Death-rate from Bootlezger Wh Prim Our Own San Kranciseo, Mar. 5.
Whenever a person in an ap. parent, healthful state of mind takes his own life by swallowing} a dose of carbolic acid or strych= ning, he is said to have committed suicide; but when & man goes on what ho calls the spree and drink' sufficient of the abominable bootleg whiskey that represents an ov salon proportion of arailabe supplies now in this country, morely say that he died of drink, To the old Chin hand on leave in the United States it isn dis tinctly "dispiriting elreumstance that he cannot get a drink when ho wants it—and every man in the Orient will agree that, haman nature being what it is a man will want w drink about 45 times a8 much when it is not available og when it 1s—but if he would play safe he must be tectotel, To be sure, there is Hiquor. " Curiously, too, claims that he has. a dootlegger, ig unfailingly good liquor," but if you are u newspaper reader you will be able to ace through a long array of obituary notices that a Jot of people have been fooled on this point. It is apparent. that the joke is decidedly on the con sumer and not on the bootlogg who is reaping a harvest. of gold while the cemeteries are filling up faster than they should. saw! statistics the other day written by an insurance company purporting to prove that at least 200,000 "sine Sndlividwls aw departing this life} yearly from slow poisoning Uvinking bootleg whiskey in one foun or another Bootleg whiskey cannot be told much by any great difference to the palace, bub for its after effects it will' beat, anything' that "Hongkew whiskey" can do. The following wit show how bootleg Mange tint I brings to the daker wcoain "ao o ioo ihe lolol iv axed freely
Denture! chal oan our percentage of "methyl nleohoh, Famngling frost two, to" "10" per cut noonsline vil unagel liquor, Te rapid intosivant, rnductig profound poe all cletvrvae after" effect, 10 rauiker the liquor the higher eid, sort of half brei dldeiyite, in the lurking dem home-made wine. "Salicylic. seid, the nae of hich has be itted for von w being eel to arrect fornicntatien in sone grades of wine.
Sudden deaths' from indulgence in bootleg whiskey are now common as to be an everyday currence, BIL T suspect lat the American public does not hear of the multitude of deaths that are} caused by the slow effects of! acetaldehyde. Thera seems to be: no doubt that it will become increasingly difficult as time goes on to get a drink of the real "orator'' in this country, and possibly the most effectual cam: paign of wi n to demonstrate the harmful physiological effects of the various forms of illicit Tiquor is being undertaken by the victims themselves, for. no plainer proof can be given the public than igh dlonthrate therefrom,
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