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2 BSTETH LIKE AN ADDER THE CONFESSIONS OF A VICTIM OF THE MORPHINE AND WHISKEY HABITS. UNDREW D. COWLES' EXPERIENCE He Tells llcw the Use of Stimulants and Opiates Crew Fpon Hint Fntil the Almost Fatal Night in Durham— The Awful Delusions that Flitted through His Fevered Brain—His At tack upon Mr. Cobb and the Carpen ter and His Attempt at Suicide. Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 20. To the Editor of the News and Observer : In “As you like it' 5 you will find the bard of Avon, although bibulous in his habits and a votary of Bacchus’’himself, exclaiming, “It is strange that men will put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains;’ and Adam a character in the same im mortal creation, proudly in his old age proclaims, “My age is as lusty winter, frosty but kindly, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liqu ors in my blood.” Truly it is one of the paradoxes of life that any sane person would wilfully embitter the past, and jeopardize tiie future by sensual indulgence in the present. Alas, alas, it too true, and while Slrn-k speare was not strictly accurate in declaring that jusice had fled to brutish beasts, he was correct in his as sertion “that men had lost their reason.” Byron, of whom Taine said, “Thus lived and died this great and unhappy man; the malady of his age had no more dis tinguished prey,” in a maudlin condition declared that the best of life was but intoxication and that man being reason able must get drunk; and not satisfied in falsifying a true proposition, that re volts at such stupendous folly, he breaks out in ecstatic rapture, mounts Pegasus and with a brain reeling, per verted and polluted after a midnight carnival of vice and vicious pleasure, which are like Dead Sea apples, he says: “Fill the goblet again, for 1 never before felt the glow that now gladdens my heart to its core. Let us drink; who would not, since through life’s varied round, in the goblet alone, no deception is found ” Tnis tribute to the mo3t fiend sh, cruel and unrelenting enemy of the human family, emanating from Lord Byron, whose d ligh ful melody makes every chord of the heart vibrate in unison with his own, rounds pretty and robs vice of its disgr.sMng semblance, shape and form. The youth of otir country forget, in their rapture of admiration for his un disputed genius, that he was not a safe guide; that he was a gay Lothario, a lib ertine, and that fathers were seen leav ing public receptions in Italy, with their j daughters, when he was present. They regai ded him as a social leper. Go to the Bock of Books, and be interrogated “Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow ? Who hath wounds without esuse ? Who hath redness of eyes ? He that tarrieth long at the wine cup. Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright, for at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Oh had I the power 1 would bum this awful warning into the heart and mind of every young man in the land, for sor row degradation, despair and death follow the violation of moral and physi cal laws as the night the day. Five hundred thousand drunkards are mar ching to the grave, the jails and poor houses to-day. Most of them will reach their destination. Where are the re- ! cruits to come from? Father: Mother, ! is it your boy, who is now a genteel tip- j pier? Oh no, he will never drink, he is strong. So was Samson but he became j weak. I was strong but temptation ! was stronger. For eight years j I fought the demon of intemperance. I j joined the church and surrounded my-j self with ail the influences that pointed i to a higher aud nobler life in an un- j guarded moment I took a quarter grain ot morphine for laryngitis. I almost j cried “Eureka!” I had found the elixir ot lit?, but I soon discovered in its potent power concealed hell. Before I was aware of its insidious effect I was a vic tim, tied hand and foot—an habitue, struggling for release, when bound wi h cables. If I cried out in the night, the echo of my voice sounded like the hiss iug of fiends in hell. Shut or open my * y the-’C demons of despair and lost souls w„re there, shaking their gory lo'A* at me. I could see in form, as palpable as my owd, the grinning skull and eyeless holes, but I struggled on. I went to Durham on the 14th of August. For several days under the goad of whiskey and morphine I did business, but the abuse of myself several months with the present quantity of whiskey and narcotics rapidly drove me on and on to the climax. “Canst not minister to a mint! disseased Or pluck from the memory it rooted sorrow?” The State papers have had a great deal to ay ibout my performance at Durham on the 7ih inst. For a warning to other yo iiig men who are singly addicted or do’-biy addicted 1 regard it a duty I owe them to describe my thrilling experi ence ?n experience 1 would not pass through again for the wealth of the Indies, but one which any man might go through at any time who uses morphine or* whiskey. Although stopping at the Oarrolina Hote ,wn table was laden with every th! ■' calculated to tempt the appetite. 1 cm! • v. uot'img. For ten days I bad r<' i/-:) the rable. I had used mor p hi-key and absinthe I had no j. i on of delirium. At 12 m on t • ! :'>m2TOb'‘-r a pleasant c.uversa ti i-> • , • G->n. C,moron aud C opt W. W. t • v >, of Ka.eigh. They went eoi >i i ..Hiked down to a barroom ji’iu i driuk. Returning to the b >i HUr-ed to my r Kim on the third lhx,r. and when 1 reached the second tl or 1 wful y in Hie power of delirium aid a p taut prey for ail Linds of dkda.