The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-02
4 PipefuI Of HaSheeSh.

III
The season was nearly at it's end. On
the terrace of Shepherds were many
groups-German, American, and Eng
hsh-stopping for few days in Cairo
on their way home. At one of the
tables-next to that where the pretty
girl from Cincinnati was slipping her
| tea-sat three men of different ages
Nathaniel Brookes, a man of some
| sixty years and rather distinguished
appearance, was discussing total pro-
hibitions with DR.. Henson-Blake. The
doctor was man of wiry build, with
the face of q hawk and that indescrfb-
| able look which comes only of strength
| and experience. The third man listened,
/ fidgeted, smoked endless cigarettes,
and drank something which was cold
and not good Tor him out of a long
glass in which the ice tinkled pleas
antly. He was fair-haired young man
whom the sun had merely freckled.
When you had got to the bottom of
! by no means a bad sort of man. by
name Percival Lake. This was his first
year in Egypt. Both Brookes and the
doctor had known Egypt for many
Years.
It was Rrookes who was speaking.
the feilaheen should be allowed TO
dig he said and it should be made
worth their while to Dig
But they do said the doctor ''They
all OF them do it in the summer and
they always have done"
eS. SAID BrOOkeS. prohibitions
which are too strict are always evaded.
It's the same thing with hasheesh But
what I mean is that if we succeed in
stopping the fellaheen from digging,
the working Psychologist will find very
little
What's that about hasheesh?" the
young man asked. Il thought it was
the kind of drug that one came across
frequently in stories and rarely in
chemists shops, and nowhere else"
"Nominally," said Brookes, there is
no hasheesh in Egypt 1t is not 81
lowed. 1t is contraband. 1 forget how
many tons of it were seized last year,
and should be sorry to say how much
| managed to get through
And what is the effect of it?"
If you take enough and take it long
enough" said DIR. Henson Blake, 1.-The
effect is insanity. The given percent
should perhaps, be higher. They don't
admit that they smoke hasheesh or
have ever smoked it, if they can help
it, and it cannot always be spotted
But what is the immediate effect?"
"A sense of bien-etre, of the absence
| of all worry. Sometimes there are de-
lusions. The typical smoker generally
gets an excessive vanity-swelled head
and becomes very quarrelsome.'
"All the same said Lake, I should
very much like to try it,
"All right" said the doctor, upper
turbed. i've got some tobacco pre-
|
! some that l had to confiscate. I'll give
you a pipeful and you can try it after
| dinner. Smoke it in your own room,
though-not down stairs"
Thanks, very much" said Lake. ''Tll
come up with you now and get it,"
II
After dinner Brookes and DR.. Henson
| Blake went off to see a friend at the
! Savoy. They left with grim half-chaf-
! f11ey fr7jT tn .aIr To fal xa
care of himself. Lake, a little su1ky
settled himself in one corner of the hall
! to smoke a cigarette before his expert
ment.
And suddenly Miss Jocelyn, whom he
did not know, came UP to him. She sat
down on the other side of the table and
said: DO you not know me, Mr.
Lake?'
Lake said that at any rate he was
charmed to have the privilege of maxi
/ ing her acquaintance.
II just want to tell you. know DR..
| Henson-Blake-we were on the tourist
| boat together. He's playing it low down
on you. That tobacco he gave you is
| ordinary tobacco. He wanted to make
you say afterward that you got a lot of
funny sensations out of it, and then
at all and just laugh at you. You
needn't ask me how I know, but it's the
truth
Il believe you. The possibility of it
| had occurred to me. Well, 1 have only
to tell him that I got no sensations at
ALL and that's all over with this little
joke"
Yes" said Miss Joceiyn, but you can
get back on him. That's better
"How?"
Spin him a long story. Tell him you
smoked it and it gave you visions. Then
when he's finished with his laugh give
him his tobacco back again to prove
that you knew his game all the time
Excellent" He took from his pocket
a little box in which the tobacco was
placed, put it in one of the. hotel en-
! velopes, and sealed and dated it. but