The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-27

The contents of Harper's Magazine,
for August, are as follows: Personal
Recollections of tho War-(Eighth Pa
PERI ten illustrations; The Turks, the
Greeks, and the Slavons, seven illustra-
lions; A Pine Tree; The Dodge Club; or
italy in MDCCCLIX, seven illustra-
lions: Mr.. Gregory; Conscience as a
Detective; Port Hudson; a Reformed
Ring Man; Eight Castles in Spain; Tom
Marshall, of Kentucky; Mr.. PulIers
Mistake; Private Correspondence of
Webster; Antagonisms; What shall
they do to be saved9 The Beautiful Miss
Newman; Editors Easy Chair; Liter
ary Notices; Monthly Record; of Cur
rent Events; Editors Drawer. e.. .H
There is much pleasant reading in
this number of Harper, and 1t will
prove an agreeable companion for
Summer leisure. The article "What
Shall They do to be Saved" is terri
BILE exposure of the evil effects of taking
opium. We quote few passages:
He will have to take opium all his
life. Further struggle is suicide. Death
will probably occur at any rate, not
from Hi HlLHtk Ol "HuL "t uSuullS SOL-
slider disease, but from the distntegra-
ting effects on tissue of the habit itself.
So, whatever he may do, his organs
march to death. He will have to con-
tiuue the habit which kills him only
because abandoning II kills him sooner;
for self murder has dropped out of the
puryiew of the moral faculties and be-
come mere animal question of time.
The only way left him to preserve his
intellectual faculties intact Is to keep
his future daily dose at the tolerable
minimum. Henceforth all his dreams
of entire liberty must be relegated to
the world to come. He may be valu
able as monitor, but In the executive
uses of this mighty modern world,
henceforth, he can never share. Could
the immortal soul find itself in more
inextricable, more 9risty complica-
tion2
Opium.eaters enjoy strange immu.
nifty from other diseases. They are not
liable to be attacked by miasma in ma
larious countries; epidemics or conta-
cations where they exist. They almost
always survive TO die of their opium
itself. And an opium death is us ually
in one of these two manners:
The opium-eater either dies in col.
lapse through nervous exhaustion
with the blood poisoning and deliriuu
above mentioned), sometimes after an
OVERDOSE, DuL OlLGAt4 ~ OtSul
spontaneously; or in the midst o
physical or mental agony, as great ant
irrelievable as men suffer in hopefu
abandonment of the drug, and with t
coliauatiye diarrhea, by which-in s
continual fiery, acrid discharge-th'
system relieves itself during tina
fortnight OF the effete matters which
have been accumulating of years -
Opium is corrosion and paralysii
of all the noblest forms of life. Th'
man who voluntarily addicts himsel
10 it would commit, in cutting hi
throat, a suicide only swifter and les
ignoble. The habit is gaining Gearfu
ground among our professional men
the operatives in our mills, our weary
sewing women, our tagged clerks, ou
disappointed wives, our former liquo
5runkards, our every day lRbOrers
who a generation ago took gin; all oul
classes. from the highest to the lowest
are yeHrly increasing their consump
ton OF the drug. The terrible demands
especially in this country, made ol
modern brains by our fevertsh com
petitive life, constitute hourly temp
tatiou to some form of the sweet, dead
" sedative. Many professional maj
OF my acquaintance, who twenty year
ago was content with his tri-dturnd
whisky" ten years ago, drop by droE
began by taking stronger "laudanuG 2
cock tails, until he became what Ee
now-an habitual opium eater.