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case the last bottle bore this label:
when you open this bottle order your
next months treatment to avoid any
break"
1t is we'll known that a drug addict
is incapa ple of treating himself Tho
chief object in nefarious schemes such
as this seems to be to extract money
from the unfortunate victims, who
often prolong the treatment over
period of years. No attention is paid to
the progress of the patient, and If a
second or third supply of the treatment
is ordered, it is sent without question
as long as the price is paid. Further
more, in some instances the amount of
opium or morphine in the second sup
ply is apt to be greater than it was in
the first. 1t is obvious that one of the
governments most important steps un-
der the banner Prevention" is to bs
made in thwarting the perpetuation OF
those drug-habit cures which are fraud,
ulent
The answers to the question of how
people become drug users are also
illuminating to those who would exert
their power to stamp out the great evil
Statisttctans assert that there are from
100000 to 100000 addicts in the
country. 1t is generally understood thar
the initial step was taken in one OF
three ways: Either through the mad
vertent use of the drug prescribed nv
doctors, the use of certain patent msdi,
cines containing habit-forminE agents
or the influence of drug addicts them.
selves. @A0'"'
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enough OF TINS stun for couple Of yc
Sure, I've got friends" replied the
other. He snapped his fingers. Two uni
formed policemen and plain-clothes man
emerged from a nearby vestibule They
took the sidewalk at one leap. One
climbed onto the box and took a seat
beside the cabman. the others got inside
the cab.
First precinct ordered a voice from
within The cabby glowered at his
companion, then shook his reins and
proceeded to enjoy the doubtful pleas
ure OF driving himself to the station
house
This, briefly, illustrates how one form
OF the dope" menace manifests itself;
how one class of dope" sellers at
tempts to evade the law. Here was an
oid cabman who was working UP a lu-
crative business selling morphine. He
was also doing everything in his
power TO make his business more lu-
cratiVe and was inducing as many peo-
pie as possible to use the drug SO that
he could insure himself a growing
market. And every letter in his pur-
pose spelled public menace.
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But the law has grown wary on
points in reference to the dope trade,
and its agents are shrewd. The gov.
ernment is sounding two watchwords
in all of ita actions along this line.
They are prevention" and "prosecu-
tion." One attends to the future; the
other contents itself with conditions
existing today.
The Harrison law. which is the gov
ernment's authority for welding Its
cudgel against this trade. has been in
operation only since March. but has
brought some decisive results. More
than 200 cases have been prosecuted
before the courts: sanitarium treat
ments and cures have been inyesti-
gated and exposed; the drug sale has
been restricted by means of govern
ment order blanks issued by the inter-
nal revenue bureau.
This does not mean that all importa-
tions OF opium, morphine and cocaine
are being withheld from drug addicts.
Far from it. In fact. New York Judge
recently remarked that hardly one-half
of the drug importation of the coun-
try found its way into legitimate
medicinal channels. Nevertheless, these
ecutives armed with this new piece of
legislation can have a perceptible in
fiuence in diminishing the indiscrimi-
nate use and sale of these habit form
ing evils.
What did the agents, find when they
started out about six months ago on
their crusade? The most ridicuiously
humorous conditions that could exist
when one class OF men sets out DELHI
erately TO swindle another class, and,
or the other hand. the most hopelessly
pathetic condition that could exist
among men when they are deprived OF
the backbone of civflization--the will
to live right
In Chicago physician was attempt
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Jamestown, and each of the several
church buildings was known as the
jamestown Church. The tower ruin
was the relic of the fifth church, build
ing and the fifth church was the sec
ond church that had been built of
brick. The sites of these churches
have been the object of faithful re-
search among all available records,
ploration of the ground, and this mat
ter has been solved, very largely
through the work of Samuel H. Yonge,
who. with the assistance of many
other learned and patient Virginia
antiquarians. has reconstructed the
Flat of jamestown and determined the
approximate portion of the ancient
towns site that has been abraded by
the James river and is now river bed
between the present cement sea wall
and the deep channel Of the James.
