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Whiskey vs. Bullets.

--An old soldier offers the following excellent advice to volunteers:

‘ My boys! If any among you have been in the habit of drinking much whiskey, quit it! If you continue to drink hard, you are dished; your more sober comrades will bury you. In the service you have to undergo, whiskey will kill you with more certainty than the ball or shell. If you are exhausted after a long march, a jorum of strong tea and a chunk of stale bread will do you more good than all the whiskey that was ever concocted. The boatmen of Canada will tell you that. Coffee is not good; but a jorum of strong tea will check a tendency to dysentery and bowel complaint. Soup is good. Much meat is bad in hot weather; the less meat the less blood, the less blood the less load to carry — bone and sinew make the soldier, not blood. A light diet may go hard with men of strong appetites; but he that lives soberly and lightly will recover of his wounds quicker and trouble the hospital less than the man that drinks hard and gorges himself incessantly.

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