The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-28
BY DIRECTION
OF LORD SALISBURY
ABritiSh Consul Submits a Novel
Means Of Strengthening the Army.
NOT BY ENLISTMENTs. BUT BY IN
CREASING THE INDIVIDUAL Eff
FTCIENCY OF THE MEN.

That in these modern days the gov
ernments of the world neglect nothing
that promises TO be an aid in prosecut-
ing war, or which may in any way
benefit their armies, is shown in the
novel suggestion contained in the sub
joined extracts from British official
records:
Foreign Office to Royal Gardens, Kew.
Foreign Office, Oct. 3, 1890.
Sir-I am directed by the Marquis OF
Salisbury to transmit herewith, for
your information, copy of dispatch
from Her Majesty's Consul at Bahia,
containing a report on the use and
etc, (Signed) T. Y. LISTER.
The Director Royal Gardens, Kew.
Unclosure.)
Bahia, Sept 6, 1890
My Lord have the honor to bring
under your lordship's notice, in the
event that it may prove useful to Her
Majesty's War Office, the great powers
of endurance and strength in lifting
heavy loads and transporting them to
long distances in this tropical climate
possessed by the West African negroes
in these parts, which personal Observa
ton and conversation with them and
West African traders who visit this
port enables me TO attribute to the
free use of the Sterculia bean, which L
learn is now being introduced into the
French army after research, study and
experiments made at Marseilles by DR.
Heckle, professor of science of the
Medical Academy there. The West
Indian carriers at this port, who use
Sterculia and carry the bean wrapped
in banana about their person, are, as
a whole, not, physically speaking,
superior men to the Brazilian negro.
and yet the African, through constantly
maSticating sterculia, can endure labor
and fatigue which the Brazilian carrier
cannot withstand. These beans. which
are not intoxicating and in no way in
furious, act as nutritive, quench
thirst and produce vigor and freshness.
| have, etc,
(Signed)
GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS.
Consul.
The Marquis of Salisbury, K. G., ETC.,
etc.
The product of the seeds or nuts al
luded to is known to civilization as
Kolafra, the article called Vino
Kolafra being the standard pre-
paration of it. Vino Kolafra
possesses all the stimulating and
strengthening properties of the nut
itself, and is used and commended by
athletes, invalids, employers of labor,
business men, leading members of tn
learned professions and all who need a
safe and certain invigorant and tonic.
1t occupies q wholly exceptional posi-
ton among stimulants in that it pro-
duces pervading and sustained effect
not followed by the depression or re-
action inseparable from all others
The introduction to civilization of the
sterculia fruit in a practical form is
due to the efforts of the Brunswick
Pharmacal company of 80 William ST.,
New York, whose experiments in
the tropical home of the tree, covering
period of several years. have been
frequently referred to by the press
throughout the country.
1t strengthens and regulates the ac-
ton of the heart, deepens the breathing.
restraints the waste of tissue and nerve
force under unusual and psychicai
power which surprises all who ex
perience or witness it,
Physicians have commended it for
use in cases of anaemia and weakness
from any form of functional debility or
nervous proStratiOn. For chronic in
valids and those who are slowly con-
valescing after acute illness there is
nothing to compare with it in the list
of remedies.
In fact, Vino Kolafra is in some
mysterious way a remover of vitality.
a tonic in the highest meaning of the
word; and if governments find it help
full to armies in the field, it is certainly
an equally important aid in the hard
campaign of life