Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-07
OPIUM DREAMS.
What a HALEY Man Thought He Did
and Saw In One Night.

A gentleman who has been con.
fined to his room for some time in
HALEY, was given, by his physician,
to soothe suffering and induce the rest
of sleep. goodsized opium pill.
The curtains were lowered, the lamp
light turned down, the door closed
and the sufferer ordered to ego to
sleep as quickly as you can" After
an hour or so the opium began its
tricks. The sufferer thus describes
the effects to the TIMES:
Its first effect was to ease pain and
cause yawning and stretching. This
over, half sleep, or sort of cat-nap-
ping spell succeeded and it was dur.
ing this prank of the pill that there
were witnessed circus, a menagerie,
oamp-meeting, an army, and indeed
an experience in almost everything
known to men was had.
The proboscis of the elephant was
handled easily and gracefully, but for
what purpose the dream did not dis
close. Six or eight monkeys and a
number of parrots mounted be-
spangled ring-horse and leaped with
the dreamer over the bars and through
the hoops. The clown somehow got
hold of the dreamer's coat. tail and
had him drawn up to the trapeze ap-
paratus, where he hung, with the mon
keys running among the ropes all
around him and the ringmaster strik-
ing him, instead Of the monkeys, with
his long whip.
By some unexplained mode of travel
the opium took tho sick man to a
Methodist camp-meeting where heaps
Of fruits, melons and tin cans filed
with food we're placed under trees
awaiting the end of the yelling that
characterizes such occasions. The
opium got its victim under the arbor
prepared for the preaching and, by
some means, left him entangled in
the straw near the mourner's bench.
How he ever got out the dreamer sup
piled no means of knowing, but the
next experience was in battle, in what
part of the earth no intimation is
given, but of a sudden he was blown
up by bomb, seemingly as high as
the preacher had said his home would
be hereafter. There did not appear,
however, on this upward trip any OF
the beautiful things told of at the
camp-meetlng.
How the descent was made the sick
man never knew, but he next found
himself somewhere in New England
at Woman's Suffrage meeting, which
was addressed by a number of old
women who wore gimlet curls and ut
tered big words in a cracked voice
1t was noticeable that all these women
were old maids or had husbands who
for one reason or another lived else.
where than with them. From this
jabbering assembly the opium, in a
twinkling, had the dreamer back to
Idaho. He was in HALEY preparing
to 60 a-6shing when, quicker than
lightning, he was standing at a wed,
ding supper table, drinking the health
of popular Haileyite who was the
groom, but by some curious error the
bride had gotten mixed, and the one
brought to play the blushing beauty
with an orange wreath was a China
girl. The opium had by this time
gotten the dreamer mixed to such an
extent that he never knew how the
wedding affair terminated A.; but soon
after there seemed to be general
bursting of the universe, in which
everybody got killed. This burst
mashed the effects of the opium, and
the sick man awoke, weak, with head.
ache and nausea, and he suggests that
some other body try the beauties Of
such dreams.
The tonic and Alternative properties