-Tjci and d’mgoroas hallucina tions A m*>n, ere;i ed in my imagi nation. ealU-i mo to the western cud of . lie hall, tol l me there was a tlespnrate fight about to commence, and I whs selected to lead the Republicans. Don’t you hear the mounted men huz zaing? Yes. Listen at the horses hoofs as they strike the stony street. Yes I tear them, and they are coming nearer, nearer; now they are in the house. 1 hear the jingle of their spurs and the clanking of their sabres and the rattle of their carbines With brain afire, and uplifted chair I stood about watching every avenue of advance, heard dis tinctly the orders to kill me and give no quarter, expected to bo shot every mo rn mt. My delirium was assuming a fearful state. The voices ceased. 1 cried in my madness, ‘ Stand boys oi we are dead men.” Promptly a voice re sponded, “We are with you ’ Looking in the direction whence the sounds pro ceeded, and oh, horror of horrors, right over my head seemingly ready to drop, the deadly implement was an old skull with an axe without handle, between its teeth, with the edge toward me. 1 moved to the other side of the ball, I a-:sed,aud as 1 did so I spied a carpenter, with tools around him. I asked him for a hatchet. He held up a whip saw. I insisted on having the hatchet, lie re fused to let me have it. Then 1 said: “What are you anyhow—Democrat or Republican?” He said: “Don’t you know?” I replied, “No!” He said: “I am a Democrat; may I go to your room with you?” I said: “Yes, if you desire.” Then, this imaginary interlocutor walked rapidly with me twenty feet and the proprietor, Mr. Cobb, and several others cried, “For shame, the fight and danger over Cowles is a coward, for he was afraid to go to his room alone, 1 protested that no such con struction should be placed on my conduct, that 1 had defended, single-handed, the west wing of the corridor, and had never moved till ordered. I could then see in form at least a hundred scowling, angry, contemptuous faces. The proprietor told me to prepare for a horrible death. A drummer came in, registered aud asked permission to see the execution. The clerk repeatedly asked me to let him feel my pulse, twitted mo by charging that I was afraid to die and was crying. He told me to get down on my knees aud beseech the heavenly throne; asked me where I wanted the little they would leave buried; and the carpenter still worked away on the addition to the office. I was assured by demons con jured up by the accursed morphine that at 4 o’clock I was to be subjected to in dignities too gross to mention. My eyelids were to be cut off, my ears and nose were to share the same fate. I was to be huDgup, head downward, nails driven through my feet, skinned from waist to arms and then hot boiling tar was to be applied. Great drops of sweat rolled eff of me. The people in the street seemed wild after my blood. The bells rung; the tramp of the mad populace was un ceasing and incessant. Squads of men were hurrying here and there, singing, cursing and shouting that they they were going to hang Andrew Cowles. “When,” was ased. “Four o'clock,” was the an swer. “For what?” “Why, for cow ardice.” So intense was my excitement I neglected to brace on morphine. So real was the phantasmagoria I regarded it as useless to make an attempt at relief or escape. I had passed the point where Hope could solace or comfort. The sky was rayless and the beetling clouds hung heavily without a silver lin ing over me. I was too proud to beg for mercy, and too weak to it. I made no plaint, asked no quarter, and was entirely oblivious of possessing within myself any immortal quality whatever. The time was fast approach ing when I should shuffle off this mortal coil, and go to that country whence no traveller returns. So real was it, that I never questioned their right of condem nation. Hurriedly I walked a limited space over the tiled floor of the lobby, and looking at the clock it marked ii:3o p. m. At 4 I must die. The optical de lusion in showing me 100 men had passed away. There was a lull. I furtively glanced my eye over the lobby and corridors, saw a negro on a ladder about ten feet from the ground, working away on the new office, and Mr. Howell Cobb, proprietor, and at my feet I found three hatchets. Four o’clock seemed to be a fatal hour. Then I must die. There was no appeal. Those who sat in judgment were obdurate. They demanded their pound of flesh. 1 had never failed to defend myself—why should I now? By all the laws of hospi tality recognized in the rude tent of the Bedouin, equally with civL'izcd nations. I thought Mr. Cofeb had grossly proven recreant. By this time I was mad, hope less, desperate. Anticipating the hour of tour I quickly raised the hatchets, in tending to kill the carpenter first, aud then Mr. Cobb. I hurled hatchet No. 1 with terrific force at the carpenter. He saw me in time, and b> falling clear, escaped the deadly missile. Then as quick as a flask I sent another at Mr. Cobb, the blade of which did’nt miss his throat half an inch,but thank God it inflicted no wound on him. Cobb HOOD’S PILLS cure Liver Ills, Biliousness, Imligcation, Headache. A pleasant laxative. All Druggist?,. Uses Mexican Mustang Liniment On his horses, on his drivers. Thg News and Observer, Saturday, Sept. 21, ’*>s. jerked the drawer open I presume to get a revolver, shutting it quickly he jumped up on the desk with a large lamp and let fly. Ho struck me above the temple and such was the force of the blow that he turned me around, lb doubtless would have broken my skull had 1 not had a still derby hat on. I hurried to the wash-room, locked the door, and was determined to defend my self to the last as l was sure 1 waste be tortured and fearing