Show STDULANTS Uni Them an l1most for The ru1uh1g rersnl Appetite craving for stimulants in desire or 0 d eSlre l sense of the wordfor general the Tacfmg the nerves whether as t upon drugs acting agentsis an almost 1 drUSn sedative t or 0 eSC itan universal human ap absolutely 11 not as so early developed 1 general petite so b lIt almost call it an instinct that we might is the most popular 1 1 Of course AlcOhOl circumstances the most under ordinary and bY far the most widely feduc e substances sejctnc i all stimulant diffuse theO HOT liwtes to the Straits of From the yine has been from theenrliest Dover the S to corn in popular csti only ageS I scq0 d next to bread the most prized tion i W1flC nl article of human food The and universa Ceres and Bacchus connection btween almost every language as in is found in ife nation from the of every the T H life svrhn Diarchy the stable warlike 1 AsSYtfl despOti5Il of Egypt > to thc lucrocrat ue 1 Republic and German modern French tilflhis furnished stim Corn Empire popularity to wine alone in O ulants secoiid dclight j d the fiercer the spirit hich l i EuropeSwede of Korlhern t sterner ucesoi Dormer Olaf and liar Iine l1ullhne Xonveguvua their descendants or odr as old l1irdrht the ale of our own Saxon to lay nd inni1I1 nieestry which neither and I Spanish wine has super ppirit Hnongoursehcs ciler Ilor The vine again tedcd been native to America ce5 to civilized 111re or semicivilized races of ithe of the V p southern and central part Continent had other more popu uwera peculiar stimulants also for ljf of more riemost part alcoholic The palm again the furnished to African and Asiatic tries Irs a spirit not less potent or less noxious not less popular and probably not less primitive than whisky or beer Hat where alcohol has been unknown among races to whose habits and temperament temper-ament it was alien or in climates where W powerful an excitant produced effects too palpably alarming to be tolerated by rulers or lawgivers royal or priestly other and milder stimulants and sedatives are found in equally universal use Till the white man introduced among them till the his own destructive beverages firewater spread demoralization and disease tobacco was the favorite indulgence indul-gence of the red Indian of North America Amer-ica and very probably of that mighty race which proceeded them and seems to have disappeared before they came upon the scenethe Moundbuilders whose gigantic works bear testimony to the existence ex-istence i of an agriculture scarcely less advanced ad-vanced or less prolific a despotism probably prob-ably no les absolute than that of Egypt Coffee has for ages been almost equally dear to the Arab i tea has been to China ail that wine is and was to Europe probably prob-ably from a still earlier period and has taken hold on the Northern as coffee and I tobacco on the Southern branches of the I Tartar race Opium or drugs resembling opium in character have been found as well suited to the temper as delightful to the taste of the quieter and more passsive Oriental races as wine to the Aryan and Semitic nations The Malays the Vik logs of the East Indies found in bhang a drug the most exciting and maddening in its effects of any known to civilized or uncivilized man a substitute for opium or hasheesh bearing much the same relation re-lation to those sedatives as brandy or whisky to the light wines of Southern l l1rOl National Review V |