Show L ov HERE came to a western state some years ago a young man of 0 energy and more than the erdl nary ability KI he 13 started a general store la in a small place and prospered he moved to a larger place and prospered he went into politics and was successful he was elected to the legis lature became president of the state senate and in such esteem waa was he held that there seemed to be no 0 of lice within the gift of the people to which he might not reasonably aspire then opium claimed him a as 8 a de votee not directly but through mor phine one of its derivatives I 1 do not know how he acquired the habit but the effect waa was soon apparent he began backward down down down much more rapidly than he bad climbed up in a short time he was out of po itice and a little later he was out of business the foundations of success that he had laid with such labor and pains crum bled away he became a fiend a pitiable wreck of an able man aby a by word and a joke among the more in or 8 thoughtless of those who knew him in time he reached a point he borrowed from anybody who ho would lend him anything from a nickel to a dollar so strong was the instinct of the man in him even then thit that he would accept nothing as a gift fit but resorted to the miserable makeshift of entering every loan however small in a notebook that he carried for that purpose could any thing be more pathetic than the pic pie ture of a man of bis his attainments and early promise borrowing 15 cents or a quarter that both he and the lender knew he never would or could repays repay yet he always insisted upon this form P this story would unquestionably have a more horrible ending were it not for the tact fact that the victim had a devoted and prosperous brother this fact kept the fiend 0 it of the gutter for provision was al always alays ays made for his material wants although it WA wag quite impossible to him with he the oney noney n tor for hig his board lodging and other necessities the brother did all that was poa pos sible 1 to do to 0 o break the habit and he finally sue in getting the unfortunate one into an asylum asi lum and under the watchful care of physicians the habit was as there broken but the patient near ly died in the breaking furthermore the harm had been beeh done and although the man never went back to morphine he never was anything but a miserable wreck of no use to himself or to any one else his ills brother provided for him but he continued to be a joke or tragedy as you hap bened to look at it to the day of his death and he died miserably that a e one story of opium in one form a prom ising career checked in the very moment of its greatest promise and then ruined there are many man others where there Is no devoted broth er that will surpass it in horrid details of dation but the very tact fact that this man with all the uplifting influences and help that he had fell EO so swiftly and so far makes his story impressive and illuminating smuggled opium drifts naturally into those channels that lead to its vicious and harmful use duty paid opium Is also thus used to a large ex tent but the smuggled article Is almost wholly for that market indeed without that market there would be little smuggling there are restrictions placed upon the sale of opi im and its derivatives but these restrictions cannot well be made to apply to what Is contra band anyhow and liable to confiscation wherever found neither national nor state government can successfully regulate the sale and use of an ar tide that neither Is able to find so smuggled opium naturally follows subterranean channels and reaches those who would have difficult in buying openly the very tact fact that it Is contra band compels it to seek this market and the very fact that this barket Is under the ban of the law compels it to depend largely upon the contra band article the fact that it Is cheaper than th duty paid article also commends it but that Is merely incidental snuggled opium it Is for the most part that S aplies the opium joints and the joints not only cater to the smuggled article but create the habits that make the demand tor for it morphine la Is a derivative of opium and Is proper ly to be considered therewith opium contains an average of about nine or ten per cent of mor I 1 ielne hine theae are also other derivatives of opium that produce some of the sensations the fiend learns to crave but morphine alone seems to take the grip on him that becomes a habit lie ile passes easily and naturally from opium to morphine usually taking it internally at first and thon with the needle it Is a saving saying among physicians that a man is lost when he begins to ue u e the needle this is not to be understood as meaning that all opium users or ei eian en a ma borit of them pasa pass to morphine or that all mor C i tt caa fv r h lilt a r 0 tv tab le N J I 1 SAI phine users or even a majority of them begin with opium on the contrary the morphine habit Is distinct and la Is usually acquired inthout any preliminary pipe experience but the road from opium to morphine Is open and easy cocaine on the contrary bears no relation to opium it Is not a derivative it gives entirely different sensation and it Is a separate and dis habit it Is allied to opium only in this the n orphine victim occasionally turns to cocaine for relief ahen trying to break himself of the morphine habit and according to the chicago po lice there are occasional fiends so far gone that they use both finding that one so co interacts the other in its physical effects that it Is possible to use more of each without danger so while cocaine itself bears no relation to opi 1 there Is an nacional cac cas ional connection between the cocaine habit and the morphine habit and the confusion that makes it necessary to include co cocaine balne in a discussion of opium and its derivatives Is not al III together without ju it Is a common belief that desperate criminals are generally or at least often dope fiends when the perpetrator of a particularly daring crime is caught it is not unusual to find the news papers gravel announcing that he Is a victim of the cocaine habit it may be morphine or it may be just dope generall generally but it is usually cocaine the moie sensational the crime or series of crimes for which a man or a gang Is responsible the more certain we are to learn that dope had much to do with the making of the criminal or criminals it takes such a hold on a man we are told that he will commit