Show I CR lJ G BEN BENO BENl l Soldier Tells of at a Terrible Beverage Beveri ge gei i Our Boys Are Drinking Chicago Inter fliter ter Ocean O ean ln Beno is the stuff knocking knockin the American Am boy bo boyo out in the PhilIppines Po o pays Mys a regular who has returned re to hf nome nome home In f tram from Manna r m i It is not hit that Is them f crazy It Itis Is j JUSt s simply SImI Y beno Hobart says absinthe Is not Dot In the same class It looks like water and tastes tn es like licorice U orIce h says sas and when the boys cant get be or whisky they buy boy bu beno from the natIves s It takes es a pint of it to make man nigh drunk The Phe soldiers rs crave it after they the hive once tasted It Out on the lines Jines the boys never get beer or whIsk and when natives sneak ne k this bene bena Into camp felloWS felloW buy buvit it t tIn In Iii and alir n r rT ie mand and Is not ith th an tives for fora forS a S cents a but around amund Manila Manlia the he demand is so 50 great that the price has been raised to 50 cents After a man manI I drinks about a pint of the stuff he begins to get nilly Rilly but he recovers in a day or I two Then Jhen he will want more of It and if It Ithe he cant get it he will m go mad Then the officers have to shackle him and he is sent ent to the for the insane at I Washington toJ They tell me that the poor fellows fel ws who have been taken tb there ere will never get well Hobart reports that in the southern Isles f of he Philippine group bend Is known as tuba and ADd it made out of cocoanut oco palm sap The cocoanut tree is tapped near the t top D and the natives put an anem em tv shell near the hole to catch the tho drippings He also says that at when the discovered dI the na en nature ture of nf the drink Its sale was prohibited and anI thereafter the soldiers were com copi compelled polled to buy It secretly as it was subject to 10 confiscation 0 |