The evening times., 1896-03-10
A FIEND's REQUEST.

Give me a little tonic" he finally said,
rather deliberately, as though he hadn't
made up his mind whether to take that OF
| vanilla.
The clerk. who had reached for 4 miner raj
| glass as soon a. he approached the couL. er
| filled it about haif fun of a garnet-cOiorcd
| liquid from a big silver ever at one end oi
| the counter. Then he started to fill il
up with soda water.
Don't put much water in it," admcnishel
! the customer; water spoils it,"
Accordingly only a few teaspoonsful of
water were added to the glass, and almost
the pure elixir was banded out on the coun-
ter. The ficnd raised it to his lips and
drankit slowly, without removing the glass.
His eyes frightened, and his face that had
seemed dra wn rela ed into comforta bic lines
as the penetrating liquid began to
take effect. He sat the glass back on the
marble slab with a iong-drawn, satisfied
"Ah.' threw a dime TO the cashier, and
walked out. The clerk looked after him
reflectively, , and as he disappeared up the
street, volunteered the Information that
he was u tonic fiend.'
They all look and act just that way" he
said.
what was that stuff he drank" asked
the reporter.
"Calisaya tonic was the answer. Hes
one OF the scores that come in here over
three or four times every day and drink it.
They always look around and pretend TO
INA ke up their minds before deciding to call
for it. but it is the only thing they come for
A CALISAYA SPREE
The. Times man pursued his inquiries a
little further. and found that calisaya tonic,
in addition to being n valua bic medicine. pos
sessed properties that not only produce a
jag OF the most hilarious description, but
leave an after affect impossible to be at
tanned even in the widest of bacchanalian
reyels by the use OF simple, undisguised rum.
A man getting over a tonic drunk is a
helpless, senselcss being. His tongue feels
like a buffalo robe and his head like a barrel
of mercury. Heloses interest in everything.
The most Iurid OF absinthe ..jags'' isn't
marker to 1t.
But the regular fiend never gets drunk
on tonic" said the clerk. He knows bet
ter"
who else drinks the stuff, them"
"Oh, young men frequently experiment
IL anu Naht IL ~ lhNst ONl
drinkers always look. though, as if they
had half a jag on"
How much tonic would it take to make
novice drunk
About three drinks such as that fellow
took. With those in the average young man,
he will do the widest sort OF things imae-
Unable. Three young fellows started out
q few nights ago to get on 4 tonic jag.
NJ xr-H. I,.,At q
couple of days later they heard all sorts of
things about themselves. The mig ut they
started was beautifully clear. ard they
We're walking along F street. They came
across u gentleman and two ladies who
had stopped to admire the beauties OF the
moon, and they stopped. too, within few
few feet OF them, and made audible COM
ments on the orb of night, much to the en-
of the original observers.
They kept up that sort OF thing until they
got tired, too tired to walk, and they were
sent home in cabs.
THEY WERE TEMPERANCE MEN.
lone young mau know got his employer
drunk on tonic in order to vindicate him
self when taxed with being intoxicated.
Both We're temperance men, and the c.der
was much surprised to behold his clerk
one day with frightened eyes and flushed
cheeks, evidently under the influence OF
liquor.
''He was incredulous when the young
man told him it was tonic, that he took as |
a beverage, until he tried it himself. He
look two glasses, and felt eayer than his |
clerk. But neither ever tackled the tonic
again. But the old drinkers never take it |
in that way. They keep themselves in |
1ne condition all the time. drinking stead |
ly, and increase the size of the dose as the |
,ffect diminishes, until it drives them in |
sane" |
The reporter found that the tonic habit, |
once formed, is as hard to get way fromas |
he opium habit. Once acquired, the drinker |
must keep on increasing the dose gradually, |
md the overstinulation that results is dis |
lstrous. Unless it is kept up constantly the |
'eaction, when 1t wears off leaves the body !
n state of utter collapse. Already the |
medical fraternity have come to look upon |
he tonic habit with as much dread as the |
,pium habit and there have been q number |
If cases in hospitalshere where the victims
# the habit have become mental and
wrecks.
THE NGpEDIENTS