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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL l8, 1915

the back of the hand or blown from a
powder insuftlator. A quick sniff, and the
drug effect is secured.
Rather peculiar is the fact that the CO.
caine taker, in contradistinction to the
morphine, heroin, acetanlid, or chloral
user, is gregarious in his tendency. He
joys in seeing others in condition similar
to his own. He resembles the convivial
drunkard in this respect. In many parts
of the country the practice of giving "snif-
fling parties" is common, and these are
likely to be followed by an orgy of murder.
THE influence of narcotics upon the
rapidly increasing insane rate of this
country is only beginning to be recog-
nized. In New York City last year, for
every 1856 patients admitted to asylums,
one was drug ficnd. This was bad
enough; but in the South the rate reaches
appalling proportions For instance, in
Georgia the proportion is one in AZ; in
North Carolina about one in S4; and in
one Mississippi hospital one out of every
% patients was cocaine addict. Per-
haps the significance of these figures can
be better understood if we remember that
there are from five to fifteen times as
many insane drug victims in the South as
in New York State.
Able and conservative students of the
problem have ascribed this alarming in
crease in cocaine consumption in the
South to the fact that the negro and the
"poor white" are no longer able to get the
liquors with which they formerly poisoned
themselves. This theory apparently finds
confirmation in the fact that since the
reduction Of opium consumption in China
and India there has been an almost cor
responding increase in the use of alcohol
SO it can readily be seen that the prob
lem of dealing with the drug evil is even
more intricate and difficult than we have
been led to believe; for it seems to be al
most incxtricably mixed with other prob
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sistance to shock that the constahles and
policemen in some parts of the South have
taken to carrying weapons of much heavi-
cr calibcr than was formerly necessary.
The shifting of cocaine by the negro is
an important cause of the alarming in
crease in crimes against women in the
South. The stimulating and exciting ef-
fccts of the drug transform it's victims into
satyrs. And the pitiful part of it is that
they are no more responsible for their beS-
tial acts when under the influence than is
a tiger for killing, or a snake for striking.
THIS country is rapidly awakening to
the perils of permitting the cocaine
habit to develop further, and stringent
measures are now urged to stamp out the
evil That the problem is one of extreme
difficulty can be appreciated when it is
recalled that an ounce of cocaine, an
amount so triflng that it can be carried
in the smallest pocket of a mans clothes,
is sufficient for one thousand average
doses. This amount is rarely exceeded in
IA month by the largest dispensing phar-
macists in legitimate prescription work,
as | recently ascertained by inquiry
among the leading prescription druggists
of the country. But it is ample to keep
fifty fiends thoroughly doped for a week.
1t would be stating the matter conserva-
lively to say that for every ounce en-
ployed legitimately there are two hundred
ounces consumed llegitimately.
The ease of administration is a signifi-
cant factor. To get definite results with
morphine it is necessary to have an clabo-
rate outfit. consisting of hypodcrmic
syringe, and either liquid solution of the
drug, or "a spoon in which to dissolve it.
The insertion of the needle too, is a pain
full process, and not seldom are the pune
lures infected forming disagreeablc or dan
gcrous abscesses. With cocaine or heroin,
however, no apparatus is necessary. A
small portion of the powder is poured on
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man faces the Immediate Future with
Spectacular Disdain.
BY this time Flames are pouring inhos-
pitably from the Windows, and Crcunl-
stantial Evidence is all in favor of an In
promptu lmmolation, when the quivcring
of the Wall indicates that Eternity has
thought of a new way to arrive. Several
Brands of Horror impend. when sudden
Trustful Glance from the Heroine inspires
him to examine his opportunities more
closely. just as the Wall slips out from
under he spies the top of the Extension
Ladder far below and a Happy Thought
trickles over his Tense Countenancc. \
new Record for the Standing Broad Jump
