The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-12-09

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Importance is excellent. The British
| government has attended to this mat
ter; so that it is only in the smaller
| towns and the places remote from
British settlements that the traveller
need have any fear. There he must be
on his guard
What, then, did I find it necessary to
DO to make sure that my health should
not suffer? Discard the use of water as
a drink? In only few places. Cen
orally L could drink the water as freely
as at home. Where | found any cause
at all fer distrust, my rule was to use
the water only after it had been boiled.
Throughout Egypt, Palestine and In
dia one can get oranges of the finest
quality in great abundance. late these
freely everywhere; and the juice OF
these did much to supply the place of
drink. For emergencies l generally
carried with me small supply of some
bottled water, easily obtainable in all
oriental cities of Importance.
Thus, though l always kept myself
ready to resort to wine or beer, or some
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real need for it, the need never came. 7
passed through my year of travel-one-
half of it in India, Egypt and Palestine
without tasting a drop of liquor, or
finding myself in any place where, in
my best judgment, there was the slight
est necessity for so doing. The same
was true with my wife. She made the
same journeys that I did, except that
she did not go to India, and she found
no more use for liquor than I. In our
travels in Italy and Greece and other
countries of Europe we were accom-
panied also by our son and two daugh-
tiers. And none of them tasted any
kind of liquor during their journey
ings.
what was the result? We're we i'll?
Did we find ourselves with digestion i'm
paired from time to time by bad water,
or by changes of water? Did we en-
dure our journeys less well? or were
we sick oftener than our fellow tray
Clers who discarded water and used al
cOholic drinks. or who, when they did
use water, mixed more or less liquor
with it to make it safe as they said?
The answer is very easy to give. We
went through all our travels without a
days serious illness on the part of any
of us. l went through mine, including
my three months in India, without the
loss of meal, or any disturbance of
digestion requiring even the slightest
medicine. On the other hand, our tray
cling companions who made free use Of
liquor were almost constantly com
planning. and in number of cases were
seriously i'll.
During our trip on horseback
through Palestine, where the strain
was more severe, and our water supply
the poorest, the three or four total alb
stainers in our party of 10 got along
far better than the others. OF those
who took a little wine or whisky or
brandy each day or each meal to keep
them well or to make the water safe,
nearly everyone was attacked with a
persistent, and in a number of cases a
severe, bowel trouble. OF the abstain
crs, only one was troubled at all, and
that one only very slightly.
another Palestine party of which I
learned had a similar experience to our
own, only still more marked. Before
starting on the long route from Jeru-
salem to Damascus, about three-fourths
Of the party allowed themselves to be
persuaded to lay in stock of wine for
the journey. The rest determined to
stick to tho.r total abstinence princi-
Piles. What was the result? The alb
stainers went through without diff
Guilty, while every one of the wine
drinkers was sick on the way, and two
or three of them broke down entirely,
and had to go back to Jerusalem. One
of the party said: They talk about the
water being different in different
places; but I tell you the wine is much
more different than the water; and
after a thorough trial of drinking wine
instead of water, he smashed his bot
ties in disgust, and then was able to
keep well, as he had not been before"