A VICTIM OF COCAINE
CHvo Rti RxiMirlemse with the Fasolnafe
lug Drug Nttrtwa Haek to Health.
dun, who enKairwl in a quarrel with a
barber last vear and (oil (lead nurmg the
same aa whwky, and pull a victim down
to the lowtut depths of low cunning and
vicion!Bi.'l-iCliicagpNew, .
IMPRESSIONS Of,. NASSAU,'.
two hours, and is succeeded by a feeling
of depression and exhaustion. But there
is ntiiie of tin disturbance of tlje mind or
nervous system that follows drunlcen-
noaa Tliu vir.Hm I.wm, alt fitranirth dftoi
Dr. Charles D. Bradley's name first . Bar,, I,,,),,!,,,, mid there lies the chief
came Into uruieslrahle prominence In No- duneer in usinir cocaine. It veakensthe
vernber, . 1883, when he was 'arrested! action of the heart, Kiakin(rsitc':denstrain
uhargnl with being insane through exces
sive indulgence in morphine and cocaine,
tlte latter a powerful narontic of which
up lo that time little had been heard. He
wan taken liel'oro J mlge Preiidergnst, was
deobu'ed to u innane, and given a mmf
tentMof W lemiths in the 'Wt)liuig-;
tonii n homo, Aftoraforthight's stay at
the home Dr. Bradley went tO'Camtda,
his d i home, where he gave himself up '
entirely to the demands of the drug,, the
fascinations of which completely , en-i
thralled him. Practice and lidirie were
gone, and he gave free rein to his vice,'
lie returned lo Chicago and waa sent to
the insane asylum, where a complete cure
was effected, and he resumed his practice,
only to find himself deserted by bis
clients and bis reputation imjtuired.
Consolation for the reverses came with
cocaine, to which bo again became a
victim, and there were months when be
absolutely lived in the stare of nund it
produced, scouring it by book or orook
until his last possession was gone and his
family beggared.
Tho physician went to the gutter, and
a year ago was bogging for cocaine at
drug stores or securing it by llclitious
ordors on druggists. Then he disap
peared. He was occasionally heard from
in Canada and the east until last fall,
when the papers recorded his arrest in
New York city for endeavoring to obtain
a supply of cocaine by representing him
self as a messenger seut from one phy
sician to another, Iu the ponce court
the gaunt, emaciated, ragged man told
his story of want and woe, and the
causes which brought them about, Ai
that time be was using sixty grains of
cocaine a day. He Was sent to Bellevue
hospital to die. There he was found by
the manager of the Clu'istian home,
where he was nursed back to mental Mid
physical vigor.
Dr. Bradley was reluctant to dwell on
the episodes thus briefly given, hut con
versed freely ou other circumstances of
bis life.
"Until 1885 there was nothing to dim
my prospects," said Dr. Bradley. "It
was in that year that cocaine was firm
brought to nutice through a German
physician, but it was only known as u
practical aiitesthetio in operation by
oculists. There was no method known
for using it for other purposes. I was
the first man to discover that it could he
otherwise used in fact, to take the place
of ether or chloroform. That discovery,
ao important to tiie world, was most un
fortunate for me. When I announced
r my discovery physicians laughed and de
clared I was orazy. I wrote a letter to
Mayor Harrison asking bun to appoint u
medical commission to inquire into the
' value of my discovery, which was the
administration of cocaine bypodermio-
ally. I Hist utilized my discovery by
testing it on a cat. I dissected a leg of
a oat, exposing tissues and muscles, and
kept the animal on my desk for bourn
watching the circulation. There was n
pain, the drug exercising a soothing
effect.
"Next I began experimenting on my
self. 1 found that the anMhetic influ
ence of cocaine is limited. I experi
mented on myself again und again to see
lust how fur this limit extended, and
learned just where, when and how to
give injections. Physicians theu be
lieved that the effects of the drug were
similar to those of morphine. To dis
prove this I tried actual cautery by ap
plying to my body red not irons, out i
felt no path, and there was not the
slightest sensation as the flesh withered
under the hented irons. For three
months every day for a half hour I ex
perimented with the drug, and often
passed several hours of the night in its
study before a mirror, watching its ef
fect on myself. But I never realized
that it was obtaining a mastery over me.
Ita fascinating powers were unknown to
the profession. I was thunderstruck when
I found that the drug was abnolutoly
necessary to my mind and body. I be
lieve I could have conquered the habit
thon were it not for a misunderstanding
with the mail from whom I rented my
home. He wonted liis house, and when
I refused to vacato it my weakness was
made a point by which I was dragged
iuto an insane court. Persecution and
publicity drove me to desperate extremes.
At the Waahiugtonian borne no one
knew how to treat my disease. Every
body knows tho rest bow I went to the
gutter and lost everything,"
"With all your experience with co
caine, how do you now regard it?" asked
the reporter.
"I think it is a grand drug, with re
markable properties, and destined to take
the pluce of ether and chloroform. It can
be used without danger of death. It
produces no nausea or prostration, It is
a great specilto for nervous diseases, lor
certain discuses of the spine, for paralysis,
for tetanus, hydrophobia - and other con
vulsive diseases. It will unite with other
anti-spasmodics and intensify their ac
tion, I think I know more about cocaine
than most men, but I have no compre
hensive idea of its possibilities. Sci
entists are only iu the experimental stage
with it."
