Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-07

ty we'll out of style, except with students. They occasionally buy ether by the pound and inhale it through paper tunnels or from sponges. It does not seem to create an ap. petite, and after one or two trials is generally given up But of course the greatest of the enslaving drugs is opium. A gum opium eater can never be mistaken. There is kind of dry, leathery look about him that not even the sun will give. Opium consumers are very tricky, and will bamboozle new clerk with a false prescription, or in some other way, every time. Opium as prepared for smoking does not come ill my line. Of all the odd habits, however, of the present day there is nothing to be compared with that of hasheesh I confess that I know very little about the drug but there is doc study, and knows more about it than can be learned from the book Go and see him."
 The little twinkle in the half closed eyes of the druggist was barely noticeable.
 The doctor WAS found seated in a leather easy chair, about which foated little curling clouds of white smoke from a long-stem pipe with an immense bowl A dressing gown, with pear-shaped figures on it, and red smoking cap completed a decidedly pictur- osque appearance.
 II have come,' the intruder said, ito get the opinion of your school in regard to the habit of hasheesh eating.'
 School, sir, school!' burst from the fig ure in the chair; 'T belong to no school, sir. am neither allopathio homeopathic, botanic; eclectic s-NS<Iic, aquatic, tactic, nor any other ic, tieF lie. I am s'@ gene'fs, sir. I am my own school.''
 ''Your own opinion. ts~~~s doctor" the
 A few pnffs of smoke and the doctor again exploded with "Wonderful, wonder full drug! Hemp for the culprit's neck; hemp for tho boatman's stomach They the same plant The grows in India CaaYn06jr Hadicai Mysterious, mystic drug I have studied it some. The pathological 'Your pardon, doctor, but it is said there are hasheesh eaters 1T, New York"
 ''The man of brains'' continued the ex- positor, ''goes to it for inspiration. The lit erati know it's value. Bayard Taylor wrote about it. The writer of 'Kismet' understood it's virtues. That singular genius, FitzhuRh Ludlow, wrote a book about it. I have stud jed it some. The alkaloidal principle-'' What about it's effects, if you please?" "Its effects arc one and legion The pleasures of Elysium; the terrors of Hades. He knows he is not, yet he is-a steam en- zine, rolling ball of fire, factory loom, a loud ticking clock, volcano, 0 tortoise, waterfall. long-faced philosopher, chatter ing monkey. He crawls through the slime snake He sits on the throne-a king. He is poet giant, painter, corpse. He is cannibal, and helps pick his own bones He sits at his own funeral and weeps for his o"h loss. Ine trees are lerSe orchestras, tne houses immense organs, and his fingers stretch into the strings of thousand harps. Pe becomes wandering Jew, and moves on forever; and he says, Life has terrors like these. I am done with hasheesh.' That is everything and nothing Now, I have made philosophical study of hasheesh in these and thousand other aspects, and will give you my deductions from them. It is the transmigration-''
 But the visitor too profuse in his thanks for the lucidness with which the doc~ tor had already set out the pleasures and pains of the hasheesh habit and, punctua- ting his remarks with an occasional move- ment toward the door, escaped down the steps with the promise to call again.