The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-06-17

afraid the bromide might take az.
He knows that he Is drunk, wishast
continue drunk, and takes a mos,s,
pleasure in contemplating his wv
drunkenness. Now, all this Is TN
oughly un-Frcnch.
The devil of absinthe, the "Gr..
Lady," as they call her, NAV be wv
muse of the poor poet. She o;nu
him inspiration for his rich rhvm"es'
she pours out emeralds for him. 90 ~
saws. She bears him away to his a.. ae
tastic paradise but he does not s,"r
10 feel his pulse en- route. When NJ
little intoxication is over and finishaS
that is to say, within an hour or -
he does not seek to keep it up. and
so does not make himself disgracem
This is the difference between Pap,s;s-
intoxication and the Anglo-Sax de-
of a big ,ree. In Paris this limi,sS
kind Of d. unkenness is widely spread
1t is not mistrusted, and favor IA
shown to it in every way. 1t has even
its cousecrated hour.
The hour Of absinthe is at : o'clocL
in the afternoon. II is the green
hour" an gives the signal to forget
the cares OF business and the harsh
struggle 'or life. IL is poison 10
kindle short-lived enthusiasts, and in
it's opal ne vapor it builds up
visions o. fortune. II even lex
loose soft of nervous appetite
for food TO the ''Preen hour" how.
ever, succ eds the black hour of mil.
night and sombre eturns on the sticky
asphalt pavement, with turned.up col
lar and shrugged shoulders and hand,
sunk in the pockets. OF the ardent
illusions and the dazzling blazing up
OF straw not an ember remains alive
when midnight comes. This is intox.
cation. If you please, but it is not
drunkenness.
Recently il has been sought to de-
termine which among the numerous
o. sences that form the very complex
liquor they call absinthe have the
SUI ongest tonic action. A writer in
the Lyon \ edical NJ. Cadeac) divide.
those which enter into the ordinary
a bsinthe of commerce into principal
grougs. One is epileptising, made up
of absinthe proper, hyssop, and
fennel The second is stupefying
group, made up Of anise seed angelica.
mint and the like. Finally, the es
sence of abs,nthe alone is sufficient to
produce epileptirorm. and convulslye
attacks All this means just one thing
The Partisan troubles his system with
drugs and drinks more dangerous than
whisky, yet it is next to impossible to
see 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 to drink much,
is something he is unacqainted with
On the other hand. the Partisan is
yearly becoming more irrita BILE, fan.
tastic and shaky in his nerves. Dr.
Paul GARNER, the chief medical officer
at the Prefecture of Police, has figures
to prove that during the last sixteen
years lunacy has increased in Paris in
the proportion of 30 per cent, This in.
crease he declares TO be due to the fact
that two morbid types, general par.
alysis and alcoholic insanity, are
spreading TO an alarming extent. The
lint of the father is communicated 10
the child until, during the last ten
years, new type of criminal has act
ually been developed.
1t is only of late that these victims
OF morphine have had a special name
-morpninomanes. For the most part
they are women, or better. ladies.
Men seem TO be satisfied with absinthe
and the villainous tobacco one gets in
France. Things almost unbelievable