The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-12
Thr aitha naiIY gaae Erasy orariug ueust H. 1892.

doctor must be taken to mean brandy,
champagne. whisky. gin, old ale and
other pleasant things-in persons OF adj
vancing years undoubtedly prolongs
life.
DR.. j. Henry Carver, on the other
hand, treated of alcohol as a poison
and the propriety of ever taking it into
the system except under the direction
of medical adviser"
Gin healthy man." said DR.. Carver,
mo more than an ounce of absolute
alcohol can at one time be completely
oxidized into its final products: carbon,
bl-oxde and water
This amount, he admitted, yields q
certain quantity of nervous muscular
and glandular force. 'In convalescence
from acute diseases, however, and in
the sudden depression of the powers Of
life. caused by the bites of venomous
snakes or by loss of blood OF from seri-
GUS injury, quantity Of alcohol which
in state of health would cause pro-
| found intoxication and damage may be
taken with impunity. The extremes of
life. infancy and old age, enable one to
bear well a larger amount of alcohol,
and, indeed, are often benefited by it. :"
Gastric catarrh is one of the awful con-
sequences which DR.. Carver described to
his audience as resulting from tipping.
Digestion for time." said he, seems
improved, but retrograde movements
speedily follow; the cells shrink in size,
newly formed connective replaces gland
ular activity and neither stomach nor
liver can perform its functions"
But am told that DR.. Parkes, who is
one of the great scientific scientists Of
the world on the physical action of
alcohol, says that the apparent heat of
the body, after taking alcohol, must be
owing to a subjective feeling, connected
with the quickered circulation of the
blood, rather than an actual
rise in temperature. Or, in 9TH
er words, it is only our mag
ination that makes US feel better
after so-called cooling drink in sum-
mer time, which is interesting if true.
DR.. Dupre, also a great authority,
makes an even more sensational state
ment to this effect: 'After six weeks of
total abstinence, and, indeed, even in
the case of the teetotaler, substance
is eliminated from the body lin the
breath, etc. which, though apparently
not alcohol, yet gives all the reactions
ordinarily used for the detection of
traces of alcohol" This is calculated
to fill the plain prohibitionist mind
with much sincere distress. But if peo-
pie will talk about such things in hot
weather, they might as well know the
truth.
THEY WANT Elm TO 'tPUT UP :"
In this correspondence recently had
something to say in regard to the wealth
of this city, in which the statement
was made, not at haphazard either,
that 500, 200, 900 could be raised in New
York in twenty-four hours for any le-
ultimate business enterprise which
would guarantee profit of per cent.
1t was stated to me that this sum could
be obtained on the possibility of a safe
investment on SO per cent. basis, but
raised the interest to per cent, and
required that the profit be guaranteed
In order to be entirely on the safe side
should anyone suddenly make de-
mand upon me for the amount on a
''sure thing" in other words, re-
quire me to ''put up or shut up"
The paragraph has brought me
some letters, not all from gentle
men who want the money right
away, but from men who are appar-
emily skeptical on the subject. A
correspondent in West Summit, n. j.,
comes to the front with an enterprise
which he says will require at least S1O,-
900, 900 to start on a really frst-class
basis; that is to say, to install and set
a-going in a manner that would not
make it's friends ashamed to acknowl-
edge it in public. He promises 4 per
cent. profit the first year, and rather
pins me down to the point of producing
the cash in the specified twenty-four
hours. This is busy season with me,
and | have not yet rushed around to see
what can do for the New Jersey gen.
tleman. But / wish to repeat that my
proposition is not based on wildcat in
formation. / am assured that New
York is rapidly becoming the richest
city in the world, and anyone who
keeps his eyes open can see evidence of
this every day.
The assessment rolls Of the city were
recently completed for the year and
sent to the board of aldermen to see
what were the wishes of that august
body with reference thereto. These
rolls tell story of wealth which reads
like an eastern fable The volume of
the property in New York, including
church property (Which is exempt from
taxation) may be placed at Sc, 200, 00O,-
O00 If this money were piled up in one
it would cure all the sore
eyes in this country and even relieve in
a great measure the optical defects of
Asia. And all this has accumulated in
less than ninety years. There are half
a dozen estates in New York either one
of which pays more taxes than did the
entire population ninety years ago.
This is not mere guess, but is shown
by the records to be a fact. An
other noteworthy fact is that about
100 individuals and estates own
of the entire property
value on Manhattan island. The fig
ures upon which this statement is
made can be found on the assessment
rolls By anyone who takes the trouble