Show IN M M AN Qa f C lir Ir A Farm Which Ten Carpenter r r 9 W nth ot of the Drug J ver fear the I ell 0 J Opium fa tu re and Tells Tell flow w It III Ia Prep for the ijA uig Opium VIIi to fi or of Pr Per att One I r a Doctors Docto I UM FA I RM Say About the or of Thor uC at Opium m I I 01 1 s Who KIH Thom Themselves to 11 Spilt Their fathers Who Sell Their and Children I n to GraUry Their Opium and U At AtI Attempted I tempted and the I RUIning the te t IMP In the DenaA 1 Opium arid and Morphine are to the World d d Opium Joint I la at Shanghai HoW Celestials t and the Receipts An re One Thousand a ar CaThe I Almond Adventures 0 of an American r J w rR fRANK G k Q O Carpen n nI l 1900 by I ur ten ter terM la Is Q e egle l a 3 M cU hOre hOretH al farm ot of gle tH 0 dolia worth orth ofIs II I tn t o ere I Is I U II III t wrY every rear V vIII I ng there Bong t fui II III at I H fhe Ci Chink d DYer tm I r oth t a 11 o of opium f Is e lead h hundred yM re 11 IIO ae 6 It ItI 11 frau Today It colts nothing ill il 11 r I to t United e bill of the r lino tit to moro moroN It 11 I ll ts for the for 11 N of If the dl es ess s U II I In 1 per r cent III of other the the POI its It use UM useI It I t i III telling less letI la I p I IW bw a as 20 and SO 10 ller Iier I nA the r that on In Instance tance or hn t I cent centI only 60 per to I p amounts lunt oho F OOOO people ere are I hI h mok I ar 11 I ur or hundreds or of orI spa spaS pend Ii h hundreds hundred of others other I t r tho e drug fUr of a Iii S but Lut II I Ih the consulted 10 Ina average would co coat t Cur s plum OPIUM t tM BIG DlO MAA 3 hero here twY farm Carm I I il d the Ih opium ollUm of the city heart In Ih the thel t I J I Is by great red I l cover Coer an acre t th d i It duet does nut not I all Its Is IsI I than thana week or more I Ii h V a people cacao TIlt T e I firm a Im seer but It I is not that In our I word R It Ie I an tc fac stole sense of the out b by the ther The rent of the farm le ler I II r and the farmer Carmer pays r I II hof the Ie ot turning he rr fr mill little the Into or of th the POPPY I lull a I the pipe reAdy for tor n lor If t Ih 11 crones cOllieS the opium used The int or t plains Jt It I la nisei on the f u 11 under the superintend If IS r n lIb e and 11 Macao llao It comee In Int n fl Ih r e nt to tuxes and belle ball of tour four pounds poud t sS b lh belie are arc of oC a brown color colore rough II ae sandstone and anI e J lit uT a aA had been they the though tok Ik its IS any oy Each ball bali la laI I ds t j p I lh oatmeal 11 I ut a 11 I big AI ae your head It the JUll e ot at the poppy WIlt as it was WI Kath gath d LIm Im the pods Iod by the J 1 made Into thep belle balle under the glah asked I the heat head of the fac rv to tn titles lIo me to photograph one ot of I ht here baths balls bu but t he refused refu to permit t tIe Ie o to be In the works How oN Tr IS S REFINED nEI INED lip tt me however to 10 go rough Hough the and I pent elent eld hours houn In the different rooms making nol It tl is on one of the busl buel rt I place pa ft I 1 bare hae seen In China Take ake the melting rooms where whre the opium lashed la III shed and It la II more like af a sundry f thin than el else e It Is 18 fort pt fang nr and not more than twenty feet wide It hoe bl all an earthen Moor and andI I lunK each wall running the full rull length I r f the rO room m are score ot o f little ovens oen n toil h of h la A a great lat flat braes bra In the opium le II cooking The stuff looks like a thick black trios III awe 15 It seethes and bolls bohle a as the 4 Chinese worker stirs It to bP and greet ladle Game or of the Ibe are ar as bl big around LA b a washtub and all ar are sending forth r plum J room l with hundreds JI alor the r of boll 11 pan The fumes t get gel Into my m nos nosI 1 m my hta head aches and 11 t for the time I 1 hil have all the ec s o of t the 0 opium MY oriuM DImm I lit and watch th the Chi Chir devils lelIs n at t r r hellish