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threatened abDmlnatiOn. along came the
BRITISH India Company, then having the
opium monopoly now held by the gov
eminent. The company first sent a small
shipment OF the drug to Canton as :,
commercial experiment. This WAS in 1913.
and seven years later. while the America II
colonies We're fighting for their liberty.
two store ships were anchored off Canton
to facilitate the traffic.
These floating speakeasies did not
dare To come into port in open defiance
of the Chinese law, which a wise emperor
had promulgated to save his people from
the slavery of vice.
But the Chinese authorities became
aware of the floating "speak-easies" and
made such loud complaint that the SNUG
glers saw tit to concentrate their illicit
Cargoes in q single ship, anchored far
Their off. Then the emperor heard that
the smuggling continued, and increased the
penalties because. as he complained of
the drug 1t wastes the time and de-
Dstroys the property of the Chinese peo-
pie" His next move was to require all
foreign ships at the mouth of the river
below Canton to give bond that they had
no opium on board This proved inef-
fective. and in his evaporation the EN-
peror finally decreed that pilots and con-
signees guilty of smuggling the drug be
beheaded when caught In other words.
he went the limit in endcavoring to save
his people. BY his time 100000 pounds
of the contra band drug were being SNUG
glcd in in one year. and the profits of
the smuEglerS had become SO prinCely
that. Ia save their necks. they agreed
upon Il generous blackmail tariff-.rcat
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crown, the coup was successful. for Lin
had Gordon of guards placed about all
of the ships. also the residences Of those
concerned i'll the traffic, and forbade the
Chinese TO furnish them food and water
until they complied.
After offering him .0S1 chests as Il
bride the smugglers had to surrender
the S9,0OJOU0 worth of opium to Lin,
who promptly had 1t all dumped into
specially prepared trenches, where it
was mixed with lime and salt water. and
then drawn off into the sea. One Chinese
caught carrying away a small quantity
was beheaded on the spot. Thereupon
England, instead of expressing regret
demanded satisfaction and repara ton"
sent a fleet and waged the opium war;"
which WIS ended by n treaty by which
China. helpless and terrified, had to pay
an indemnity of S27.000.000 for enforc-
ing her own laws within her own terri
tory. She also had to give Britain Hong
kong. and was forced to open five ports
to British trade. When the Chinese
treaty. commissioners asked their British
conferees why they would not act fairly
by prohibiting the growth of the poppy
and thus stop a traffic so pernicious to
the human race. the British replied: IF
your people are VirtuouS they Will de-
sist from the evil practice; and if your
officers are incorruptible and obey your
orders no opium can enter your country"
y j;
After another opium war with England
in 1860 the vanquished Chinese were
forced to again accept the terms of the
victoria nominal duty of 10 cents per
pound. the same pound having paid the
British crown a tax of over S::.:io before
leaving India. England has since been Of
fered all sorts of trade concessions if
she VIII agree even 10 Il gradual increase
OF duty. Ii Hung Chang said that the
only INSTANCE i'll which he had seen Il
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Chinese Cartoon Showing Englishman Bringing
Opium to China.

brides to he offered petty officials. This
scheme worked well. and soon fast native
boats, heavily armed, were receiving the
opium chests at sea and landing them,
with the conniVance of debauched under
linsS. who received a fixed bride per
chest.
Wherever the emperor suspected this
trade and sent his boats to exterminate
it the snugglers fought desperately to es-
cane deca pitation. And the traffic now
began to spread up the coast, even to
Manchuria. Fleets of big supply ships
came on regular schedule from India, but
In 1897 word came from Picking that the
emperor's eyes had again been opened, and
the superintendent of British trade at
Canton sent a note to the admiral of the
British fleet in India to send a fleet to
scare the Chinese government back to
the system of cOnnivance that has hither-
TO prevailed. or to hasten onward the
Equalization measure from the court Cat
Peking)." The admiral sent man-of-
war.
