, 1883-03-31
A Spreadiae Evn.

There is no bow of promise IN the sky
Of the confirmed opiuin-eater, says the
Sacramento Unioa Such are abandoned
by themselves, and very nearly by man
kind. Tho vice 10 increasing in this
state and throughout the country At
alarming speed. l. is not confined TO
those alone rho indulge in the pipe in
the Low dens OF the Chinese, or who
smoke at home, but the opium-eater Is
becoming more noticeable, The vice Is
bv no means 50 limited in its extent as Is
by most people supposed. A Philsdel-
phia paper says it is one Of the most per-
nicioss habits in6ulged In by the ladies Of
fashionable society IN that ci;y. They
use NOR, hine and arnica, and other fatal
drugs, to stimulate thei, wasted energies;
and such Is the extent OF the vice that
the drug clerks Of that, and OF almost
any large city, are the possessors OF Sc
crets oi indulgence which, made public,
would excite universal surprise. In 3
graat number of cases the craving Tor the
drug arises out Of its tirst administration
a. a medicine. We are told OF one prom
inent and once wealthy and influential
citizen, Col. Pllson, who recently WAS
brought to drink and ruin, and blew out
his brains, leaving letter. IN which he
Gays:
Opium has directly ruined my wife. l
have done everything that mortal man
could do to save her, but all in vain. Op-
ium has indirectly ruined me. Had It
not been for the fatal appetite could
have saved her. would never have
tasted whisky, and had | never drank |
would not be where am, nor tiil name
less SUICIDES grave. May God IN his H.
finite love bless her, and may We meet
where there are no tears, where there IS
no sorrow. For without her there would
be no heaven for me IN whatever Will
come to me in that life into which IN
few minutes shall usher my soul
His widow, who, from having been but
two or three years before tine enried and
accomplished belle of society. had become
the helpless victim Of vice that ruined
her physically and mentally, sought after
this to reform, and host Of friends aided
her 10 that end but the effort was VAIN
one, and she was finally turned into the
street, deserted by herself and mankind,
aud finally, in wretched den, died
miserable death, leaving letter full o.
warning to her sex:
-, have not only ruined my life, but |
have ruined that Of my loving husband,
and All truly his murderer-jus, as much
so as i. | had personally dealt him death
bloy-had killed him ~itb my own hand.
am going to die in a very few hours,
aud am thankful TO God that the end oi
nv wretched, weary existence has come
at last. Opium ruined me, and by de-
stroying me killed him. Alter acquiring
the fatal appetite for that damnahie drug
I could never r, sist it's terrible seduciioEs
Great God, ROW | have suffered; how l
have wildly fought and prayed, and
prayed and fought. but all in ysin-all IN
vain. See what am, how l die. and
whst nigh, bs and my dear, loving hus'
bard might be, too. had it not been for
this awful appetite do not frsr the
hell ministers talk about III the next
world-the world very son shall be III
for even in its worst aspect it cannot be
a worse he'll than have suffered here for
Ave years past Oh, il this is made pub
iic, ii it should get INTO the papers, girls.
women, you If my own sex, who read H.
| besevch you never touch opium IN any
OF It's many seductive charms No mat
ter hat your family doctor may say,
never, never, never think