"What are the effects of the drug?"
"To begin with, it is like the1 effects of
any stimulant at certain stages, but it ia
not stupefying, as is opium. The person
taking it has a feeling that everything is
lovely and serene, of perfect oontent
nient and universal satisfuotion. All
things seem perfect. There are' none of
HUDSON'S BAY PEOPLE.
family Life of the Kskfmn Who Dwell
Near the Great Inland Oeean.
In the summer each family has its
own home, but in winter two or more
families live together for the sake of in
creased warmth and economy of fuel.
The summer residence is a tent made of
dh-of ; inswithtnehaiped c giving
1. I ,i. i .i -it l, a 1 ftaek the appearance of yellowish parch-
Blent, which is stretched over poles of
of titMr.Ani'arrfdcira.ling. It will deaden hnpe. llw door a ways faces-toward
aUriV ,Wept4 f right, just ttoithewabvwltcsidetheyaiecamped,
.. hiW. and nr.ll a victim down I "d M U "If" "de the " ?
'Aa Island qf Unending Hummer Wot Far,
.. it Away The l.axy lnlialltante.
.. Nnssfiu is one of the smallest, of . the
Bahama islands, covering a length of
twenty miles by an average of five miles
in width. The city is built, lacing the
north, UjKm the slope of a ridge, running ,
west to east, and nearly 100 feet at its '
highest, The soil is thin, the island con
sisting of an old coral roef, elevated grad
ually from the ocean, and during that
jieriod subjected to the action of the
waves, leaving it honeycombed and
pocketed. This rock is compact, of sand
made from disintegrated corals, yellow
ish creamy in color and soft, in texture,
so that it iH quarriiHl by sawing and chis
eling, becoming considerably harder by
expemtu'e. The surface of the rock is
covered with loose pieces, exceedingly
irregular in form. Over this is a very
little sod.
The streets are graded through this
natural rock, with natural gutters and
walks. The streets at right angles to the
water front cross the ridge generally
through deep cuts in the natural rock in
order to lessen the grade. The dwellings
of the better sort are square or oblong
square, seldom more than two stones
high, with low ceilings and low pyra
luidicol roofs. These houses are always
surrounded on at least two sides with
broad verandas, closed in with slats to
keep out the light. For this reason the
houses appear larger than they are.
Dormer windows abound. The house
colors are stone, light yellow, cream; the
blinds are brown or green. High stone
walls, with broken glass bottles cemented
into the ridges, inclose the houses and
gardens; ornamented openwork gate
wavs afford a glimpse within.
The cocoanut, the royal the palmetto
and the silver leaf palms abound. The
giant Ouliu, or silk cotton tree, oleanders
of large size, enormous auiaryHids, with
the many 8)iecies of the citrus family, j
hang up their yellow finit against the
sun. Thoi'UHHot japodilla just coming into
fullness adds a siecial charm to its back
ground of dork green waxy leaves. The
vegetation seems rather snb-tropical than
thoruughlv tropical. This results nut
from wuut of heat, may be, but need of
soil.
The city of Nassau is extremely pict
uresque with the quaint narrow streets,
white, deep gutters cut from living rock,
lurue dwellings, with the lower or street
story, for warehouse or shop, the outside
stairways and balconies? Every building
has some special individuality about it
which adds much to the sum total of the
charm one Uuds in quietly roaming round
the streets.
Here it is literally always afternoon.
No one works. Ask a question and it
will be answered the day after to-inor-row.
The few shOis ojien about .hreak
fliat time, and are then shut up during
that meal, and breakfiiBt time is not
early. 1 went into a wholesale store at
noon time. The one clerk was fast
asleep in liis chair, and 1 left him undis
turbed. ' The blacks, seemingly twenty
to one of the whites, sit lounging, gab
bling, chatting, talking loud and laugh
ing, but I have not seen one at work.
The Inislish mujesty of law is thor
oughly resis'cted here. The principal
crimes profanity, jawing and slander-
are among the colored races, and tney
einov defending themselves at law,
Shops close at 5 p. m. Saturday is a
half holiday and Sunday a Puritanical
one.
Back of Nassau proper, over the ridge
and down on to lower levels swarm the
colored people. Their small garden
pieces are walled in with the loose pieces
of coral rock. Their cabins are small,
with one or may be two rooms, of rock
or coral, palmetto thatched. The gar
dens aw bare, honeycombed coral rock,
where with a crowbar the banana, the
cocoanut or maize is planted. They are
unkempt, unthrifty, dirty; but every
where kind mother nature covers the
earden walls with lichens and the con
volvulus, and tlte great lobed leaves of
the bread fruit, the alumna and the
palms give to the eye an ever varying,
an ever entirely satisfying picture.
These cabins of the colored people (our
inheritance from Spanish cruelty) liter
ally swarm with children, ihe tra
ditional stair of from five to twelve little
pickaninnies is found in every cabin.
