The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06
CONCERNING STIMULANTS.
THOSE THAT STRIKE BACK AND
ONE THAT DOES NOT.
An Effective and Satisfying Substitute
for Alcoholic Drinks.

The use " stimulants is old as the human
race. All efforts TO abolish II hive been fruit
less. The rcason-ns the French shy OF any per.
fectly obvious thing-"jumps Mt your eyes,
Stimulants are Indispensable. Wait n moment.
1t is one thing to use stimulants in order to
CRAFTY a desire for artificial felicity as DR..
Sir Benjamin w. Richardson puts II. and quite
another to use them legitimately. We can't
give up the use OF fire for the sake of preventing
the crime Of arson.
Tho objection to ordinary stimulants is their
secondary eflects-what patholocists call RE-
action"-which means that energy due to stimu-
lation falls. and falls a degree below tho point 1t
started from: that the loss from ordinary stlmu-
lation is greater than the gain. Hence. II per-
sisted in, II must do damage.
Bar this reaction, and all stinulnnts. short OF
the virulent poisons. would be practically HARM
less. Unfortunately. with n single exception,
they all react more or less.
The exception is the African sterculia nut las
used IN Africa and the preparation of 1t made
y, the BRUNSWICK P~hhrmacal Company, o.
kolafra. This article possesses all the proper
ties OF the famous tropical prod uct, with ahso-
effects: Its stimulation is radically different
from that OF alcohol and other narcotic drugs.
1t is gradual and even, as n spring fills by the
water gently entering Mt the bottom: and It's re-
cession Is the same-witbout jar or violence.
lennying the user In his normal condition.
There Is no drop, no falling away, no weak
ness. dulness or mental daze. as In the case of
other stimulants. After. as well MS during, tho
action OF Nino-kolafrR the mind and senses
keep touch and time; the nerves are not cheated
or fooled. 1t calls into activity n mans con-
cealed powers; or, in military phrase, IL mobil-
ICES the reserves. 1t gives one n delightful
taste of real existence what life would be with
ont It's diseases, worries and other draw backs.
This remarkable preparation merits the dou-
BILE descriptive name OF tonic-stimulant. II not
only arouses to action, but imparts strength TO
oct.
On this point George II. jackson. A. NJ, NJ. D.,
formerly surgeon to tho Government of the
Congo Free state. snys: The sterculia nut is
IN constant demand OF. the coast and along the
Congo River. The people say 1t Is food for
them: II makes them strong. / have seen n car
AVIAN of sixty men take the road IN the morning
with their loads, and without a particle Of food.
except the sterculia nut occasionally, march un-
til noon with no sign of weakness or fatigue"
MIR. w. Fawcett, director of the, Botanical
Gardens. Kingston, Jamaica, says: THE ster-
stlmulant. Nothing else will compare with it."
Mr.. Judson A. Lewis, late United States
Consui Mt Sierra Leone. says: "A man with a
sterculia nut can go all day without food. 1t
soothes the nerves of the stomach and prevents
the gnawing sensation incident to hunger. On
occasions of scarcity the nut Is sometimes held
at price almost equal to its weight in gold"
Further evidence that Nino-Kolafra is n nom
~reactive ana safe tonic-stimulant proceeds from
physicians, IN spec alists in chronic and
nervous diseases. trainers in athletics. travellers.
lawyers, clcrgymen. business men, employers of
labor. army officers. and the general public. To
invalids, the worm. overworked and overworried,
to aged persons and those trying to overcome
the liquor habit. is as nearly an
ing world is every likely TO be. The first instance
In which 1t las harmed anybody is yet to be
reported.
1t enables excessive drinkers to leave of the
liquor habit. because II stimulates without
intoxicating and overcomes the intense craving
for alcohol.-Adr