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was more than amazed at this evidence
OF weakness in one l had always consid-
cred as tough and fmpenetrable as flint
rock. Thrusting back the hand with which
he had half drawn into view the weapon l
mad mentioned. 1 put on my sternest air
and led the way across the street AS l did
so tossed back the words:
we may come upon gang. You do not
Wlsh me to face some half dozen men
alone?"
You won't find any half dozen men
there, was his muttered reply. Neverthe
less he followed me, though with less spirit
than liked, considering that my own man
ner was In measure assumed and that l
was not without sympathy--well, let me
say. for dog who preferred bowling a dis
mai accompaniment to his masters music.
TO Keeping open watch over a neighborhood
dominated by thei unhallowed structure I
now propose, TO, enter.
The house is too we'll known for me to
attempt minute description of it. The
illustrations which have appeared in all the
papers have already acquainted the general
public with its simple facade and rows
upon rows of shattered windows Even
the great square porch with its bench for
negro attendants, has been photographed
for the MILLION. Those who have seen the
picture in which the wedding guests are
shown flying from its yawning doorway
Will not be! especially interested in the
quiet, almost. solemn aspect 1T presented as
l passed up the low steps and laid my hand
upon the knob Of the old-fashioned front
door. e
Not that 1 expected to win an entrance
thereby. but because it is my nature to
approach everything in a common-sense
way. Conceive then my astonishment when
at the first touch the door yielded. 1t was
not even latched.
"So soi'' thought I. This is no fools
job; some one is in the house,
l had provided myself with an ordinary
pocket lantern, and, when had convinced
Hibbard that 1 fully meant to enter the
house and discover for myself who had
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VICTIMS OF MORPH|A
Fate of Sybil Sanderson and
Wanda de Boncza.
A RECKLESS PRACTICE
HOW THESE TWO WOMEN CAME
UNDER THE HABIT.
Pitiful Efforts to Break Loose From
the Bonds That Hold
Them.
A RECKLESS PRACTICE
snec,,l CORRESPONDENCE of The Evening Star.

Special Cores pondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, June /, 1903
Sibyl Sanderson died of pneumonia. Yes
but
Wanda de Boncza died of appendicitis
Aes-but,
Both these beautiful and innocent young
stars of the Paris stage, beloved alike by
artists ana the public. possessed of all
talents and successful beyond measure,
would in all human probability be stin alive
had they not in the past been victims
of lght-minded doctors.
The malades set down in their certiff-
ties of death were the occasions, not the
causes of their untimely taking oft. Young
and blooming, they might well have tri-
umphed over both pneumonia and appon-
dicitis in the care of the skilled specialists
who treated them in their last illnesses,
had not secret poison Slapped their youth
full vitality.
1t might be both unkind and improper
to reveal such secrets were they not al
ready open to all Paris But the facts are
well known. Therefore it cannot hurt the
memory of those two Innocent and gentle
ladies to show how they were betrayed
by modern science and allow the lesson
of their sad fate to point strong moral
to the women of our land
Sybil Sanderson and Wanda de Roncza
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ceptions In her favor She was to be let
down" gradually as that particular the
DRY of cure might permit of.
Failure Follows.
All in vain. After two months of ex-
traordinary effort in which all the rules
of the strict and unyielding house of pain
were broken in her favor. she renowned
the treatment and departed.
After this the life OF Sibyl Sanderson
passed in vague hoping regularly placid
sometimes feverish. where planning for the
future took the place of doing. Never did
she give up hope of being set free from the
bends that held her. On several occasions
In France, Switzerland and Germany, she
began easier treatments, but while good.
their fault is to tire out the patience of the
subject before convalescence is arrived at,
so that sliding back to the old remedy be
comes the terrible though almost pardon
able temptation.
Wanda de Boncza's story was the same.
So Is that OF an incalculable number whom
the world deems fortunate and happy. To
the specialist perhaps. their pale faces and
contracted pupils tell their secret, but they
are In every way capable as you or l /;
their minds are calm and clear their ac-
lions reasoned. their souls poised in a mys-
terlous and very perfect equilibrium.
