NATIONAL HASHEESH HOUSE

Western Star, Issue 932, 21 March 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

NATIONAL HASHEESH HOUSE

Washington la lethal m its influx ences. There is no rigid rectangularity in its streets. They are so arranged that one reaches almost any point without much exertion. The angles are all obliterated. Curving lines of beauty are met in every direction. t There are dreamily-plashing fountains, parks with gentle billows of foliage; the atmosphere is a soft tint of grey, and the architecture is in harmony with it, there nowhere being obtrusive colours or startling projections. In this delightful city there is none of the activity of sharp commercial life. The environment is one which suggests repose; it begets lethargy and woos to inaction. The result is that a life here induces listlessness, dreaminess, and a distaste for the activities of commercial ties. This fact has a bearing upon those who live here, and especially those are in the service of the Q-overmhent Such men are employees j they are not entrusted with independent powers ; they are automata that move and operate as directed by some external power. They lose all self-reliance and independence, and become in moral strength no grade above tSei African slave. When the end of their service comes they have no provision for the future; they cannot fall back on any habits of industry they have acquired, no profession they have learned, no position for which they have fitted themselves. There is for them no paternal government, as is the case with the African freedman, to care for them, to pul them on their feet, to teach them to walk alone, to place them where they can secure at least a subsistence. Then condition is abject and pitiful. They are opium-eaters of many years of in dulgence, who are suddenly deprived of their drug, and thrown oui into the world to depend on chance or beggary to escape starvation,— Qhmm Timw