Smyrna times., 1897-11-17
MANY INTOXTCANTS.
Mr.. JOHNSON, WHO TRAVELS, FREE
LY DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT.

O" an Oplum Habitue Was
Cured-Etheric as a Substitute For AL.
cOhOlic ExhiIaratiOn.
johnson travels for'' New York
state Wine and brandy producing firm
ana Is yeritable mine of information
concerning wines and spirits, alcohol
percentages, bouquets, methods and
processes OF refining and aging" wines.
ana besides is a connoisseur of no mean
quality in everything drinkable. No
one ever saw him drink more of any al
coho!lc liquor than the half dozen drops
ne sips before passing a wonderfully
near lntalI1ble verdict on a sample. New
ertheless johnson remarked one dav to
friend that he took an occasional
spree. Not an alcoholic drunk, " he
explained, but a hasheesh vision y
Hasheesh!' exclaimed the other.
Why, I've always regarded that as
moro dreadful than spirits"
Perhaps it is, replied johnson. ssT
don't advise any one to use it. But in
parts OF Europe and in all oriental conn
Irles many persons use hasheesh as I do
Inc effect OF the drug taken in the
larger quantity is to stimulate the i'm
! a8lnatlon. 1t seems to release the sOul
from the body's bonds. Fatigue, depres-
sion, mental WEAKNESS, business cares
all harassments, in fact, are thrown off
ana the mind revels in an abnormal and
pleasurable superactivity. never expe-
rlenced any unpleasant reaction.
Persons of different temperaments
are affected i'll different ways. I knew a
man who wanted to try a dose Of
hasheesh with me. He had a most nm
pleasant time Of it. He said that his
mental sufferings were indescribable.
fear, or rather apprehension. of some
thlng mysterious and more grewsome
than all the ghost stories ever told rolled
into one awful horror depressing him
throughout the short time that he was
under the spell of the hemp He never
Will try 1t again, for which I am glad
Tor he might get into the habit of it.
Johnson business takes him among
pharmacists good DEAL and bv wav Of
adding to his disclaimer of being n
hasheesh slave he remarked that every
druggist has among his customers one
or more opium ''fends" who do not
1eel the bondage of the drug, although
they are enslaved. Il saw a clerk max
ing 100 small powders of morphine one
day, said johnson, "and I asked him
why he was putting up so many The
clerk replied that he put up that num-
Der every Thursday for a certain lady
on renewal of a physicians prescrin-
ton The physician had authorized the |
renewal, and the patient had been TAX
ing the morphia for several years in the
same quantity. The habit probablv
grew out OF the drug having been pre-
scrlbed originally for the relief of some
obstinate pain. The patient only knew
That the powders kept her pain away.
This same drug clerk also told of
the successful cure Of a sufferer from
the opium habit, another lady who re-
aIlzed her situation and longed to be
1ree. She went to live at her physician's
house. She had been drinking so much
laudanum day. The doctor began nv
allowing her the equivalent in NOR
phlne III capsules, taken at the hours at
which she had been accustomed to take
the liquid. He kept her on a nourishing
and stimulating diet and very gradual
~, without the patients knowledge.
reduced the size of the doses of morpbia.
After a time he substituted for one of
the morphine capsules daily one of the
same appearance, filled with cinchoni-
dla, an alkaloid Of Peruvian bark like
qulnlne, but weaker. The patient did
not feel tho difference. Another cincbo-
nldla capsule was substituted daily aft
er another week or two, and so on, until
after some months the habitue was talk
ing nothing but cinchonidia one dav.
with, perhaps, two morphine doses the
next. As gradually as before these
were eliminated, and the patient was ]
told one day that she had had no NOR
phla for month. She was surprised ,
and lncredulous, but she at last real
lied that she was cured. I dom know I
lhat every one could be freed from the t
opium habit in that manner. l
The druggists clerk told me of a I
fellow employee Of his who had a pas S
sion for ether. He had found him sew l
eraI times asleep or dozing in a heap of
packing in the cellar. and at
asst discovered that the young man had
been stealing ether. He would sat1lrate =
sponge, put it into pasteboard cone.
loId 1t over his nose, and thus anes-
'hetlze himself. You know that the I
sensation OF passing under the influence S
u ether is very pleasant. It is akin to G
he exhllaration of alcohol. The patient i
bout to be operated upon is in state I
u hlgn spirits, no matter how great his /
may be, as soon as the ether /
has begun to intOxicate him. q
But in one part of Ireland. where 2
he making Of 'potheen' has been i
quelched by the excise, the simple ma /
ives have taken to using ether-a prod
let not extensively purified like that S
lsed by surgeons. Only instead of in I
iallng it they drink it. 1t induces ex- n
RENE exhilaration, then sleep, and the q
runkard awakes with a headache. n
lex stomach and an unpleasant, sweet h
aSte IN the mouth, just as the surgeons
atlent does The ether drinking makes Z
man noisy and Quarrelsome and recIk- \
ess while its exhilarating effect lasts,
nd is In other ways far worse than b
1hlsky. A man may be drunk and So v
er again In Il minutes. The local cler-
are very bitter against the excisemen q
Dr. driving out the comparatively harm h
'ss 'potheen. Now York Mail and n
Some Royal Titles. A
The kings and queens of England c'
7ere not always styled "his" or ''her'' Il
laJesty or after the pattern Of that p
estowed upon Victoria - "her most b
racious majesty. Henry " was styled N
his grace;" Henry VI, "his most ex- =
client grace;" Edward ~, "high and iy
lightly prince" Henry VII, ''his grace
nd his majesty Henry VIII. ''his
ighness" and afterward "his maies-
= Subsequently the English kings Il
ere styled Ibis sacred majesty" 81
While ON the subject it may not be un- IL
lteresting to give the meaning of some OF
'yal titles-thus: King means father; W
liser and car. Caesar, or autocrat, a re
'ntraction of Samoderebeta; duke tr
ieans leader; emperor, commander; re
ospodar, master of the house; khan. pa
'oyincial chief; landgrave, land reeve;
argrave, border reeve; nizam, ruler; tn
laraoh, light Of the world; shah, pro- ca
ctor; sheik, elder; sultan, ruler N
IonpavIfxy nF As4wo,~..... L.