lands his foot on the Top Rung, with the
Heroine a Mass of UnconsciousncsS in his
arms.
1t is Ticlllish Balancing for moment,
Pessmism when the onrush of Avordu-
pois bends the Ladder to an Angle where
he can run down it lightly as a Japanese
Acrobat doing the Oncstep on a row of
Sword Blades. He delivers the Lady to
an accredited representative of the Hero
and returns to the Engine House, leaving
the Plot to go on its way rejoicing. Film
ville's interest in the Blaze ends abruptly
at this point, and the Insurance ADJUST
ers can suit themselves about stamping
on the Embers.
The Fireman suffers more from Short
Wind and Muscle Sprains on these occa-
sions than formerly, because he is getting
out of practice. When Filmville was
young and specialized in Frame Construc-
ton the Fireman was the busiest Member
of Society. But since it has grown prosper
Gus enough toworry about Insurance Rates
and the ontlagration Hazard it hasturned
to less contagious forms of Adventure.
When Pyrotechnics are needed nowadays
the Town is almost as likely to charter a
Volcano for the day or kndlc Deep Sea
Schooner as to let the Baby Play with
Matches to lccward of the Lace Curtains.
Progress is always causing somebody to
wish that the Good Old Times were back
again, and Filmville's Fireman is almost
ready to take to Tatting as a sign of his
Disapproval of Modern Progress.
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he resolves to start Collection of Hero
Medals on the spot.
He works his Perilous Way along the
Coping while the Heroine eyes him as if
he were a new brand of kidnapper, per-
mitting him to seize her finally because
there is nothing else to do unless she
wishes to spoil the Days Work by step
ping off into the Law of Gravity. With the
Lady in his arms, four inches of Elbow
Room behind him, and plethora of At
mosphcre in all other directions, the Fire
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makes a Jiu-Jitsu get
away and disappears into
the Surging Smoke. The
Heroine has barely com
pleted herAddress to Dcs-
tiny when he appears be-
side her and whinnies for
Oxygen.
Either because she has
had no time to Powder
her Nose or because he
has never been properly
introduced, she does not
faint cordially into his
Arms as she would for the
Hero. Instead she hur-
dies her way to the Coping
and flutters out of reach,
while the Crowd below
does Il Popcorn Tango.
The Fireman is about to
falter, when Il Dissolving
Vision sweeps his ideas
back to his Wife and
Baby in their snug little
Home. and for their SalipS
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swept House. This adds a trace of Ennui
to the Fremans otherwise handsome
Features as he jumps into Focus on the
Running Board of the three-horse Hitch.
1t is the monotony of Rescuing the Hero
inc that bores him. If they allowed him
now and then to rescue an Invalid or a
Feminine Wall Flower the Fireman would
be a much more contented Occupant of the
Muniri pal Payroll.
The only Variety he gets is when his
own House is the Topic of the Flames and
he has to choose between Obeying the
Battalion Chiefs orders and saving his
Wife and Child. This is Problem that
causes him to gesticulate freely for several
lurid Seconds, after which he fulfs the
Family Obligations and wins Promotion
by proving that the Chief is a relic Of
Boss Rule and ought to be out Sweeping
the Pavements at one-twenty-fve per
Eight Hours.
Between Alarms he puts in his time
dreaming of the Sweet Girl who rejected
several Limousine Chances in order to
marry him, and of the Prccocous Child.
Firemen elsewhere sometimes idle away
their Surplus Leisure with Forty-tive, or
what the Chinaman around the corner
told them was Fantan; but the Filmvllr
Fireman scorns these puny Substitutes
for Sentiment. In the rare moments
when he is not gripping the Brass Rail as
the Engine rounds the Corner or First
Aiding the Heroine down "A timorous Ex-
tension Ladder, he is invariably engaged
in wishing that he was out of a job so that
he could spend twenty-four hours day
Around the House. 1t is not necessary to
examine his Teeth to know that the Fire
man is young.
About this time a Cut-back reveals the
Fireman's Dminutive Namcsakc, clad in
a Grecian Dream Frock. kncelng at his
Mothers Knee and praying that nothing
serious will happen to Father before
Breakfast Time. After which Filmvllc
returns to Scene and the Gong at Head
quarters throws in its Clutch
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Filnnville Portraits
The Fireman