to fall into tin hands of these people who were really trying to save me from myself, I tried to cut my throat. Fortunately the hatchet was dull. Then 1 tried to go to the brain through the temple with the corner of the hatchet. By this time at least dOO peo pie had assembled Some were at the door and others at the screen window. Some had weapo s of offence, others ot defence, and in my delirium I imagined these parties whom 1 could see were members of the mob. Keeping ray eye on the window, I sat. on the marble wash stand near the door, and had the crowd broken in 1 would doubtless have killed three before they could have killed mo Imagining it was only a question of a short time aud sure I was to be tortured I cut my temple till from loss of blood I was unable to raise the hatchet. The police discovering this broke through the window lossed the hatchet, put me in an ambul ance and hurried me to the hospital to save me if possible. As the wagon rattled over the rocky street, I became reconciled to my doom. 1 was being taken to the place of execu tion. I was alternately submerged in water and then enveloped in fire. My system was alike impervious to both. The water schoeked not, the lire burned not. The phantasm was so real t hat 1 felt like sands in the hour glass of my life were about run down. I begged them to shoot me—shut my eyes so that they might place the deadly pistol to my tem ple. 1 was sure I was dying, and in my delirium troops of old friends “stood around me. I was at home again and they had come to perform the last sad offices for me. Every feature on every face was plain and clear cut. My im agination was at a high tension. I shrieked that I was a martyr to civil liberty in one breath and that I was a victim of political conspirators in tin next. And all this was caused by the excessive use and abuse of morphine. The devil has no agent so powerful to use. It is sure death, despair, degrada tion to the user, but it does not stop with the unhappy victim—in a moment of delirium the father's hand is often imbr ued in the blood of her whom he has sworn to support, andcf the little ones, pledges of their affection. Dante’s la ferno, in delineation of horrible things, can furnish no parallel to the horrors of an imagination wrought up by mor phine. The whole nature of man is changed, and he is transformed iuto a fiend, alike dangerous to himself and all around him. He draws the demons of hell to his bosom and is pleased with his company. They regard him safely thus aud go on tempting others Young men, who are using 1-8 to 1-4 grain of morphine a day, stop! You may think you can use it and conceal it, but be sure your sins will find you out. And if there are any morphine habitues, whose eyes may peruse these lines, I will feel that I have not trod the wine press in vain, if they are induced by my awful experience, to stop at once; and [CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE ] Prevention and Fore. “I am using Hood’s Pills in ray family and find theta a convenient and ready remedy, and a prevention and cure for sick headache. 1 have used them for this troub’e and have found them bene ficial. I have also found them good for curiDgahardcold.”—Mrs. Ed. Forsythe, 806 South Person street, Raleigh, N. C. Hoods Pills care biliousness and indi gestion. (uticura a Instantly Relieves SKIN TORTURES A warm bath with Cuticura Soap, single application of Licura (ointment), ire, followed by mild uoscs ui vwji.ujra Resolvent (the new blood purifier), will afford instant relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy cure in every form of torturing, disfiguring skin humours. Sold throughout the world. British N*wb*bt, London. Pott** Dki:«4 Cun* Com-., Boston, U.S.A. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 8, 1895 Lyon Mfj. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gentlemen Having seen Mexican Hustang Lini ment extensively advertised hero induces me to tell you how useful it is to persona in the livery business I have Used it for the past 18 years on ray horses for almost every thing that horses are subject to. For sprains and stiff joints Ido not think it has an equal, and for such things as harness galls and rubs it Is wonderful. I once had a very line driver who was thrown from his eai riago in a runaway and so severely bruised about his shoul ders and breast that I did not think he would ever be able to get on a carriage again. I remembered, however, Him; Mexican Mustang Liniment did for my horses in cast <>t bruises and had him use it constantly, and in about tv weeks lie was as good a driver as ever, and not an ache < 1 pain remained. I know you must gel tired of receiving such letleiv, mu 1 thought I would add one more testimonial to th ■ u • ness of Mustang Liniment. Yours truij, « NV. it. it. i- o- rears U> i,lve»v tint Transfer business Irian A Han Myers Windom, Kan. Scrofula From Birth Other Medicines Utterly Failed But Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cured. “Some time Bince, our boy then font years old was in the hands of the family doctor for treatment for scrofula. He had been afflicted with this trouble from birth and we had been unable to give him Only Temporary Relief. We decided to give him Hood’s Sarsapa rilla and are glad to say 6 bottles of Hood’s entirely cured him. Our oldest daughter has been taking Hood’s Sarsa parilla for rheumatism with good results. We have used from first to last some flO worth of the medicine and have received the equivalent of several hundred dollars’ j worth of doctor’s treatment and good j Hood’s Cures health to hoot. 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