The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-08

} ture, until after a time one becomes
compelled to live a seclude life, avoid
ing intercourse with ones fellowmen
Every passer-by on the street seemed
to talk about me. often and often have
1 stopped people on the road, or or
dered the police to arrest them, for ut.
tering slanderous remarks about me in
my hearing.
after another interval comes the
hunting of the cocaine bug You i'm
agine that in your skin worms are
roaming about. If you touch them with
piece of cotton they run away and
disappear, only to peep out cautiously
7 from some corner to see IL there is any
( danger. In my more rational moments
/ 1 used to wonder IL this was really a
/ trouble In my brain or In my skin, and
! all the other cocaine habitues / have
known have spoken of the same condi-
ton, so that believe ii may be charac-
teristic of the cocaine habit. If you
ever see a man hunting the cocaine
! bug you will never forget 1t.
But other and more dreadful hallu-
cinations appeared. Small animals that
run about and bite every object in the
room seemed, at times, to be starting
at me and threatening me from all cor
ners.
II bought three st. Bernard dogs,
thinking they would protect me, but
one night found that they, too, were
shot one of them with a revolver which
/ always used to carry. / think this
was the most dreadful night in my life
/ stood upon the table with my furni-
ture scattered about the room, one huge
dog dying on the floor below me, and
the two other dogs watching me from
the corner with reproachful eyes. In
this position / remained in terror all
night, until my servant found me in
the morning and quieted me.
II seemed in those days to have two
souls and a sort of double personality,
the one suffering and tortured from the
effects of the cocaine, the other nor
NAL, laughing at his fears and halluci-
nations. Now one, now the other
seemed to have the upper hand. The
last set of illusions I have developed
have been revolving, sensuous halluci- |
nations, like a horrid Walpurgis night. |
These are still so vivid that it is impos- |
sible to tell them, or even think of them |
without shuddering."
This was all that we were able to |
learn from him. He was treated in the /
hospital of the city for a few weeks, |
but one winter night he succeeded in
making his escape from an unguarded
window of the hospital and was never
seen or heard from again. He had been
quiet and docile enough, but 1t is prob
able that the uncomfortable impulse
struck him once more and he sought
refuge in flight, or possibly in sui
eide.
Among the natives of South Amer
lea, especially in the mountains of
Peru, IL has been a custom ever since
the earlier times for them to chew the
leaves of the coca plant as a stimu-
ant during arduous labors and long
Journeys. More than 10000, 900 pounds
IF these leaves are harvested annually
Ind mixed with some pleasing condi-
nent
Every race has it's own special drug
habit, which has been carried on for
centuries without dangerous results
Until its practice among some other
people proves that it can be attended
With dangerous effects which were
unknown. The use of opium
las been common in India and China,
md il was certainly less harmful there
han alcohol is to the Caucasian race.
But even before the days of De Quincy
md his Confessions of an Opium
Cater" the opium and morphine hab-
is had been increasing and were GER |
ainly most dangerous vices. In Ara
ia and Persia, as every oriental story
the use of hasheesh, or
hang, known to druggists as cannabis
ndica, has been a national habit,
eemingly quite harmless and suited to
quite harmless and suited to
Ut OWN HcINOuS lllts the QTuB
GEMS to have strange effects, more |
owerful and dangerous in it's mental
nfluence than any other of the COM
non narcotics, resulting, as the writer ]
as frequently observed among friends
Tho have taken 1t for experiment or
leasure, in a complete mental break
1g down or nervous prostration, last
1g many weeks.
Cocaine is probably the most perilous
rug habit that Europeans ever caught
rom abroad. 1t is the most difficult
D break up. Its use can never be
afe If one knows 1t is cocaine he is
iking, and it's service should never !
e employed except under strict medi-
al care.
Ed Devine will open his new grocery
corner Third and Alder about April s
J. Shipments arriving daily. Large
rider of teas and spices arrived Tues s
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