The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1893-06-15
THE OPIUM HABIT
Humanity vs.. Brutality In Its
Treatment and Cure.

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ed thereby is not wise, II do not
pretend 70 say no wise person ever.
used artificial stimulus Ny obser-
vations have been quite the reverse.
/ do say, however: That no man Is
wise who uses it for any length Of
time; and sooner Or later he will be
conyinced6of his folly How many
bright minds, how many strong men;
lovely women, beautiful children,
have either gone down, 81 have snf7
fered directly or Indirectly from this
cause2 / leave the answer to your
personal observations few families
have escaped the sad Influences Of
this most soul damning mind wreck
ipg. boay- Destroying compound. Is
ii any wonder that daily, hourly,
heart4rending prayers are going up
to God and appealing to humanity,
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from starving children, homeless,
suffering mothers toI have this terri
Bile eVillab polished?
Nearly every important discovery
has been the outgroWth Of necessity.
Strange does it seem; but an histori-
Cal fact nevertheless; the ones max
ing such discoveries have suffered
the seYerest criticisms, often perse-
cutions and martyrdom. The pa
trent, sacrificing; d man who was
willing to risk the life Of his own
dear child, and eternal Punishment
Or execution, discovered vaccination,
the greatest boon ever given to the
human race, in the way Of immunity
from that most loathsome disease,
smallpox. And was he not perse-
cuted? / Jealonsly tried to rob him
of his discovery; even the govern
ment was opposed to vaccination,
and ordered itsssubjects to be inocu
lated. He lived to see his discovery
recognized, for which he became the
grand and glorious Sir Edward w.
Jenner. Has not this been the ex-.
perlence OF nearly All q THESE noDle
benefactors2 Harvey, Bell, Herschel,
and the man whose memory the
whole nation is about to do homage,
Christopher Columbus. / tell you
the green-eyed monster jealousy has
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Deen inc means OF macn unnecessary
sunering VIII always remember
IN NY own case aithfpugn ! nave Iof-
given, out snail never forget, the
Useless sunering y pave seen osnels
Pass snfougn, anu tne ilYlng aeaIn
= Mas eoIlpelleu, iofced Dy seeming
Iflen0s-enemles Wpula oe 9 Dettef
seEIn-to 60 tnfough ior thirteen
GAYS ana nagnss, Wienout one mo.
Inens : sleeP orloss II conscloqsnes g
ny az even Closing my Eyes. II mas
oeen since saaa' lH was ana y Ine
only way. an y v {, one way. Inc
Wy q ~ ignorant Jealous, s1ln IN.
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intenaea .or ne "on l,I never nave nave
pefmittea 9 peter, lne gfe sa
monster, Jealousls Y worse eilan
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zo IS. .''seoysfee, .sna1 IWouia cure the
a = ana tnat, too, without sui
lerlng' was enoue e % take 2 man me- t q
. everlasting torment pefnfe Inc sun
went Gown lls II knocked Z, HE senses
ctean oue some Weli-lneah y Gig
loois' W@o oeiieNe 1hat IN \, ilatsoeyes
y man J, soNeE'' tlAal Sn"i rs aSo
reap accusing Wy everyone s. VINO NAG
lalien ~ the WY il' size ol bringing =
on themselves; TOW often have !
neafa the cfae s ana unjust remark t 2! 4
LEI tnem lsa1ef; AZ tbs Tree tails 80
snail ~ lle. An they know not
what they do; he tests ct scars
who never felta wound, The green
eyed monster setflshness is worse
than the habit Of taking opium. II
No person ever entefed tne terrors
81 the opium takers hell Voluntarily,
sanelS and deliberately. Would all
man SLICK ms as mead I'm IN the IRE! Noi
nine tehths q tne cases st the habit
are 1ne consequences of using ~ as s2
q meaicine, prescribed by physi-
can LIT phyHiCIans were more care III