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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-01-01
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The Christmas celebration by the
Otis and Yuma schools on Christmas
eve, was a very enjoyable affair, and
those who had the good fortune to be
there expressed themselves as having
been very pleasantly entertained. The
house was beautifully decorated with
streamers, Christmas bells, holly
wreaths and eyergreens and the tree
was loaded with pretty little pokes
filled with oranges and candy, the
gift Of the teachers" and most every
thing in presents from tiny china
doll to an express wagon to gladen
the hearts of the little tots and
Wipe their noses,
Warm their toesies,
And make their cheeks
Look red as roses.
The teachers, Misses Day and Pet
Dull, deserve much credit for their
untiring efforts In making the occa-
sion the event of the season.
meeting was held last Monday
night In the Otis schoolhouse to dis
cuss the county division proposition.
There were 20 men present and they
voted unanimously to remain In and |
be a part of Bingham county and |
committee was appointed to petition |
the legislature, asking them to es-
tablish the south line of Bingham
county two miles south of the town.
ship line between townships four and |
five. A petition is already being |
circulated asking taht all of township
be included in the proposed Power
county.
Julius Teichert returned from Van
couver, B. G., last Monday.
Hosea Berg made business trip
to Blackfoot and Pocatello Saturday
and Sunday, in the interests of the
Tilden bridge committee.
Mrs. j. 8. Graham is here visiting
her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Nugent.
Z. B. White and wife are at Sunny
Dell, Fremont county, visiting Mr..
Whites grandfather
No. 20.
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In the past il was customary for the
members of party to stand up in row
and hold out their arms with The sleeves
rolled up to their shoulders. The most
common place for the injection was about
the biceps. but many of the opium fiends
were tattooed from their necks TO their
wrists, and also on other parts of their
bodies The morphine injectors make
their own solutions, and, as they use
dirty water, the danger Of their COM
municating diseases is great.
The government is doing all IL can to
abolish these morphine practices. 1t has
stringent laws against them, but they are
still secretly carried on in most of the
cities. In the meantime, | understand
that the English and Germans have been
flooding China with cheap hypOdermic
and that the Chinese imperial customs
board has now issued regulations pro-
hiDIting their Importation, except by the
foreign medical practitioners and foreign
druggists. Hereafter all morphia and
syringes landed without special permit
from the customs will be confiscated.
The greater part of the opium used in
China is raised at home That i'm
ported from India amounts to millions of
dollars year, but far greater quantity
Is grown upon Chinese soil. Poppy plan
tations are cultivated as far north as
Manchuria, and there are provinces in
southern and western China where opium
is one OF the principal crops. The reduc-
ing OF the areas of cultivation is causing
considerable loss TO the farmers. The
government realizes this, but, neverthe-
less, IL insists that the laws be enforced
According 10 them, no ground can be
be cut down one-tenth of their original
size
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and that the retail opium shops should
gradually be abolished. At the same
time 1t inaugurated dispensaries where
free medicines might be had to take
away the opium craving. and encouraged
the establishment of opium hospitals for
those who had contracted the habit.
In the same edicts it was provided that
all users of opium should be registered;
that they should be examined by the
police. and the habitual users should be
allowed only a given quantity of the
drug, at certain fixed periods. These al
lowances were to be gradually reduced
so that at the end Of five years all per-
sons under sixty years of age would be
were required to wear badges. so that
every one would know an opium fiend as
he walked through the streets.
All government officials. including
under sixty, had six months to give up
the habit or to tender their designations;
and all teachers and scholars were re-
CURED to stop opium smoking within the
space of one year. As to the officers of
the army and navy they were command
ed to abandon the habit at once.
This is what China Is trying TO do. TIL
above proclamations have been followed
by others and today the prince regent
and the grand council are doing all they
can to have these laws put into force
They are prosecuting their infringement
and they have inaugurated such a reign
OF terror as would create a revolution in
the United States and turn our people
and government upside down.
1t makes one laugh TO think what would
happen IL Uncle Sam should cut off every
congressman's today should prohibit
cold tea in the restaurant OF the Senate
and not allow the clerks of the govern
ment Ia take a friendly tipple together
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sion to her. She was very brave and she
was very modest. She had the faculty
of most brave persons Of winning the af-
fectionate regard of their COMPANIONS
The tent compa Mon of Mary was a hand
some young Flemish trooper who thought
Mary was the bravest young man in the
world. No wonder that Mary. her nat
ura' tendencies checked and. distorted
throughout her young life. should fall
passionately in love with him. The vio-
lence Of her feelings was such that she
neglected all her soldierly duties and
acted so peculiarly that she was consid-
cred insane. One day when the handsome
trooper was expressing his sorrow over
her condition she astonished him by
throwing herself into his arms and telling
him she was woman. But his astonish-
ment was no greater than that of the
entire regiment the next day when the
two troopers were married in public All
the officers were present and so were
thousands of citizens.