"Masso, gib me oopper for bread I" They
are inveterate beggars. They say. they
can't iret work, or if ihey do get any but
little is paid twenty-nve to ntty cents a
dav. The truth is, there is no desire,
nerhans no incentive, to work, no ambi
tion to satisfy. Hunger is easily satisfied
bv fruit, sweet BOtato, yams and tish.
But little fruit is exported, and that from
the outlvinir islands, not from Here.
Sponge fishing is the one industry which
here is active.
For the climate, I would judge we had
in the United States no spot equal to this
for unending summer, t or people ad-
vonoed in lite who desire to avoid our
winters, for tired brain workers, for
bed, composed of moss covered witli
seolskin. As they sleep with head point
ing doorward, they necessarily lie down
hill, owing to the natural slope of the
land toward the shore. This does not
seem either a comfortable or healthy po
sition, but apparently they are none the
worse for it. Oh either side of the door
way is their lanler. consisting of exceed
ingly repulsive looking piles of seal meat
and blubber, which give forth an odor
that Samson Ini.isHf. with his hair at its
longest, could hardly wrestle with suc
cessi'ully, bo overwhelming is its strength.
The winter habitations are made en
tirely of snow, and are generally built
under the sheltering lee of a rock, in the
drift that accumulates tiiere. ' The build
ers b 'gin by marking oat on the snow a
circle alxwt fifteen feet in diameter,
which represents the inner 'side of the
walls, and with a saw or long bladed
knife they cm out blocks of snow, from
three to six feet long by a foot thick and
high, from inside the circle they have
marked; then, placing the blocks around
the circle, they earn- the walls up spir
ally (not in tiers), until they meet in a
keystone aliove, at a distance of about
nine feet from the excavated level of the
floor. The result is, except, of course.
to color, the production of a gigantic bee
hive, over the door or in the center of the
roof of which is set a big block of fresh
water ice to serve the purpose of a win
dow in lighting an interior that, although
stainless white at first, is soon blackened
by the ever smoking, evu smelling lamps
the inmates use,
The furniture of theso human - hives is
very simple, as may be readily Bupposed.
It consists of a bed place or divan along
the side of the "igloo, ".opposite the door.
and two fireplaces, one on either hand as
vou enter. These are made of firmly
packed Bnow, and raised about three feet
above the floor, the divan having its
outer edge faced, with a pole to prevent
it from crumbling away when used as a
Beat in the dav time. The beds are made
up iu the following manner; Finst,
layer of moss spread over the Bnow; next,
a layer of sealskins; then a layer of bear
or deerskins, and finally the sleeping
bags, which resemble exaggerated pillow-
slijw, only that fur takes the place of
linen, and the fur is double, bo that there
may be hair both inside and outside.
Into these bags, of which each adult has
one, tlie Eskimo, Btripped to the bare
buff, creeps for tlie night, and
sleeps very comfortably. Up to the
age of 10 the children share their
parents' bag; after that they are pro
moted to having one oi tneir own.
Their fires are nothing more than
lamps rudely fashioned out of soapstone,
and so arranged as to be self -supplying, a
mass of blubber being hung in Bucb close
proximity to tlie flame that the fat is
converted into oil, which, dripping into
the bowl below, is consumed by means
of a moss wick. As the lamp has no
chimney, and both oil and wick are of
the poorest, the result is the reverse of
brilliant, neither ngnt nor neat ueing od-
tained in what we would consider a
satisfactory quantity. Just above
the lamps a sealskin is' stretched to
prevent tlie heat thawing tlie roof away,
a precaution tliateems hardly necessary,
seeing that tlie ordinary temperature of
these Bnow huts is 87 degs. at the roof
and 24 degs. at the level of the beds; in
other words, from 5 to 8 degs. below
f reezing point.
In order to keep out as much cold as
possible, the- doorways are very low and
narrow, a fact which explains the curious
phrase with wluch the hosts speed tneir
parting guests, namely: "Tabourke aper-
niak in atit"-?-tliat is: ' "Good-by; don't.
bump your head. J. Macdonald Oxley
in American Magazine.
Mixed .Material tor tllass.
A new use has been found for waste
glass by .VeRsr. llostaing, Garchey
and lieille. of r'aris. Any fragments
of broken glass of various colors are
mixed together, ifter having been
broken to a suitable size: they are
then nlaced in moulds lined with silica.
tale, or some other resisting material
and fired. A conerent mass is pro
duced which can be dressed and cut
into blocks, which are, of course. Ir
regularly colored, r-uch blocks may
be used as artificial marble.
The blo.:ks are usually rough on
one side, owing perhaps to incom
plete fusion; ih'i gives a surface
which is admirably adapted for caus
ing them, especially if they are slab
like in form, to adhere to walls with
addition of a little mortar. Fine dec
orative effects can thus be produced.
Designs in relief can be obtained by
pressure while the block or slab is
plastic, it a smtaote moutu is pre
nared with mi vable partitions, then
pieces of glass can be arranged in such
a way that, upon tiring, a very effec
tive "sained glass' window is pro
duced, the nece-sitv of using "lead1
ing," as the ordinary way, being thus
obviated.
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