If a man have the taste for delving
into old things. and especially into
the story of American antiquities
around which fragrant memories cling.
the jamestown Church is a most in
teresting object and an interesting
story. When the English colonists as
cended the river which they named the
James. looking for an available place
for settlement, they landed on the is
land May 13. 1907. They called the
place jamestown, in honor of their
king, James / of England. 1t would
seem that soon after mooring their
ships-the Sarah Constant, God-Speed
and Discovery. in which they had made
the voyage from the Thames-to trees
on the island bank, the los Immigrants
looked to their spiritual needs and
erected rude shelter as a house of
religious worship.
One of the first Jamestown party
was the Rev Robert Hunt, a clergy
man of the Church of England. The
nrst church was a big piece of canvas.
PROBABLY sail, and this. according to
one account. was thrown over. a board
that had been nailed between two trees
On the testimony of Capt. John Smith.
a more elaborate shelter than this was
devised. He wrote:
When I first went to Virginia well remember
shacow US from the sun: our walls were rai.s of
WOOD. our seats unhewed trees till we cur nlanks
our pulpit bar Of wood nailed TO two neigh or,
ing trees.
This structure was succeeded by an
other. which was hut covered with
rafts, sedge and earth. OF tn s successor
10 the frst canvas. John Smith wrote:
A little later We built homely thing like a
harn. set upon crochetts. covered with RATS
sedge and earth, and 80 was also the walls
In about eight months after the
founding of jamestown, which would
make the date in midwinter, 16O7-8,
the hut was destroyed by fire In "The
Proceedings of the English Colony in
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tains a special chemical laboratory for
the eXamina Ion and analysis oi the
dope" compounds which the agents
find in the possession Of the Illicit deal
ers whom they bring to Justice. Dr.
A. B. Adams. the chief chemist in
charge Of this branch Of the work. says
that since the law went into effect in
March his laboratory has examined
more than 1000 samples.
One man was caught with fourteen
pounds of morphine tablets in his pos
session. But the climax came in re-
cent New York case. where $4,000 worth
of smoking opium was discovered in
the apartment of a vaudeville troupe.
This case was given much publicity;
it was theatrical in all of its details.
The man and woman who comprised
the team suddenly became very pros
porous. a little too prosperous, and
moved from their third-rate boarding
place to a gilded apartment In first
class Broadway hotel. They seemed
not only to be able to make both ends
meet very successfully. but also to tie
them in a fancy bowknot.
The curiosity of the authorities was
aroused. They made a call one day and
found the team, with one or two
companions having a gay time hitting
the opium pipe" as the saying goes.
They protested that they were enter.
tanning their friends and no one could
interfere, but the authorities thought
otherwise and started search of the
rooms. They found seventy-five cans
of smoking opium. worth at least $40
each. Where they obtained such an
amount of this kind of opium. which
is refused entrance into the country,
still bafiies the authorities. But it was
discovered that they were maintaining
an opium den for their addict friends
and paying hotel bills and other ex-
penses with the profits.
This sort of case with the cooper
alton Of the police is easily appre-
hended. Not SO simple, however. is the
decision reached when the drug pur-
veyor claims that he is carrying on
humanitarian service.
One Of the astonishing features re-
vealed in the Investigations is the in
genuity which irresponsible peddlers
display in delivering drugs to their
Of these was discovered carrying
around a supply of cocaine and NOR
phine in book followed out for the
purpose. The edge of the leaves and
one Of the covers were glued together
and the center of the pages cut out,
leaving a bookiike box which is in
nocent looking and not liable to at
ous exposures, these peddlers are be-
coming moro and more careful. They
carry little dope" on them and gen.
orally undertake to serve each patron
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E1HE ramble of last week ended
when the road from Williams
III burg to jamestown had been
q travelled and the Rambler and
his readers stood on the site of James
town, among its ruins, tombs and relics
Here was the first permanent English
settlement in the United States, and a
town forsaken by all inhabitants con-
siderably more than a century AGO
1t was bit of woodland on an island
In the James. the island being sepa-
rated from the mainland by a narrow
stream coursine through wide marshes.
