St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-18
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and put it aside and 1T Will buy you a farm
to make you comfortable in the afternoon
of life. A merchant Of New York gave this
testimony: SIN early life I smoked six
cigars dayat 61a cents each-they aver
aged that. thought to myself one day I'll
just put aside all the money am consum-
ing in cigars and all / would consume if
kept on in the habit and will see what it will
come to by compound interest" And he
gives this tremendous statistic: s'Last July
completed thirty nine years since, by the
grace OF God, l was emancipated from
THE FILTHY HABIT,
and the saving amounted to the enormous
sum of 800, 102.03 by compound interest.
We lived in the city, but the children, who
had learned something of the enjoyment of
country life from their annual visits to their
grandparents, longed for a home among the
green fields, and found very pleasant
place in the country for sale. The cigar
money now came into reQuisition, and
found it amounted to sufficient sum to
purchase the place, and it is mine. Now,
boys, you take your choice, smoking with
out a home OF home without smoking"
Opium demands emphatic recognition. 1t
is made. as you know, from the white
poppy. It is not a new discovery. We
read of it 800 years before Christ, but it was
not until the 18th century that it began its
death-march, passing out from the medici-
nal and the curative, and by smoking and
maStication becoming the scoUrge of ma
tions. In the year 1851 there were i'm
ported into this country 10Y, 900 pounds OF
opium. 1t is estimated that in the year
1876 there were in this country 225, 600
opium consumers, but saw statistic more
recent that said that there are probably now
in the United States at least 600, 600 opium
consumers. The fact is appalling. Do not
think that they are merely barbaric fanatics
who go down under that stroke. Read the
great De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium
Eater. He says for the first ten years it
gave him
THE KEYS OF PARADISE;
but it takes his own powerful pen to de-
scribe the horrors consequent. Samuel
Taylor Colendge, after conQuering the
world by his pen, was conquered by opium.
The most majestic and brilliant law
yer of this century fell victim to its
stroke, and there are thousands of men and
women-but more women than men-who
are being bound, body, mind and soul to
this terrific habit.
There is a great mystery about some fam
lilies. You do not know why they do not
get on. The opium habit is so Stealthy, so
deceitful and so deathful. You can cure a
hundred drunkardS easier than you can cure
one opium-eater. I have heard of cases of
reformation, but never saw any. l hope
there are cases of genuine reformation.
have seen men who for forty years had been
the victims of strong drink thoroughly re-
formed; but the opium-eaters that have
seen go on and go down. Their cry in the
last hour of life is not for God, nor for
prayer, nor for the Bible, but for
opium. Perhaps there are only two persons
outside the household who know what is the
matter-the physician and the pastor; the
physician called in for physical relief, the
both fail. The physician acknowledges his
defeat. The minister of religion acknowl-
edges his defeat, for it seems as if the Lord
does not answer prayer for
OPIUM-EATERS.
man, 0 woman, are you tampering
with this habit? Have you just begun?
Are you, for the assuagement of physical
distress or mental trouble, making this a
regular resource? beg you to stop. The
ecstaSies at the start will not pay for the
horrors at the last. The paradise is fol-
lowed too soon by the pandemonium. Nor
phia is a blessing from God for the relief of
sudden pangoracute dementia, but was
never intended for prolonged use. And
what is the peculiar sadness Of it is, it
comes to people in their weak moments.
De Quincy says: s'I took it for rheumat-
ism." Coleridge says: 81 took it for in
somnia Oh sleeplessness." What do you
take it for? For Gods sake do not take it
too long.
What is remarkable is they are going down
from the highest and wealthiest classes and
from the most fashionable circles of New
York and Brooklyn-going down by hum
dreds and by thousands. Over 10000
opium eaters in Chicago. Over 10000
opium eaters in st. Louis. In the same
proportion that would make over 1000 in
New York and Brooklyn. The clerk of
the drug store says: 81 can tell them when
they come in. There is something peculiar
about their complexion, something peculiar
about their nervousness, something peculiar
about the look of their eyes that immedi-
ately reveals them" In some families
chloral is taking the place of opium. Ply
sicians first prescribe it for sleeplessness.
Then the patient keeps on because he likes
the effect Whole tons of chloral manu-
factured in Germany. Baron Liebig
says that he knows one chem
ist in Germany who manufactures
half-ton of chloral every week. There
are multitudes being taken down by this
habit. Look out for hydrate of chloral!
But am under this head speaking chiefly
of opium. There ought to be ten thousand
pulpits turned into quaking, flaming, thun-
dering Sinais of warning against that mar
cOtic.
THE DEVIL OF MoRPHIA
1>o ,;rrb@;a fho
devil of alcohol. My friends, it is all i'm
portant that by personal example in every
possible way, we contend against all infiu-
ences injurious to society. Our opportunity
for exercising such influence is limited.
What we do we had better do right away.
The clock ticks now and we hear it. After
while the clock will tick and we shall not
hear it. Seated by country freside, saw
the fire kindle, blaze and go out. 1 gath
cred up from the hearth enough for profit
able reflections. Our life is just like the
fire on that hearth. We put on fresh fagots
and the fire bursts through and up and out,
gay of flash, gay of crackle-emblem of boy
hood. Then the fire reddens into Goals.
The heat is fiercer and the more tits stirred,
the more it reddens. With sweep of fame
it cleaves its way, until all the hearth glows
with the intensity-emblem of full mani
hood. Then comes whiteness to the GOALS
The heat lessons. The tiickering shadows
have died along the walls. The faggots
drop apart. The household hover over the
expiring embers. The last breath of smoke
has been lost in the chimney. The fire is
out. Shovel up the white remains. Ashes!
Carriage Company Burned.
LANCASTER, Ont, May 17.-The Caster
carriage company's works were burned to-
night. Loss, $4,000. Twenty hands are
thrown out Of employment.
The Plymouth Plague.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, May 17.-There
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