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Show OPIUM IN DIVERSE F0HM3. Devotees of the Drug Choose Varloui Ways of Obtaining Its Effects. Consumers of opium nro not nil of the samo kind. There nro slaves of tho pipe, slaves of tho syrlngo and slacs of tho powder thnt It swallowed to glvo snrceaso of pain or of mental woiry. Thero nro thoso who take tho drut; In tho form of a medicinal preparation, prep-aration, Bitch an lau.lnnum, paregoric, and tho extract ot laudanum; thoso who smoke it and Inhalo tho fumes Into tho lungs nud thoso who tnko hypodermic Injections of morphia. Tho sccjnd class tho smokers comprlso tho largest number of Ictlius, , Dr. Jellffo of tho New York city hos-, pltnl estimates thnt fully 30,000 people In that city nro addicted to tho opium habit In Homo form. Tho annual salo of opium In Vermont la equivalent, I ncccrdlng to tho doctor, to n grain for every adult In tho stato, nn nmount obvloiiRly fnr greater than can bo accounted ac-counted for by Its consumption for medicinal purposes. Some slaves ot tho drug tako It regularly every day; ' others havo periodical sprees similar to thono of tho alcohol drinker. |