Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-15

have q doctors prescription for it,
we should have trouble getting it,
We might visit Il dozen drug stores,
talk persuasiyely with a dozen drug
clerks, see dozen proprietors, and
grain Of morphine
Morphine would be the hardest thing
in the world to get. But if we were
posted" as the saying is, getting it
would be IN easy task, and within
five minutes we could have as much
or as little as our curiosity prompted
us to take.
But where And how!
Well If the morphine curiosity ever
SEXES you, look carefully among your
acquaintance and find one who looks
queer" about the eyes. Notice if the
pupils Of your friends eyes are con
tractcd. Notice if he or she avoids the
light Watch to see il there are fits
If dependency, which change in half
second by some mysterious process
to great joy even hilarity. Look for
droWsineSs ut unexpected times and
symptoms Of fiightineSS, without Il very
strong regard for the truth in CONVEX
sation. In short, search your acquaint-
ances for some one who is queer"
and then If the eve test holds good
make up your mind that you have
found morphine fiend and proceed
with confidence.
Some day when you meet your friend
YOU may casually remark, Il am feel
ing very blue today. | wish | knew
where / could get little gun Of NOR
phinc"
And your friend unless you have
made woeful mistakc-will reply:
Why, that is easy enough. Come with
me, and | will take you to the prettiest
parlors You over saw, where you can
rest and 20 to sleep, or have a smoke
Or opium, or lie and read. OF do any
thing you please"
oh, how nice" you reply but
what does it COST
~ mere nottingham is, for so much
luxury. For 30 cents you get the use
OF the reading room and parlors, with
T.. cents extra for each treatment If
YOU are moi accustomed to the treat
ment. you will find one quite enough
So you get off cheap"
Then you and your friend went your
way along Broadway until you reach
i street leading out of the part of
Broadway between the Fifth Avenue
hotel and Herald square, and. turning
into the Fashionable thoroughfare you
walk along until you come to q fine
broWn-stone house, with handsome lace
!,
flowers
At the top Of the steps your com
panion presses a button, and the door
is opened by 4 keen-evcd servant, who,
seeing your friend and recognizing an
old and safe customer, admits you,
and you quickly pass on and upstairs
into Il room, where you take off your
wraps and prepare to be comfortable.
As you are taking out your hat-pins-
supposing you are 4 woman-an at
tendant enters and gives you little
card, In return for which you give
her 50 cents. All is very completely
managed, and everything is done as
quietly as if it We're Il secret service
mission or Russian nihilist head
quarters.
we will only take the gun at first, .
says your friend to the attendant My
companion is 4 beginner
Then into this room, please
madam says the attendant smiling a
smile which looks like one Of pity upon
the newcomer. and leading the way
into the trout room THE doctor will
lao hare in faw -
The room into which she has ushered
VOC is IN immense one. Its windows
are broad and high, and its length is
the full depth of the house, for both
rooms front and back-of the original
house have been thrown into one. The
windows are darkened by thick lace
curtains, and over the curtains and in
side OF them trail picturesque vines
while pots of foliage are placed upon
brackets made invisible by the vines
and flowers.
As You step over TO admire these
things, YOU notice that your footsteps
are unheard; aud then you look at the
carpet and YOU see that it is the heavi
est moQuette, with great velvet rugs
thrown over it to deaden all sound
The squeai.iest pair of Sunday shoes
could not make themselves heard upor
this floor.
The side walls Of the room are hun:
With Turkish tapestries of interestin:
design, SO that it strikes you you coult
fall asleep nicely studying them. Ant
over the deep chairs and broad couche
are other rugs, just as thick, and jus
as soft, and just as silken. 1t is TIL
height Of luxury. And the chances ar
that You have never before been quit
as comfortable in all your life
Neither you nor your friend speak
and. without intending to do so. so1
fall half asleep before you know it.
The doctor will see you now" say
the attendant, who has glided into tn
room, AMI your friend takes YOU b.
the arm and leads you into littl
front hall bedroom-whose existene
you had not before noticed-to wher
the doctor sits at his desk
He is 4 white-faced man with
hunted look. which gives him the AT
pearance of mental unhappiness. a
though. as you can see, he is prosper
Gus and has n fine home and eyidentl
plenty of money. When you know
little more you will learn that he
morphine fiend himself, and finds n
more happiness in its use than do til
other wretched victims whom b
serves.
The doctor asks only ore question