The Location of the
Blaze is determined by
the Fircman's $ Domestic
Relations. If he is I'M
married, the Department
Store that employs the
Prettiest Salesgirls is sub
jcct to- Chronic Holocaust,
and the Sequel is a Lii
cense for two with a Cere-
mony in the Clergyman's
Parlor. But when he has
already encountered Mat
rimony it is the IIeroine's
Home (thc taller the bet
teri that is burning. Film
vile cares little whether
the Doomed Structure is
a Frame Tenement or IA
Marble Palace. so long as
the Upper Windows are
far enough aloft to furnish
Aerial Thrills.
For some moments the
Heroine practiScS the Wig
wag Dialect from the top
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By
WALTER S. BALL

Window without disturbing the Miscel-
lancous Delirium at the Street Level.
This gives her ample time to register An
noyance with Fate before the handsome
Fireman sees her plight, says goodby to
Apathy, and looks round to make sure
that the Hero is not within reaching dis
tance of the Glory-Experience having
taught him that logging the Climax is
one of the latter's Worst Failngs.
The Chief tries to dctain him from
Certain Annihilation; but the Fireman
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VV7lEN the Fire Gong sounds all
NJ Fimville knows that the Hero
" inc is palpitating out of Top
w Story Window in the flame
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26
Another Edison Marvel.

When the telephone was nothing
more than an experimental toy in 1870,
M. Edison predicted that this form OF
Communication would not be perfect
until combined with the monograph,
so tnat telephone messages would be
record q automatically. And now, for
ty-five years later, when fifteen mill
lions of conversations are carried an
nually over the telephone wires, Mr..
Edison is ready to exhibit at the Pan
anna Pacific fair for the first time the
telescribe, a combination of the tele-
phone and dictaphone, which will put
upon cylinder for reproduction every
syllable uttered into the transmitter.
A little thought will enable any one
to realize what revolution will be
wrought in commercial and legal af-
fairs when a telephone conversation
can be proved beyond dispute as read
lily as a written document.
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AeropIanes of Russian Make.

Sukhomlinoff saw that a weak point
In the Russian army was that too
much of it's equipment came from
abroad-a vulnerable situation in war
time, as the present shows So he
set himself busily building up arms
factories, cartridge factories, and so
on within the boundaries of Russia,
and at the same time established a
central laboratory where new mechan-
isms, explosives, inventions might be
tried out.
He also organized-and this gives us
the measure of his foresight-a first
class school of military aviation, and
set the best Russian mechanics at the
development and manufacture of aero
planes, which today take the place OF
cavalry as "the eyes of the army" The
result is that for the last four or five
years Russia has been making her own
aeroplanes and training a large stan
of officers able to use them. Sukhom-
1inoff also developed an effective corps
of army automobiles, for the rapid
transport of men and supplies.-Amer-
lean Review of Reviews.
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The Dutch at Whitby.

Whitby's last experience of naval
warfare was rather curious. In June,
1886, two Dutch warships chased "a
pickroon belonging to the king or
Spain" into the harbor, and though in
neutral water, England being at peace
with both combatants, lowered their
boats to board the Spanish vessel.
The governor of the town, Sir Hugh
Cholmley, protested, but the Dutch
carried out their design and captured
the enemy's ship. Thus set at def
ance, Sir Hugh called up the trained
bands, took boats, recaptured the
Spanish ship and took prisoner one
of the Dutch captains.
Whitby's chief fame is that from
it's abbey emerged the first English
singer, Caedmon. He was remarkable
among his fellows for his ignorance
of such simple skill in the art of song
as belonged to the monks of those
days.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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DIDN'T WANT TO MEET HIM
Colored Parsons Description OF HlS
Satanic Majesty Brought Converts
to Mourner's Bench.

The late celebrated Peter Vinegar
who in days bone by used to make
periodical visits to Danville, says the
Advocate, for the purpose of deliver
ing his sermons, remarkable on ac-
count of their startling texts, on one
occasion spoke to large assemblage
Of the colored population and few
whites at the old colored Methodist
church on Walnut street. He arose..
raised his spectacles from his eyes,.
and said:
"My beloved brederen and sisterenr
I take my tex dis evenin' in dat por-
ton Nv de Scriptur' whar de 'Postle
Paul pints his pistol at de Phesians,
an whar it says, 'Whar de hen
scratches dar's de worm, 'ceptin' de
case whar sum previus hen hav bin
dar'" He then proceeded to tell his
hearers what horrible personal APP
pearance the devil presented, with the
following description: His eyes look
like two balls Nv fire, his teef like two
skinned saplins, his ears hang down
like a 'baccer leaf an his BRET smoke
like tar kittle." That night Peter
made many converts.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-26

