Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-13
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OPIUM.

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OPIUM.
The history of the poppy plant and Of the
drug produced from it, is not very particular:
ly known; but it is generally understood
that the plant is not native of tropical coun.
tries, though it has been successfully reared
in some of them The fact is that it is now
cultivated in all climates. The oldest notices
of opium are to be found in the medical
works of the Greeks. Its use was also known
to the ancient Egyptians. 1t appears. says
Shoshee Chunder Dutt, that the opinions
adverse to the use of opium are exceedingly
we'll grounded. The victim Of opium is its
slave. The immediate visible effects of it Oh
the system, when taken, are that it increases
the fulness and force of the pulse, augments
the heat of the body and invigorates both
the corporal and mental functions for the
time, exhilarating even to intoxication; but
this exhilaraton is always followed by lassi
tude and sleep. Large doses call up fright
full dreams and fears, and result eventually
in emaciation, loss of appetite, sickness and
while continued use, which in
troduces the consumer into world Of dreams,
and lulls pain, misery, and even utter desola-
ton for the time also inevitably leads him to
awful consequences-to convulsions, apoplexy
and death. But even where the consumer
does not hazard to this extent, the strength is
often undermined, and habit formed which
can never be thrown of. The alcohol drinker
can do without his dose at the usual hour. If
the opium smoker does not get his pipe at
the accustomed time his limbs become debil'
itated, discharge Of rheum comes from his
eyes and nose, and he is unequal to any ex-
ertation till the drug revives him. A more
helpless creature than the opium smoker
without his Whit cannot, in fact, be imagined.
If the drug is long withheld, the consequences
are invariably fatal. So long as opium is
smoked in moderation, the effects may not be
but those who have inspected
the opium dens are almost unanimous in
opinion that, although more quiet prevails
in them than in gin-paace, the groveling
sensualist is greatly more painful to look at
than the violent drunkard. Being more Sc,
ductive and more tenacious than spirits, the
effects of opium, in the long run, are necessarl-
ly more dangerous.
AN APACHE RUNNING. DOWN A DEER.
When sufficiently near, the hunter takes his
aim, and, making slight noise with his foot
on the ground, which causes the deer to turn
toward him, has good chance to hit him in
the middle of the forehead. But if he misses
the mark, or his gun misses fire, then the fun
begins in earnest, and one of the finest races
in the world can be witneSsed-a naked Indian
and a frightened deer at full speed. If the
deer should happen to be no more than year
old, it is of no use following it, as it will out
run any Indian, and run longer without CIV
ing out; but if two or three years old, or older,
a good runner will bring it down in few hours
or certainly within fifty or sixty miles. (The
narrator, Jose Mendivil, here insists that
good runner among the Apaches can run l25
miles in twenty-four hours easily. The deer
starts at full speed, making long leaps of from
ten to thirty feet. At first he gains rapidly on
the Indian, but the latter follows, every now
and then uttering the most frightful yells, but
never for a moment halting or losing the trail.
The deer, when out of sight, halts and looks
back, but soon his pursuer comes in sight,
when he bounds on with longer leaps than at
first finally, he makes for water, a spring or
stream, and when he gets there halts and
drinks all he wants. Now there is no hope for
him, for after he drinks he cannot run so fast
or leap so far Pretty soon the Indian comes
in sight again, while the tired deer rests mo-
ment, but the tired hunter never halts to drink,
not if his mouth is as dry as ashes, for by so
doing he not only loses time, but cannot run
so fast afterward. On he goes, never resting,
either on the hill or on the mountain. It the
deer takes to the top of the highest mountain,
right OH his track the Apache follows. By-and-
by the Indian sees blood stain on rock,
where the deer has stumbled and skinned his
knee or struck his nose. He knows now the
race will soon be ended, and runs faster, while
the deer loses ground every minute. When
stops suddenly by a rock or bush and turns.
Sometimes as soon as he stops he drops down
fainting, or even dead from fatigue. IT not
dead already, when the Indian seizes him he
makes but little resistance, and is dispatched
with the knife. The hunter now cuts out a
fine piece and eats, not taking moments rest
for fear of getting stiff, but puts the deer on
his shoulders, or, if too heavy, part of it,
placing the rest in a secure place, and then
trots back to his camp, having Travelled per-
haps a hundred miles without resting. The
next day some one will take his back-track for
the balance of the game,-San Francisco Post.
How MULES CAME Into FAsHIoN-Few
of the farmers of this country are aware what
d depth of gratitude they owe George Wash
ingtou for the introduction Of mules into
general use for farm purposes.
Previous to 1888 there we're very few, and
those of such an inferior order as to prejudice
farmers against them as unfit to compete with
horses in work upon the road or farm. Con-
there were no jacks and no disposi'
ton to increase the stock but Washington
became convinced that the introduction Of
mules generally among Southern planters
would prove to them great blessing, as they
are less liable to disease, and longer-lived,
and work upon shorter feed, and are much
less liable to be injured than horses by care
less servants. As soon as it became known
abroad that the illustrious Washington de-
sired to stock his Mount Vernon estate with
mules, the King of Spain sent him jack and