Strangers who had been long at sea in
three small ships sailing up a majestic
river. decided that this wooded island
promised them likely place to abide
From wilderness through which saw
ages RANGED the spot was Transformed
into. a group Of huts surrounded by
paiisade or stockade AGAINST Indians.
The place developed into town where
the log hous made soma let ms on to
size and comfort and where there was
church, fort. and a governors house.
~
Then 1t became a small city of big
brick dwellings. brick public buildings.
a brick church. warehouses fort. ar
senal. statehouse and streets Sayaees
ravished it. famine and plague visited
1t and Names swept 1t. but it staggered
on until. when nearly a century had
passed. the seat of government was
transferred to another and a newer set
tlement- Decay set, in. The county
court was next removed and the par
ish church abandoned. and soon the
town became a ruin. and this ruin be-
came effaced, the bricks of the aban-
doned town being carted OFF to serve
mankind again. and the streets and
gardens returning to the state of fields
and being plowed and sowed and reaped
for generations.
For more than 100 years the only visi-
BILE relic of Jamestown was a square
feet above the ground. This ruin, with
earth and overgrown with vegetation,
might be found in a jungle of vines
church had stood there. Everybody for
from afar knew that this ruined brick
toyvn- haN on the tower of the
jamestown Church.
walls and roof of the church fell SO
mained above ground at the opening of
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the nineteenth century. After the
American revolution there was a gen.
eral revival of interest in American
antiquities and historic shrines, and a
great many pilgrimages were made to
the site of jamestown, and in 1907 there
was a celebration in commemoration
of the 20Cth anniversary of the found
ing of the settlement. Then the great
mass of the American public seemed to
turn it's attention and affection to more
material things than reveries and
memories, and the interest in historic
shrines waned-
About a generation ago there came
another strong revival of interest in
historic relics and historic records, this
interest being awakened and organized
by the Daughters of the American
Revolution. the Colonial Danes and the
various other patriotic-aacestral as
sociations. All around jamestown and
Williamsburg and that neigh borhood
We're families descended from the peo-
ple who had lived in Jamestown, and
thinly scattered throughout the coun-
try were descendants Of the James,
town settlers. but no matter how they
felt about the obliteration of the town
and the neglect of the site they could
not do anything individually.
1t remained for the patriotic So
cieties to undertake the work of the
reclamation of the site and the dis
covery of the foundations Of the city,
and, although the Rambler believes
that the work of exploration, reclama-
tion and appropriate marking of the
site of jamestown was first taken up
by the Association for the Preserva-
tion of Virginia Antiquities, yet it is
clear from the various memorials on
the site of the vanished city that the
Colonial Danes. Daughters of t.e
American Revolution and the govern
ment of the United States have taken
a practical and sympathetic interest
in uncovering the remains of James
town and in marking and improving
it's site.
The key to the site oe jamestown
was the tower ruin, and this brings
up the matter of the jamestown
Church or the successive jamestown
churches AS the Rambler has al.eady
written. the tower ruin was standing
and was all that remained of the
Jamestown Church when the nine<
teenth century opened The tower of
jamestown was mentioned by William
Writ in literary sketch which was
published in 1903. In 1904 John D.
Burk, the historian. incorporated some
remarks about the ruined tower of
Jamestown in his History of vir-
ginia." and in 1906, in magazine pub
lished in Richmond, there was printed
drawing of the tower and some
statements relatine to the church of
which it was the relic.
There were successive churches at
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must be kept on file for a period of
two years-proyide a sure means for
checking up unscrupulous distributors.
BY forcing the use Of government or
der blanks the agents of the internal
revenue bureau. under the supervision
OF Commissioner William H. Osborn,
h We not only a record of the dispo-
also the names of the parties who buy
them. These blanks give a clue to
trace the source of the supply for Illicit
trade and aid in fixing the RESPONSE
dispose OF opiates to so-called fiends.