ork and n d all ae I do so It llo tome me that Iball 1 can see e the pictures be ruled which It f le l to 0 create reate a as It I W throughout tile the pire I carl can see e dens In ot of haggard eyed 1 Wag are a I id flies aws I b Uld R go 10 the sup up tr rl or of tamil I Ih lr I There lire woo we Ilen u as Well ell l as 1111 f men and children I as 1111 1 nail 11 u as grown upa here lIere I le a mother Ith her baby lit I her ler feet lying be beThe lampher re the opium lamp The pipe hoe hal fillen her and the little the one OM OMe Playing with it sucking It h I can e t the e opium parlors af of the rich and f h hells lIs ot of vice Ic rs I of I have Ithe seen nt at anChala score core 0 of t pIctures which I w HH v A SPHINX WHO WIIO RAFFLES BAfFLES THE WORLD 1 T 4 f I I 0 t tv r 1 t v 1 tj Ib I 6 tc r t rl I s t V t A AtZ f I 4 1 f f J f hI 1 If I I f fr fv tZ r k 1 1 r v tK t fi L I t The whole world awaits With anxious Interest the outcome or of the negotiations negotiation nt between the representatives ot of the powers And the Chi Chineo Chinee neo nee diplomats It Is that the ono one power In China Is the empress dowager and that upon her rests rest the answer to the question whether place or war or shall re result hH H H M H W r have been registered on my brain since I went through China JN TILE THE POPPY JUICE I leave this room and nd go 10 Into another Here Hare the opium having been boiled to thu aY of taff taffy la Is 1 hell kneRl ed rubbed and Into a paste lAte like mass The rhe men who do the work are coolies coolie bure baro to the waist The They lire are and the white drops strand out upon their skit skin and toll roll down Into the Ille mast they are kneading The stuff Is III boiled times ItIs It ItIs Is mixed with water venter and It ItIs Is III boiled again and strained finall finally It has been gotten Holten down to the right consistency and condition for sale lle saleIt It Is now nOI put up In tin boxes and Ind Is II rend ready for Cor shipment to China Chinn the United States Stales and other countries where opium Is used CHINAS CURSE The Increase it In the sae of opium lum amon among the Chinese ChineN le Is enormous Last year tar letters were sent out to one hun hundred hundred dred Cor foreign doctors stationed In dlf terent ferent JRr parts of the empire The They were aked for statistics as to opium and Its effects iii their respective districts These Theil retorts were wert gathered together torether by Dr Dc Park the surgeon ot of the pra customs who has charge charRe of the big hospital nt at I 1 have the tho copy COlY before me and from It I take much or of the following oration Many of the doctors estimate that thal from 30 to W per cent or of the tor or opium smokers They The sa say that hat the mandarins smoke the most and that h w V thousands of wealthy people lire are Im b by the use I or of the drug druI They The sa say that thal the laboring men smoke lees because the net act or of smoking takes I a great deal or of time It t cannot lie be done while work I is going on and the smoker Is almost sure Bure to lu lose loe his Job rB No one will employ An opium smoker If he can help It lie He Is as ti n rule Iule unreliable generally generall weak and ot of otten often ten a thief THE Or OPIUM I IThe The Chinese themselves denounce the habit Th They class It among Imong the three greatest or of sins and attempt to tegu lato It II h law The They license the opium heiling shops collect taxes upon It and treAt It t much nil as we do drink In the United States The people call opium smokers opium devils and h nearly all use more or less opium ollum the despise the opium drunkard as aa much muchas as AI we Llo do the alcoholic drunkard of the are attempting to put puta lut 1 a stop to opium ollum smoking One Olle of these la is Chang Ching who has hka denounced It its Ute use among the and who would like to see a stop put to opium raising In n his province OPIUM SUICIDES The number ot of opium In Chi