The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-02

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system. In many cases physicians have
by the use of alcohol saved lives which
must without its use have been sacri
feed; but it should be regarded as g
dangerous medicinal agent and be adj
mitted under no circumstances to the
common list of food stuffs for daily con
| sumption. Alcohol, said he, should
never be introduced into the system ex-
cept in connection with disease proc
esses or retrograde conditions! Here,
however, is a crumb of comfort for the
aged man about town. The judicious
use of alcohol-by which, of course, the
| doctor must be taken to mean brandy,
champagne, whisky, gin, old ale and
| other pleasant things-in persons of ad-
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"
''In a healthy man." said DR.. Carver,
mo more than an ounce of absolute
e1lCOllOI CciA OA4C u11AO bO SOAi1k'iOuSIJ
oxidized into its final products: carbon,
bl-oxide and water
This amount, he admitted, yields a
certain quantity Of nervous muscular
and glandular force. Gin convalescence
from acute diseases, however, and in
the sudden depression of the powers Of
life, caused by the bites of venomous
1,y1 ~ 11oad
GUS injury, a 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 it's functions"
But l 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 asubjective feeling, connected
with the quickened circulation Of the
blood, rather than an actual
rise in temperature. Or, in 9TH
er words, it is only our imag-
nation 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.
ment to this effect: "After six weeks of
total abstinence, and, indeed, even in
the case of the teetotaler, a 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-
weather, they might as well know the
truth.
THEY WANT HIM TO s'PUT 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, 900, 600 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
I 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
''sure thing" in other words, re-
quire me to ssput 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,-
100000 to start on really frst-class
OASIS; Dnab Is 10 Say, 10 1uStdI dLiu scU
a-going in a manner that, would not
make it's friends ashamed to acknowl-
edge it in public He promises 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. I am assured that New
York is rapidly becoming the richest
city in the world, and anyone who
keeps7his 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 references thereto. These
rolls tell a 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 s6,2oo,oOO.
900. If this money were piled up in one
,,or,4o;,, II would o,,ra oil tho COM