No one questions the fact that opium smoking is a captivating pastime. The victim will say, ' Fragrant! very fragrant very, very fragrant!!!" As men begin: to light their pipes they sing in delightful, anticipation of the luxury. that awaits them in dream-land; forgetting the ills of life as. they pass a blissful hour in Paradisa. As. beautiful rise before the imagination, and: the fumes envelop the soul, visions of the
they tell how fortune will lend her illing: "the tongue wags" as with great rapidity
land to assist in every enterprise that human wisdom can devise, Opium produces a certain stimulus and its victim can tranaact business better after indulging in the pipe. It isa solace under the: many trialaof Asiatic existence. Alas! how. many hours-are wasted by those who.use it. Th Chinese "expectant mandarins" and their
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