The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-05
DEADLY HdLx HABIT.
Bicycle Riders re Fast Becoming
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Bicycle Riders WE Fast Becoming
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Are bicyclers 5sunteracting all the
the use of drug
Is the mysterious kola nut. or Its
product. reduce& 70 Liquid form. tc
prove the undoihg of multitude OF
people who haveNwthin the past two
or three years taken TO riding the wheel
for health's sake N There seems to be
danger of such az disaster, If the
stories told by druggists are true.
The kola drug was virtually IN
known two years ago. Now the greater
manufacturing drug firms turn out
enormous quantities of the drug In Its
various forms. Many of them cannot
manufacture it rapidly enough to sup
ply the call. * $3.50
Kola is put up in every conceivable
shape. There are koIa pills. kola tab
let's, kola wines and, combinations of
kola with all sorts of other drugs.
principally, however. zquinine and
cOcaa. The kala liquids are carried In
small TASKS by bfcyclers, and can be
taken at any stage of bicycle journey
without a souls being the wiser.
Whenthe fame of kola as stimu1ant
was first noised in civilization fabulous
tales were told. of the marveis of en-
duranee which it had wrought among
the natives of the. countries where it
grew \
The French first began to manufact-
ure 1t as drug. Their soldiers I'm the
tropics had used it with wonderful re-
suits. Soon the military nations Of
Europe were all experimenting with tt,
subjecting men to forced march and
lack of food and sleep, with nothing to
maintain their strength except a few
kola nuts. The news Of these triumps
over fatigue came to this country. The
kofa was tried among the soldiers OF
the frontier, and /. byss contestants in
athletic events, andsethe stories of it's
marvellous fortifyfng qualities veff-
fed 3e
A druggist whose establishment Is
near a bicycle highway, said recently:
The secret of the stfmulation provided
by kola is in the amount Of caffeine 1t
contains. Caffeine Is the active princl-
pie of coffee. What, q stimulant that
Is everybody KNOWS You can under
stand the awful forge Of kola when /
tell you that 1T contains three times as
much caffeine as coffee.
"And that Is what Inakes it danger
Gus. There are coffee ieirunkardss- The
kola drunkard is Just three times as
pittable an object and. escape for him
is just three times Eas difficult. Ko1s
was taken up byv people who would
never enslave themselves to rum OF
opium, because itIwast announced as 9
stimulant without reaction That is
the Sheerest sort of nonsense. There
must be reaction from the exhilaratfor
of any stimulant. ~ csc ,,g &C.,
''The first effect Of koIa is not pro
nounced it Is hardly noticeable The
man who takes it simply feels re
freshed, but after eight or ten hours
the hearts action Is increased enor
mously. Then. later, there is, in the
habitual kola drinker or eater, the las
ulousness that ensue from over drink
ing. The difference Is that with kole
the reaction comes on more gradually
''It is in the insiduousness of the
thing that the danger lies. It doe.
away with the fatigue that s1ons
bicycle ride brings. and pill. or wet
nip at the tiny flask will add ene-hal
to the pleasure ofsa. days rum iWheT
that is thoroughly understood, the mex
step Is q reliance on the drug. From
that stage, the Development of the
slavery is easy. '-A' 0'.'0AtV~'@ 'N1 :, :.
land the effects of the kola itsei1
are aggravated by the Afeoh0i which il
used in making itsinte liquid form
So the wheelman who has quit drink
ing and taken to koia to fortify him, Ii
getting rum, Just the same, although
he doesn't know It. He can become
two kinds of a drunkard, instead Oh
one, and that is about the only diff.
ference.