A Good Story

Hash-hoesh is a drug much used in southern countrles of the Grient,. lts effects resemble those of opium. The Journal sajs certain medical students recently experimenteel to study its effects upon themselves and tells the story as follows: It was about 10:30 o'clock last Saturday evening when the box of blackloolting, nasty-smelling stuff was opened. A few cracker crumbs were rolled on the table and with them for a coating two one-grain pills were made. Two medical students swallowed the pellets. A half-hour went by with no changes in their condition. Then another one-grain pellet was taken by each. In about 15 minutes the performance began. The older of the two students wad talkingf about some popular book which he had just finished, whon suddenly he stopped. He couldn't speak. That is, he could not be understood. He stuttered aDd stammered His vvords ran together and lapped over each other. He sliook his head and gesticulated actively, all tke time thinking he was being perfectiy understood, for the reason that to his ears his words were clcar and distinct. The second man started up at about the same instant. He was talking rationally when, without a bit of warning and for no reason on earth, he began to laugh. He laughed and laughed, a hyena-like, insano laugk. It was one of those laughs thatare not eontagious, but rather cause the goose Ile9h to rear and cold chills to chasc one another up and down the spine. (Continued on pase four.) A GOOD STORY. (Con1 i""i 'I trom psg one ) While the first man was wavlog hia ai'ms and trylng to talk, the secoml arrived at tho "deslructive period" of the delirium, whlch, it might be bbW, is alway3 observed in amateui-3 at the drug. He tipped over a heavy bookcase out of pure devütry, and with no appiirant reason save that it caused him to break out into another round of insane laughtcr. This attaek lasted about live minutes, then, as suddenly as it had como upon tte m, it left the "patients. " They became as saneas ever and, strange to say bega where they had left off the conversation that had been broken into by the seizure. This lasted about 10 minutes, and then carne tbe second paroxysm. They were both then in the "hallueiation" stage. One of them slapped nis hands to nis thighs and crowed luatily. Then he threw hiraself on the Hoor and began picking at his les. where in his eyes he saw growing great buoches of feathers. Suddenly he took himself for an owl, and going off into a darle corner of the room squatted upon the floor and "hooted" over and over again for a period of three minutes. His next antie was to lie flat upon the floor and contract the muscles ot the upper portion of the body. emitting the while weirdly realistic hisses. He imagined himself a snake and in this conditition passed through contortions that normally he vvould never have been able to get into or out of. While influenced by these hallucinations his companion was not quiet. He was a steamboat. He hel ï his arms out before him, the hands closed palm to palm, as you have seen divers, and scuffed around the room time and agaln, "chooing" with all the vigor of a twin screw Atlantic liner. Passing from this condition he next beheld a beautiful river before him. "See the river, boys," he said ; '-let's go in ming." Thereupon he bogan taking off hia clothes. He was allowed to do so by the doctor, who wish to note hovv far such.a conception would go. The patiënt stepped out into the hall and reached carefully before him with his foot a9 though testing the temperature of the water. He would advance and draw back. Finally he took courage and walked out into the middle of the hall. He sat on the Hoor and waved his arms about him as every one has seen bathers do. He would go through all the motions of scooping up water In the palma of his hands and throwing it down his bank. After playing about in this manner for at least 10 minuets, now and then emittins: a stifled yen, he stepped out of his "bath" and looked about liim for a towel. Kot iindins that very necessary arücle he showed himself cqual to all emergencias by drying himself witli the shirt he had just removed. After his "plunge" he grew quiet and at length slept. 11e was allovved by the doctor to lie on the floor, no one being permitted to approach him. While his performance in the water was on, his "brother in crime" was having a big time over on the divan. He was destructive and was held down by tho doctor and student who had let the hemp alone. Ilc was crafty. All the time ne was being held lie was concocting some plan in his fevered brain whereby he inight do damage. His eyes looked longingly at the lamp. The physiciifn was about to tae his temperature when it suddenly occurred to him that it might be dangerous to the insane man if the tube were placed in his mouth. He would have chewed up the glass. He said af ter his reoovery that was what he was of doing. He told one of the men holding liim that he wanted a drink and begged him to feel his Ups. They were so dry, he said. It was hia inlention, if water was brought, to shower it over the attenrtants and then throw the picture at the lamp. All he was allowed to do, however, ivas, when his gnard's eyes were turned to the chap takin; a bath in the hall carpet, to tip over a small tablc. The aclioa relieved him greatly.