Alas! their bodies suffer! Though the ex-
terror be fair, general weakening goes
on in every nerve and tissue Some say
that the dread drug is jealous and wards
Oft from its victim countless minor ills
and even destroys harmful microbes but
when disease does get foothold in them
they die! AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
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were both victims of morphia-need and

were both victims of morphia-need and
hypodermfc needle.
For the life of me cannot understand
the unkind and, above all, the unintelli-
gent prejudice which in America exists
against the victims of the so-called NOR
phia habit" If the proper word be 'hab-
it, it refers, thea, to habit of the body
and not of the mind or will The correct
word is ''morphia -need;' and only those
who have experienced its merciless tyranny
in themselves or in some near and dear
one have right to pronounce on its mo-
rality.
Deserving of Pity.
Suppose that a friend of yours develops
the worst species Of gold coast malaria, an
obscure. persistent thing that may drag
on for years. You do not criticise or blame
him? But suppose that, instead of catch
ing it as usual. the malarial virus were
originally injected into him by physician?
How much more would you pity such an
unsuspecting victim?
Well, nine-tenths of the non-medical ha-
bftues of morphia are in exactly this rosi-
ton. So was Sibyl Sanderson. So was
Wanda de BoncZa. With perfect conf
dence they submitted to the doctors who in
Jected them with their first morphia doses.
| say nine-tenthS of the non-medical ha-
bitues. These poor slaves to the most mys-
FERROUS of all known drugs make up scarce
ly half the grievous confraternity. Such
necessarily incomplete statistics as have
bSeH gathered DOtn IN EUROPE ana America
show that doctors themselves make the
larger moiety. Again and again at con-
crosses and in reviews the medical profess
sion has been reused to this strange state
of affairs,
Well, if physicians. with full knowledge of
the consequences, fall into the habit in
such numbers, what great tenderness ought
we not have for their lay victims? The
truth is. however that a large proportion
of our doctors have but vague knowledge
of the vital clutch which morphia takes
upon it's subject
Tut tut!'' you will hear them say, 1.-THE
morphia habit is a sensual seeking after a
sensation. All the habitue need do is to
throw his (or herr syringe and bottle of So
luton out of the window and exert a little
will power!
Such talk Is gross ignorance. 1t would be
as if to tell the subject to cease breathing
and live by will power Such doctors
know that morphia stops pain They know
they can give one-eighth grain and wait to
watch for the effects. If pain has not
ceased within, say half an hour, they know
that they can give another eighth
A Reckless Practice.
If they know more-if they know that the
strongest man will find himself tied hand
and foot when he has had a daily dose of
morpha for fifteen days, or lat the utmosO
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taken advantage of the popular prejudice
against tt to make secret refuge or rem
devious of Its delayed Old rooms took
out this lantern and held 1t in readiness.
I'VE may4tstHketa hornets &nest,' ex-
planned to Hubbard, whose feet seemed very
heavy even for man of his size. But
I'm going fnJi and SO are you Only let me
suggest thatstWe FIRST. take off our shoes
We can i,idd thenjin these bushes"
II always catch cold when walk bare
footed" mufnbled.s my brave companion;
but receiving no reply he drew off his shoes
and dropped1 them. beside mine in the clus-
ter of stark BUSHES which figure so promi-
nently in the Illustrations that I have just
mentioned. FkenIthe took out his revolver.
and, cooking it!l st6od waiting while gave
a cautious push fbsthe door.
Rather hda fneonfronted a Hight and
heard some nOiseneven If 1t had been the
ominous click to (which we are so well ac-
customed Hibbard seemed to share my
feelings. thotfsh ftoa an entirely different
cause.
'Pistols and lanterns are no good here"
he grumbled. What we want at this
blessed minute is priest with sprinkling
of holy water; and for one"
He was actually sliding off,
With a smothered oath drew him back
i.See here!" cried, you're not babe In
arms. Come on Or Well. what now?"
ing to the door which was slowly. swaying
to behind us.
