The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-20

dopes we're annexed In less than year this young
man. whom we shall call Tony Larkins had discard.
ed his fine clothes and reduced to plane along
with very inferior class OF buns and roun iers.
Tony considerable OF a scraper before dissipa-
ton got the better of him and had always enter.
tanned the ambition that he might some day be able
to enter the ring and introduce some distinguished
opponent to stellar geography. A vestige of these
delusions still chung him after he had become lit
orally stepped in debauchery. He then located
in a town of about fifty thousand inhabitants and
was able to find any sort of amusement tnat might
appeal to his decadent taste. He had come out vic
tor in number of fights with other denizens OF the
underworld and had been quite successful in either
evading or bluting the police force. He had in some
become obsessed with the idea that big
with blue clothes brass buttons his
mortal foe. So Tony started night to beat
up every policeman in the city and at first seemed
to be succeeding fairly we'll until Gordon of Off
surrounded him and with considerable effort
dragged him Off to the lookup. In the melee Tony
received severe blow his head. He found
dead in his cell the next morning. While cocaine
crazed he had gotten on rampage that resulted in
tragic death. And his end is not different from
that OF the average cocaine fend
Opium and it's alkaoid, morphine greater Of
tenders only because of their more extensive
very small amount of the opium production of the
world is employed for medicinal purposes. Opium
smoking is increasing in several of our large cities
and more and more white Americans adopting
the yellow vice. There is smaller Chinese popula
ton in this country than existed in 1878, but
Notwithstanding this fact the Importation OF opium
for smoking has increased more than $50 per cent
1t is matter beyond our ken, a veritable psyche
logical puzzle, to contemplate why white person
with good intellect and discriminating tastes in
most affairs will sink to vices so low opium smok-
ing when the fact is we'll and widely known that
such Indulgence will undermine the strongest will
and dethrone manhood and womanhood.
A New Form of Drug Habit
TT is feared that choral and other hypnotic
drugs, bad as they are may be supplanted in
goodly by ether drinking. This is Europes
latest and ugliest vice and the fact that des
tined gain foothold iii this country is evidenced
by the strenuous measures being adopted in some
OF cities by health boards and humanitarians
looking toward it's suppression. This specie of de-
bauchery is having good deal of exploitation at the
present time in play C'Mme. Ky in which the
dramatst, Alexander Bison, presents the heroine
undergoing moral dsintegration by of her
addiction to ether Let hope that public inter-
probation OF the vice may prove educative and not
to be emulated initiated.
Ether is taken diluted internally and also inhaled
from handkerchief in the way that chloroform is
extensively used for insomnia and neuralgia. The
individual who begins the of either of these
drugs for the purpose of producing sleep mental
oblivion is cursed with habit for them. eth
eromania' is the word which describes the victims
condition. the term being more common in European
cities than in America The deadliness of ether
taking lies mainly in the fact that the
anesthesia and forgetfulness in a haphazard
and his approaching insensbility does not tell him
when he has had enough. In the oftrepeated phrase
ology of the coroner's verdict he is another victim
who took just little much'
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