Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-08-05

afraid tine bromide might take effect.
He knows that he is drunk, wishes to
continue drunk, and takes a morbid
pleasure in contemplating his own
drunkenness. Now, all this is thor
oughly un-French.
The devil of absinthe, the screen
Lady" as they call her, may be the
muse of the poor poet. She gives
him inspiration for his rich rhymes;
she pours out emeralds for him. so he
saws She bears him away to his fan
tastic paradise but he does not step
TO feel his pulse en- route. When his
little intoxication is over and finished
that is to say. within an hour or so
he does not seek 10 keep 1t up, and
so does not make himself disgraeeful
This is the difference between Partisan
intoxication and the Anglo-Saxon idea
OF big spree. In Paris this limited
kind of drunkenness is widely spread.
IL Is not mistrusted, and favor is
shown 10 it in every way. 1t has even
its consecrated hour.
The hour of absinthe is at o'clock
in the afternoon. 1t is the green
hour, - and gives the signal TO forget
the cares OF business and the harsh
struggle for life. 1t is a poison TO
kindle short-lived enthusiasts, and in
its opaline vapor it builds up
visions OF fortune. II even lets
/ loose a sort of nervous appetite
for food. 10 the green hour" how
ever. succeeds the black hour of mid
4 night and sombre returns on the sticky
I asphalt pavement, with turned-up col
I lar and shrugged shoulders and hands
4 sunk in the pockets. OF the ardent
/ illusions and the dazzling blazing up
I OF straw not an ember remains alive
when midnight comes. This is intozi-
4 cation. If you please, but il is not
\ drunkenness.
Z Recently it has been sought 70 de-
4 termine which among the numerous
essences that form the very complex
4 liquor they cali absinthe have the
! strongest tonic action. A writer in
the Lyon Medical NJ Cadeac) divides
| those which enter into the ordinary
/ absinthe of commerce into principal
grougs. One Is epileptising, made up
OF absinihe proper, hyssop, and
fennel The second Is a Supplying
I group. made up Of anise seed. angelica
mint and the like. Finally, the es
sence of abssnthe alone is sufficient 70
produce epileptirorm and conyulsiYe
attacks All this means just one thing.
The Partisan troubles his system with
drugs and drinks more dangerous than
whisky, vet II IS next TO impossible To
see a Partisan noticeably drunk-it
does not work that way Again, social
drunkenness and the tawdry romance
Of drunkenness for its own sake, and
the pride OF being able 10 drink much
Is something he is unacqainted with
On the other hand, the Partisan is
yearly becoming more irritable, fan
tastic and shaky in his nerves. DIR
Paul GARNER, the chief medical officer
at the Prefecture Of Police, has figures
to prove that during the last sixteen
years lunacv has increased in Paris il
the proportion OF 80 per cent. This in
crease he declares 10 be due TO the fact
that two morbid types, general par
alysis and alcoholic insanity, are
spreading 10 an alarming extent The
faint OF the father Is communicated Il
the child until, during the last tel
wears new type Of criminal has act
ually been developed.
II is only Of late that these victims
of morphine have had special nam'
-morphinomanes For the most part
they are women, or better, ladies
Men seem TO be satisfied with absintht
and the villainous tobacco one gets il
France, Things almost unbelievable