How can I die and go to meet the
spirits of my imperial father and ances-
tors until these direful evils are re-
moved" the emperor. Tao Kwang, burst
ing into tears, asked of Lin. a faithful
official. Lin thereupon fastened to Can
ton and forthwith ordered all merchants
to deliver to him within three days every
particle of opium in the city or harbor
and to give bond that not another ounce
would be imported-both conditions under
penalty of death. Lin arrived in good
time. for there were then i'm the harbor
twenty-five vessels containing over two
and Il half million pounds of opium, worth
S9.on,G'o Despite the fact that Il tax
of nearly this amount had already been
paid on The drug in India TO the British
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Tolerant Londoners.
London Court Journal

From the London Court Journal.
In a year which has seen a record in
huX Of country visitors to London the
inhabitants OF the metropolis may par
donably congratulate themselves on the
excellent manners that they have dis
layed Not only does the countrymau
in London find that his constant quest ions
are answered with accuracy and ciVilltA.
but he is allowed without remonst rance
to make himself exceedingly troublesome
Ia those who are accustomed u London
Way
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important function of Bishop Brent in the
far east now comes TO light. He mas
dedicated his energies to the assistance
of China in her avowed purpose to abol-
ish the opium habit, inflicted upon her
people by a Christian nation a century
and quarter ago. About two years
back the President received from Bishop
Brent in Manila, a letter urging that
something be done to prevent the increase
of the opium habit In the Philippines.
The letter impressed the President, who
referred it to the Department OF State.
1t opened up problem that has stirred
Christendom for fifty years. and the out
come was a circular letter inviting all or
the interested powers TO send commis-
sioners to an international opium confer
ence. to be held in Shanghai January l,
which date has lately been postponed one
month. The acceptance of this invitation
by Great Britain-the arch-offender IN
this drugging of China that has gone on
relentlessly since before our revolutionary
war-amounts to one of the greatest
diplomatic triumphs even won by ma
ton, one whose Glonors Secretary Root
must share with Robert Bacon, his assist
ant secretary of state. Had not the Span
ish American placed US within the
Great Britain probably would not have
been called to trial before her sister pow
for many decades yet to come. AS it
is, future history Will give Uncle Sam
credit for being the first to effectively
bring the question directly to John Bull.
And an odd coincident is that Bishop
Brent has used the machinery of the
land of his adoption to bring to terms his
ia iS f,I-
birth--and that he has succeeded in inau-
surating tremendous moral enterprise
which the bishops of the English Church
have been striving in vain to initiate for
many years.
At this first international opium confer
ence, of whose Importance the public as
yet has little realization, the United
States will ask the powers to restrict the
worlds vast areas Of planting and sale
of opium. principally in India. Bishop
Brent will be the chairman of our COM
mission. and his colleagues Will be DR..
Hamilton Wright of Washington. D. c.,
and DIR. Charles d. Tenney, Chinese secre-
tary of our legation in Picking. who has
lived for some twenty years in China, and
who at one time was president of the I'm
perial Chinese University at Tien-TSin.
Our call of this conference opens up
some of the blacklist pages of the his
tory of Christendom. Somewhere in the
middle ages the Moguls got hold of the
opium monopoly and from them it was
inherited by the British government
when il came into possession of India
whose chief source of revenue save land
tax, il has long been. In the early days
the secret of its manufacture reached
China. which, upon realizing its banetul
effects. passed rigid laws prohibiting both
the cultivation of the poppy and the
sale of opium. So determined was China
TO stamp it out from the start that in
these early times the police were en-
powered. without special warrant, to en-
ter the homes Of those suspected of the
vice. 10 search their premises and persons
and even to smell their breathS."
China having thus rid its lionse o. its
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OF, foreigners, eX-
hort US 10 virtue,
First take away
your opium and
then talk to us
about your va ST.
jesus,
G II Ster Hol-
combe, our one
I / m Q interpreter
and secretary OF
legation at PekinS.
on c e h g ard a n
opium slave fling
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blind person the colorS of the rainbow.
Some of the letters and sounds. take
long practice p and B are so much alike
that they have to be gone over again
and agan. You can prove for yourself.
if you want. just how hard it is by hav-
ing some one say those two letters under
breath for you to distinguish if possible
between them.
Then and Il and their sounds make
trouble. too. The kissing sound Of S and
the "zizzing'' sound OF II make the same
lip movements. The children placed their
fingers on their teachers throat In GER
tain spot and felt the swelling of the cords
when she said "z-Z-z-Z-z-Z.' Then they
would try their level best to initiate her.
