The morning times., 1897-01-10
MANY PLEASING VISIONS
Beauties of ntOxcatOn by the Mesca ButOnDr MchepS
New Vce-In The Interest of Science the Great
Medical Expert Swallows the Drug.

lounge. Soon n soothing langour oyercame
him. lie would yawn at times and feel so
deliciously sleepy, and yet the ecstacy Of
drowsiness took away none Of the powers
OF thought or vision. He took up his pen to
write, and laughed long and loud at the
merry little purple flame that danced
around the pen point and stopped it from
writing.''
AT this time continued the doctor, in
describing his experience, Il had de-
cisive impression that L was more compe-
tent in mind than in my everyday moods
1 seemed TO be sure Of dealing VIGOROUSLY
with problems. | had Il mere conscious
ness of power, and seemed To have abso-
lutte control of every faculty.
This symptom, the doctor explains, is
the one that makes tine curse of meScal
intoxication so terrible. The average vic
tim does not know lie is intoxicated. He
ina AGNES he is simply enjoying the delights
of strange visions, while being made at the
same time more competentto deal withthe
affairs of daily life, when the fact is that
the seeming power over the faculties is a
myth, as was proved by DIR. Mitchell when
he attemptedto do a complicated sum, and
soon discovered that his ordinary efficiency
as a fisurer was materially reduced
DIR. Mitchell remained for over two hours
in state of elation, feeling absolute su-
periority over everything and everybody.
Then he tried gain to write, but the same
funny little purple flame danced around
and stopped the pen. A sense of SInoHness
in the atmosphere evercame him, and then
in few minutes marked colored visions
began 10 appear. At first they were like
in
thousands Then ii seemed as If small
corners of stained glass windows made
their appearance, with necessarily fIowery
sparkles of pale silver shooting out from
the eyes in an iBexplicable rush. Brilliant
paru- colored balls danced up and down on
atmospheric waves OF molten rubies, while
every few seconds the air would gather
weight until the oppression was burst by
flood of silver rain, which turn almost
in an instant into a cooling stream of crys-
tai Clearness.
Continuing, Dr.. Mitchell says: "The dis
| play which for an enchanted two hours fol-
| lowed was such as | find it hopeless to
describe in language which shall convey to
Others the beauty and Splendor OF what
/ saw | shall therefore limit myself to a
statement of a certain number of the more
deEInlJe NlSlOnS blls prOJtc-et bii lile sCIeeH
of consciousness.
u was generally wide awake. Time
passed with little sense OF its passage. /
was critically attentive, watchful, and Gu
rious, making all the time mental notes.
Ny first vivid show of mescal color ef-
fectS came quickly. | saw stars, and then
of a sudden here and there delicate films
of floating colors, usually neutral purples
and pink. Then an abrupt rush of count
less points of white light swept across
the field OF view as if unseen millions of
the milky way were to flow sparkling
river before the eye | began TO see zig
gag lines of very bright colors. / tried to
| fix the place and relation OF these tints, but
| the changes Were so rapid as to BATTLE.
1T short periods rose volumes of swell
ing cI IouGis, of more vivid culors gone be-
fore. l could name them, and sometimes
| rising from the lower field, and very
swiftly altering in color tones from purple
and rose to grays, with now and then a
bar of local green or orange, intense as
| lightning, and as momentary. When
| opened nay eye allwas gone atonce; closing
| them, began. after long interval, to see
| for the first time definite objects asso-
ciated with coIorS. The stars sparkled
and passed away. A white space of
| gray stone grew up to huge height and
became a tall finished gothic tower OF
| very elaborate and definiee design, witt
many rather worn statues standing in tbs
doorways or on stone brackets. AS