy, and nothing else
will do them. The trouble with them is
the ginger drinking, for it ruins the diges.
ton, inflames the stomach, and throws the
whole system into disorder"
us there any advantage in buying gin
gers"
"Giuger costs 81 a pint, while whisky
sells at from so cents up. The people who
drink it, aud they are numerous, 9th men
aud women, are for the most part mere
physical wrecks who were confirmed drunk
ards when prohibition came upon us, and
their unnatural appetites must be satisfied,
so they bought ginger as the next best sub
stitute for whisky. We ship ginger by the
barrel to prohibition towns, as the old
topers think it is the best substitute for
whisky, and once they get accustomed TO it
they prefer II 70 whisky.N