Some OF them had mastered It. but others
had not Yet how hard they tried. There
was no suggestion of it being hard as far
a the expression of their faces was cop
cerued Not a bit of 1t. They looked
square into their teachers eyes and
brought every faculty to bear on making
that sound.
Some day those who cannot make some
special sound will suddenly capture It.
Then their teacher will make them say II
over and over again, so that 1t VIII SUCK
In their memories. and they are step
nearer TO the goal.
They were learning a little of their vo-
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They do not teach the children to speil
out sentences on their fingers. or with
manual signs. but teach them to speak
They teach them to carr on a conrersa-
ton with their lips. and in place of their
ears the deaf children use their eyes.
They watch the lips and tongue ana
throat of the person talking to them and
understand what is said. 1t cannot be
said that they understand perfectly, for
that is not strictly true Teacher ana
pupil go through a long. nerve-racklns
ordeal before perfection is in sight, pu'
perfection comes eventually.
Who could take boy or girl OF SIX
wears who has never heard sound. whose
parents are in the working class. ana
consequently have been unable 10 aHoru
time or money on special advantages lor
the child, and in a year teach II vocao-
ulary of two hundred words, teach 1t 10
spell them on d slate and to speak tneh''
and to understand what the words mean
when you say them naturally?
Mighty few could 10 that The children
who are brought ID Kendall Green are
untutored and deaf. many OF them are
stone deaf. They are pitiable creatures
when they come, even if they do have all
tho pIavfulness and mischief that healthy
Youngsters should have, for they can
communicate no thought at all except py
a sign language which they have evol'ed
Ia suit their own needs. They are trials
to their parents. curiosities TO other chi.
dren and almost useless-as things are
Judged by unthinking folks.
Yet at Kendall Green the patient teach-
ers instruct them, one at time, care
fully and slowly. and train them to form
the sounds by initiating the shaping OF
mouth and lips until finally one SOUND IS
made as perfect as possible, and then the
next sound is worked on.
II II were merely teaching them to read
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Christian nation live up to the golden
rule was in 1850. when the United States
by treaty forbade Americas taking any
part in the opium trade with emma
China finally decided to tight ire WIN
fire and allow the growth of The poppy
in her own country, and great areas bios
somed With the drug plan; until the late
empress dowager. several years ago, Is
sued an edict again forolddlng the culu-
walton and use OF opium. and providing
for the gradual determination Of the evil
::
She allowed officials enslaved by the
habit six months in which to get cured
of it. and DEGRADED every one under sixty
if disobeyins. a fate promptly visited
upon five mandarns OF high rank in
Guiding Princes Chuan and Jul. But
even in carrying out this edict the OFF,
Gals have met with resistance from the
British importers and dealers
If was Napoleon who twitted the Brit
sh on being a nation of sh"pkeepers'
Many less preiudced critics cannot put
agree with this indictment In view Oh
her subordiration Of morailt! 10 coih-
mercial!sm in all of this long. dlsSfacel"i
chapter of her history. Before the en-
press dowaeer's edict was published the
Chinese ambassador in London Is sand To
have obtained pledge that rhsiaH''
would gradually taper down lidia
oniI,m exports To China. so tliat they
would cease entirely within ten years
but England has not yet Kept ram
despite the fact that john Morley tue
minister of the colonies, mas Tor many
wears been an opponent of the forcing
of opiIlm upon China. The OPIUM grow
ers have waxed sufficiently powerful 10
prevent the British government rom
carrying out its promises, ana IIlcii
friends at London have held OUT on the
ground that India cannot afford to lose
the more than S10,0Uo,oW annual revenue
from the opium traftlc
John Bull is partceps criminis in the
whole transaction for no one can cntllNate
poDpies in India without his Incense OF
manufacture opium without his permit
Indeed. no opium manufacturer III lhuia
can sell His dope" to any but govern
ment agents, who pay an average Oh ~
per pound for the raw drug. Poor farm
ers who cannot afford Il start in the buSl-
ness are encouraged TO enter it by d
government advance up To one-nalf this
price. In the opium belt, which covers an
area of eastern India exceeding i'll eN-
tent our entire state of Colorado. 1,50000O
peGple-a Chicagoful-are engaged in the
cultivation of the poppy. while about
5000 are employed in the manufacture of
the drug itself And what Is most sur
prisng of all is john Bulls commercial
short -sightedness in failing.to realize that
by thus dragging the Chinese empire he
has at the same time been impoverishing
of mi l.
lions of dollars worth of legitimate British
manufactures Other giVerS Of knock
out drops administer their dope" that
they may fitch something from the vic
tim while lie sleeps. John Bull has forced
this drug upon Il good customer merely
for the profit in the drug itself and has
rendered that customer una BILE TO buy
things that he could afford il uncorrup;ed.
