Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-10

lance it might be mistaken for our own
| hollyhock The leaves are sure cure
for asthma. They are dried and prepared
like cigars or smoked in pipe. The
seeds of the flowers, which have dusty
yellow color, are subtle and potent
poison, and when taken in small quanti-
ties cause temporary insanity, and, in
! large quantities, death or permanent
idiocy. The wonderful properties of the
seeds are we'll known, and there are reg
ular gangs of professional robbers who
traverse the country and despoil their VIC
Tins, after having first placed them under
the influence of the poison, which they
conceal in sweetmeats. One evening
put up at small village, at an inn. On
the veranda / noticed three fine-looking
fellows dressed with more than customary
elegence. Surprising them to be digni-
taries of some sort, l scraped up an ac-
quaintance through my guide, and We
chatted in their own language until mid
night. l then retired, not deeming it
necessary to secure the latch OF my door.
/ remember nothing after that until
week after, when I awoke from what
seemed to me to have been profound
sleep. to learn that I had been poisoned
by datoora seeds by the three tine-look-
ing scamps in good clothes. They had
taken literally everything of value pos
sessed, and had to cable to London for
money. The guide told me they found
me in the morning speechless, with my
ewes wide open, in the most ridiculous
sort of stare. could walk about when
led, but gave unintelligible answers to
questions put to me. | can remember
positively nothing Of what occurred dur
ing that week. All was blank. My
only sensations were those OF going to
sleep and awaking. When person dies
of datoora poison in that country they
cover the body with cloth and some
leaves, and place it for three days in the
shade of sacrifcial banyan tree, until
the datoora-devil comes forth, when the
body is buried The use of this plant has
to a great extent superseded the use OF
handkerchiefs by the Thugs"
The doctor paused and drew from his
coat pocket a morocco case, opened 1t
and took out what looked like a penny
cake of compressed yeast. THAT" he
said, passing it over to his friend for in
spection, sis the dried milk of the madar
plant. brought it back from India as
souvenir The plant grows in clumps by
the paths in the country, and bears
beautiful, large, white waxen flower with
a pink center. The leaves, when bound
on wound or sore, affect a speedy and
miraculous cure. The milk exudes plen-
tifully from the leaves and dries in hard
cakes in the sun. The fellows there have
a way of pretending to apply it to sores
in the nose, and then slyly nibbling little
crumbs and swallowing them. Some
times they cut vein, and let the current
of blood absorb the milk. The effect is
the same in either case, and l can tell
you when it gets into mans anatomy it
creates the biggest kind of circus. Fits
of dependency are followed by spasms
of jubilant intoxication; groans and signs
give way to leers, chuckles and broad
grins-each spell lasting about fifteen
minutes. The influence of the drug ex-
tends over fully three hours, and in that
time there occurs usually not less than a
temperament Unlike our intoxicants,
no reactions follow its use, nor is there
any recollection Of what has happened.
The madar milk is sometimes mixed I
with powdered ruttee seed by assassins,
who prick the skin of their victims with
a delicate skewer soaked in this mixture
leaving the fine point beneath the
skin Death slips along painlessly and alb
solutelY impereeptible, no trace of the
cause being left on the skin, or in the
blood or stomach. All the doctors and
coroners in the country might examine
the body in vain. They wouldn't know
any more when they stopped than they
did when they began. There is plant
called the wild ganja, which, when dried
and habitually smoked, causes klepto-
mania. The smoking is attended by
dreams and visions similar to those pro-
duced by the use OF opium. 1t is also.
drank as tea, and results frequently in
imbecility. They make paste OF tobacco
leaves and charcoal and smoke it, and
eat the dried leaves seasoned with damp
quicklime They are extremely fond OF
the weed"
The doctor replaced the cake of madar
milk in the morocco case, and, pulling
medicine chest out of another pocket,
withdrew small vial filed with dark
green liquid, thicker at the top than at
the bottom SIT is the juice OF the chut-
wan tree" he said, holding the bottle be-
tween him and the moon, land it leaves
nothing of the most violent toothache but
the memory. 1t operates speedily, and
permanently robs the nerve of its sensi-
tive power, also to an extent preserving
the teeth from decay. There is the
chereita plant, which makes light of the
most obstinate case of fever, and a weed
resembling the clover that is bound to
the temples and effectually cures the
headache