The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-09
DO WEIRD THINGS
v. TO OBTAIN DRUGS

no fewer than twelve audlcts III ths
act of registering as physicians oil
macists, continued use OF narcotics
having warped their Judgment, ban
ished fear and left only an oyermas'
tering desire for the poison.
One OF these was a woman who nae
been using drugs for twenty-nint
years and who in all that time hat
kept her secret from her family. Tn,
woman is we'll educated, well read ant
her family is prominent. She came
to the federal building. registered as
physician and received the necessary
blanks, but was detected before she
had an opportunity to use any OF them
She pleaded guilty in federal court 70
perjury in the making Of false af-
fidavit and was fined $500. Nearly a
dozen other cases Of this character
are pending.
While many drug users have felt
that the Harrison law has been q
curse, to others 1t has been an untoll
blessing. Records at the City hospital
where more than 300 persons were
treated for drug habit in the weeka
following the first enforcement OF the
law, show that many patients were
discharged as cured, having declared
that their craving had entirely disap-
peared. More remarkable, however
says a report, are cases which have
come under the notice Of the federal
officials, where will power alone was
the instrument of redemption when
the hapless victim realized that his
drug sodden wits were no match for
those OF the keen minded men charged
with the laws enforcement.
Sought Cure In the Wllds.
A few weeks after the lid was
clamped down on the sale Of narcotics
there came to the Office Of the reyeilde
officials, a woman who Is a graduate
pharmacist, married, member OF IN
aristocratic family and strikingly
beautiful.
For four years, unknown to her hus-
band, she had been taking an average
of twenty grains Of morphine day.
She registered as a pharmacist, but 1t
was discovered that she was PLAYING
trick and she was given the option
o. taking the cure or being prosecuted.
She refused to BIO treated, fearing that
her secret would become known and
bring disgrace upon her husband ana
family. q
That night the woman went home
and told her husband she was going
to visit sister who lives in q coun-
try town in Missouri. She departed
and went to her sisters home. but IN
stead Of remaining there proceeded
into one Of the widest sections of the
state, far from human habitation. She
arranged to send letters for her hug
band to the sister, who In turn would
post them in her town. Letters FROM
the husband the sister enclosed In an.
envelope and mailed them to the
wife. go
Then, out where the obtaining Of
any form of drug was an impossible
ity, the woman who had lied to OBJ
tain 1t when in the city fought her
battle to finish. She stayed there
until her craving was gone and then
came home. In April a pale, wan crea-
ture, Weighing barely III pounds, she
returned in perfect health, with ruddy
cheeks and Weighing 1876 pounds. Her
husband maryelled at the change her
stay in the country had wrought but
never guessed the truth,
A man who formerly was an assist
ant instructor of chemistry at Cornell
University, whose brothers have at
tanned eminence,, one Of them being
one, Of the foremost lawyers In Phil
adeiphia and another, former menu
Der Of Congress from Pennsylvania.
was cured of the drug habit by an In
generation Of three months in thu
st. Charles jail. after he had been
found engaging in the drug traffic in
st. Louis.