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these words into the teeth OF Christian
missionary who was eXhorting street
crowd OF natives in one of the interior
cities OF China.
Since this little incident China has been
given evidence that one nation OF foreign
devils is not a hypocrite before the eyes
of its God. Exhibit A offered when
We returned our unjust share of the Boxer
indemnity. Exhibit + is To be offered at
Shanghai iii month, coming next New
Year OF the Christian calendar.
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Deaf Child Writing From Dictation

STAR reporter spent
an afternoon in the
ella SSroomS Of some
OF the lower grades
ut Kendall Green.
He talked to deaf
children. and they
understood what he
said. although they
could not hear a
sound. And some
of them talked to
him. although they
are dumb
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For on February l. at the instigation of
oar government. commissions from China.
Great Britain. France, Germany. Japan
Russia Portugal. Siam. Holland, Persia
and The United Sta-es-from all coun-
tries Interested in the loug-mooted opium
problem except Turkey-will meet at the
&c estial city named TO set about the UNI
DOING of The worst wrong ever Inflicted
upon one nation by a.nother-the forcible
drugginE of China.
Within the past year the RI. Rev.
Charles III. Brent surprised the Episco-
paiiaus of the United States by twice de-
CliuinS the tcmptingly picturesque and
useful office of Bishop of Washington.
D. c. to which he was twice elected. lie
refused on the ground that the Master
whom iJe served had called him To more
important function. III the orient. whittier
had gone in l.s2 as first Episcopa!
Bishop of The Philippine Islands. THIS
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Infant Glass Ready for Instruction.

of paper hung against the blackboard
We're pictures cut from magazine; and
newspa pers. Boys, girls, horses. dolls.
men, women. babies. balls. and Il lot of
objects OF that general description We're
pasted there When the teacher would
say word one OF the children would
touch the picture Il described.
Man" the teacher would say. ana
the stick would fly to tie right picture
..Boy-sirl.-house-b all-waE on-bird. all
spoken as rapidly as possible. allowing
time merely for the child 8 eyes to glance
from the pictures to the teachers lips
Then after drill of that sort the teacher
touched the pictures and the child "oN!d
say the right words. This latter seems
more difficult for the pupil. for the words
are naturally said with seeming effort on
account OF the lack of expression and the
determination TO say the word right. FOR
no slipshod pronunciation goes at all. III
man is pronounced anything like main
or mama" then little drill OF the word
man" is in order
Does ii seem hard to say boy? Sup
pose YOU had never heard it. but you
knew that ~ made a certain sound In
pretty" aud another sound in you !;
and the sound of D. was familiar 10
YOU, but 20" had all sorts of sounds And
III addition suppose you were deaf and
knew only seventy or eighty words any
how. Would it be hard to learn? There
are any number of things you would say
before the right word came. Or suppose
YOU were the teacher and had one of the
children in front Of you. not Il bright
child at all. and perhaps not very am
bilious about learning. How long would
II be before you lost your patience over
that one word?
1t seems. too. that deaf and dumb boys
can he as bad their more fortunate
brothers Take Sammy. for instance. He
sat this afternoon very near the teacher
right where she could administer discip
line. for he is n bold bad boy. Six years
old. sturdy. and with smile that was put
on for keeps, he stirs up more mischief
than all the rest of the class together
The teacher likes him. too. very much.
for all his badness and even confessed
that she wished she had whole class
like him. for besides being very mischiev-
Gus he is very bright. and perhaps a
great future awaits him.
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HIS great trouble is that he will talk in
school. That is. he makes signs with
his fingers and hands. and tries to catch
the eye of the little girl next to him.
