The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-19
MANY BOOZE METHODS.
Alcohol Is the Leader Among the In
toxicants Used.

To feel the exhilaration that comes
with the use of certain potent ma
terials. to dream of pleasant occur
FENCES, imagine yourself owner of the
sleep, attended by illusions that in
themselves bring TO one happiness for
short time, is to many people a JOY
An oft repeated joy-and their love
of this has caused the wisest of
scientific men to ponder on why it is
that humans are prone to seek in
toxicati ton.
They have made Investigations into
the different ways and means persons
loving these imaginings and illusions
have discovered to reach their desired
intoxication. The chief of all things
that mortals have adopted in order to
become Intoxicated they find to be
alcohol and fluids that contain 1t in
greater or lesser quantities. But
there are other things that are used
by those who have the intoxication
habit, and they find that drugs play
an important part in the drunkenness
of a portion of the world.
Not only drugs are used, however,
but the mind that is bent upon be-
coming Influenced by a stimulant or
an intoxicant finds other means of
putting itself to sleep. A small boy
will early learn that the fumes of
gasoline produce illusions that are
pleasant, and over the family gasoline
can he stands and inhales the gas
that comes from it, ending his de-
bauch in a sleep, waking with last
ing headache.
Assafoetida, while not a pleasant
drug, is said by those who claim to
know to be an intoxicant that causes
one to feel that well-being and re-
pose that attends Gained nerves. It's use
is not frequent, but once attempted,
the feat of becoming drunk upon it is
often repeated.
The harmless little bottles of eau
de cologne, that are intended by their
contents to perfume the handkerchief
and to fill the air with pleasing
scents, are least suspected by those
will make one gloriously hilarious.
The ingredients in very small bot
tie of perfumery, physicians say. will
intoxicate a person as quickly and in
as lasting a manner as will many
well-known drunk-causing mixtures.
Cocaine, a known stimulant of wide
usage throughout the country, is one
of the drugs that holds a high place
among intoXicants. A recent investi-
CATION in Philadelphia, conducted by
medical men, proved, according to
their report, that fully so per cent of
the drug that came to their city was
sold and used in unknown ways. In
Indianapolis, it is said by local ply
sicians, the drug is found to be used
most exclusively among the negroes.
1t causes the one who uses it to feel
an improvement mentally and salts
faction physically. Its use is not fol-
lowed by the usual depression that
follows the use of other drugs, but
in the ones who are addicted to the
habit a rapid decline in physical
strength Is always traceable to its use.
When under the influence of cocaine
the doctors have learned a persons
mind seems to run with rapidly;
there are no fears nor credulities in
ones thoughts and the victim of this
habit when under the drugs in
f1uence, has no conception of time or
of conditions surrounding him After
its effects have worn off, the good
humor of the person passes into a sort
of imbecility and a sleep follows.
The continued use of this drug
brings on imaginings that are not
pleasant. The victim begins to i'm
agine that insects are crawling about
on him, and he becomes uncomfort-
able in a manner he cannot overcome
Hallucinations that cause one to ac-
cuse oneself of wrongdoing come at