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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
THE COCAINE HABIT.
Its Victims Suffer Torture That Is
Beyond Description.
Experience of an Australian Physi-
cinn, AS Told by Himself-Snle
of the Drug Should lie
Regulated by Law.
[sneclal washlngton Letter.l ]


Truth is stranger than fiction, in
many instances. The fiction that man
was possessed of dual nature, that on
occasion he was DIR. Jekyll, and on
another occasion a Mr.. Hyde, is sus-
tanned by facts in real life,
Some one of these days you will read
Of the death of an eminent man in the
national capital, either by his own
hand, or as the result of an encounter
with another. Or else you may reau
thathe has committed a murder, or done
something henous. And yet he has al
ways been known as one of the most
gentle and honorable of men, He moves
about in high official and social circles.
and is known to be as suave and gentle
as ever. But an eminent man OF sci
ence tells me that fully one-third OF
every day he is closely watched to pre-
vent him from injuring himself or 9th
ers. He is victim of the cocaine habit.
For a score of years he was known to
be one of the most business-lilie OF cor
respondents, and every days mail was
answered every day. During the past
year it has been noted that he was be-
coming careless, and that the mail was
permitted to accumulate for days at a
time. Then, with two or three stenog-
raphers, he would answer all the let
ters with business-lille tact as former
ly. But during the past two months he
has not written n letter although his
correspondents continue to send their
inquiries to him. He hates the sight of
letter carrier. He knows that his
business is being neglected., but he does
not strive to attend to it, Moreover, he
is beginning TO look pale, and to be las
situdinous in his movements; but these
symptoms are only noted by his rela-
tives. and some men of science who
have been requested to lock after him
In recent article on the subject OF
cocaine some of the evils CT the drug
were pointed out The scientist who
gave that information has given more
to-day which will be of general in
terest. He says that the eminent gen
tleman alluded to is but type of {
kind of patients rapidly multiplying o.
recent years. 1t is his opinion thai
public attention should be called to the
evil habit, and repeated warnings b'
given the people.
These evils cannot be more strongly
revealed than in the experience of al
Australian physician. He has giveI
the world of medicine the benefit of ;
narration of what he underwent afte
he had become addicted to the almos
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
A FATAL PLUNGE.
Railing of Brooklyn Bridge and
Leaps to His Death.

New York, Sept. 11.-Midway between
the two great towers of the Brooklyn
bridge Sunday morning a man whose
name no one knows climbed over the
railing and went 10 his death in the
East river. He turned over and over as
he FELL according to eyewitnesses whom
the police found, and struck upon his
back. The body sank, but reappeared
and was visible for short time as the
flood tide carried it up the river. The
bridge police have the mans hat, coat
and shoes, all telling of extreme poy-
erty, none of which furnish the slight
est clew to his identity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15

after an examination thought the
trouble to be heart failure.
The funeral will take place this even
ing at 1880 o'clock from the home of
the deceased on Eustis avenue. A
short Episcopal service will be conduct
ed by Rev. Henry Morgan Stone, rector
of Trinity church, and then the body
will be taken by boat to New York
and thence to Louisville, KY, where it
will be buried beside the remains of
Mrs. Eustis.
flames Biddell Eustis was born in New
Orleans, La, in 1884 His mother was
Louisianian. but his father came from New
England After being graduated from the
Harvard law school in 1854 Mr.. Eustis prac-
ticed law in New Orleans until the civil
war, when he entered the confederate army
as judge advocate. In 1876 he was elected
United States senator. He was reelected
in 1885, and in 1898 was appointed by Pres
ident Cleveland as American minister and
later ambassador to France, position he
held more than four years.l
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
killed by n Woman.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 11.-A young
man named William Morrison, whose
parents live At 80 Cumberland street,
was shot and killed Sunday afternoon
by Mrs. Mary Schwartz, who lives just
outside the city limits. Morrison, with
several companions, picked flowers in
Mrs. Schwartz's yard. When she pro-
tested Morrison assaulted her, pulling
her hair and hitting her with fence
picket. The woman ran into the house,
got revolver and shot Morrison
through the head, She gave herself up
to the police and was charged with
Inanslanghter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15