"Notice that,sshe whispered. mo key In
the lock. Men use keys but"
NV patience Could stand no more. With a
shake / rid myself of his clutch, mutter-
ing:
ssThere, go! You're too much Of a fool
for me. TIM in for It alone" And in proof
of my determination turned the slide Of
the lantern and flashed the light through
the house. 49,
The effect was ghostly: but while the
fellow at my side breathed hard. he did not
take advantage of my words to make his
escape, as I half, expected him to- Per-
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When the unhappy Sibyl Sanderson cried
for her morphia injection, 1t was because
her head seemed wildly empty. her nerves
tortured. her flesh and her bones In great
pain, her heart horribly oppressed palpi-
tating weakly: while the glands of the
whole body worked abominably causing
sweatings, nose-running. tears and flow
of saliva. But above all was the terrible
sensation Of weakness and shortness or
breath.
All these were symptoms of the active
poisoning of the oxide of morphia discover
ed by Marine of Gottingen. In itself IL is
the antidote our body makes out of the
morphfa to cOunteract more morphia; ana
this explains why it's habitues can and
must increase their doses as they go on,
till they take in a single day enough PLAIN
morphia to kill a dozen normal persons.
The unhappy Sibyl felt the active poison
ing of the relentless antidote. Only one
thing could counterfeit it-and that was
more morphia! Then instantly the hate
full symptoms threatening death itself,
ceased in a delightful calm. when the
wracked body seemed touched by the cool
fingers of some angel and the tortured
mind, now again lucid strong, resourceful
and invincibly optimistic, seemed master
of all things, including fate itself!
Trying to Break Loose.
Again and again both Wanda de Boncza
and Sibyl Sanderson, informed of their
danger, sought to break the new chains
fixed on them so little by their own fault.
At one moment both were on the point of
entering the A establishment at Neuilly,
where they might be "cut down" very
gradually aided by douches. tones and less
dangerous hypnotics Doctor after doctor,
not specialists Of morphia. tried their hand
at home cures'-utterly without result.
Then Sibyl Sanderson took a great reso-
luton. OF her own will she placed her
self in the most ominouS of all Partisan
institutions the S. establishment, where
one pays in advance for the whole treat
ment and signs an agreement ID not to
prosecute the management for cruelty or
Representation" CO not to ask your money
back. though you should be allowed to
quit the cure the second or third day, and
(3) to hold the establishment guiltless. no
matter what you suffer. In word 1T Is
the terrible "brusque'' cure. They "cut the
patient Off, in a few days. give no re-
lieving drugs and let the agonlZing body
strain out its own salvation in a ten days
nightmare worse than death itself! Then
follows two months weakness such as you
could not imagine.
Rather than risk repetition Of the failures
of the immensely slower and more merci-
full system of curing the morphia habit
Sibyl Sanderson went to this dread estab
lishment. Its management, honored to
have such patient, made unheard-of ex-
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I Enter.

Though past seventy. Uncle David was
brisk walker. and on this night in partfcu-
lar he sped along so fast that he was half
way down II street by the time I had
turned the corner at New Hampshire ave-
nue..
His gaunt. but not ungraceful figure.
merged in that of the dog trotting closely
at his heels was the only moving OBJ
ject in the dreary vista Of this the most
desolate block in Washington. Aa neared
the building 1 was so impressed by the
surrounding stiffness that I was ready to
vow that the shadows were denser here
than elsewhere and that the few gas
lamps. which fiickered at intervals down
the street. shone with a more feeble ray
than In any other equal length OF street in
Washington.
Meanwhile. the shadow Of Uncle David
had vanished from the pavement He had
paused beside q fence which, hung with
vines, surrounded and nearly hid from
sight the little cottage he had mentioned
as the only house on the block with the ex-
ception of the great Moore place; In other
words, his own home.
AS I came abreast of him heard him
Ihuttering, not to his dog as was his Gus
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thirty days. then we must wonder at their
reckless practice. = :s
Wanda de Boncza suffered from certain
pains. Some physician of this sort stopped
them with hypodermic morphia and told the
girl what drug it was that had brought her
such ease.
He did more. He said:
eff these pains come again tomorrow
night. here is little phial of morphia solu-
ton and here the syringe and needle. Fill
it carefully without air bubbles. stick 1t In
your leg, here on the side, and push the
piston gently. You have seen me do it.
Doubtless he also told her:
But be careful not to take 1t often or
without great needi' and:
DO not take more than I tell you. 1t is
deadly poison
Sometimes physicians trust their patients
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his desired reaction can know something
of its details. He did not anticipate that
the reaction would be very painful: but no
one can gauge these individual suscep-
Utilities. Some are much more sensitive
than others. in particular the "cerebrales'
and the artistically imaginative.
