The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-09-26
For THE ARKANsAw TRAvRLER.
 JIM-JAMS.
BY LOCK MELONE.

Yes. I've had them. You can't have but one attack of smallpox or death. Small pox is soon over with, but being dead is more lingering. You can have more than one attack of jim. jams, though. You can have as many as your miserable body will stand. do not like to record my experiences of them. It makes me shudder. Causes my heart to sink 1; l can feel it sliding down to the bottom of my bosom. But if my experiences shall be of benefit to humanity, shall be re- warded for making this confession.
 It takes a week or more of steady, in- dustIious drinking to bring on the jim jams. But you feel repaid for your trouble when they come ; the crop is very abundant You find, first, that the out ragged nerves cease to be excited or soothed by liquor. A half pint of brandy has no more effect on you than if you had eaten a rotten apple, or even two rotten apples. Food won't help you. Your stomach scornfully declines its as- sistance. Now, you can't sleep, though ever so weary. You feel oppressed by a great mountain of weariness. You are soaking and dripping with it, and it squashes in your boots, but you can no more sleep than you could if some one was throwing sand in your eyes, or telling you that you were getting bald. The tired brain keeps thinking, thinking 1; though you, individually, and separate and apart from your lrain, may think you have thought an ample suficiency of thought. A man with the jim. jams should be considered separate and apart from brain, for he hasn't got any; never did have any. You walk and walk walk in your room on the street, and seem to walk on your head, and of on your ear, until the worn, dry, burning muscles can endure no more.
 This is annoying.
 Then you lie down, but only for mo- ment. The demon commands you to move on, and be spry, and make your self useful. This may go on for a day or two; and, at the same time, there are people around and about you who haven't got the jim-jams. There's the rub. Mo- body helping you to have them. Your hands feel like they were enormously large; so much so that they wou Id have to go gloveless forever. Your head, like wise, feels ageressively bulky. Seems that head has been put on you, and an immense amount of material used in the superstructure. The blood rushes to the heart all together you gasp and fight for life.
 This is unpleasant.
 Now come the snakes. They never come alone. All kinds of vermin and hideous things you have seen and hor- rible things you have never seen before come with the snakes. The snakes will sometimes lie perpendicular upon the wall, then get in a horizontal position, mex: will lie both ways, across each other, and gridiron the wall. Then, in concert, they rattle their scaly bodies against the wall.
 This is disagreeable.
 You begin to look steadily at one snake, you don't know why, you can't help is. This excites his attention his eyes gilt ter and his forked tongue shoots out he gets mad He. leaves the wall, comes slowly and threateningly toward you {; and, if you are lying down, he coils on your breast, reaches out his head and hisses first i= one of your ears then in the other. You can't fight him of; if you could, you probably would
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