Married and dressed for the first time
in her life in the clothes women wear
Mary left the army and with her husband
opened an inn, and for luck called it the
Three Horseshoes. She had a fair meas
ure of luck for a few years and was well
on the road to prosperity and ease when
her husband died, the wars ended. bust
ness fell off to little or nothing and she
was left once more with a problem of
making a living for herself.
There was not much opportunity for her
in Europe. she thought. Anyhow, the
death of her husband had cut all the ties
that held her there, SO she engaged pas
sage for America in a French ship. For
an unattached young woman to make the
trip across the ocean in those days was
unthought Of, SO for her own protection
she resumed the garb of man. The
ship she sailed in was captured by Eng
lish pirates, and as she was the only
English-speaking person on board the
pirates, after plundering the vessel and
it's passengers of everything of value.
took her on board their craft and al
lowed the French ship to proceed. They
had no idea she was other than she
seemed to be-a fine. handsome, rosy
checked young Englishman-and she be-
came one of the pirate crew. There was
nothing else for her to do. She continued
with the pirates for several months, and
then, the British government having made
one of its periodical offers to pirates to
pardon those who would surrender by
certain day, the crew availed themselves
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That is what is going on here. I am told
that no less than $50 officials, more or
less prominent. connected with the gov
eminent service in Picking either have
broken or are endeavorinG to break off
the use OF opium. Some of these are
habitual smokers, who have tried so hard
TO quit that they have died in the at
tempt. Take. for instance. Wen Hal! He
was one OF the highest scholars OF the
empire, and was connected with the grand
secretariat. To hold his job he signed
declaratio that he was not an opium
smoker and then stopped using the drug.
lie died few months ago. Tsai Chang.
another noted official, was cashicred for
smoking. He is III i'm consequence. and IL
is said will not recover. Chi Chang, the
acting governor of the province of AMI
wal. died the other day for the Same
reason, and there are many other old
smokers who are said to be iii.
According TO the new laws. which are
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of the opportunity, went to Jamaica,
were officially forgiven. and, having sold
their plumber TO good advantage, pro-
ceeded TO enjoy the fruits Of their adj
ventures.
When their money was spent they
heard that Capt. Rodgers was fitting out
vessels in the island of New Providence
for privateering. This suited them admi-
rably, so a fair number of them, among
the lot being Vane and Rackam, offered
their services TO Rodgers.
What else cd do" Mary asked
the Judge when she got 10 this point in
her narrative. There was no way for
an honest woman 10 make living in
Jamaica. as well you know. and even
though | detest the life the pirate leads,
and even though I abhor bloodshed and
crime. / have the same love of life that
every human creature has and. wanting
to preserve my life and get out OF it
everything / can, ! was constrained to
become a pirate once more. because
there was nothing else for me to turn to. I"
The ship fitted out by Rodgers hardly
had sailed when Mary and her compan-
ions mutinied and ran up the black nag.
Vane was selected as captain and RACK
am quartermaster. For several years the
pirates ranged the gulf, preying on friend
and foe. At times they had plenty. but
more times they were poor Inen
came the time when Vane was unwilling
to give battle to a French warship and
Rackam supplanted him as captain. With
the selection of Rackam as captain there
came to the pirate ship Anne Bonney. the
woman to whom he was attached. She
dressed in a mixted costume. half male.
half female. In all the contests In which
the brigantine engaged she was as reso-
lutte and as good a fighter as any man
aboard.
One of the queer things in connection
with this strange pair of women is that
il was through Anne Bonney that the sex
of Mary Reed was discovered. Mary was
no less modest than she was brave and
no one on board suspected her as being
other than she seemed. Anne Bonney,
coarse and of a far different stripe than
Mary. was much impressed by the rosy
cheeks and dashing appearance of Mary
and aroused the jealousy of Rackam. The
captain became so violent that Mary
thought it prudent TO reveal her secret to
Anne.
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more or less evaded, the smoking of OPT
UNI means immediate dismissal Govern
ment detectives or censors have been in
structed to shadow the officials, and those
who claim to have broken off tie habit
are rigidly watched. Just the other day
a private secretary of one of the cabinet
ministers was found to have several
ounces Of opium on his person. and
request for his dismissal was promptly
sent forth. In one OF the papers this
morning I see q dispatch stating that
Prince Chung, one OF the imperial opium
commissioners. has Just denounced
twenty high officials who have lied as
to their use Of tine drug ard that he de-
of the imperial princes were ordered to
resign their POSTS that they might give
their entire time 10 the eradication OF
their craving for the drug, and at the
months Of extension were allowed to GER
tain civil and military officials who had
not obeyed the imperia. edicts.