Cil nfl no Is alarming the authorities hi has not to exceed people anI and Dr Park states tates that there are n 11 thousand attempts nl at suicide on the there every year ear This Is one for every too 00 ot of the population or two to the thousand and supposing there be OO Chinese If the same average ex exIsts lets elsewhere It t means menns attempt lid ad opium middle annually Th fhe percentage of et is I said laid to hue hay doubled since Inee opium was The Chinese ar are An excitable people and the having ha In of such uell Ii a at ar tide II a opium on hand I le 1 a They fht know that an overdose will caul death and use It for this both lot lotin ill in the Tart raft and manufactured state anflIn an anin In opium ashes Indeed th there r are charitable luau In III different parts ot of China that the Un offer lit at ally nIl tulle dR da or BI I 1 treat ol opium lum free ot of une cne such luch Institution at treat ill III ewes of Br this nature In lit sir mouths OPIUM IrOn SPIT I heard or of man natty curious opIum aol Rul eldee elde n trip that I made t ug the country a 11 miles or II so hn k kor or of ShanghaI I 1 I one night in th he elt city ot of at al the hospital of th terlan Medical Im ImOne One ot of the doctors doctor of this hJ hospital III I Mr Ir an American who Ito worked long In that field lie told to In that ht he lead lest year ear treated like people and that tilt most meet or orthe c the cal cages before the th from overdoses or of opium Raid hp he heThe The Chinese often otten commit suI loo to I avenge upon nn an I Is no greater race here he than tin tinto to have n Person pron kill on n n you our recount account You are ar then supposed to b his murderer rhe fhe people lIa say you ou ma mahave have been a Vel very ball bad man flan to h tv t him to such Hurh a state or of and ort are hens henre dIsgraced Wives suicide to avenge n their hu husbands and I 1 know of in instances stances of fathers tather killing t tB I spite their sons eons This Thle Is nn an n awful cal calamity amity for the son lon for It means meane his hili III so o We hall had a cue case or of this kind In connection with the One ot of our native pr preachers a ver r good good fellow hat had nn an father who became angry aner on and killed himsel In his sons house Tile This caused sll h han an outcry among the mAns then lion that thal he lint had to give gle up the mints I try r Another cue case 0 of opium suicide wn OR ORI I that or of 1 a mother and The They got Into Inlo R a quarrel over oer the break breakIng breakIng Ing of n a tea lea cup and lIch each to lO spite the other I MEN WO WOMEN mi AND use IT Dr Venable tells me list there Is n na vast a l deal or of opium used In the valley 1110 There Art are more opium ollum den than thon rico rice shops hoJa or tea shops and men mar women nail children to be round found In h them The he theatrical people and sing singIng Ing girls Irl all use ulle opium ollum It is t b by the orm army and almost everywhere Is a walled town ton of people but It consumes opium to iii value lIlu of a thousand dollars In gold ever evera day a This would be an average of If a cent a day OR per person or It a yea tar for tor overt oer man woman and child In the ti town 1011 At tP five to the family It would be b annually for Ier every fa family mil In InI hi I Considering the fact ral that tha the poor peor make on the fp from J 6 to t 1 10 cents 1 a Ila day this 1 is enormous Sup Suppose pose an American laborer getting U It day should pa pay daily for drink it Ir he be would not ply es a grant Areat 0 I Irom rom fourth to one half hale of each arh man mans dally daily earnings IO goe for opium ollum The lh of opium smokers learn to use ule the drug In some there ars arA whole who hB lake their doily smoke Bt one OM rIch tent fam II says the report of at Dr Park ever tr member smokes a d R a 00 boy had an allowance of A dollar A del delfor for tor his opium Another doctor that Ill he knew ot of a and