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Show j Woman Slaves of Cocaine. In what section of the community is the moral condition sueh as is indicated by the fact referred to bv'Dr. Newell Dwight llillis. when he tells (in a sermon recently) of a druggist selling' $300 worth of cocaine and morphine, to women every month ? It would be safe to sav that the purchasers-are not to be found among the working classes; that is, those who work with their hands, or among the "ignorant, "ig-norant, foreign element," hut rathe? among the rich and highly cultured, as Dr. Hillis jnorc than hints, when he suggests that we might well "trade half our knowledge of nature for obedience to the Taws , of nature." freeman's Journal ' f. |