The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-03

seems TO be something mighty poweffui,
and when a batch OF them breaks loose
and heads for paradise, any stranger
within their gates wants TO climb tree
and yell for the police.
"In the course OF my wanderings, I've
seen pretty much everything In that line.
but the fanatical jag is by far the worst
I've seen yet.and guess I've encountered
at least one case OF every kind there is GO
ing. except the Doctors bay rum"
did any or you ever happen TO run
across cinnamon drunk asked a young
civil engineer. who had been listening TO
the talk.
Cant say I ever did. replied the globe
trotter, suspiciously. Must be something
ltkSH chewing-gum orgy, isn't it?'
Not Just exactly" said the civil engi-
neer Its not so mild as II sounds, and
II has this peculiarity, that a man neves
gets drunk on cinnamon more than once
Lose his taste for it?" asked the ma
jor.
''Well. yes. In a sense" replied the 9TH
err, 'and for everything else. There's al
ways funeral after cinnamon drunk.
II It's "A mild drunk only the celebrators
are buried; quite often. however. some OF
their friends are planted with them
CINNAMON ToPERs IN SOUTH.
Somebody has been putting up game
on you, said the doctor. "A man can't
get drunk on cinnamon"
Can't he?' said the civil engineer, quiet
ly. Well. you needn't call II a drunk IL
you don't want to. Perhaps it's a form OF
mania; but the cinnamon IL the agency.
Nobody put up a game on me; because i
happened TO see a case of IL myself last
summer and IL wasn't by any means an
extraordinary case, either.
II was doing some surveying down I'm
the forest region OF West Virginia. and
had got out of my reckoning when l ran
across a bride path that took me TO a
lumber camp. IL was the Fourth OF July.
and nobody was working. but / could see
the minute l got there that somethpg
was wrong, and everybody was worried.
The superintendent OF camp told me
l was very welcome IL i wanted 10 stay,
but that there was likely TO be trouble
before the day was over, because the camp
store had been broken into the night oe-
fore and the supply of cinnamon extract
been stolen
Nothing else had been taken. so they
knew that some OF the boys were out for
cinnamon drunk. Two OF the biggest
and best lumbermen i'm camp were miss
ing, and when they came back II would
be case OF look out.
80 Il can't get IL into my head what they
do IL for said the superintedent. We've
had dozen cases In this region in "A
couple of years, and the men know it's
sure to be back by evening and I'd ad-
wise v TO go down 10 the river and fish
till then.
There's mighty good bass fishing there
and IL YOU stay here you're liable TO see
things that'll make you sorry you came
I'D heard about the cinnamon drunk
before. and / made up my mind that as
long as there was one on I'd see II. Be
sides, from having TO De so much in the
wilds ia learned "A little about medical
practice, and l thought / might be of
some use.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when
the thermometer might have been some
whore about 100. there was a roaring from
back OF the camp. and everybody said
Here they come
CRAZED BY CINNAMON EXTRACTS.
"A couple OF minutes later two of the
most terrific creatures I ever laid eyes on
burst out of the underbrush. Both were
big men, over six feet tail, and both
stark naked and bleeding from hundreds
of scratches where they had plunged
through wild blackberry patches.
lone of them brandished an AK, and the
other had "A small log, which he handled
as IL IL were a feather. AS they came into
the clearing they let out another roar,
and | give you my word there was moth
ing human in Il.
Those lumbermep are pretty tough spe-
cmens. and IL isn't easy to scare them,
but the whole crowd broke and ran for
the thckest OF the coverwhen Lose mad
men hove into view. The man with the
AK made straight for me.
Il thought IL was murder, sure. and I
jumped for tree TO dodge around it,
but the man never changed his course,
anu then / saw that his eyes were set,
ana he probably didn't notice me or any
thing else. &
Have any OF pou ever seen a rabid dog
run? Well, this man ran just like
rabid dog. He wasn't after anything I'm
particular. but II. anything got in his way
II was all day with II. Three times he
rushed around lliat clearing. believing,
and then went down I'm n lseap.
Meanwhile the other man was pur-
suing an entirely different course. With
his club held up he went sneaking along
by T.. big shack where the men slept. as
IL he were looking for something All
Of a sudden he swung the great piece of
wood back, rushed toward the front wall
and let the thing go like battering ram.
ut went clean through the wall as IL
the house wire built of paper. Then the
cinnamon drunkard turned and rushed
back across the clearing with the speed
OF an express train Both the superin-
.tendent and yelled at him. for we saw
what was going to happen. but you might
as well have called to q mad bull
'He went headforemost into big oak
tree and fell dead. 1 suppose his neck
was broken.
KILLS BOTH THE DRUNKARDS.
~ went over Ia attend TO the first man.
who was lying. face downward and was
breathing heavily. His face was streaked
and blotched with purple and red. and
YOU could hardly see his eyes. started
in TO do what | could, while the superin-
tendent b,ew the horn 10 let che other
men know II was all over
A" There's no use your trying TO help
HIM said he He'll be dead I'm an hour
And he was. lie died with his eyes
open, rigid. like a man In commissions
There were other details just before the
end that have been industriously trying
10 forget-,ley were such that some of
the men lay down and cried. and others
begged the superintendent 10 shoot the
sufferer and put him out OF his agony
when I got back To the nearest city.
forty miles away. I saw a paragraph I'm
the local paper, headed 1.-TWO More Dead
of Cinnamon IL any sceptic." he con-
cluded. looking at the doctor. doubts the
facts, 7 have got the clipping with some
other clippings on the same subject at
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