willingly, by new injection, the samS
terrors. About that time l bought
three st. Bernard dogs, thinking they
would protect me, but one night l
found out they were talking about me
how could they get rid of me-so |
stood up and shot one of them with a
revolver, which / always used to carry.
/ think this was the most dreadful night
of my life-I, standing on the table with
an Indian dagger and u syringe on the
ground, one three-foot high dog going
to die and two rather dangerous dogs
roaring and groaning aloud, reproach-
fully looking at me, who always fan
cied: Now comes the moment wher
they will tear you to pieces. / stood
the night on the table until the ar
rival of my wardman who hardly risked
to enter the room. The strangest thing,
however, in the cocaine habit is that
there seem to be two souls in the cocain-
ist--one infested by the cocaine, suffer
ing and tortured by its effects; the
other normal, laughing at his fears and
saving: What nonsense! it is only nm
hallucination produced by an injection
Not frightened enough by these expert
ences and escaping from the troubles
produced by his conduct, on the cocain-
ist goes, taking more and more, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15

constant use of the drug. In the course
of that confession, which he did not
hesitate to make public, he said. in de-
scribing his sensations: THE first feel
ing cocainist has is indiscribable eN-
citement to do something great; to
leave mark. But, alas! this disap-
pears as rapidly as it came, and soon
every part of the body seems to cry out
for new syringe. The second sensa-
tion-at first. at least, no hallucina-
tion-is that his hearing is enormously
increased, so that he hears the flies
walking over the paper. Very soon
every sound begins to be remark
about himself, mostly of n nasty kind,
and he begins to carry on a scsitary life,
his only companion being his beloved
syringe. Every passerby seems to talk
about him. Often and often have |
stopped persons, or ordered the police
to arrest them, thinking they were
talking about me. After n relatively
short time begins the hunting of the
cocaine bug You imagine that in
your skin worms or similar things are
moving along. If you touch them with
wool Especially absorbent woody they
run away and disappear, only to peep
cautiously out of some corner to see if
there is any danger. These worms are
projected only to the cocainist's own
person or clothing. He sees them ON his
washing, in his skin, along his pen
holder, but not on other people or
things. and not on clothes brought clean
from the laundry. How is this to be eX-
planned? About the same time appear
many teIlor hallucinations of the opti-
Gus, and, strange to say, self-suggest-
ed hallucinations also. Night turns TO
day. You sit up in your room syring-
ing until the morning, and fall asleep in
IA como. In my case this occurred to
isuch an extent that / had to engage a
y hospital warder, who came is the morn
ing to revive me with about ten syringes
of five Per cent. solution, so that / was
able to drive, not walk, fearing some
one might garrote me. Other dreadful
hallucinat,ons had in thousands, all ot
prosecuting character, and frighten'
ing the life out of me so long as the eff
fects of the drug lasted.
"You see small animals running
about your body and feel their bites
Every object seems to become alive to
z stare at you from all corners-look re
yolvers. knives, etc, and threaten you
Yet, so soon ms the effect of the injection
is over, you laugh at it, and produces
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15

