Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-28

er prices. 80 as.'s -.l:>Lz sar7 $50
When he started on, says he, How
much did you sell?' ~ l'st. ,sas -.
None -, au.t 5,.. . :. s.ia -.
An, you didn't come from old Com
necticut1' . u ..-'.aa t.484
NO, I didn't says I; and then IN =
low voice, 'and don't want to iftheyaII lie
as you do.' ~ .---s o. -no - -
AN OPIUM DEBAUcH.--O One Of the oh.
jects. al this place that had the curiosi.
~ TO Visit was the opium smoker in his
heaven; and certainly il is most fear.
ful sight, although perhapS not so degra-
ding to the eye as the drankard frem spie.
its, lowered 10 the level of the brute, and
wallowing 10 his 9Th. The idiet smile
and deatbIfks stupor, however, of the
opium debauchee, has something far more
awful to the gaze than the beas;iali,y Of
the latter.
The rooms where they sit and smoke
are surrounded by wooden couches, with
places for he bead TO rest upon, and gen.
orally side room IS devoted 10 gambling.
The pipe is a reed of ei,o1r an inch 10
diameter, and the aperture in the boel
for the admission Of the opium is not iafR.
or than pins head. The drug lie pre-
pared with Some kind Of conserve, and q
very small portion is sufficient to charge
it. one or two wbifs being the utaoest
that can 'be Inbaled from a single pipe.
and the smoke is taken into the Iungs as
from the bOokah in India. On q BEGIN.
ner one er twR pipes will have an eject.
but an old slager will continue smoking
for hours. Al the head Of each couch is
placed small lamp, as fire must bo held
to the drug during the process ofinhaling;
and, from the difficulty Of filling and prop.
erfy lighting the pipe. there is generally
q person rho waits upon the smoker TO
perform The Office. A few days Of this
fearful luxury when taken to exeess, will
give Paliid and haggard look to the face;
and few months, on even weeks, will
change the strong and healthy man into
little better than an idiot skeleton. Tbs
pain they suffer. when deprived of the
drug after long habit, no language eau
explain; and il is only when under lie In.
fiuence that their faculties are alive.
In the houses devoted to their ruin,
these infatuated people may be seen, %
nine o'clock in the evening Ia al TIE diff.
ferent stages, some entering half distract.
ed, TO feed the craving appetite they had
been obliged to subdue during The days
others laughing and talking wildly nades
the effects Of a first pipe, while the couch@
es around are filed with their different oco
cupants. who languid with an idiot smile
upon their cOunteDances, too much under
the influence Of the drug to care for pass
sing events, and fast merging 70 The wish.
ed for consumstion. , -.
The last scene in this tragic play 10
generally room in the rear Of the build
ing, species Of dead house, where lie
stretched those who have passed into tho
state Of bliss the opium.smoker madly
seeks-an emblem Of ihs long. .sleep 10.
which he is blipdly hurrying. SIR months
in China, by Lord Jocelyn.
Physicians are entitled to social regard
from the fact that they. constitute a por-.
ton of theprotective class ofthecommunity
knowled ge is the foundation OF medi..
cine. No man is qualified to practice
medicine unless he possesses o caoacity.
to acquire, and an industry TO urge to the,
acquisition of medical knowledge. The
intellectual faculties are TO be summoned
10 their utmost strenuousness 10 seive up-s
on end appropriate the numerous truths
ofthe science of healing. And no man
can excel as q scientific practitioner of
physic unless be is patient, and profound
thinker. He may deal in drugs, and dis.
Pense article after article, in the most
profuse manner. under the fign ent ofa
vain and Elusive conception that he is,
most magnificeDtly, filling up the meas.
ure OF physicians glory, but if in all this
there is no patient ratiocination, no men,
tai analysis, i,.onIy proves q routinist, or
stamps a quack. -s-.e>
Education must draw out The faculties:
discipline must marshall. them TO their
work; capacity of application must eh>
sure them to that work; and above all
the love oftruth mus; breathe its divisesta
inspiration to awaken. refresh and inyia.
crate all The powers of the soul TO stead.
fast pursuit of .knowledgs. :, !, a.,=5.y
Physicians ere entitled TO the respect.
and consideration Of the community be-;
cause of their.liyes ofactive benev0lsnse.
to their fellow citizens. And in the
prosecution Of the objects Of their Winis!1
try. unless well. furnished with moral
power over themselves. there is pc Spst.s
ual liability of violating the most sslsm1o
obligations. Physicians should aver make
themselves worthy Of respect By the most
scrupulous observance Of the Laws Of NOR.
al reetitude.. u#g s9s. s .ea.@ayI. 80
Again. standing as they do, in the soa4il
slant = ATTITUDE Of defence asaiasf tAasi
inroads Of disease, PhysiciAns sahAs,s;, be-
respected asamong the best conservatsra
of the community. Their design 10 %