The times., 1892-04-22

luxury when taken to excess will give a
pallid and haggard look to the face and
few months. will change the strong and
healthy man into little better than an idiot
skeleton. The pain suffered when deprived of
the drug no pen can portray, and II is only
when to a certain degree, under its influence
that their faculties are alive. Ii is fearful
sight the opidm smoker in his heaven, al
though perhaps not degrading to the eye
as the drunkard from spirits, lowered TO the
level of the brute, and wallowing in his
own filth; the idi0tic smile, and death like
stuper of the opium debauchee, however,
has something more awful to the gaze, than
the bestiality of the latter. The baneful eff
fects of this deleterious drug. are so much
dreaded by the authorities in China that the
sale of it is prohibited under severe penal
ties, yet in defiance of the well known wish
es of the government, fifteen to twenty
millions worth of it, have been annually
emptied upon their shores, by Christian
merchants. In many cities of the United
States are dens i'm which the youth of our
land receive their first lessons i'm opium
smoking, and the victim of it can easily be
marked by the unnatural brightness of the
eye, and peculiar glaze on the skin, those
that use it i'm the dry form can be detected
by their fetid breath, and uncertain actions.
Educate the masses, let doctors lecture, let
ministers thunder denunciatOn from the
pulpit, let artists dip their brushes in brm-
stone, and authors their pens in blood, that
the evils arising from the misuse of drugs
may be made apparent 10 all, that ''the par
ents may not eat sour grapes, and the teeth
of the children be set on edge" While we
are sending money to convert the heathen in
foreign lands, Lazarus, in all his deplOrable
nakedness lies at our gates, in the form of
ignorance of causes and effect And often
those that should stand guard over our fail
ings, prove themselves our destrOyers. The
mothers sOOthes the fretful baby with a
dose of .paregOric, StupeieS her own intellect
with m6rphia, advises her neighbor to re-
lieve her headache with laudanaum, and
folding her hands, says she has done no
harm. The learned doctor and surgeon is
called upon by his brother medics to assist
at an important operation, to steady his
nerves, some opium pills are taken; grain
too much, or not quite enough his hand
trembles, the lancet, or the scalpet slips, the
artery is severed, and we read in the papers,
that the operation was unsuccessful; how
often is the religious zeal of the minister, the
brilliant eloquence of the lawyer and even
the fervent utterance OF the temperance lee
turer attributed to the source from whence
mention tobacco in connection with the
other narcotics; its active principles is nico-
tine, heavy oily substance which varies in
the leaf of the plant from two to eight per
cent; one pound of tobacco contains on an
average, $50 grains of this deadly poison, it
acts on the blood, brain, heart, lungs, the
mucous membranes of the mouth, the pupil
of the eye, and the retina of the ear. Now
let us sit down to the supper table and see
what is in this handsome China cup, two
harmful substances, theme and tannin,
which latter belongs to the same class of
poisons as strychnia. "Why" says someone
that is tea. Well if it is tea, throw
1t away, for it parayzes the action of
the saivary glands and retards stomachal
digestion. DO not put poison on the table,
at home, and then denOunce the saloon keep |
er from handling it over the bar in differ
ent form. Nj. l.. Nj.