That part of the regulation which
concerns physicians and retail phar-
macists Is of great service toward mini
mizing the drug evil. These men can
no longer take advantage of the au-
thority intrusted in them through their
professions for the use of dangerous
drugs without being caught sooner Or
later.
The internal revenue bureau MAIN
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Virginia Since Their First Beginning
From England, in the Yeare of Our
Lord, 1906. Till This Present. 1872,
With All Their Accidents That Befeli
Them in Their Journies and Discover
les. Taken Faithfully Out of the Writ
ings of Thomas Study. Cape Marchant,
Anas Todkill, Doctor Russell. Nathan
iell Powell. William Phetiplace and
Richard Potts, With the Labours of
Other Discreet Observers During Their
Residences" is written this:
Where this New Supply new colonists, being
lodged with the rest in the fort had dpntally
fired the quarters, and the Towne. which be
ing but matched with reeds. tie e was SO
fierce II burnt their paliZadoes ttIough 10 or
u Yards distanp with their armes. bedding, ap-
parell and much private provision. Good Mr.
that he had but the cioathes on his ba ke yet
did none ever see him rep.ne at his lose. Th 8
1907.
Soon after the destruction by fire of
''the homely thing like a barn set upon
crochetts'' another place of worship was
built and there is reason to believe that
it was built on the site of the structure
that was burned, and that its architec-
ture was no great improvement on that
of the house of worship it succeeded.
In 1910. when Gov. Sir Thomas Gates
arrived with supplies. and, finding the
state of affairs of the little colony de-
plorable and the few surviving settlers
disheartened, it was determined at
session of the council to abandon
jamestown. One of the notes that has
come down to men of the present day
Is that at the time of the coming of
Gates the jamestown Church was in an
unserviceable condition. That Gates
should have found the church in this
condition two years after its construc-
tion is accepted as proof that the
church was very fimsily built and very
Ike the poor structure which was COW
cred with RATS, sedge and earth. In
THE Proceedings of the English Col
ony," published in 1.-The Narratives of
Early Virginia." the coming of Gates,
the abandonment of jamestown and the
timely arrival of Lord Delaware and
the return to jamestown of those who
had abandoned it, is thus told:
But God that would not 1t sbo.lld been un-
planted. sent Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George
Sommers, with 80 men most happily preser ed
by the Bermondoes, TO preserve us.
But when those noble knights did our mis-
cries fheipg strangers to the 90 ntryl and cou.d
understand no more of the cause but by their
conjectures of our clamoCs ID compla mt o
accusing or excus!ng one another: they EN- larked
us with themselves, with the best means they
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ing to defeat the enforcement of the
new federal law by yelling his dope"
trade under the gossamer covering of
a legitimate medical practice. He was
clever doctor, but the druggists be-
gan to realize that they were filling
too many morphine and cocaine pre-
scrfptions for one man. Investigation
revealed that the practice consisted of
drug fiends, who kept up a continual
stream to his desk every day and paid
him dollar apiece for every prescrip-
tion which he wrote for them. The
doctor was getting rich; 1t was an easy
JOB that paid $25 or more a day for
merely writing prescriptions: 1t was
too good to last. The government step
ped in and took the head Off this doc
tors practice.
Another case brought to light q ply
sfcian who was playing q similar game,
but who pursued slightly different tao
tics. He was making all OF his money
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separately. SO that the authorities can
not catch them with the goods
The activity of the bureau along
these lines has brought to the fore
ground another phase of the subject
which has hitherto received little at
tention. This concerns certain drug
addiction cures" set forth on the mar
ket today. a manager of one of these
treatments stated that his company
had at least 100000 names upon its
books. They advertise a cure or treat
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would be a satisfactory reply. our
chemist, of course"
The agents left the room Immediately
and crossed the hall to the company's
laboratory They forced the door and
found the chemist. He was fourteen
year-old boy mixing morphine tablets
with some cheap colored fluid in a big
white pitcher and pouring the mixture
into small glass bottles. Some of these
bottles were found packed in cases all
ready to send out to patients. In each
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on one patient, rich widow who had
fallen a victim to cocaine. His sole
duty consisted of visiting her at her
day and administering an injection of
the drug. She paid him well, and he
might have been enjoying her bounty
to this day did not the druggists be-
come suspicious of the great number
of prescriptions of cocaine which he
wrote for one patient. So the doctors
little business was nipped in its fullest
bloom.
