Telegram-herald., 1890-05-29

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Gives Them Satisfaction
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ths space OF Two 0r Three Ae-Ts-
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D-1 No2 ever see "a l--.a--fA az at HcEf
asks the Kansas city T2es- Not
man who drinks whisky with alcohol In
its makeup but the gosn who drinks
the straight fluid without drop %
water % cool bis case-harienod throat
There are men ia Kansas CITY ~ho
dFiak pare alcohol every day of their
lives. They reach . trembling hand for
it when they open their eyes IA the
morain}, and the last gulp az night
carries 70 a fiery stomach more fael
These characters are few. As compared
with the whisky drinker, tho man who
drinks alcohol Is something awful 10
does NOT matter il the whisky drinker
indulges 20 C2cess-let him be the worst
sot upon the earth and the moderate al
oohOl drinker Will surpass him Ia genu-
inc depravity.
The eyes OF the man who has used al
cohol Is a beverage for year start from
their sockets, al tl0OdshOt and revolt
ing, perpetual lcer Is upOn his face,
his complexion is blue aad red by turns.
his whole frame Quivers. and all sense
Of moral duty Is away from him. The
ordinary drunkard is not 20 be COM
pared with the alcoholic slave. Tho
former has on moro than one occasion
been redeemed; but who can point ont
the drinker of straight alcohol who has
lived TO become man again? OF the
alcohol-drinkers in Kansas City none IS
moro conspicuous than an old fiddler,
without any name in particular, who
frequents the hotels, saloons and public
corners. This old man never wears a
shirt. He keeps his tattered coat but
toned. He unbuttons his coat occasion
ally 20 take from IT'S inside pocket q
flask Of pure, white alcohol. The old
man holds the bottle in his hand for .
moment, raises il 10 his bearded face
with an unsteady hand, and before be
lowers his hand and replaces the flask
in his coat, the fiery liquid, in a dose
that would kill the ordinary man, has
gone TO his stomach. A grimace- that
is all. Tho old fellow nerer thinks Of
drinking water before or after these al
coholic draughts.
"Does it hurt your throatP" he was
asked. He looked about him with a
leer, shaped the meaning Of tho words
in his befuddled brain. and answered:
"Hurt? Nav, nothin hurts my old
throat. I'd as soon drink that stuff as
water-an' a good deal sooner" he
chuckled, laughing over his grewsome
joke. why" he went on, steadying
himself against tho wall, this 'ero COL
1t e. 10 to =,
water TO nc. | could drink solid
tumbler full OF il a. a swaller and never
know IT, And beer? Ho, no. no! that's
too good. Beer? Why, ! could drink o
barl OF beer IL I'd room fer it inside o
me. an tho eGec'-there wouldn't be
any, that's all. When did l commence
TO drink? Oh. that's 4 long story. Good
many years ago, though, lemme toll you.
Down in New England we didn't have
no colored whisky like they sells here
all the sailors and workmen drunk them
days was rum-hot from the still. NY
+ but them was good days, mused the
fiddler, smacking his lips. "Rum-I'vo
drunk many glass Of that white rum.
+ One day remember a man showed nc
nc ef I'd like some o it. / jumped a
! the chance. and in a half-minit ! had
the bottle turnel up. ! took a swallcr
! fore | knowed I was fooled. Il was
/ alcohol-the straight stuff. l thought
! / was killed. jumped up an ran off as
| fast as I could. The first water / come
70 jumped in head fust. When they
f oil / 10
was tough, and purity soon 1 was well
again. Since that time I've been drink
in alcohol of an on purity steady
''Itisa strange fact, said a woll-known
( druggist yesterday that alcohol-dTink
ing IL on the increase. Whisky-drink
ing in its worst form was never so bad
"a alcohol-drinking. Undiluted alcohol
viii rob man OF his honor, his brain,
and his health in year. A man who
drinks pint Of pure alcohol a day
should be on tho lookout for a grave
yard. IS sure as he drinks the pure
drug for tao years, so sure viii be need
+ a coffin before three years have passed
And cuess it is right that it Sc 50. 4
/ man who has fallen 50 low as 20 require
+ pure alcohol as a daily beverage las No
place upon tho earth
Do you know Of any periodical alco
hol drinkers2"
There arc such people There srC
IN Kansas City dozen men can think
Of who drink the stuff regularly. With
out water OF any thing else - ease iti
fiery passage 80 tho stomach. Won ran
res assured that these men will not b