LOVE BY TELEPHONE
BY LUCY GoRToN BARRoWs.

mol" shouted Simon Barclay in a
thunderous tone, crushing out the
fondest of human hopes, immovable
as a rock.
His pretty niece, Hetty, covered her
face with her hands and broke down
utterly in storm Of tears.
"Cruel-cruel!" she sobbed.
'And a last meeting with this gay
gallivanting young man-understand? ?"
pursued her callous-souled relative.
you are breaking my heart!"
moaned Hetty, and really believing it.
1T isn't because Ned Monroe is
after your little fortune, as most
young fellows are nowadays"
"What-what is it, them" faltered
poor Hetty.
tits because he's an electrical
maniac. Huh-telephone! Who
heard of such a thing in my young
days? Gossip-breeders, 1 call 'em!
Worse than that-catering to laziness.
Tried to get me to put one in my
house. I'd like to see 'em! Now I've
said my say. Drop this beau, or I'll
send you off thousand miles to my
sister, where you can't see him."
Anticipated, narrow-minded Simon
Barclay had invented a new name
for the most estimable young man in
Redfern. He hated all innovations,
especially a telephone. There was a
reason. Simon had bargained too
slowly in the purchase of piece of
property he coveted, shrewd neigh
Dor had got to telephone and out
bid him. He hated telephones after
that, and Ned Monroe in the bargain,
for was not that energetic young man
the head linesman of the district tele-
phone plant?
Hetty moped around the house all
day. She was disconsolate. If ever a
girl loved a bright intelligent young
fellow, it was she. AS to Ned, she
knew that she was to him as the
apple of his eye. She dreaded meet
ing him, but she was loyal to a prom
Use she had made to her uncle that
there would be no exchange of notes,
no clandestine meetings. Hetty knew
that promptly at $3.50 Ned would pass
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the old orchard road near the farm.
Fifteen minutes earlier she repaired
to the old tree that had been to them
O. favorite trysting place.
Ned came spinning along on his
bicycle, not a moment late, fine
specimen of a healthy, buoyant
young man interested and happy in
his work. He swung coil OF wire
and his tool bag to the road and was
over the fence in a joyous leap.
Dear girl" he said fondly, and
then started at Hetty in alarm, for
she was weeping.
Bit by bit the miserable story came
out. He consoled her, he reiterated
his love. He said nothing Of revenge,
elopement or Encouragement.
Little lady" he observed in his
hopeful sanguine way, ''all right! If |
can't see you, I can keep on loving
you, can't II"
Yes, yes" murmured Hetty bro
kenly, "but I shan't hear-those low
Ing words! Why, not to have you tell
ulS NOW YOU AhO CFOiy 0@J
But you SHALL" announced Ned
definitely. you have agreed not to
write to me. Don't. You have prom
lsed not to meet me- Keep your
word. I'll arrange all that, but-trust
me to break down this wall of preju-
dice. Oceans shan. part us. In the
meantime, until things settle down
his"
Ned drew from his coat pocket one
of the tools he used in putting In
wires. He waved it buoyantly.
"Yonder," he said. pointing to the
barb wire fence, lis a conductor right
at hand. I'll connect up half a mile
down the road with Farmer Moores
house line. The feeder will go up
there" and he pointed among tue
branches of the old apple tree.
"Oh, Ned!" cried Hetty, ciasplng
her hands in ecstasy, "you-you don
mean"
THAT / am going to put teie-
phone especially for you up in that
tree. Why. every evening we can tax
over the line for hours, if we want to.
"You darlingl" exuberated Hetty
breathlessly. "Oh, how fortunate it
is that yog know all about tele-
| phonesi"
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llg1IIVIT!IE lll
FAIR TAHlTIAlN WOMEN