Thus do the regulations prescribed
by the new law-that all compounds of
opium and coco leaves must be bought
and sold on government order blanks.
that all dealers in these drugs must
register with the collector of internal
revenue, and that every physicians
prescription containing these drugs
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q q In minute he was Joined by q
young man They said few words in
4 low tone. The old cabmara drew a small
box from his pocket and gave it to the
man In return he received a dollar bill.
Pocketing it. he whipped UP his horse
and drove off. The man walked briskly
away. The street WAS clear.
Simple performance, you say, and it
was to all intents. But look carefully
TO the dramatis personae OF the little
enactment and it will assume different
proportions.
The cabman was an Illicit purveyor of
dope" The package which he sold for
81 contained no more than Ii cents worth
OF morphine tablets. The young man
and here let IL be noted. the plot thick
ens-played a dual role He was a dope
flend in the employ Of the authorities,
otherwise known as stool pigeon" So,
when he strobe away with the little box
lie was Joined at the corner by an in
ternal revenue agent, who took it from
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could: css and abandoning James Towne. set eatle
But yet God would not 50 have it; for ere wee
left the river; we met the Lord de ware, then
govsrnour for the countrie with three ships ex-
ting: who aeaine returned them to the aoan-
doned James Iowne. the Of June 1910, e,om-
other gentlemen of sort. Sir George snm!ners
and Captaine Argall he presentlie Dispatcher to
sm with sr e
England to hepe forward their supplies: himself
neglected not tie best was in his power for the
furtherance Of the bushes and regaining what
was lost. But even In the beginning Of his pro-
reedings, his Lordship had such an encounter
with scurvy sickness. that made him unable
to weld the state. of his bodie much less" the
anaires of the colonie. so that after months
returne to England.
During Lord Delaware's stay at
jamestown he either remodeled the old
church which Gates had found unserv-
iceable or he built a timber church
presumably on the same site. DR.. Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, president Of the Col
lege of William and Mary. has dug out
the interesting facts that the church
put up by Lord Delaware was twenty
four feet front and sixty feet deep; that
it was built of timber; that the chan
Gel. pulpit and pews were of cedar and
that there was a black walnut COM
punion table. The church had bell
and a sexton. and the bell was tolled
tolling the settlers gave themselves up
to prayer. There were two sermons
Sunday. and one every Thursday. DR..
Tyler has written the following ac-
count of how the governor attended
service at this church:
Every Sunday when the governor went to
church he WIS accompanied by all the councillors
captains. other officers and all the gentlem n
and by guard of fifty halberdie.s 10 his lord
ships livery, fair red cloaks on each sid. and
behind him.. The Lord Governor sat n the choir
on green velvet chair with velvet cus hion
before him on which he knelt, End the nrilors,
captains and officers sat on each sd Of him,
each in their place, and when the Lord Gov
ernor returned home he was waited on in the
sa manner,
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WILLIAM H. OSBORN

COMMISSIONER WILLIAM H. OSBORN
him and proceeded to the internal revenue
laboratories to examine and analyze its
contents.
The next night when the cabman drew
up his horse to meet his patron he was
einboldened to increase his trade, and as
ne delivered his fatefui goods testify in
Quired. Say. amt you got no friends
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An interesting light on the abandon
ment of jamestown and the return to
the town is the following, which was
written by Samuel H. Yonge in his
site of Old James Town"
Our utmost suffering was reached when on June
Z. 1910, the sixty Survivors OF four hundr. d and
ninety settlers of but eight months lie ore,
their backs on the Odious town where trag dy
had been almost continually enacted for three
years. So deeply impressed by the abject misery