Franklin Daily Herald, Volume 2, Number 77, Franklin, Johnson County, 13 March 1880 — Page 4

FRANKLIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.

Keep the tongue from unkindnees. Words are sometimes wounds; not very deep wounds always, and yet they irritate. Speech is unkind sometimes when there is no unkindness in the heart. So much the worse that needless wounds are inflicted; so much the worse that unintentionally pain is caused.

A rr.E-HiSTOKic CiimB.ucE. In excavating lor the Jacksonville, (Fla.) water works there was found, twenty-eight feet below the surface, an ancient clambake. Inn bed about six feet by fout in aren, the clam and oyster shells, many with gaping mouths, were arranged as for a modern clambake, intermixed ' li hardened s:md, charcoal, and fragmen Is of decayed wood.

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A NIGHT IN AN OPIUM DEN, BY WIU.HM M HOUND. Oonclud-'d fi'iin ye tcrday. big and 9otnething"the shape of the stem half of a B.irtlctt p mr, una was attached to a tube as big as my thumb or bigger. The aperture in the pipe was hardly ar;,'er than the knitting needle, and between that center and the circumference there was a hard, smoot h, flat surface, upon winch the waxy mass was twirled till it took the shape of a bobbin. Then he took more opium and related the process; this he did over and over until half the opium had been transferred from the iiny cup to the needle.

now," and my pipe was preme. I put my mouth to the

stem exactly as a cornetist puts his lips to his instrument, and drew in my breath, while the Chinaman inserted the opium, needle and all, into the aperture of iho pipe,holdiug it all the time in the H i me of the lamp. The heat softened the opium, the needle was withdrawn and my mouth was filled with the fumes. They were not disagreeable. There was a little bitterness, but a clean bitterness. The opium sputtered and burned Mill I drew in the smoke. In threeor Jour minutes the opium was exhausted, audi lay down on the matting while Joe's pipe was filled. Joo's pipe was not half ready before Joe bolted, saying he

would return in half an hour. When come,, back he sal 4. he -had bean to tell iff

i inev l'y 3oMejma-, that ir lie didn't re- ' port by four in the morning to come and look us up. Then Joe had his pipe and I had a wind one. Did I feel drowsy? No. 'I felt quietly jubilant and happy. The jrobleiiH of my life were all gone. The my i cries of life were mysteries no I iier, I lay there and blandly sneered it the world as a thing of no consequence whatever. I could not take my eyes from the light, but it was a tiny wUlwae no longer. It receded from me od grew bigger. It was a star it was (he full orbed moon', the attendant moved it a lew inelies, itnn though J was roiisHotiH of his act, the light itself was the sun. The w hole world, the stars, the univei M! were being absorbed by it. 1 wan absorbed by it. The ylory touched me ft Ctry comet with a nwet ping tail that had shot through juimcastiruble lengths of nijit. N'i'v ityrew midurew. It wan on nil hides; below mo wag the tiny earth, a Lilliputian ball, upon which myriads of crawling men fell down and worship- j j'"d niu. Opposite to me was Joe. I was eniiscjouH ul bis presence of everything about niu. Had uny one spoken to me I should have answered rational enough, fH ih things about ine were not so

leal us my ilwelling-plaen in the heart of light. I was living a dual existence. I was immortal, 1 had' commenced upon the eternal life. Kieriiity ! The thought became real to me. Time was no longer, save in my own j.eihon. J was the time piece for eternal ages. I was wound up and going. The pulsations of my heart e'ach measured a thorsand years. A dreadful tension Jeiigtheiied mo out and stretched mo in all directions. A great movement was going on which taxed all my powers - I b tension grew more and more tense, I con Id endure it no longer, there was u iiiiel; fiiap, a relaxation if all my eneryU'u, all my powers, and I was the eternal i !'" k, and knew that 1 had ticked uml marked oil' one second of the fathomless ages, and that second had recorded u thousand years of human time. Tbo pendulum moved to two syllables! for-ever, ;,r-,,v.r( for ever 1 I lay dreadiiuthe billionth eternal year which t-liouM nifirk but one mundane hour, and i tie- be. mM of which 1 should Hi:;.-.

It is impossible for me to express the i awful sense of expansion, indefinite ex- j pansiOn which everything took on, or to ! write out one in a thousand of the wild -j fancies tnat rushed through my brain. J I was not asleep. I was Mot . dreaming ; by au exercise of will I ciulf! have risen, gone out of the place and, walked home. I I more than once cednted my pulse. I

roused myself and looked to see if my friend was beside me. He was qtiet and apparently sleeping. Every thought that passed through my mind took upon itself and surrounded itself with a long sequence of quaint fancies. Once I thought of General Butler, and immediately I 3tood in Washington street by the door of the Golden Rule office. I looked at

the Old South opposite, and from every window I saw GeneTal Butler's head thrust out and he blinked at me horribly. Washington etreet was lengthsued out in an interminable vista, and General Butler was sitting on a throne under every lamp poska paper crown on

ins nead, with the words: "tiovernor of

Massachusetts," written on the front of

it. I thought he had been Governor of

Massachusetts since the world begnn and would be to the world's end, and the

Did words "God bless the Commonwealth" were stricken from all the proclamations. '-- Once when I ' counted my pulse, I thought that a irrave opened at everv

beat, and after the counting ceased, the

zraves still continued to open and the

dead to ranee themselves side bv side.

ana tnat i wan destined to count them ill. A person walking ever so softly across the room gave me' the impression of the tramp of an army of giants. And k, with time annihilated or rather expanded into infinitude, I lay and dreamed away the night. At last it was davbreajt. The friendly policeman came to look us up and wakeuad us. He lias told me since that I talke-yto him most rationally. He left us ffJt I curled up on the matting, and whek it was broad daylight fell into a deep and dreamless slumber. At least I do not remember the dreams in it. . When I awoke it was in the afternoon. I had a fearful headache, and my body and soul seemed to have been sapped of all their energies. I roused mvself. and

Baw Joe sitting opposite to me, his hands clasped across his head, jand 'moaning piteously. Our friend; tlTuling fiend of the place, fcame stealthily oo bearing our movements, and peering in, asked : "How do you like it V Joe, looking the picture of woe, found his stentorian voice, and pulling the Chinaman's ear close down to his mouth, shouted :

And without even so much as the courtesy ot a good-bye, wt left tbflcellar. Now I know how it is that Chinaman carries in his face the loot of one who has lived since the world began. In their orgies they slip out of life into eternity. He who smokes opium touches

tne beginning and the end or all things. The odor of the opium lingered about me for days. The memory of that night is to me the most vivid of all things. The unreality of that dream is more real to me than the paper on which I write. The fascination, painful as it was in one sense, was great in that it loosed me from all the laws of nature and of time. In my pain I was a God or at least enjoyed more than one attribute of divinity neither time nor space nor things earthly held me in thrall. I was in hell indeed, but I was a power in hull, and all that belongs to power I enioyed. There was within me an illimitable capacity for suffering or for pleasure. The opium joy did not come to me in the way it cemes to old smokers of he drug. I can conceive this to be true, bnt I shall not seek further the bliss of narcotism. j One night was enough too much in

deed, for it cost me a week of dreadful lassitude, and has given me a horrible memory to last a life-time.

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