The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-25
From the New York Sun.

strong ana Nnaouenin8-PulQue and
Bay Rum Drunks-A Cinnamon
Drunk Said to Be the Worst.
From the New York Sun.
The difference between civilized and
rncivilized man." said the Major; looking
lovingly into his glass, rs seen nowhere
more clearly than in the matter of
drinks. The follower of civilization
drinks for the flavor, as an Offering to his
refined sense of taste. and the effect Is
a side issue, very undesirable side is
ue. I may say. occasionally. The man
who is beyond the confines of civilization
drinks for the effect purely and drinks
savagely until he gets it."
How does that distinction work in tbe
case of the confirmed inebriate?" asked
the lawyer. He isn't likely to care much
what he swallows provided he can get
properly drunk on it,"
Proves my point" replied the Major.
"A confirmed inebriate isn't within the
pale of civilization; hardly within the
pale of humanity in fact. The noble red
man of the plains, with whom have had
some experience" here the Major rubbed
an arm which has never been quite so
good new since a Sioux arrow broke
against the bone, lis confirmed inebri-
ate by nature and also in practice when
ever he can get hold of the material to
confirm himself. Like an ex-civilized dip
somaniac in the last stages. he would pre-
fer a PING of cheap, raw new whisky to
the choicest vintages to be found in the
cellars of this club"
And he would proba bly, make less trou-
BILE end fuss by the quicker process of
his cheap whisky" suggested the doctor.
who has had opportunities to study the
liquor habit
We'll he misses the intermediate
stages, of course" said the Major. Still.
big buck with his skin full of alco-
holic poison isn't as pleasant a man to
meet a friend who is looking for YOU
to pay up his last nights losses"
Il agree with the doctors general
proposition" put in the railroad man.
The longer it takes man to accumulate
a hard case of jag. the worse it is for
those around him. The meanest jaes
have over seen, are those acquired on hard
cider, and I've seen plenty of them up in
Connecticut, where they don't drink much
of anything else. You never can tell lust
what notion a hard cider case is going
10 take into his head, but on general prin-
cipleS it's safe 20 assume that he's 60
ing 90 try to murder somebody before
he's through. It's a slow jag and mean
one"
IF it's any meaner than a cheap alcohol
performance I don't want to see it," said
a young broker who had strolled into the
circle. Il ran into that experience last
fall up In the wilds of Canada where I
fell in with camp of Frenchmen who
were getting logs down the river One
of them came back from the nearest town
with a bottle of raw alcohol, and he and
his pal diluted it with water and filled
up on it. They were both little men, but
they cleaned out the camp In shake
and for five minutes they did devils
dance around the place I wouldn't care to
see repeated. Then both of them COL
lapsed in @ heap and it was a job to
save their lives"
Must be something like wood alcohol"
remarked the lawyer That's the great
drink In the Pennsylvania woodland dis
trfcts where they have the acid factories.
One good-sized drink of wood alcohol
would I suppose, lay out any of us cold"
The doctor nodded. Those fellows down
there go on regular bats on that poison,
and they get so tibet regular whisk isn't
strong enough for them. A wood alcohol
drunk is a pretty dubious proposition.
He's likely TO be weeping on your neck
and telling you his troubles one minute.
your ribs. It's rather a slow process for
those fellows who are picked in the stuff.
and YOU can always tell a man who has
the habit by curious shiny appearance
of the skin about the eyes and drawn
expression of the face as II his skin were
too tight for him"
1T kills in time" said the doctor
Methyl alcohol isn't good for the human
interior. I've seen much the same symp-
toms In my practice here though from a
olfrerent variety of stimulant. That's bay
rum"
Come. come" exclaimed the Major
you don't mean to tell us that any sane
person drinks bay rum?"
I wouldn't swear TO the sane part of
II, answered the doctor. ut depends
what your definition of sanity is; but I've
had more patients than 1 can stop TO
reckon up here. who had the bay rum
habit All women. and all refned wo-
men. II isn't a pleasant feature Of my
practice" added the physician with wry
face.
I saw a man go under one from this
Chinese staff, saki" said the man-about-
town He had a curiosity to try it, and
as he had a copper-lined stomach and a
:ire-proof head, he was sure that he could
Keep pace with the Cinnamon who were
htung 1t up in the Mott street restaurant
Where he went. After about three
Whacks al it my friend decided that he
was Joss and tried 10 do a ceremonial
dance with one of the big dragons paint
cd on the wall. The Cinnamon, who had
drunk three to his one, very kindly help
ed me to get him OUT of the place. and
strongly advised me against running him
up against that variety of rum again.
NO plitty good for Mclean man. they
SAID. and / guess they were right"
Foreign connections are the deuce and
all FOR white man." agreed the globe
rotter Il tackled pulque once down in
Mexico, and though / didn't take as much
as the average Greaser would consider
fair starter for "a days work, it put me
out of business for nearly week. AS a
friend that sticketh faster than brother.
lnat stuff beats anything I know of. But
atter all, for pure frenzy there's nothing
IKE the religious drunk Of the Mohamme-
Gan in India. / don't know what liquor
they mix their religion with, but 1t seems
10 be something mighty powerful and
when batch of them breaks loose and
heads for paradise, any stranger within
their gates wants to climb a 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
j guess I've encountered at least one ca SO
OF every kind there is going, except the
Doctors bay rum"
Did anv one of Won ever happen TO run