Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-28

third perm IN the teeth OF his solemn
declaration that he won't They seem
40 have no conception OF the obligations
of integriiy.-fiarper's Weekly.
The Victims Evorywhore along
In the AWFUL the highroad and IN
Grin Of Opium the cities and vil-
lagos " Shansi you
see the opium face. The opium smok-
or. like the opium eater rapidly loses
flesh when the habit has fixed itself on
him. The color leaves his skin. and
30 becomes dry. like parchment. His
eye loses whatever light and sparkle
10 may have had. and becomes dun and
llstless The opium face has been best
described az a peculiarly withered and
blasted Countenance." With this face
rs always associated a thin body and
languld gait. Opium gets such a pow
orful grip on confirmed smoker that
70 Is actually unsafe for him TO give
up the habit without medical aid HiA
appetite a. taken away, his digestion
is impaired there Is congestion OF tho
various Internal organs. and conges-
ton OF the lungs. Constipation and
diarrhea result. with pain an over the
body. by the time he has reached
this stage, the smoker has become
both physically and mentally weak
and Inactive. with his intellect dead
cned. hts physical and moral sense inn
paired, he sinks into laziness. immor-
atty, and debauchery. lie has lost his
power Of resistance to disease. and be.
comes predisposed TO colds, bron>
chitis. diarrhea. dysentery and dyspep-
STA. Brigade Surgeon J. II. Condor.
NJ. ., M.R.C.S,, speaking OF opium
eaters before the Royal Commission on
opium, said They become emaciatsd
and deblitated misunderstanding
wrotches. and finally die, most COM
monty OF diarghea induced by the use
OF opium" When a man has got him
self into this condition. he must have
opium, and must have IL all the time.
Samuel Merwin in Success Magazine"
Travelling Pass throgh the mar
In Palestine row streets where the
Or Holy Land. lepers crowd around
with horrible cries
and beggars seem hardly human In
their nth and rags and deformities.
Go up onto Mount Zion and look off TO
lhe blue quiet hills OF Moab. then
stop to listen 10 a little Greek fu-
neral service. rhythmical. plaintive,
sung by a long-haired priest. a little
blind boy and peasant woman. Drive
TO Bethlehem and 10 the Church OF the
Nativity and see the Manger whore the
Child lay. guarded day and night by
Moslem soldiers. Why guarded? Be
cause every shrine is considered the
property OF some sect-Roman, Greek,
Armenian. Copt, Assyrian or another
and. at the festivals Of Easter and
Christmas especially unless the Mos
lens keep order, blood is always she'd
Think out over the land and remem-
Der that i'm the Turkish dominions the
only law Is that OF baoksheesh."
Pondering these things. drive up over
the Mount Of Olives and look down at
the Golden Gate OF the city, walled up
L assr.
who once entered II riding on an ass.
ro-enter the same way.-The Travel
Magazine.
Suggested by Although not so
Roseate Hues gorgeous or so sub
Ga Early Dawn. lime as the merry
many-hued glory OF
tho west. yet most lovely and most
fair is the first faint blush OF early
dawn, when the great iuminary. though
not yet risen upon the plains, Is ting
ing the SUBMITS OF the snow-clad
mountains with a delicate rOseate hue,
vyeing in beauty with that OF the sar-
douyN or OF the rOse-red tOurmaline,
and mantling the feecy wisps OF vapor
and the scattered cloudlets placidly
resting upon the mountain side in a
food OF incarnadined loneliness
Starting almost before the break OF
day by the old three horse diligence
nom Basel, through the magnificent
Munster Thal-alas there If now
railway in place OF that enjoyable but
somewhat slow and deliberate mode OF
lOcomouon-the morning star stih
brightly shining, and several OF the
brighter stars still scintillaung in the
domed canopy OF the skies, the invig-
Grating crispness OF the air. the beauty
Of the gradual advance OF dawn. and
the wild grandeur and sublimltV Of
the scene ever momentarily becoming
more and more apparent. amply COM
pensate for the discomfort OF a break
fast at 3 o'clock In the morning. Now,
as the cleaning rocedes before aurora
advance, one by one the glittering stars
have all paled away, and the topmost
SUBMITS OF the snow-mountains, the
first 10 glimpse the rising glory Of the
sun, throw off the veil OF night ana
assume their rose-red beauty. And
swiftly, as the great orb rises ever
nearer TO the horizon. the lower ranges
OF the mountains tecome illumined by
his beams. and light diaphanous lay
or OF cloud resting upon the side OF the
hill which the diligence r. ascending
rs bathed In flood Of rose-pink. The
spectacle now IS beautiful beyond des-
cription, and almost too fair for earth
on each side OF the road lofty-perpen-