The crusade is being extended even to
the ladies of the palace. They have
been warned that they must stop smok-
ing, and certain of these noble DANES,
who have been secretly selling opium to
their friends. have been told that If
they continue they will be imprisoned.
The work of stopping the evil among
the clerks outside Picking has been dele
gated to the viceroys and governors.
There are twenty-five provinces in China
and the work in each OF these is going
on rapidly, or the reverse, according to
the energy of the governor. In SZechwan,
state in the far west bordering on
Tibet, one of the new district officials in
vited all of his subordinates to a din
ncr. He Toasted them well, but, as they
were about to leave, he closed the door,
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saying that he intended to keep all with
him under lock and key for the next
three days TO learn whether they were
free from the opium habit He knew
those who were not would show nervous
ness and in this way he could learn
how to enforce the new laws.
IL Is believed that many Of the viceroys
are still secretly smoking; and the anti
opium commissioners have asked the
prince regent to call a meeting at the
capital of all the viceroys. governors and
generals of the army who have reported
that they have broken off the ha bit.
When they appear they will be subjected
to test to show whether or not they
have lied. Since this one viCeroy has
asked for time for some OF his officials,
and others have established opium hos
pitfalls and cures.
In nearly every province of China there
has been general closing of the opium
dens. In some cities back-door business
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The Critics,

CHARLES FKOHMAN tells with gust,
~ of a dialogue between two women that
was heard in the pit at one Of his Lon
don performances OF King Lear"
Its good. amt it, dear?" said the first
woman.
Well said the second. critically, "the
scenerys good. and the acting's good.
but the dialogue simply can't compare
with Hall Gaines Pete at the Lyceum"
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THE Anti-Opium Edicts-
i High Officials Dismissed
for Smoking-A Warning to
Princesses-All Opium Dens
Closing and the Drug to be
Wiped Out Within Ten
Years - Morphine Versus
Opium-Morphine Injectors
Can the Habit be Cured?
"A Look at the New Hos
pitfalls Cutting Down the
Poppy Farms - China's Ten
Million Opium Smokers. and
How They Compare With
the Whisky Drinkers of the
West.
Copyright. 1899. 10y Frank u. Carpenter
PEKING.
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more sinned against than SHINING. Mary
Reed ii was learned, had been born in
England and had been bred and reared in
deception. Her mother. when very young,
had married a youth who soon after their
marriage went to sea and never returned
The fruit of this marriage was a son. A
year later Mary was born. and. the son
dying. Marys mother decided to substi-
tute her illegitmate child for the legiti-
mate one in order to have the child come
i'm for the wealth of her husba nd's moth
er. Mary, therefore, was reared as a boy
As she grew up her mother explained to
her the secret of her birth and the ne
cessity for concealing her sex. At various
times the grandmother wanted to adopt
the child. but this the mother, of course,
would not consent to. Instead. each
time she got the old woman to Increase
the allowance made on account of the
child. Occasionally the mother and grand
mother quarreled and, unfortunately for
Mary, the old woman died at such a time
and left Mary without a shilling. The
child being no longer a source of income
10 her, the mother had no further use
for Mary and abandoned her.
Mary, CARRIED as a boy, reared as a boy
and having had the companionship only
ing except look for work as boy. She
a footbo to a Frenchwoman of wealth,
and she remained in this position several
years. AS she grew in years and strength
she got tired of servile employment and
began to look about for something else.
Having love for the sea and touch of
romance in her disposition, she enlisted on
a man-of-war. Here she learned enough
of seamanship to fit her we'll for the part
she was to play later on in life. After
several cruises she sought adventure
ashore and went to Flanders. where she
enlisted in a regiment OF infantry as a
cadet. She was brave, dashing soldier.
but there was little chance for a poor
soldier. no matter how brave or how
dashing, to advance in those days, for
commissions were bought and sold and
the person without money might serve
throughout life without promotion.
Giving up the infantry in disgust, Mary
next enlisted in a cavalry regiment. In
this she distinguished herself so as TO win
the applause and esteem of all the Of
ficers of the regiment. Just then romance
entered the life of Mary to bring confu-
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In some provinces the viceroys have or
dered the immediate stoppage of all cul-
tivation of opium and in others they have
RENTED the taxes for five or ten years
upon opium lands which have been turned
over 10 other crops. In Yunnan the SOL
diers have been directed TO dig up the
poppy fields and the viceroy of Nanking
recently issued an order that his farmers
must destroy their opium seeds. and that
such as had planted them should dig their
fields over and put i'm something else.