then enters new kind of illusion.
which finishes him up for the mad
house. | mean the revolving, sensuous
illusions"
The afflicted physician, in summarize
ing the physiologic effects of the drug,
says that the cocainist early loses all
appetite for solid food, but likes sweets,
lollies and cakes. Upon the muscular
system the drug, as is generally recog-
nized, acts as most powerful stimulant
for either single or continued effort.
Not only could he make long marches
without becoming tired, but on one oc-
casion, after injection, he says he lifted
a cab with one hand on the axle. 1t in
creases also the number of the respira-
tory and of the heart contractions, as
we'll as the amount of sweat; hence the
great loss of weight. After each in
lection the pupil dilates, but remains
dilated only because injections are con-
tinued. AS regards the brain, mental
processes seem quickened, but kind
of hypnosis intervenes, so that the
brain works without, and even against,
the will. Immediately after the injec-
ton the cocainist becomes excited ano
remains restless while under the influ
ence. He likes manual work, however
trifing, but has neither will nor abil
| ity for mental work.
These are facts which the temperance
lecturers of the future should possess
and disseminate. The crusade against
alcohol, which has progressed for we'll
nigh half a century, has been partially
successful. 1t has made the liquor busi-
ness unpopular, the saloonkeeper a
pariah, and the drunkard dreadful
example to the young. That there is
yet much work to be done in that cause
everybody sees and admits. The cru,
sade will go on for decades before its
end shall have been completely at
tanned.
But here is additional work to be done
for humanity; and it must be done
primarily by men of education and dis
cernment. 1t will require some years
for the workers in the cause of human
ity to apprehend and comprehend the
conditions thus outlined. They must
know that there is now on the market a
well advertised wine which is decoc
tion of cocaine. Some physicians recon-
mended its use as stimulant for the
nervous system, and for the digestion
This is an insidious form of introducing
the cocaine habit, and those physician.
who understand the dreadful and hor
rible results of that habit will no
recommend its use in any foSm. Tha-
!, they will administer it themselves
must be taken for granted, because i
is good drug and valuable addition
to the pharmacopia.
, Cocaine may be effectively used tt
| produce temporary anaesthesia owe
: the entire nerve trunk. 1t can be eff
} fectively used to benumb sensibilit,
and relieve pain in all mucous tract
which the surgeon may desire to reach
l 1t is better than chloroform or ether il
5 many particulars. Surgeons, dentist
: and physicians may intelligently use
+ for the benefit of mankind.
But cocaine must be kept from tn
: common people. Nature has produces
enough perverts, criminals and idiots
: for some inscrutable purpose. AlcohC
and opium have added to their number
D Cocaine should be throttled before
: increases its demoniacal empire.
4 SMITH ID. FRY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
A TRAIN ROBBED.
Bandits Blow Open Express Com-
pnny's Strong BOX in Arizona.
md Secure 100000.

Benson, A. T., Sept. 11.-Four masked
men held up Southern Pacific train No.
10, west-bound, at Cachise station,
shortly before midnight, blew open
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s through-money
safe with dynamite, took the treasure
it contained and escaped to the noun
tains. The robbery was the boldest
of all the famous train robberics of
the west. Not shot was fired and
no one received the slightest injury.
Cachise station is a lonely place on
the alllali fiat, ten miles west of Will
cox, and 80 miles west of Benson. The
station, freight house and section
house form the only relief to the mo-
notony of vast rolling plain. Just
as the train stopped at the station
the four masked men appeared. One
mounted the engine cab and covered
Engineer Richardson with a revolver,
while two stood guard at the side door
of the express car. The fourth guard
ed the coaches and sleepers from a
point at the rear of the express car.
One of the two men that stood at the
door of the express car jumped aboard
and ordered Hands up" He then told
Express Messenger Adair to leave the
car. AS Adair jumped 10 the ground
the other bandit searched him for arms
In : hip pocket he found $25.
That's my private property" said
Adair.
"You may have it; we don't want your
money!" said the bandit.
The man at the rear of the car un
coupled it, and at a signal the en-
gineer was ordered to pull out. The eX
press care was taken westward a mile
or more, then the through-eXpress SAFE
was thrown out to the ground ant
blown open by dynamite. All bills ant
gold were taken. Messenger Adair re
fused to say how much the safe con
tanned, but it is estimated that the sun
was exceedingly large. One railroad
man expressed the opinion that th
strong DoX mlgnt have contained clos
to $40, 900. Several thousand silver dol
lars in the car were untouched by tn
robbers. None of the passengers wer
molested. After the contents of tn
safe had been taken care of the un
known quartette allowed Enginee
Richardson to run back to the train
Then they disappeared on foot to
point where their horses were tethere
and rode away.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
JAMES B. EUSTIS IS DEAD.
Ex-AmbnssadOr to France Expires
of Pneumonia mt New
port, II. 1.

Newport, r. l., Sept. 11.-James b.
Eustis, ambassador to France during
the second Cleveland administration
and formerly senator from Louisiana,
died at his summer home in this city at
eight o'clock Saturday night of pneu-
monia. Mr.. Eustis was taken i'll on
Wednesday, but the local physician
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
snmnson,s succes.or.

