The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-11
HASH EESH.
THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF Al
Il ORIENTAL INTOXICANT.
Graphic Recital OF Drug Clerk
Who Swallowed by Mistake
Largo Dose Of the NJ.
Narcotic.

/ Webster defines hasheesh as "a slightly
acrid gum-resin produced by the common
hemp Of. the variety Indica. when cult
waited in a warm climate. 1t is obtained
by boiling the leaves and flowers with &
little fresh butter. It is narcotic, and
has long been used in the East for its ID.
toxicating effect" Apropos to the
word, the Manchester IN. H.) Uniok
tells this story: Fl .4#
But a few miles from the city Of
Manchester lives a man who was once as
fine drug clerk as there was in Boston
But thar. was some time ago, and nc
doubt hesis forgotten by the fraternity
in that city. His name is Rolphie X.
Sanford, and he is at present residing
with his widowed mother. who owns d
fine residence not far from Manchester.
His experience with hasheesh is worth
reproducing. A representative of the
Union saw Sanford some time ago, and
as it was just after dinner and he had
partaken of his meal with unus ual relish,
he was in the mood for talking. "Why,
my boy" said he, "drug clerks of course
have secrets. You want me to tell you a
little story, ehl If / should tell you
some of the secrets of course they would
be secrets no longer, but I'll give you a
little of my experience with hasheesh.
It's stuff that no one wants to
NEEDLE with with impunity, allow
me to. inform you. If had not been
careless would not be able to tell you
my experience with hasheesh.
1T was some eight or ten years Ego,
when / was at work for q prominent
druggist in Boston. For some little
time had been suffering with dyspep-
STA, and the ailment bothered me SO that
life became unbearable. l at last mixed
up decodtion that gave me great relief.
was to take it~before meals, and placed
the bottle on the shelf behind the pre-
scription counter among other bottles
which are usually found in that place.
One noon l went to take my medicine.
I took down what 1 thought to be the
right bottle, and, discarding the use of
a spoon,7 1 placed the orifce to my
mouth and took a large swallow. Hor-
rors! The taste told me that l had made
mistake. l looked at the bottle and
well, my friend, I had taken large dose
of Indian cannabis, or otherwise has,
heesh. l staggered back to there's part
of the store. How queer felt How light
was growing. Up, up, up went until
my head bobbed against the ceiling.
was like cork floating on disturbed
water. [ glided along and could look
down and see the huge bottles, each one
with a hideous face Laughing at me.
The stools ON the marble floor seemed to
want to keep me company and their
click, click on the floor sounded like
thunder in my ears. Suddenly I was
plunged into inky blackness. From the
black nothingness flashed out bright
balls of light. reached the sofa and
sank down upon It,. Nly tons que seemed
to swell and I tried in. vain to scream,
but no sound issued. l seemed to know
that there was long, long hour before
my fellow clerk would be back from his
dinner, and then he might not come
into the rear room and discover nv con-
dition, The events of days and weeks
came before my mind in all the details,
and Isaw faces.-=bea44tiitfa;sl faces angelic
N q Fs1nity, which seemed to beckon'
to me and then vanish with a: hideous
laugh. All abnormal conditions and re-
lations seemed to be presented Again
was tossed to the ceiling and then
thrown by some invisible force from one
side of the room to the other: Ifelt no
conclusion. Then I fell back into
dreamy contemplation, and years seemed
to pass by. Fantastic pictures were
worked, my limbs felt weighted with
lead, just the opposite to my experience
of what seemed to me years ago. heard
somebody say: why, kolphie, old fell
low, what's the matter? Rolphie,
Rolphien The words reyerberated like
thunder. My shop@mate had returned.
Again he tried to shake me to myself,
and I never hated a man SO cordially as l
hated him at that moment He got a
doctor, and I tell you, my friends, they
had no easy time to bring me to my
self. Every word, they uttered surged
into my brain. and seemed to jar me to
pieces. That was peculiarly of the
stuff. I suffered from that experience
long afterward, and it appears even at
this day, when I think it over, thatI have
that feeling coming on, SO powerful was