Morphia Need.
We know there were struggles between
patient and physician, now too late alarm
ed at the dire prospect. When she insisted
to have new injections do not th'rk 1t was
from desire for soul sunbeam only. Far
more imperious the cry of her body
for relief from a new and strange sort of
pain. This was the morphia need!
The mechanism of the thing Is still so OBJ
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WAKING Home.

From the Catholic Standard and Times
Il suppose" said the inquisitive man.
"once you get over your first stage-fright
nothing ever confuses you
WELL" replied Lowe Comedy. only q
week ago ! came near getting badly mixed
up"
Really? 1 always thought the glare of
the footlights-"
But this was the glare of the headlights
that startled me. There was a train on the
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Marrow Escape From Trouble.

From the Chicago Tribune.
do you dispute my veracity. sir?'
fiercely spoke the little man, bristling up
to him.
Not at ALL" replied the large man.
soothingly. II am merely disputing your
unfounded assertions"
On which basis they compromised.
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with the dangerous remedy out of an hon
orable delicacy, not to multiply their visits
and their charges.
You can do it just as well as l." they
will say. Il need not come every time.
In the case of Sybil SandersOn it was not
pain; but the young star about the year
1900. threatened with a break down
due to the ardor with which she threw her
self into her work. some learned doctor
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scure and mysterious to Psychologists and
chemists that it's why and Wherefore is
still disputed by some who call themselves
specialists; but, in general. it would seem
that the human body has a strange power
of Transforming certain oft-repeated pol
sons into antidotes. These antidoteS them
selves, however. are new poisons which re-
quire new doses of the first drug as their
antidotes in turn. So the vicious circle is
established
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I Remain.

Not for an instant did doubt the cor.
rectness OF this Identification. All the pic
lures had seen of this weil-known society
belle had been marked by an individuality
Of expression which fixed her face In the
memory ana which now saw repeated in
the lifeless features before me.
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pal character that of "Sganarelle," the
wood-chopper, who is mistaken for a
learned physician. The plot was not
new with Moliere in his strolling days,
and is founded on an ancient fable, so
old that a version Of it is even found in
the Sanskrit. The farce is written in a
most unbounded spirit Of mirth and, in
particular, the scene in which "Sgana-
relle'' is drubbed into being a doctor is
highly amusing. ..
The play will be given at College
Street Hall on Wednesday evening, De-
cember 2, 1903. The committee. consists
of D. F. Fox, chairman; Buell. HOLSTER,
1905, stage manager, and G. S. Mccain,
1904, business manager.
All those intending to try for places in
the cast should send their names to
Buell. HOLSTER Immediately, all MEM
bers of the university being eligible. As
a large number of those who appeared
in last years cast have graduated,
there is an unusual opportunity for new
men this year. 1t has been found that
the French plays often serve as an ex-
cellent preparation for the work of the
Dramatic association later.
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tina Stone Pinneo, Norwalk; 1.-THE Ru-
raj School from the College stand
point George Williamson Smith, D. D.,
president Of Trinity college. Defects in
Training Country Children Rufus S.
Stimson, president storrs Agricultural
college.
Physical Culture Park church chapel
leader, e. G. Willard, Stamford. Phys
ical Training in Schools Without Gym
nassiums," DR.. Luther Gulick, director
of physical training in schools Of New
York city. Discussion, DR.. e. H. Ar
mold, director of Normal School Of Gym
.nastics New Haven.
Manual Training and Art-High
school building, leader, w. C. Holden,
Hartford, 1.-THE Manual Arts in the
Public Schools" DR. James P. Haney,
director Of manual training in. the pub
lie schools Of New York. Discussion,
Stanley Rood, supervisor Of manual
training in the public schools of Hart
ford, High School Work Discussion,
F. c. Cranston, Free Academy, Nor
wich, C. H. Keyes, Hartford.