All the opiuAN-raising lands have been
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plead with and threaten the rest. The ex-
ample of the captain was too much for
them. After firing few more shots at
the Englishman they. too. sought refuge
and solace in the cabin. all but one. This
one remained on deck with the two women
and fought the ship until the last In
one desperate effort 70 get the men PACK
on deck Mary Reed went To the CABIN
door and, firing into the crowd. threaten
ed death to every one of them who con-
tinued to act the coward. Her shot killed
one man. but the others stuck to the
cabin and refused to come out
When the English swarmed on board
she, in disgust, surrendered the brigan-
tine, and thereafter. both by the COM
mander of the warship and by the civil
authorities she was treated as the real
head Of the pirate band. Her contempt
for Rackam and the men was shared by
Anne Bonney, who was the captains mis-
tress short time before he was hanged
Rackam got permission to see this woman
to bid farewell to her. Instead of con-
doing with him. she told him that II he
had fought like a man in all probability
he would not have gone to the gallows.
She was sorry for him, of course, she
acknowledged, but not sorry enough to
shed tears. She besought him. however.
to go to his death like a man and so
wipe out as far as possible the memory
of his craven conduct in the fight.
RacKam and the two men sentenced to
die with him that day went to the gall
lows smilingly. The other men OF the
band were hanged in the February fol-
lowing. but although neither Mary Reed
nor Anne BOnney sought or expected
clemency the authorities refused to hang
them There was as much, IL not more. of
an adherence to inficting the death PEN
atty on women in those days as th.'fe is
I'm these times, and as the stories g., the
two woman pirates became known / ugh
their conversations with the Port Royal
Judge PEOPLE came to look upon them as
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appointment should be made TO any one
who had contracted the liquor habit or
who would not sign the pledge. Let this
edict relate not only TO Washington. but
20 every post Office and custom house,
and let its effect be so extended as to
include every state Official. even TO the
county clerks. sheriffs. and their subor-
dinate employees.
Let another edict provide that all must
show government permits before a glass
OF whisky, wine or other liquor will
be sold to them. and so that every saloon
keeper be subject 10 fine and imprison-
ment IL he breaks this law. Let the
dict summary shut nine-tenth, of the
saloons. and provide for the absolute
destruction Of all within the course OF ten
years. Let there be laws forbdding the
distilling Of liquors and their importation.
and. In short. the Inauguration of
scheme OF government restrictions which
would entirely wipe out the manufacture.
selling and drinking OF anything intoXi-
eating within the space of ten years.
II would be a good. big contract, would
IL not?
Well. that Is just what China is trying
TO do as TO blotting opium and the opium
trafic from the face of her country.
We have had crusades against liquor
but they have been mostly begun by the
women and carried out with the opposi-
ton. rather than the assistance. of the
government officials. This crusade of
China begins at the top. Three years ago
the great empress dowager and the chief
boards Of the empire at Picking sent out
edicts ,utting down the size Of the opium
farms, shutting up the opium dens and
recurring all dealers in opium 10 take out
licenses. The government commanded
all farmers to reduce their opium fields
by 10 per cent every year and provided
that no opium at all should be cultivated
after the end Of ten years. II required
that the merchants decrease their opium
sales ~ per cent every year. and close
out their whole business I'm the space OF
five years. II ordered that all public
onium dens should be summarily closed.
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lamps, 1888: boxes. 3.4a7; vessels for
opium cooking. Jo0. About 1900 needles
used for morphine injections were all
given up and broken. In that province
it is absolutely necessary TO have GER
tiflcate to buy opium and the same pei
son can only get his supply once a
month. the allowance being fixed by the
opium commissioners
! find a general belief among the Chi
nese that the opium habit can be cured.
Everywhere pills to take away the era
wing are sold. and in most of the great
cities hospitals and refugees have been
established where the slaves of the drug
go to break off the habit In FOochow
there are six such hospitals. and four ot
these report that they have already
cured 1888 persons. Such institutions
have been established at Peking Nan
king Tientsn. Wuchang. Canton and
in many other places. Foreign doctors
shave also come in. and profess to be
able to cure the opium habit. One OF
these who is well recommended is an
to be able to cure any one of tine opium
habit In three days. He established hos
pitfalls at Tientsin and Shanghai. He
has started one at Pao Ting Flu. where
it is said that one hundred patients came
to him during the first month and were
cured Then the number OF applications
mysteriously decreased. and Mr.. Towre
found that this came from a report to
the erect tndt, dllnOugn the cure was
successful. il always killed the patient
within one hundred days thereafter. This
story was false. but it almost broke up
the hospital.
Mr.. Towns Institution at Tientsn was
established at the expense OF the viceroy.
and officials who were cured received a
certificate certifying that fact.
One of the great dangers in the use
of many of the anti-opium remedies is
that they contain the drug in some other
form. The government has had to ex-
tend its laws TO morphine, and i'm one
OF the recent edicts the importation of
morphia and of hypodermic syringes is
prohibited and their sale is limited to
practicing physicians.
The morphine habit has long been prev
alent in many parts of the Chinese en-
pire. and a vast amount of morphine pills
are still consumed. In certain cities