The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-29
WITHOUT DRINK Or FOOD.

DIR. KELLEY is supposed to be materially
reducing the profits of brewing and dis
tilling. He mas Institutes in many of the
larger cities of the country and they all
report fourishing business, not only as to
the number of patients treated, but as to
the success of the treRtme nt. The little
injections of the mysterious BIZ chloride of
gold do their work effectively, so we are
assured by the voluntary affidavits of the
cured. Every time the hypodermic syr-
lnge operates it reduces the production of
liquor, and the operation of the syringe for
three weeks makes a temperance advocate
of veritable soak" Anybody with a
mathematical turn of mind will readily
figure it out that the duration of the drink
habit in this world is limited to the time it
will require to run into" the insJi-
tutes all the men given to indul-
gence in the flowing bowl. When there
shall be no more consumption of
liquor except by the arts and sciences and
to give zest to pudding sauce this will be a
strange world to many who are today de-
cidedly familiar with it.
But the wrecking OF breweries and dis
tilleries will be nothing as compared with
the locking of the doors and mailing up the
windows of the grocery stores, the flour
mills, the packing houses and the food
shops generally. There arrived at New
York few days ago ALEXANDER
JACQUES, q F'renchman, who brings with
him greenish-gray powder, the receipt
for making which he is eager to dispose of
for an even hundred thousand dollars. NJ.
JACQUES is a faster by profession, and he
exhibits credentials to prove that he is a
good deal "faster'' in that line than our
boastful TANNER or the Italian SUCcI, who
astounded New Workers a year or two
ago by his feat of going without
food forty five days. JACQUES began
his professional career in London six years
ago, when be went twenty-one days with
out food, other than an ounce and half OF
the powder referred to, the secret OF
making which has been in his family for
three generations. His next fast was for
thirty days, and in 1890, in London, he
made a record of forty-two days Last
year in Norway, he did" forty sever
days, and returning to London in the fall
he achieved fifty days, being carefully
watched night and day by relay of doc
tors. He is soon TO undertake a feat o.
ffty-two days in New York, and the effor
and closing feat Of his life is to occur at thu
Chicago exhibition next year, when hi
viii go without food ffty-six days. H,
has already had two offers for his recipe
one Of $1,000 and the other of 10000. bu
he wants 100000, which will keep him il
clothes and what little food he may requir
for the remainder of his days.
1t is hardly worth while to go into tn
details of what the general use of thi
greenish-gray powder will do in the way o
revolutionizing our habits, homes, indus
tries and so on. 1t is appalling to thin
OF the matter. Besides putting an end t
the chief industry Of the world, that O
supplying mankind with fooG, it woul
throw more than half the people out O
employment and make the other half inde
pendent Of produce trusts and combines
of kitchen girls and even of CROKER
dealers.
But the subject is too vast and far-reach
ing to be considered more than suggest
lively in daily paper. We will await tn
sale of Mr.. JACQUES secret with appreher
sion, wondering what kind of a race it wi
be that lives without food or drink.