Show THE HORRORS OF OPIUM EATING G the suicide of the rev G W brush of delaware ohio previously reported by y telegraph has produced a profound impression in that part of the state where he was widely known and highly esteemed from a communication from his physician dr L barnes of delaware published in the delaware gazette we extract the following passage explaining the motives which doubtless prompted ted the unhappy man to tako his nis own life he came to my office on the first day of the present month january 1868 saying that his people had kindly released him from labor for two or three weeks and asking if I 1 still felt as friendly toward him as when once before I 1 had consented to take care of him at my house while he should break up the dreadful habit of taking morphine I 1 told him I 1 would do so if he wished to come but it would be necessary for the people to know why he was there otherwise the fact of his being at my house sick while hile his own family was living in the same tow toh would give occasion to injurious reports tuh tu h could not well bernet bornet be met he then said tru tilt ran gement would not answer without the diex ulsa ire referred to which he felt so delicata delic deli cate aib about making that he would make an un effort at his own house thereupon he gave ave me some papers of morphine which he e had caused to be weighed in gradually diminishing doses beginning with less than half balf his usual quantity he reserved a couple one for each day of a visit ho he was about to make some friends in columbus requesting me to call at his house on the following satur day evening when I 1 should find him returned and sick on account of his diminution mi nution odthe of the morphine and that he would then take no more except as I 1 should think best to give it I 1 went on the appointed saturday everl everi everild evening lt ig found him weak trip trembling nibling sw sweating e a g and aching especially in the knees but buthe he rallied somewhat and conversed well for an hour or soon so on a variety of subject subjects but ho he had slept none and eaten nothing as he said since entering upon his trial the next day instead of taking the designated dose which would have been about five grains he voluntarily proposed to take not more than three and the day after still less lees I 1 continued to spend the evening with him for about ten days gradually diml diminishing nisi ang his dose until it was reduced to about one grain a day the diarrhoea he had so much dreaded was controlled without serious difficulty and his nervous system kept reasonably steady he was generally hopeful and appeared much comforted baray by my assurance that he was succeed succeeding irig in the great work one evening however found his condition a little biffi different erent from what I 1 had bad expected and ho he immediately said frankly that lie he had broken over his rule arid taken epee tb r eo grains of morphine his diarrhoea had returned the lee iee ir items gon gone e an and he hated to send for me and so had done it he was very much depressed said it was wrong and if I 1 should now abandon him to his nate fate he would not blame me I 1 replied that I 1 was not disposed to give him up should stick to him so long as ho he would let me and that lie he must not surrender in the midst of the conflict he expressed himself ve beky grateful and said he would not again do a anything any thin g of the sort at the end of about two weeks he had recovered his appetite began to sleep pretty well at night came camo to visit me at the office and resumed his work he was in fine spirits and appeared to he be elated with the idea that he was delivered from a habit which had bad enslaved him he her expressed his thanks to me in the most fervid and glowing terms his last visit to my office was on friday january 17 he asked for lor the remedy against diarrhoea enough to last till the next tuesday when he would come and report again again I 1 went to hear him preach on sun sunday ay evening it was painfully evident from his manner mariner that he was returning to his habit the appointed tuesday came but he did not appear wednesday passed away and still lie he ca came camo not I 1 hatto harto leave town at night and did not return till late in the night of saturday wh when en I 1 learned that he was dead had terminated his own life on the afternoon of that day the cause of such a very sad end was clear enough I 1 could follow him and his thoughts from the point where I 1 had seen him last having taken a little just a very little to relieve the distress of which he was not yet clear the appetite returned with the voracity of a hundred demons he was temporarily overpowered and yielded then ho he considered that be had made his hia last trial and failed his day dy of usefulness was over he thought himself unworthy to live among men the ghastly I 1 ife life afan of an opium eater enter stared him in the face it was insupportable he kept his misery to himself while very kind and considerate to his family famil y as indeed he always was he took more of the drug to appease his agony it crazed him drove him out to the barn and through his ills own hands suspended him upon a rope |