The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26

attention has been devoted to-it. Few
planters of teas in Hindostan care to at
anxiety necessary to its production
hardly pays for the cultivation.
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Mr.. Seller predicts that if the exporting
of this wonderful stimulant and narcotic
increases opium will go out of fashion.
and even the best regulated families of
the oDulent classes will come to aD-
preciate the genius which turks in the
inky black fibres of the dream herb"
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Visions such as DeQuincy embellished
in his weird confessions are to be held
in the trance succeeding a cup of the
indian draught. Stories of this marvel
Gus plant have not been exploited for
the reason that it has only been within
the past three or four years that sts
powers have been recognized. KiDling
got an inkling of the romance saturating
these little leaves, and it is said that his
hurried departure from the shores of his
queer tales that were written to him
from India by friends. Kipling will utilize
the herb as the basis of several new
tales, says Mr. Seller.
One tiny cup of the tea slipped during
intervals of FIVE minutes best subserves
the intent of the vision hunter.
He, sinks gradually. into the, subtleties
of mellow forgetfulness. The world
glides like the lines of sympathetic ink.
dissolving from the dominant colors of
sreen, rsd ana the presence OF atmos-
grays, fawns, lavenders and damask
pinks. Then the dreamer is passing
through the gateway of the vision to
come. Duller hues take form as the
more delicate ones melt into meaningless
notes of light, dash somber reds threaded
with molten gold convey the idea of
late sunset. While the pinks and grays
were regular fiushes of soft tinting. the
darken dyes are long horizontal streaks
like the successive zones of cathedral
incense. These suffuse the browsing brain
means lift ore after the other as gauze
curtains rise on the spectacular. Usually
shimmering reaches of golden tides,
sparkling phosphorescently. roll their
fiame-tipped pillows toward the sleeper.
Their popularity is their wondrous heavi-
ness. Each wave takes an eternity to lap
its length. In this movement they are
like a leaden ocean. Then bargues, gal
leon and the outlandish riggings of
Oriental craft slip by on the slothful
current,-a pageant so gorgeous that no
wakeful mind could ever hope to give
of them the feeblest expression.
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Trembling on pinions airy that they
cannot be followed. st. sc e.. careen
across the reddist of snies--a rec rot of
blood but of cardinal brightness. yet so
subdued of fierce coloring that every
delicate painting of each fowl is blaZoned
on that vermillion armament On and
on goes this plethora of supernatural
sensations.
Mr.. Sellers description of the pleasures
OF the dream herb would in themselves
even that master of word color. Lafcadia
Hearn. would envy. Had he remained
longer a more detailed account of the new
opiate might have been obtained.
Rev. +. J. Mynard and wife are passing
through the city from their home at Oak
Gel. to the Atlantic seaboard. making
their stopping place at the Templeton.
j. R. Hoffman. May Jewell Smith and
Mrs. Watson of Charleston. W. Va, are
at the Walker House.
A. L. wyman and James d. Smith.
business men of Bradford Penn, have
made the Walker their abiding place for
d few days.
bers will arrive over the Rio Grande
Western at 1880 today. Saltair and points
of interest throughout the city will form
a part of the days programme
Carolyn n. Hufing of Bennington. VT,
and Mrs. H. a. Willard of Holyoke,
Mass. two widely known society ladies
of New England. are at the Knutsford.
C. H King. wife and child. and S. E
and wife. Montclair. n. J.;
-elrv L. Mlller ana WIFE, RED HOOK. N.
Y: Isaac Love and wife. Caldwell N. j.,
and Almon Trask. Saratoga. N. Y. are
eastern tourists returning from southern
California.
Mrs Thomas Hurch Talmage. accom-
panied by Miss Ketchum. are two New
YORK members of the 400 who. with
their maids. are cut for pleasure of a
landscape nature. They are at the
Yesterdays arrivals were:
The Observation-Disclosures Bodenhamer.
Mrs Thomas Hurch Talmage, Miss
Ketchum. New York: E. d. w. Rose and
wife. Providence r. L.: w. II. Clark and
wife. Dallas. Tex: Carolyn N. Huling.
VT: Mrs. Fl. A. Willard. Hol-
yoke. Mass: G., l.. Abbott Boston: Rob-
ert r. Haskins. Chicago; Mrs. NJ H
Baardsley. Helper. Utah: c. T. A. McCor- I
mack, Chicago: j. Ed Blackall. Denver;
William II. Burke. Philadelphia G.. II.
King wife and child. S. u. Edmonston
md wife Montclair. n. j.: Henry E. NIL
er and wife. Red Hook. N. Y. Isaac Love
and wife. Caldwell, N. j.; Almon Trask.