Show J t A correspondent of tiie tile new york examiner W writing from bangkok sia sla siam slam rii rid gives the following fearful yet yei truthful il account of tile the desolation this narcotic 3 working in ih tile the nation opium is scraping soo aping cpin deeper furrows among thees thele nations nut nat ions lons and felling them with a lnore inore blasting torrent than any that ever issued f bom ro m vesuvius or etna the mie lightning from front heaven cathels not sot with a more unerring certainty chaa tha does that faint and arid flickering kering biao that thet hovers bovera over tha A bowl of the opium pipe I 1 did di dis I 1 ships that carryon carlyon car ryon the th e merchandise dige of this baneful drug but dischar discharge go hot hotshot shot or sixty eight pou riders liders into 0 thesa thela ese mar may maritime I 1 cities instead of 0 opium Ahey hey would in fiot a small email evil in comparison tho enterprise and aha elastic vigor which distinguish uie oie race yace would a soon as tha the storm sterril had passed oven over impel impei them theia to tardily rally raily and r rebuild their mansions more durably than before it is thus they leseao lose iose 30 time in repairing tha th a damages caused by bk typhoons along their coast ami anil inundations in their rivers baat bant alien in suei sUsi uca ica and oftentimes ili in the darkness of midnight they discharge through their gangways their black shells sheils of maiwa halwa and v they are hurling boad broad ide uie in irl comparison with which chain xo shot t would i be a mercy tile the most malicious hater haer of his bis rase raze could loot have compounded a more efficient missile of de than these east india bombs all abo ills that flesh is heir to and some that humanity would oth otherwise berwise never have known are theio clo ped poverty is there disease Is there li in ail all its wasting forms form emaciation is there premature decay is thele shame is there anguish and despair despain are are there falsehood perjury and blasphemy all have a place there too ia is to ft be found round treachery to confida confidants ilu riL ingratitude to friends of parents abuse of families theft robbery and arcon arson ar orare ciare are there murdel alid arid suicide are there temporal death is there these P wl nd then worse than all deah eter isil tili is in theda thesa shells and when tesy burst they hurl their blaz anz ns fragments into every circle of society from the tb lofty to the lomy lowly from flom the opulent to the fm tva ishii g fro froine from inh ilie ille man of learning to the unlettered coolie they go to curse corse they fly to destiny they all ail 11 the ille dark road to perdition afi FL bellum dei dev scourge of god tw ai aba abe name given in ili former formen days das to the that occasionally swept through rome flagellum diabolic scourge of the tile devil is no do unsuitably abla designation for these twin scourges i alad ziad opium i |