The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-13
TIL DOPE PERIL

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49,. drug Tn. trial thus far ua~ lest
-..5sn over moral AMI in many
physical corpse. Ir Matthews
,s,n had ceased - exist. As n
..f..a- b. particulars ~ his eni
1,r-afy immateriaL. The drug j.
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- Matthews a,as i victim Of NOR
-hfaa urv has said That ne killel
Ef- tetf. Ta.r. u.4S conflict ~ tests :
,..r,- aud III argument on the point
arnfr sanity. Where is there vis4l
,-f,f.rane.a III the ease i'll which II
rr.a. himself H.. = treated as 4 GRIM
t.a1- had he been declared insane.
H.. would stiIl have been shut away
from the world. For him il is r life
If dreams with nightmare wak.1Is,
NJ nerves CRYING aloud in agony. OF
etn4ar filled with inarticulatc visions.
~ v-aetinp strength ana sadden death
creeping up on crutches. That IS Dr.
Mathews. fnd that Is morphine. Tie
ice1Ies ON hhich the Jury passed were
rerfunctorr. He had already tried
convicted himsglf-and there was
mo anDaal
qbara ,ill ha tno.n who viii req!
tnese lines ana smile ~ their gxtrav-
aranca as of the prcachinr of the ex-
coprfonal tragedy ~ the ordinary RUE.
drug is i'm its beginning 4 cod
send" Its fingers are soft and sooth-
Its effects naturally lend thea
solves 10 descriptiou as AN "embrace.'
They are indeed an embrace, Vel
yetv ujtvine honefuI but ever more
yiaIainr hacomae = babit
. naseion tho ambraca ) cola.
dr,,o bahit i Iang in comin~
adroit i'm ascjn9tion and terrible in
victory. Feeding upon itself. il exacts
as its price if put away. de-
mands il as the privilege Of its contic-
In tho meanwhile i is worse
than death itself.
In This dav when drunkenness i
ON the decrease and tbe war for TOM
gorance in drinl, i on the habit n
is gathering its chief moma,-
tum. 1t has its undred
its thousand excuses. SO prevalent mas
become that its various forms hay.,
to be denoninated under a SIN
gle bit of generic slang. Dope, is the
accurately pesismistic aDpellatjon
which the world has given to those
would fool themselves until it is
late to pretend. Beware of dope"
The charitable people who sell il are
wise in their generation. They are ex-
fit their remedies to universal ''symp-
toms. For q while the victim is de-
lIghted. There comes a time when
ne must go higher up in the scale.
ne raVehous nerves demand stronger
meat. y Matthew's Is III the making.
y requires some Httle b~raggadocio at
flrSt TO drink III public: some self
fcVealment to drink privately at home.
.ut IL IS easier 10 dope. Public opin-
ION does cot notice the first step of
urug ilehu as IL does
% ~ urullN'r". II IS zone III
e'poN'''ic SuiIouilolH5S. II wears
"lo ciodN u "leaiclne. IL - the vir-
euous cure Tor that tired feeling. It
can be AIKEN at a s~oda-fountain and
the Wiser not even the man who
drinks or the man who sells. Pre-
out as = "fend' of this that or tbo
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