any crime to obtain it being in need of his cocaine or his morphine opium itself has not such a bad name in this way we picture him taking his magazine pistol and going out to get the necessary money I 1 asked a chicago policeman of much expert ence about this if a dope fiend needed hs his dope he said and had a magazine gun or any other kind of a gun he d hock the gun if he had no gun I 1 suggested hed try to 0 borrow dope from another fiend and if he couldn coulden t do that hed he d hock his clothes all that he could get along without and it if he had nothing to pawn he ile d beg might he not become desperate enough to go out anth ith a club or slung shot and slug some un suspecting wayfarer rarely one ot of them may occasionally do so nothing lue lize that it if very desperate and condl lions are just right but he seldom has confidence enough in himself to attempt it whisky would be much more likely to result in an act like that whisky gives a man nerve dope takes it away dope fiends are almost invariably arrant cowards they have not even the nerve to be good sneak thieves they are responsible for a lot of petty crime that calls for neither courage nor exertion but that Is all the impression that the use of these narcotics leads to insanity is also an error according to those in a position to know while under the influence of the drug a man may be temporarily insane but deprived of it he recovers very much as a man gets over a drunk he ile may be and usually Is to weakened men tally but his condition Is not such 1 to u warrant hia his continued restraint in an asylum in fact he seldom gets to an asylum dr adolt adolf meyer dl di rector of the pathological institute of 0 the new york state commission in lunacy and head of the phipps re search commission quotes a report that shows only 12 out of over 1500 1 cases investigated to be due to the use of opium cocaine etc although he adds that private sanitary sani sanitariums tarl ams would probably show a larger proper tion dr clarke gapen now located at madison ufa but formerly at the head of the illinois eastern hospital for the insane at kankakee could find only nine in a report covering four years and 2 cases of ity the effects so far as the feces eity sity tor for restraint are concerned said dr capen are temporary the keeley cures and private asylums un get a larger proportion than the public asylums but even there they are usually discharged quickly and most of those in these places are not classed as insane anyway they are merely there to be assisted in breaking a habit some should be kept under restraint at least much longer than they are as the only means of keeping them from dropping back into the old rut but you cant can t hold in an asylum a man otherwise mentally sound just because he haa has hareak weak will then what Is the fate of the dope fiend he seldom finds his way tc the penitentiary or the asylum EC what does become of him 9 ell that question Is answered ID tin part by the story that leads this ar tide ticie and here Is arnot another er A young ma man n of los angeles call fornia was engaged to be married tc te a charming girl of the same city sh she was of excellent family a favorite in ir society accomplished and the future seemed rosy he was a youth of ex cellena standing and good business busl nesi prospects but he had acquired the opium habit he still had the man hood however to confess this to her before mar ariage he was 0 of course going to break himself of the habit and she womanlike was willing to risk her happiness on the chance of reclaiming him they were married and for a year v v ith her help he succeeded in keeping away from the stuff th the habit apparently was as broken then in some way he drifted back to it his wife tried again and again to lead him back to the decent and sate safe life but it was the old old story the man who nho has no the strength to reform to get the wife he wants li it very vry vary seldom ie deformed let ormed by her afterward the young wife nwe became discouraged the task was hopeless the future was black and there wai mat nothing to keep up her courage now a person la it that frame of mind Is the one to whom opium or of morphine most appeals if he or she happen to have knowledge of the effect it 1 lo 10 when the gloom la Is deep that the drugs that bring temporary solace seem most alluring and the wife tried opium ai d opium claimed her they drifted away from los angeles and no more was heard of them until they were arrested in st paul for running an opium den another young man and another young woman were ar rested tested with them when the police raided the place all tour four were under the influence of the diug the following also from the police report seema seems to be at variance with the policeman quoted bously and also with the views of the physicians no crime great or small is beyond the reach of the person surrounded by such conditions the habit Is 1 sometimes acquired unconsciously but this does not apply to opium smoking no one ever ener hit the pipe without knowing exactly what he was doing and no one ever had a legitimate ex cuse tor for trying it opium may be administered in other ways for an entirely proper and sometimes necessary purpose and out of this may grow the habit but it does not lead to the pipe on the contrary it Is much more likely to lead to the mor phine needle so opium smoking may be said to be the least excusable of the habits and except as it leads to morphine it Is the least harmful the morphine mori morl hine and cocaine habits and other forms of the opium habit may be acquired by one who takes no such deliberate or conscious risk reputable physicians are extremely chary these days of administering any of these drugs avoiding them so far as possible but they were not always so careful and there are physicians now who are somewhat reckless in using them physicians however maintain that neither the morphine nor the cocaine habit Is often acquired as a result of the use of the drug under a doctor a directions in cases of illness or to allay pain strangely enough the white man Is the victim of opium rather than the chinaman with regard to the class from which it claims its victims a report from the pittsburg police to the international opium commission puts physicians in the lead among professional men with ministers second the pittsburg report also says that thieves gam gain biers and disorderly omen furnish a large number of the victims |