Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-01-17
DRUNK ON GINGER.
Habits of the Ginger Drinkers of
Georgi a-TcrribIe Results.

GA man can't get drunk on ginger,
can he e druggist was asked.
"Well, if you could see some of my
regular ginger drunkards at times you
would think so. Ginger is made from
alcohol and ginger root. The root is
ground and put into of those 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 tlncture is, as you know, if you We
ever tasted it, as hot as liquid fire, and
a teaspoonful is a big dose for an or
binary man. One pound of ginger will
make two quarts of tincture, and many
prefer it to whisky"
! How much does confirmed ginger
drinker take dose2"
"There are one or two men who are
regular ginger drinkers that take as
much as four ounces at time, or, to
show you the difference, thirty-two tea
spoonfuls. If you or |, or any other
man unaccustomed to drinking ginger,
should take that much at once it would
kill us. We would be apt to have con-
WILSON'S at first, followed by camatose
condition, in which state death would
come"
"What effect will the drinking of gin.
ger produce in the long run r.
at is far more injurious than whisky
and will kill man who drinks it regu-
larly in from two to three years time.
If you should hold tablespoonful of
ginger i'll your mouth minute it
would blister the inside coating of the
mouth, and you can imagine what the
effect on the stomach would be graphing
with two or three tablespoonsful of gin
ger every day."
Can you tell ginger drinker from
an ordinary man, or, in other words,
will the drinking of ginger affect the
personal appearance of man as whisky
does %
'Whislky drinking makes mans face
red. Ginger drinking makes it pale, as
the ginger draws the blood away from
the surface to the center of the body.
I've watched these ginger drinkers
closely, and I've studied them good
deal. I've learned that habitual gin
ger drinker, like a morphine eater, loses
all regard for the truth, and would
rather lie than tell the truth. They also
become hypochondriacs, and imagine
they are affected with every disease I'M
der the sun. sOne day they'll come in
with long face declaring they've got
cramp chohc and must have ginger. An
other day they'll have heart disease and
will surely die unless they can get gin.
ger. The next time they have dyspepsia
or rheumatism, but no matter what they
have they think ginger the sovereign
remedy, and nothing else will do them.
''The trouble with them is the ginger
drinking, for it ruins the digestion, in
flames the stomach and throws the whole
system into disorder"
SIS there any advantage in buying
gingers'
Ginger costs 81 pint, while whisky
sells at from fifty cents up. The people
who drink it, and they are numerous,
both men and women, are for the most
part mere physical wrecks who were
confirmed drunkards when prohibition
came upon us, and their unnatural ap-
petites must be satisfied, so they bought
ginger as the next best substitute for
whisky. We ship ginger by the barrel
to prohibition towns, as the old topers
think it the best substitute for whisky,
and once they got accustomed to it they
prefer it to whisky. atlanta Jouraal.