The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-05-06

lature, became president of the state
senate. and in such esteem was he
held that there seemed to be no Of
flee within the gilt of the people
which he might not reasonably aspire. Il
Then opium claimed him as a de- II i
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phine. one of its derivatives | do 49,
not know how he acquired the habit
but the effect apparent: he
began slipping backward - down n
down. down-much more rapidly than M
he had climbed up. In a short time nm
he was out of politics. and a little MN
later he was out of business The nm
foundations of success that he had MN
laid with such labor and pains, crum- I'M
bled away; he became a 'fend" a NUN
pitiable wreck of an able man. by lllI\
word and joke among the more WN\
thoughtless OF those who knew him WYNN
In time he reached a point where N\\
he borrowed" from anybody who NM
would lend" him anything from a NJ
nickel to dollar. So strong the
instinct of the In him. even then
that he would accept nothing as a
gift but resorted to the miserable
makeshift of entering every loan"
however small. in notebook that he
carried for that purpose Could any
thing be more pathetic than the pic
ture Of of his attachments and E=E.-ss5 z
early promise borrowing" Is cents
or quarter that both he and the M
lender knew he never would could Ha
repay? Yet ne always insisted upon ri
this form. IA
This story would unquestionably u
have a moro horrible ending were II Isl 1NN
not for the fact that the victim had ~
n devoted and prosperous brother eS<1.=A--A7
This fact kept the "fend" out of the gutter fo
provision was always made for his material wants
although 1t quite impossible to intrllst hin
with the money for his board lodging and othe
necessities The brother did all that was nos
sbe TO do to break the habit and he finally sue
Ceeded in getting the unfortunate one into al
asylum and under the watchful care of physician.
The habit was there broken but the patient nea,
ly died in the breaking, Furthermore the harm
had been done. and. although the man never wen
back to morphine he never was anything but
miserable wreck. of no to himself or to any
one else. His brother provided for him. but h
continued to be joke tragedy (as you haG
pened to look at tt, to the day of his DEATH an,
he died mserably.
That's one story of opium in FORM a prom
Using checked in the very momen
of its greatest promise, and then ruined Their
are many others where there is devoted broth
er. that will surpass II In horrid details of degra
dation but the very fact that this man, with al
the uplifting influences and help that he had fel
so swiftly and so far makes his story impressiv
ard Illuminating.
Struggled opium drifts naturally into thos
channels that lead to it's vicious and harmful use
Duty-paid opium is also thus used to a large eS
tent. but the struggled article is almost who'll
for that market Indeed without that marke
there would be little smuggling
There restrictions placed upon the sale o
opium and its derivatives, but these restriction
cannot well be made TO apply to what is contra
band anyhow and liable to confiscation whereve
found Neither national nor state government cal
successfully regulate the sale and of al
ticle that neither is able to find. So smuggle,
opium naturally follows subterranean channel
and reaches those who would have difficulty il
buying openly. The very fact that 1t is contra
band compes 1t to seek this market. and the yer,
fact that this market is under the ban of thu
law compels 1t to depend largely upon the contra
band article. The fact that Ii is cheaper thar
the duty-paid article also commends It, but tina
is merely incidental
Struggled opium II is for the most part tina
supplies the opium Joints and the Joints" no
only cater 10 the smuggled article. but create
the habits that make the demand for It,
Morphine is derivative of opium. and is proper
iy to be considered Herewith. Opium contains
an average of about nine ten per cent. vi NOR
phne. There are also other derivatives of opium
learns to crave. but morphine alone seems TO taxi
passes quite easily and naturally from opium Il
morphine. usually taking IL internally at first, ant
then with the needle" Ii is saying among
physicians that "a is lost when he begins
to use the needle" This Is NOT to be understood
meaning that all tpiumusers or even a ma
iority of them. pass to morphine. or that all NOR
Observation-Disclosures S3S2S1S2SoS1 S9S9S2S2 s.