He talks ali the time in this sign
language Of his. which is forbidden en-
tirely in the schoolroom, but which -four
ishes like everything prohibited. and
which seems to contain messages 10
all the rest of the school and def
ance to all law and order. There is
no rule prohibiting real talking. and ev-
cry now and Then one OF the children
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The brown dope" got into our veins
when we got hold of The Philippines.
where Mr. Taft found thousands Of cur
subjects addicted 10 the drug. He had
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copyright, 1905. 10y John Elfrc,h Watkins
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They were learning a little of their vo-
this afternoon. On large sheet
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-26
A Good irish Answer.

Secretary COrtelyou was discussing"
said a New York broker, "a question of
finance during the panic. He broke off
TO tell a story.
He said he was reminded of the irish
farmer on his way to the cattle fair.
Where are you going, my manT said
an English tourist, stopping this agricul-
turist.
To Waterford fair, your honor was
tn answer.
9TH Englishman looked approvingly At
the heifers the other was driving.
And how much do you expect to get
for your beasts at Waterford fair?' he
asked.
Sure, an If I get IS a head l shan't
do badly, said the Irishman.
"'Ah, that's a sample Of your country,
said the Englishman severely. Take those
heifers to- England and you'd average Ri4
a head for them
The Irishman laughed.
Just so. yer honor he said, and II
yez were 10 take the lakes of Killarney to
purgatoTy yez would get a guinea q
drop New York Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-26
OXYGEN IS PERIToNITIS CURE
New York Hospital Surgeons Report
Remarkable Results from
Its Use.

Remarkable results attained In treat
ing peritonitis with pure oxygen at Beth
Israel hospital have raised hopes mat a
way has been found at last 10 combat
this dread disease. the same that carried
off President Mckinley and which places
the stamp Of death upon 80 per cent OF It's
victims.
A striking Illustration Of the efficacy
of the oxygen was given yesterday when
there was discharged from the hospital
Mrs. Anna Abba, a sufferer from perl
tonitis, whose case upon her admission
was at first given up as hopeless,
Mr.. Abias was the first to receive tho
oxygen treatment. on the day when sho
was taken to the hospital, two and a half
weeks ago, DR.. William Seaman Balm
bridge, the noted scientist, had been dis
cussing with Prof. Henry Mansfield Sill
yer. the hospitals chief surgeon, a theory
that oxygen If tried, would prove a cure
for peritonitis.
II was but an hour afterward that Dr.
Silver received the summon 10 make d
heroic effort TO save the womans IRE
When ne reached her side he Iouhd she
was suffering from general perllohltls
and that her temperature was lO5 de-
grees.
Seeing that the old method Of draining
off the bacterial substance In the region
Of the peritoueum would be without avail
I'm her case he resolved to follow the sug-
Esstion given by DT. Bainbrld"e,
After the cut had been made
and the usual treatment given, the wound
was so sutured that It left room for a
small tube. This tube was connected
with a tank Of oxygen. which was run
through water TO thoroughly purify It,
and after the flow lad continued for
three minutes the tube was Withdrawn.
Mrs. Abias eyincod such remarkable inn
proscment from the very start that other
pegitouius sufferers were similarly
treated. There are now in the hospital
four other Iersons who were given the
cure All have shown Improvement equal
ing that OF Mrs, Abias, and Il Is expected
that when they, too, have been in the
hospital for two weeks and a half they
will be able 20 go home as well as they
sverywhere.-New York American.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-26
When Taft Wa a Poet.

Very few persons know that Secretary
Taft has ever written poetry. Most peo-
pie have an idea that a poet Is a lean,
long-haired creature who looks as If he
had lost his best friend. The genial rePub-
Mcan nominee appears too well fed to be
a rider Of the steed Pegasus. But
Once, before the world had heard about
Mr.. Taft, lie made a visit to the home of
a favorite aunt in Iowa, who knew not Of
his courtship of the muse. When he had
told his beloved relative how all the folks
were" and answered her l0l questions and
dined with especial attention to the fatted
calf. he proudly took from his pocket a
couple of clippings from the newspaper
which had printed his soul songs" He
admits the verses were clever.
The aunt Of the future great statesman
read them diligently.
will" she asked simply. do they print
those things for nothing If you send them
inY"-Phiadelphia Press.