six IOns eons all ot of whom were opium olum smokers smoke The Thi youngest eun lt son fon died at the age or of six elx o 11 11 little tIe withered old alII man One or of the tho sons Font married a girl Irl or of sixteen She he was pret pretty t ty and until married when chit became an opium fiend SOLD FOR FOn OPIUM r The craze for tor the drug Is beyond de I sin lun told that Chinese mo mother tiers ther often sell their little girls to buy opium Fathers t sell their sons and hue bUI battle their wives Dr Beale IIII who Is in charge 1 of C the big hO hospital at al Nan Nau king said that thal ht he had a neighbor who rye lB fin an opium smoker He spent lIt nil all nilor or of hi his money In gratifying the taste when that gone sold Zile 1111 three one after aCier Ilio other and I his hili wife to satisfy his opium hunger WANT WAT TO TIP BE CURED The Chinese look upon those are the Ila or of the habit much as Wp we look ook upon UlOn confirmed drunkards A beg begar ar or of who sleeps next door to o on nn opium den was Willi asked l where he heed hod ed Ife He replied Next door to hell lIn of Ih the opium desire to tB toe e curet and for tor this opium have hlf been established They Tiley tire ire more common than the Meeley urea or hOhl cures curI ot of the United They are well patronized An n or of title kind 1 was recently In It had rem fO smokers the first fine I year PilI are quacks In the hI different clues make II a lt of treating opium au Titer There are also charitable emU Pe who keep emetic Powder on hand hando to o live give to any aln one who ask for tor them are arp for tor Ute use In cases ot of suicide VS 18 OPIUM The Th doctors say fA that t few opium amok ers re art are ever cured They usually In e their from year por I r rear ear until death When the they endeavor to a break off of the habit they suffer luffer the IIII or of the l the contrast on trait of lf their heir condition w hue and stop tnt being well PI In Ili the tg was Willi written on the wens fir firth f th hr opIum refuge at al i otho b by ontO one r f fn n inmate smoking opium we t ere trans to tB Parada It hll breaking the abit we Are tortured In hell The tortures are rally too tuo much for the he patient Some ot of them pretend to toe bl e but Iut upon loves Inv It It is usually found that they at 11 from rom I nm m to tn morphine A Last ut amount of t pill are 11 by the hint They Ire are r sale 01 at Al all al dru drug tore and In InI I nine me places th the are AS tany as the opium 1 INJECTIONS AT 1 CENT CETA CENTA A J A U UIn In come ome clU cities along the the i hn method or of Injecting mur hal ha become common there morphine peddlers who ho go 10 bout about with wills up UI heir sleeves and give injections InJection Itt at athe tile he rate rail or of ale nl apiece at ItCe They 1110 tea teR houses and aro rea ready t tIt tIve Ive It you OU 1 a jab In the arm upon asking In n sonic places the customers stand up UI upu In u a 11 row and hold out their arms arm with the to tolled rolled up to the tho shoulders Tn he usual place for the Injection le Is the but bUl man many arms are tattooed from rem shoulder to with ears and some notions have marks extending over oer the greater part of their hems and shoulders The morphine Injectors make their i Wa They carry the tho stuff 1 along with them and onel hen the solon tiun gives Jhel out tile the take the dirty wAter from the shop and mix morphine with It In dirt cup for Cor 1 a tresh sUpply and the danger or of dl disease ton trust must he be great gleat men are to tobe tobe be alo In hi the native city of Shang hal IN THE rIlE OPIUM DENS DItiS While at I 1 took a 8 look lute come lome of the opium dens They ma mahe may maybe he be round found In very every block In the city and lilt at every er few steps Ill The fhe once anti I 1 MW wets full and I 1 am toll told I they are bUI busy all da day Ion long Some of the dens were or of the roughest description mere mert merely ly Iy long low root |