ONE OPIUM EATER CURED bat it tool a tra in sing sing and endless agony ia do it abw 1 arit IMI A confirmed opium smoker waa recently asked whet lier ho ever knew a person who haj been cured of the habit only once he replied and then it a voluntary cure by any meana ho was a men about thirty five years old who had been a slave to the habit for fifteen years lie was eo given up to it that his business went to smash and he used to resort to all inai iner of things in order to get money to purchase a shell lie used to crave eight shells or 2 worth of opium a day and I 1 have frequently met him in a joint that was run by two tough in marion street offering to roll for smokers in order to share their opium aoe day he had been without a smoke for about seven hours and he became so desperate that he tried to rob the till in a grocery store he was detected and arrested lie got word down to the joint telling of his misfortune nis fortune and begging for gods sake that somebody would send him some opium I 1 bought some dry opium pills and got them into him after a deal of trouble the next day I 1 called on him and a more miserable wretch I 1 never saw he was suffering the tortures of hell he was doubled up with cramps in his stomach and the inevitable pain between the shoulders which feels as though some body was driving spikes into your flesh was racking him these tortures were joined to severe pains i n all the joints as though the limbs were decaying and would soon drop off he had been without opium so long that he was fairly famishing and the small quantity of the drug I 1 had been able to send was disposed of in short orber there a taste of it left he yelled to roe as I 1 entered lih cell in the tombs then lie rolled his tongue around as though searching for any small panicles pa nicles that might be hidden away in a tooth I 1 gave him the pills t bad brought he seized them like a starving man would seize a crust of bread he placed two of them in his mouth and rolled them around until they had di solved and then washed them down with a mouthful of water in a few minutes he was lying on hh cot as placid and happy as a healthy baby I 1 kept him supplied with opium until he was tried and sen fenced I 1 managed to slip a few of them into his hand as he was on bis way to sing sing I 1 heard no more of him and forgot all about him until one day on broadway several years later a stalwart rosy checked cheeked fellow slapped roe on the shoulder and heartily shook me by the hand I 1 was nearly surprised into a fit when ho explained that he was the opium fiend of a few years apo he said that when be got to sing sing the habit was nn him very strong the pills I 1 had given him had crumbled to dust in his pocket and had become so mixed up with a lot of other stuff that he could not use them he was in a raging torment that night and crying for the drug the keepers found him and tho prison physician who was called fortunately diagnosed the case correctly it much credit to him however for every feature of the mans face and every motion of his body almost proclaimed him an opium fiend he was removed to the hospital and the physician was kind enough to get interested in the isaae he braced him up with hypodermic injections of morphine every time the craving came on and by a liberal use of this drug finally wore away the desire for the other of course this treatment created the morphine ue habit but this was moro readily cured and my frield soon lost all desire for drugs of any kind and is a proa perou happy roan today to day if he bad not been arrested he would certainly haval gone the way of all the lends and have ended bis life himself or died miserable in some hole he tried to reason the case with roe in hopes that I 1 would surrender the drug and endure the agonies that such a privation would produce for abo pleasures attending the feeling that I 1 was no longer a slave to it I 1 have heard all of those arguments a thousand times and frequently I 1 have lain in a joint with another smoker and we have both sworn off and the very next day we would both be in the same place again I 1 am getting worse every arar the habit is growing more expensive and the longer I 1 HIO at it the lesi disposed I 1 feel for work of any kind my memory is failing me now and I 1 am already pretty well along on the downward road ill go a little further down and then goodby to everything N linit llo clolery lery mccorl lit grash iw bow ha became famous A the walker iowa JC Tf gays our old friend loaird of mum atine io a haa been ni centary of the gun ate and an nath 0 politician for years but wan never generally known until ho had the colic chamberlains colic cholera and got into one ow 1 ho li damom if ere Is what mr bald while in DM me inen I 1 tt as taken a attack of bowel complaint lor l or two days I 1 intensely trying several drug turn and pa ing them for relief but in miln I 1 finally bottle 0 colic cholera and iwo dowa 0 eliat brought ma out all right I 1 consider it a grand remedy ti and so cent bottles tor sale by win arh er bon and all