The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-19
Re are 100000, 600 Opium
Eaters in That Country.
pk G. Carpenter Describes an
plum Farm for the Bene-
BIT of People Who Never
visited China.

BIT Macao, China, according I
Frank G. Carpenter, in the Ne'
i World, where about ten milliol
rs worth of opium is made ever,
There is a similar farm at Hong
others are scattered over China
3 Chinese consumption Of opium
Fbwing. Two hundred years ago /
practically nothing. Today 1
more than the liquor bill OF th'
ed States. 1t probably amounts
bre than $40O, 1000 900 annually, fol
gn doctors in some districts esti
that 10 per cent. of the people are
ted to its use. In other places the
antage falls among some classes a:
81 20 and 30 per cent.
that on the average 1t amounts
per cent. and you have 200, ,OO(
a eaters or opium smokers. Some
|iAlly spend hundreds of dollars fol
IIrug; others hundreds of cents,
ID the low average of @2 a year
pium consumed would cost four
led millions.
fsited the opium farm at Macao.
In the heart of the city. 1t is
lndea,by great buildings and does
over am acre. Nevertheless It's
ce is worth two hundred thousand
b week, or more than ten mill
q dollars a. year.
Macao people call it farm, but
an opium factory, q monopoly
"a out by the government. The
~ $13c, 900 a year.
most of the opium comes from
1t is raised on the plains of
bstan under the superintendence
English government, shipped to
Ay and Calcutta, and sent to Ma
u comes in balls of four pounds
as rough as sandstone. They
though they had been busted
thtmeal.
led the head of the factory to al
ne to photograph one of these
but he refused to permit the
in the works.
permitted me, however, to go
Ia the establishment. It is one
busiest places in China. The
IL room is like a foundry. 1t is
u long and not more than twenty
De. 1t has an earthen floor, and
each wall are scores of little
Ia each of which is great brass
IA which the opium is cooking.
|lff looks like thick black mo.
1t seeths and boils as the half
Chinese worker stirs it with
Idle. Some of the basins are as
washtub, and all send forth
fumes. The room is filed with
fapor. The fumes get into my
my head aches and I have all
stations of the opium drunkard.
stuff is mixed with water and
"a, boiled again and strained
put up in boxes and is ready for
BIT.
'F of the doctors estimate that
to 80 per cent. Of the Chinese
Iium smokers. They say that
afins smoke the most and that
Ids OF wealthy people are i'm
hing themselves by the drug.
1oring men smoke less, because
y takes time. It cannot be done
York is going on. No one will
an opium smoker If he can help
- Chinese themselves denounce
bit. They license the opium |
eollect taxes upon it and treat 1t
y drink in the United States. |
Nple call opium smokers opium |
and although nearly all use
hey despise the opium drunk
Me do the alcoholic drunkard.
humber Of opium suicides in
is alarming. Soochow has
people. and DR.. Park states
,e are thousand attempts at
here every year. This is one
500 of the population, or two
ousand; and, supposing there
100000 Chinese, if the same
exists elsewhere, it means
tempted opium suicides every
Is vast deal of opium used
Angtse Valley. The theatrical
ID singing girls all use it. 1t
ed by the army and almost
pre-. Kowshong. town of
eople, consumes opium to the
, Thousand dollars 9 day. Sup
american laborer getting % q
q pay 80. cents daily for drink
he would not pay as greata
'n. The children Of OPT b !
soon use the drug. In s6ile
there sre whole families who
= daily smoke.
"a that Chinese mothcrs ofien
Z little girls % bug opium.I ]