Washington, Sept. l2.-The navy de-
partment has decided to assign Rear
Admiral Farquhar to command the
North Atlantic station in place of Rear
Admiral Sampson, who will assume
command of The Ecston navy yard.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
Railroads Favor standard oil Co.

Washington, Sept. Estate Senator
Lewis Emery, Jr,, of Pennsylvania, was
before the industrial commission. lie
spoke in opposition TO the Standard Oil
company. He claimed that the rail-
roads we're responsible for the great
growth OF the Standard Oil company,
and said that the contract made be-
tween ;he South Improvement COM
pany and the railroads in 1872 was
practically in effect to-day, Under this
arrangement there had been discrim-
nations on the part of the roads in
favor of the Standard company up to
the present day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
A Weatern soIon.

Prosecuting Attorney (Frozen Dog,
Your honor, the sheriffs bull pup hai
gone and chawed up the court Bible.
Judge-Well, make the witness kisl
the bull pup, then! We can't adjourn
court for week jest to hunt up nev
Bible ei--Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
VIII BE Used as a Transport.

San Francisco, Sept. 12.-The steamer
Rio de Janeiro, which has just arrived
from China, will pass into the hands of
the government for the transportation
of troops as soon as she is discharged
and gone on the dry docks. The date
of her sailing for Manila has been fixed
for September 25.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
A Misnnthr,,ne.

"Are you bill collector?" asked Mr.
Slopeigh, suspiciously.
NO." answered the weary and Gym
ical young man who had climbed foui
flights of stairs; "l'vc got collection
of bills that I'm trying to get rid of
I'm n promise collector" r."-WashingtoI
Star
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
yellow Fever Figures.

Key West, Fla, Sept. 12.-The total
number of yellow fever cases up to date
is 1s9; reported in the past "a hours, ~.
No deaths have occurred in the past "a
hours. Nine cases are being treated al
the yellow fever hospital, and the re-
mainder are in private families.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15

Rome, Sept. 12.-Col. Panizzardi, re-
ferring to the verdict at Rennes, said:
81 felt horror, but not surprise" Spon-
taneous demonstrations in favor Of
Dreyfus have occurred in many parts of
Italy. In Florence crowd shouting
''Down with the Jesuits!" threatened
the French consulate. The police inter-
fered and fight ensued in which many
persons were hurt. Twenty arrests
were mnde.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
Quiet in Paris.

Paris, Sept. 1.-THE day has been
one of absolute quiet, with no public
excitement, not even in the Rue de
Chabrol. There was rainfall in the
afternoon and the streets were prac-
tically deserted. Slight disturbances
occurred yesterday at Margeilles and
Belfort after the verdict of the Dreyfus
court-martial vas published. The DEM
onstrators stoned the residence of Jac-
ques Dreyfus, brother of the con-
demned, at Belfort breaking the win
dows and otherwise damaging the
structure, Many persons were arrest.
ed in both places.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-09-15
DREYFUS CONVICTED.
Court Martial Finds Him Guilty
of Treason.
Sentenced to Serve Ten Years In Pris-
on-Thc Condemned Man Thinks
He VIII he PnrdOncd, However
-IndigmntiOn Mt the Result.

Rennes, Sept. Ii. - Dreyfus has
been found guilty and sentenced TO ten
years imprisonment.
The court stood to for the con-
demnation of the prisoner, but found
eXtenuating circumstances existed.
The crowd outside the court soon
greeted the verdict with cheers for the
army.
When the verdict was read to Drey-
fus he gave not the slightest sign of
emotion, did not utter a word and
marched back to prison like an automa-
ton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-02
ADVANCED VIEWS.

