Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-11-08

COME ana o. nO
il they use alcohol. Every big
thing that men attempt is crippled
or ruined by ALCOHOL
He played with the paper knife
a few moments.
but it does more than reduce
efficiency and destroy life. 1t
tears down the brain structure,
confuses the thought processes,
makes the mind a jumbled mass OF
refuse. Men, under the influence
OF alcohol, lose their memories
for a few hours very frequently.
There are many men who get so
drunk evening after evening that
they go home, undress, and get in
to bed without knowing in the
morning the slightest thing about
what they did the night before. 1t
is called temporary alcoholic
alteration.
''There are other men who
never get helplessly drunk, but
take a few drinks every day, year
in and year out, and finally reach
the point where they have fixed
alcoholic delusions. Such men
are those who often conceive UNI
founded jealousies of their wives.
They claim they never get drunk.
If they do not, they go crazy. 1t
is as much tragedy one way as the
other"
He let the paper knife fall and
folded his hands on the desk be-
fore him.
"And there have been extraor-
binary cases of the loss of memory
for months, for years, forever, as
the result of the use of alcohol. If
it can be lost for a few hours or a
few days, then, naturally, it can
be lost for months or years or
forever. There was one celebrated
case, attested by physicians and
borne out by competent witnesses.
Shall l tell you2"
please"
"An old man who had been a
heavy .drinker died. He had been
a notorious character in the small
western town in which he had
lived. His profanity had been of
an unusual, picturesque, amusing
type. His costume high silk
hat, a frock coat and gray trous-
ers-had been a proverb. Also, he
had been very fond of dogs. Three
weeks after he died, a young man
who had been on many sprees
with him got drunk, and, while
standing in a saloon, all of a sud
den broke into a stream of pro-
family that was a duplicate OF the
language the old man had used.
The young man employed the
same infections, the same ges-
lures, all the mannerisms of the
old man. He declared that he was
the old man, and introduced him
self to everybody as the old man.
Furthermore, he went Immediate
ly to a store and bought and put
on a high hat, a frock coat and
gray trousers. When he came back
up the street to the saloon he had
several dogs following him. Those
are the main features of that case.
For seven months the young man
was the old man in every detail
and particular. At the end of the
seventh month, as suddenly as the
thing had come upon him, it left
him. He regained his own person
atty. OF course he remembered,
nothing of the seven months dur
ing which he had been the old.
man."
Edith was listening eagerly,
her lips half parted, her breath
coming and going very fast.
"Tell me-" she asked, "have
there been many such casesf"
A great many. And, as 1 said,
there have been, oh, so many,
where the memory left for years
or for ife."
and the remedyi"
"Many can be tried.
"And they are not effective
alwaysi"
"Not always"
She grew slowly erect and
leaned toward him, as a flower is
moved NV tho wind