| Show I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 THE OPIUM HA MT A short time ago the announcements of tile discovery of opium frauds of the most extensive character we ro gi yen to the public tile nature of the traffic and the enormous surn involved in the would have been startling but for the fact that it takes a good deal to upset the equilibrium of this country just now still the fact that this Is presidential election tear and that there are a great many things af pf absorbing interest to engage oil r attention at present does not alter or diminish the baxt that the growing evil of the opium habit has at talked enormous proportions in our madat and Is more or practiced in every city of any conse cuenco quenco in the union ogden alone ex cepter I 1 here are in new york city and these spend the enormous amoun tot 3 in hitting tha pipe the ll 11 ined to investigate the subject and its representative made a thorough can yass his figures are interesting as illustrative of mhd actual facts and leaving us to estimate about what the aice amounts to in other by ile found that there am at present about twenty five chinese firms thai deal in refined opium both wholesale and retail there are eleven private chinesa joints where opium I 1 IS sold at per ounce these joints do not not now admit white smokers on account of the fro quen t jagds made them by the police but the stoma bell to both chinese and whites although the atter must be well known smokers otherwise he has to suffer for the want of opium which according to all or counts Is even worse than to see snakes great tears would gush out at his eyes big drops of perspiration constantly moisten his brow while his nostrils would act owned a small sized fountain somewhere in his head but the worst of all the ailments IS an excruciating his back bone as if he had run through a fine clothes yr ringer under such circumstances he would almost be willing half of his en fro kingdom to be able to hit the pipe slit about the of a green pea would restore him to his natural condition of life which would last him for about as many hours A regular fiend W ill consume about an ounce per day w aich is the while smoking Is represented as delightful it is said that no matter how depressed in spirits or disturbed in mind the ono who smokes may be a few whiffs put him in the beat at humor it takes just about the same length of time to get the opium habit as to get the drinking habit tile latter destroys the mind and makes a man irresponsible for his actions while the former destroys the body but makes a keen thinker of the alc tim it Is estimated that there are something over 1000 americans in the city of new york who are now using opium in the same manner and form as the chinese most of theae are said to be well known and fashionable people as indeed no other but people leisure can abord to contract such a habit there are eleven joints in new yoi k cita the majority of these import their own odium said to be direct from thin but the greater part of which comes from victora B C one of these places which Is the best if beat is the proper word to use in this connection chinco joint in the place selfa at retail on sandals alone from ten to twelve cans while another the second best place sells from eight to ten cans on sundays on an average these joints dispose of five cans a day these places calculate to make from to 3 on each can of chinese imported opium but they are able to make more when they victoria in with the pure thus it can easily be teen how nearly changes hands for opium each year it is scarcely necessary to warn any ono against the use of the vile drug for its deadly and destructive effects am well understood in every quarter it is easy to alone when not touched at all but once indulged in the habit Is formed then and there and the victim oftener than otherwise Is only freed from it when freed from life which happens usually many years rely the brain I 1 and brawn baying broke n down and left the victim d c graded enervated and forbom spectacle tura is the way the park city call pats its respects to its the record when the cau was estable shed something over a year ago that miss I 1 3 glink g link which fidares figares as the editor at the record showed his antipathy to word the new enterprise by declaring that it would not live six weeks not six at the outside that the ant was owned by parties in evan 1 filon that were employed to start the paper and con jonir d not hold the lob down cry long ln fact ile and ill employers sho e d great hatred of the now venture and consid ore d it an encroachment upon their rights this antipathy still remains and crops out every I 1 now and again in some unfair ridiculous or imbecile manner there Is a column mere of the saino kind all of which gaes a show that the journalistic fraternity of park city are not so rapturously devoted to each other as might could would or should the case if they were further apart IT BAB almost ceased tobo a secret that tile reason why our own ble and ever glorious john Law rebee r ollivan break chaale xit abells ribs and knock his head en firely off was not altogether because he catch him but because he has his weather binocular upon that which an english noble man wants to put upon kilrain against any man living the ways of the fighting man are peculiar A crank in savannah shot at a woman ho refused him but the ball was stopped by her bustle made of old papera aid she injured mardon I 1 I 1 k I 1 1 ift 1 MOWN abt IT uw I 1 i |