Music--High school building, leader,
Benjamin Jepson, supervisor of music,
New Haven. Business meeting of the
Connecticut Public School Music Teach
ers' association. Public School Mu-
sic,'' Ralph Baldwin, Northampton,
Mass; report Of the national meeting
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annual meeting of the Connecticut State
Teachers association will be held in
this city Friday, October 16. The gene
raj meetings will be held in Foot Guard
hall. In the morning at 1915 o'clock
there will be an address by DR.. Henry
Van Dyke of Princeton university on
instruction and Education" In the
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock DR.. William
Dew. Hyde, president of Bowdoin coli
lege, will speak on 1.-THE Personality OF
the Teacher The annual business
meeting will be held at four o'clock.
The present officers of the association
are President, C. B. Jennings of New
London; first vice-president, e. c. Will
lard, of Stamford; second vice-presi-
dent, ]. w. Healy, of Putnam; cores.
ponding secretary, T. H. Patterson, of
Bristol; corresponding secretary, s. P
Willard, of Colchester; treasurer w. F.
Nichols, of New Haven; auditor, j. G..
Lewis, of New Haven. Chairmen of
committees are: Membership, L. H.
Stanley, of Hartford; resolutions, F. ].
Working, of Watertown; nominations,
W. F. Gordy, of Hartford. Section
meetings will be held at 1880 o'clock as
follows:
High School-High school building,
leader, Principal Walter A. Towne, New
l4sndon. Home Acts in the High
School" Ray Greene Huling, s. D., mas
ter English High school, Cambridge,
Mass. Discussion-Pr incipal John r..
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performance by the members of the
club. In choosing Moliere comedy for
production this year the club is making
distinct advance forward in the direc-
ton of increasing the Importance and
interest of these annual plays. The two
comedies already presented b1 the club
We're very light, and, while thoroughly
worth while and entertaining, were not
representative of the best dramatic lite
nature Of France. Now that dramatics
are firmly established in the university
and that the Freich club has passed
through the experimental stage, it is
felt that the project of producing one
of the most amusing of the Moliere
plays will prove successful in every way.
lie Medeein Malgre LUZ is one of
the most entertaining of Moliere's
farces and the complications arising
from the absurd situation of the ignor-
ant wood chopper, who becomes a
Physician in Spite of Himself result
in a series of broadly comic scenes
which are admirably set off by the ro-
mantle attachment of the young girl
who feigns dumbness in order to avoid
marriage with the man her father has
chosen for her. 49,
The play was first acted on the 9Th of
August, 1866, following the authors Bit,
terly satirical 'Misanthrope," according
to his almost irlvariable rule of produc-
ing a farcical work after serious one.
Moliere himself appeared in the princi-
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Gushing, New Haven. Principal H. a..
Tirrell Norwich.
Grammar School First Methodist
church. leader, r. A. Verplanck, SUI
perlntendent Of schools, South Man
chester. 1.-The Secret of Strenuous
Life" George H. Martin, supervisor of
public schools, Boston. Discussion
Louis P. Nash, superintendent of
schools. Holyoke, Mass, Professor f. S.
Luther, Trinity college. !.
Intermediate-Foot Guard armory.
leader, w. B. Ferguson, superintendent
of snhools, Middletown. 1.-THE Mission
70 Art" H. L. Bailey agent Massachu-
sets state board of education: 1.-The
Ideal School, Professor S. T.. Dutton,
Columbia university.
Primary-High school building, lead
er, Marcus White, principal Normal
school, New Britain, Common Sense in
Elementary Education" Professor Ed
ward L. Thornton, Columbia university.
Kindergarten-Second North school,
leader, Miss Hannah Garland, supervi-
sor, South Manchester, 1.-THE Teachers
Art of Life DR.. Walter l.. Harvey, ex-
aminer of the New York board of edu-
cation.
Ungraded-Park church, leader, Miss
G. 2. Bush, Mantle. What Ought the
Professional Standard Of the Teacher to
Be?o DR.. 4. M. Ballet, superintendent
of schools, Springfield, Mass; My Book
| and Heart Must Never Part Miss De-
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Of supervisors, Sterile Az weaver. West
field, Mass.
The programme gor the meeting In
the Park church at $50 O'clock is as fol-
lows: Voice Culture as Exemplified in
Schools and Vested Choirs,' F. e. How
ard, Bridgeport. Musical selections.
Meriden High. School choir, Organ res
cital and musical selections, John S.
Camp and Park church choir.