Within one year there have been
uttered two opinions from the pulpit
OF the Central Union Church that il
uttered twenty or even ten years ago
would have made CONSERVATION in the
congregation. Rev. Mr.. Kincaid on
Sunday declared that If he was to go
to Japan or China as a missionary,
he would not attempt to destroy the
ancient religions of these countries, but
would supplement them with the bet
ter religion of Christianity He would,
he said, follow the teachings of Christ
who said: II come not to destroy,
but to fulfill"
Last year, from the same pulpit, the
Hawaiian born missionary to Japan,
the Rev. Sidney Gulick declared the
same beliefs.
There is nothing that displays the
ignorance Of man so sharply as his
refusal to see and realize that the
teachers of all the great religions held
commissions under Divine permission,
to improve mankind; that the limited
success, and failure of Protestant mis-
sions for the last hundred years are
due to the narrow and rigid belief
that the Almighty has conferred on
Christians alone, or upon several
denominations of Christians alone, the
power to save mankind; that all other
religions and creeds are decisions and
snares and must be swept away in spite
of the lofty moral doctrines which they
carry. }li'
These liberal opinions from the pull
pit indicate that at last the proselyt-
ing churches will become humble, and
cease to claim that to them is given a
strict monopoly of the means of SAY
ing" mankind, and that the heather
must continue to perish while the
Christian nations spend more money in
one day upon their fighting establish
ments than they spend in five years, in
giving them meagre supplies from this
$50
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-02
VARIOUS SHIPS.

\ Kansas boy, writing from Manila
says: 4 had a good chance to compare
our fighters with the English and Jap
anese, and l must say 1 was disappoint-
ed in Uncle Sans aggregation OF
zcrappers. They look so much smaller
than the Englishmen, and so dirty, but
I suppose it is because they are painted
the dull lead fighting color that they
look so dirty. The English have two
war vessels here, the Centurion and
the Narcissus. Both are fine ships,
especially the Centurion, which is a
battleship OF the first Glass;
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-02
TIMELY TOPICS
April 18th, 1899.

The cool weather we are having now
won't last long, all probabilities are
that after this cold snap is over we
may have hotter weather than ever we
had before. If this is the case, we
of keeping your butter and vegetables
fresh, and at the same time making
your ice bill a small item of expense.
If you are open for suggestions let us
mention few things about our
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-02
MUGWUMP SECURITIES.

The holders of Mugwump stock
have received some large dividends
lately. The market for it is rising and
in some places it has been doomed at
the expense of Republican and Demo
cratic stocks.
Mayor Carter Fl. Harrison, Demo
crat, reelected Mayor Of Chicago, re-
Gently got from twenty to forty thous-
and Republican votes, and had the sup
port of two Republican papers, the
'eTimes-Herald," and the Post" The
Republican candidate was defeated.
In Toledo Mayor Jones, an indie
pendent or Mugwump candidate whom
the Republican Machine had refused
to nominate, received 1900 votes,
while the combined vote for the Demo-
Gratis and Republican candidates was
only 100. Mayor Jones' vote included
two-thirds of the regular Republican
votes. The Outlook quotes the wit
OF an employee of the Toledo Blade:
"The Blade is Republican, but 1T is
the only thing in the office that is,
and it can't vote
The only tie in common between
POLITICIANS has been, and is now,
holy hatred of the Mugwumps or in
dependents.
When a paper like the Chicago
Times-Herald. a representative Re
publican paper. refuses to train or to
~
of the rural Republican press invariab
ly shrieks un-American!" "disloyal 10
the cause!"
Those who despair of seeing good
government in the large cities, are
now taking hope again. Those who
have prophesied that the political cor
ruption in the cities would in the end
destroy Democratic government in the
country are revising their predictions.
The recent triumph of the good NUM-
cipal government parties in Chicago
and Toledo, over wealth and PARTISAN
ship, shows that the people no longer
believe that it is a damning political
heresy to vote according to ones judg-
ment and conscience instead of asking
the Machine for light and wisdom
This success of the MugWumps does
not in the least avoid the need of po-
litical parties. 1t in fact emphasizes
the need of them The Mugwumps, or
Independents, are party men who insist
on party fidelity to good government,
and when the bosses steer the Machine
out OF the lawful highway and into
the bitches of corruption and error,
they abandon it, and run with other
Machines until honest men pull the
Machine out of the ditch and place
it on the lawful highway.
There is no reason for despairing
of good government when there are
genuine and successful revolts against
bad government in the cities.
As a nation, we seem to govern
Cuba with honesty and wisdom. SO
we will govern the Philippines wisely
&c we have the chance. But the rule