The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-24
CHIEF BROWNING
WARNS PARENTS

In a timely and instructive address
delivered at the Third ward meeting
house Sunday evening Chief of Police
T. f. Browning laid particular stress
upon the necessity OF parents compell-
ing their children TO observe the cur
few law. He also referred to soda
fountain men who dispense drugs un-
der the guise OF refreshing beverages
The meeting house was filed.
Chief Browning pointed out the
seemingly harmless pasumes that
youths participate in and showed where
In the long run they might end In vi
cious habits which finally would lead
only to perdltlon. He attacked most
vigorously the Cocn-Cola habit and gave
a vivid picture OF what might and
does happen TO some people who have
become addicted TO (what he thiDks)
this form of selfdestructlon.
He said that one cup of coca-cola
Is equal to two cups OF coffee and that
any girl or boy who would drink one
cup after another would certainly par
take Of more stimulants than would
be good for them. He said in part:
There are people who preach the
word of wisdom and refrain from
drinking tea and coffee, but who think
nothing of drinking a dozen cups Of
coca-cola, which are equivalent 10
TWO dozen cups of coffee The stlmu-
lant as drug is an extract from cof-
fee known as caffeine and is very
harmful. The use Of any stimulant
Is detrimental to any person and many
times calls for stronger drink and
finally creates a habit for whisky or
cocaine or some other stronger stlmu-
liant and results in delirium tremens
In many cases.
This form of insanity Is seldom
dangerous 10 anyone except the Vic
tim himself, and sometimes In his ter
ror and fright he kills himself by ac-
cideDt II not with suicidal intent. He
sees all sorts Of grOtesqUe and horrible
apDaritlons. Sometimes a man inl-
agines he is shooting squirrels, hun
dreds OF which are In the trees around
him; another may see nothing but
rats running over his head and evor
and anon he viii see bugs crawling
through his clothes and with lOath-
some disgust he Will arise from his
+ bed, tear of his apparel and try to
shake them on.
One Who Saw Monkeys.
/ I'VE had man In jail at one time
who never saw anything but monkeys
sporting and catching at him with
their claws, and one night he imagined
he saw a monster ring-talied monkey
twenty feet high coming towards him
ready to eat him, and his cries for
/ help were heart rending Others see
/ snakes and bobgoblins and abnormal
| monsters with thousands of Jegs and
arms and hideous forms, mutilated,
bloody, one armed, one-legged. without
eyes and sometimes without heads;
and one poor fellow died for the want
OF sleep because, he said. q crowd of
/ devils ran up TO his window and
awakened him every time he fell into
a doZe.
The most horrible, perhaps, of all
these appaTitlOns Is that OF snakes,
when the inebriate imaglnes himself
wreathed with them aad the are
piercing him with their fangs and
are wrapped around his neck, legs and
arms When we come to reflect thnt
these llluslons-these dreadful illu-
sions-are TO the victims of dellrIum
n reality, we can form some concep"
ton of the horror that sei2es upon
his mind. No persuasion. no argument
be the most confidential on earth
can convince the victim that the illu-
sion Is not reality,
Is PitlabIe Sight,
when he reaches a lucid moment
(and he often seems rational
about everything else) he may be
made to feel his hallucination. which
he distinctly remembers. but while the
paroXysism of insanity is upon him this
hell OF drunkenness Is absolutely real
and beyond the power OF conviction
to the contrary. OF all the pitiable
and helpless objects I'm the world 1t Is
Il strong, yet Dowerless, man tossed
upon the waves of this wild sea of
self-wrought aud selfresponSible delu-
sion.
1T makes the man who witnesses n
shudder with cold chillS OF horror and
ii causes his hair to stand upon end
and the most marvellous of all the
enigmaS OF sin is that victim could
ever recover from Guch a state OF tor
ment and fury only to again repeat
this dreadful drama of insanity and
misery ineXplicable and beyond the
power of conception"
Right Living Essential.
The chief explained to the parents
how essential 1t Is to talk TO the child
rem and explain the follies of life and
TO make good men and women of them.
that their bodies may he kept pure
and clean from the iniquitlcs of the
world. that they might have the grand
privilege of looking thoir children In
the face and knowing that the blood