The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11

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|erein all sensations as there arose sug-
bible form, one physical, the other spirit
and revealing itself in a succession of
|lliant metaphors. When the drug first
* effect be was endeavoring to describe
feelings to his friends. Suddenly he
Ind himself at the foot of the great
Famid of Cheops. A wish Immediately
ICED him on it's apex, thousands of feet
pve the wheat fields and palm groves of
ypt. He cast his eyes downward,
= saw to his establishment that
pyramid was built, not of
Fish tobacco. Words could not paint, he
Is, the overwhelming sense of the ludi-
ms which then came over him, and he
thed on his chair in an agony of
ehter. After this he inhaled delicious
fumes and heard divine harmonies such
Beethoven may have dreamed of. revel-
B in a sensuous Elysiu in which no sense
left ungratifed. One of the friends
sent then took dose, and soon sprang
his feet with shrek of wild laughter,
laiming, ''Oh, ye gods I'm locomo-
P!' For the space of two or three hours
enjoyed this hallucination which took
b possession of his mind that. having
bed cup of water to his lips, he sudden
but it down, saying, How can fill my
Ter when Pm letting off steam?" During
continuance of the fantasy produced by
heesh time and space appear to be ex-
ded, SO that moments seem hours, hours
RS, and persons or objects are viewed far
and diminished in size, as though looked
through the wrong end of telescope.
he effect produced by opium is that of a
amy reverie. Thanks to Coleride and
Quincy we are familiar with the effect
opium eating-or rather drinking. The
ner succumbed to the insldious drug,
the latter only emanoipated himself
b the spell after dreadful struggle,
the result that four months after his
ptory" he described himself as ''still
lated, writhing, throbbing, palpitating,
TERED" This is the effect of excess, but
have very different accounts of the
ct OF moderate consumption. The
nese, who are nation of opium eaters,
not only peaceful and sober, but, gen.
~ speaking, healthy and muscular also.
coolie, in particular, though half
we'd and ill-housed in an unhealthy
bate, is capable of great and prolonged
ton, SO long as he can obtain his one
Plgence-the evening pipe of opium.
oughout the east opium is usually
ked, though the Tartars infuse it in wine
the Turks and Persians sometimes take
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FPS, or favored with spices and made
into small lozenges, stamped with
words "Masch Allah"-the gift of God.
badly no habit could be much worse
the European practice of drinking the
ture, laudanum. In South America the
t stimulating narcotic is the coca shrub,
leaves of which are usually rolled with
tie unslaked lime into ball and then
we'd. The Peruvian coca-chewer DELHI
ely retires three or four times day to
secluded spot and there chews his ball
perhaps half an hour. after which he
refreshed to resume his monotonous
Z. And SO much the better are they
ID to work under this stimulus that in
es and on plantations the laborers are
lily allowed certain hours of suspension
work for the express purpose of unin-
hpted coca achieving. Among other prop
"a of this drug is that of enabling the
inner to climb mountain passes and
ain great exertion in high latitudes
out breathlessness. Another stimu-
IL narcotic which is much favored
nghout India and the West Indies, is
betel nut, the seed of the betel palm.
Fh grows in such luxuriant beauty on
slopes of the Himalayas. A piece of
a little quicklime. and its effect is de-
ed as gentle exhilaration of the most
cable kind. It is also said to exercise
bneficial effect on the health of the ILL.,
ished natives who inhabit some of the
and pestilent regions of India. Stra-
um, or the thorn-apple. is found in
and, and may often be seen growing
aste grounds in the environs of Lon
Its dried leaves are frequently pre-
ed nowadays to be smoked, either in
Pipe or az q cigarette, for the relief of
nodic asthma. What other effects
matte PATIENTS appreciate We cannot
but by the natives of South America
liant is greatly priced for its narcotic
DrtiesS
Northern Asia, condition of intense
aration is obtained by drinking the
OF powerful intoxicant known AZ the
ian fungus, which produces results
aT to the effects of hasheesh. In fact,
nation, and almost every known
has some fayorits product OF . stimu-
narcotic character in general u.s..
70 not concerned Just nov TO draw any
teetotal or baechanAlian, from these
Benjamin Franklin relates in his au-