are social. Feasting, dancing and sing
ing are always in progress, usually on
a wholesale scale. The entire village
participates on the slightest excuse.
Anything that can be done alone is un-
popular. Even in fishing, the single
venturer is regarded as a pothunter
and no sportsman, the gentlemanly way
being to set a net in the lagoon and
invite the neighbors to drive, afford
ing much noise and frolic, or to or
ganize a deep-sea expedition for al
bicore.
In several stays on the island the
writer was never allowed to fish with
hook and line from a single canoe be-
cause, while all right for commoner
who needs fish, it is not the thing for
Quality" to do The visitor is struck
with the invariable good nature of the
people. They rarely quarrel, drunk
or sober. Violence is practically I'M
known. Murders are so infrequent as
to be little more than traditional and
even fighting is extremely rare.
Like all Polynesians, they are won
derful swimmers, and probably excel
all others as canoemen. Whereas, in
Hawaii the canoes seen today are pure
ly utilitarian. the Tahitian retains his
navigating ancestors love for naval
architecture. Racing canoes carrying
20 paddlers or more are built with
great ceremony and beating OF drums
and carefully kept from the weather
in houses constructed by the district.
These canoes have beautiful lines
and are incredibly fast So are also
the sailing canoes, which carry tremen-
dous canvas and are trimmed by the
gymnastics of the crew, who balance
themselves on lateral spars extending
from the side. They also have out
riggers. but in racing these are not
allowed to bury themselves and so i'm
| pede progress.
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was parted with the offer as riposte.
The answer to this was unanswer-
able and final: 81 don't need any dol
lar"
Such is island philosophy. The sea
will always provide fish, the land all
other actual requirements, and since
this will be as true in the future as
today, why trouble to lay up for ones
children? Even tobacco and coffee
are homegrown, SO only imported lux
uries require effort to obtain. Most
of the real work of the island, such
as curing vanilla, is done by Chinese
who value money for it's own sake.
They bake the bread, run the restau-
rants, and own most of the small
stores.
Nevertheless the natives are splen-
did people physically, no doubt an in
heritance from their warlike and ath-
letic past. The men are often well
over six feet and tremendously mus
cular The women are erect, grace
full, beautifully formed, and often very
handsome. Their brown eyes are I'M
usually fine Their black hair is long
and waving.
Polynesian races differ slightly III
color, that of pure Tahitians varying
also with caste and exposure, but the
commonest type is an olive gold not
darker in shade than the skins of
Chinese and Japanese, but warmer and
less yellowish. Their features are
pleasing and contain nothing Negroid
or Monaghan.
The typical native dress is the pa
! reu, bright colored patterned cotton
cloth much like the Burmese sarong,
| twisted by the men around the waist
and by the women around the breast.
The latter, however, rarely wear it
away from home, except bathing or
| fishing, without a loose over dress.
The men also are more and more COM
ing to regard the pareu as informal,
comfortable for home and work wear,
but to be replaced by coat and pants
on dress occasions. These customs
vary much with the distance from
town. Flowers constitute the chief
adornment, worn in wreaths and singly
over the ear. Carriers come in from
the mountain valleys with loads OF
plantain, naked except for a loin
cloth but with garlands of ferns and
flowers.
Are a Social People.
! The chief Tahitian characteristics
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THE DOCTORS WIFE
Agrees with Him About Food.

A trained nurse says: "In the prac~
tice of my profession l have found SO.
many points in favor Of Grape-Nuts
food that l unhesitatingly recommend
it to all my patients.
cit Is delicate and pleasing to the
palate Gan essential in food for the.
sick) and can be adapted to all ages,
being softened with milk or cream for
babies or the aged when deficiency OF
teeth renders mastication impossible.
For fever patients or those on liquid
diet / find Grape-Nuts and albumen
water very nourishing and refreshing.
This recipe Is my own idea and is
made as follows: Soak a teaspoonful
Of Grape-Nuts in glass of water for
an hour, strain and serve with the
beaten white Of an egg and spoonful
Of fruit Juice for havouring. This af-
fords a great deal of nourishment that
even the weakest stomach can assimi-
late without any distress.
"My husband is physician and he
uses Grape-Nuts himself and orders IL
many times for his patients.
Personally regard a dish of Grape
Nuts with fresh or stewed fruit as the
ideal breakfast for anyone-well or
sick"
In stomach trouble, nervous prostrar
ton, etc., Today trial of Grape-Nuts
will usually work wonders toward,
nourishing and rebuilding and In this
way end the trouble. Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to WellvilIe."
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. Th~v
are genuine, true, and full of human.
interest.