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THE BOY AS WE KNOW HIM.
All in This Particular Capacity Are
Labor Savers.
Mrs. Belle De Rivera, whose special
knowledge of public-school life has
made her famous, narrated at a recent
dinner a number of public-school epi
sodes.
One concerned the small boy’s win
ter hatred of cold water. “His teacher,”
began Mrs. De Rivera, “said one morn
ing to a little boy:
"Jimmy, I'm ashamed of you. Your
cheek is all black and sticky. Go to
the hydrant and wash it.’
"Jimmy went out to the hydrant,
moistened his wash rag, and rubbed
soap over it. Then, rag in hand, he
returned to the schoolroom.
" Which cheek did you say?’ he
Inquired.”
WHERE HE STOOD.
o
Percy—Do you think your father
(pould object to my marrying you?
Pearl—I couldn’t say. If he’s any*
thing like me he would.
The Penny Saved.
The Penny Saved was put In the
bank, the old broken teapot having
gone out of style. Here it presently
overheard two voices talking.
"1 want to borrow $50,000,000 to
finance a candle trust!” said one
voice.
"Glad to accommodate you!” said
the other.
And the next the Penny Saved knew,
it was going out into the channels of
trade.
When the man to whom it belonged
fell into sore need (he was a candle
maker and the trust crushed him out)
and came to the bank for his money,
he was courteously informed that the
institution had passed into the hands
of a receiver and recommended to call
again in a year or two and get his
share of the assets, should there prove
to be any.—Puck.
Margaret Was Logical.
One afternoon I overheard my two
children talking about the Sunday
school lesson.
Dick, who was much smaller than
Margaret, believed all she said about
it So he asked her what God looked
like, and she quickly answered: "God
looks like a stalk of corn, because
mamma said he had ears on all sides,
and a stalk of corn is the only thing
1 know that has ears on all sides.”—
Delineator.
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Interest.
NEW YORK.—A national
vice that does not pay is
hi a bad way. It’s like
a brainless man who has
become penniless—it has
no friends.
Therefore, when the statesmen of
the earth reached the tardy conclusion
that the encouragement of opium
smoking really did not pay, the gaunt
giant of the poppy fields was ready to
be bowled over, writes Allan L. Ben
son. At this propitious moment the
United States government, which had
never sought to fatten on the opium
traffic, initiated a world-wide fight
against it.
That was two years ago. China,
which for 700 years had alternately
fought against and wrung revenue
from its greatest national weakness,
rallied for another attack.
First an edict went forth that every
Chinese official who smoked opium
must forthwith cease to do so.
Then the common people of China
were notified that they, too, must soon
stop. The common people, however,
were given ten years in which to taper
off the habit to the vanishing point.
China also entered into an agree
ment with Great Britain to decrease,
year by year, the area devoted to
poppy culture in China and in India.
Of course one does not need to go
far to find the reason for America's
opposition to the opium-smoking habit.
As a people, we do not burn the poppy's
blood, and are not greedy enough to
care to continue to collect the $6 a
pound tax that we have levied on the
opium that the Chinese and the white
degenerates want to smoke. But how
comes it that England, which once
fought for opium with her armies and
her fleets is now openly against it?
And how comes it that China, whose
public officials have so long fattened
on the taxes wrung from the traffic, is
sitting beside England? Back of these
circumstances is a profound economic
fact.
This fact is that opium smoking does
not pay. It never paid—but shorter
sighted governmental officials long
thought it did. Yet the changed view
has not its origin in the failure of
tariffs and imposts of various sorts to
wring enormous sums from those who
smoke the Oriental pipe. Here is the
real story in three sentences:
Men, to pay taxes, must first be
born.
After birth they must have strength
and industry.
And they must not die until they are
too old to work.
Now see what opium does:
In those families where the father
smokes opium the average number of
children is 1.09. The few children who
are born and who reach maturity are
poor workers, and they die young.
Here is the world crying for ef
ficiency and prodigious production.
Here are the great nations scanning
their budgets and their industries in
desperate desire to raise the enormous
sums with which to maintain their
armies, increase their navies and carry
on their other great governmental ac
tivities. And here is opium palsying
the hands that could turn many a
wheel.
Is it any wonder that the poppy
fields are giving way to rice, and that
the American congress has passed a
bill excluding smoking-opium? The
statesmen of an older school, it is true,
would have done otherwise. They
would have clutched the penny-tax and
lost the ultimate dollar. But even
England is no longer so unwise. Eng
land knows that her Dreadnoughts
were not launched from poppy fields;
that they were made possible only by
the well-worked mines and mills and
farms of England. And while she is
aware that she could continue to reap
a pittance from the poppies, she is
now seeking bigger things. She wants
to tax the greater products of vigor
ous men.
Yet what a fight it has been for
China to see this happy day when the
world’s interest in this matter has be
come like her own! It's a fight that
began 700 years ago, and it illustrates,
as nothing else can, the peculiar
strength and the peculiar weakness
that are inherent in the Chinese char
acter. It also affords one of the few
illustrations of the superiority of au
tocratic government over popular rule.
For while the people of the opium
habit, always vigorously fought for it,
even as they are now rioting agaitist
the curtailment of the poppy fields, the
government has always opposed it,
precisely as it opposes it to-day. Some
times it has yielded to exterior force,
and then it has shown its weakness
by impoverishing with taxes those
whose bodies opium was impoverish
ing.
Opium was unknown in China until
the latter part of the twelfth century.
Who brought it there perhaps does not
make so much difference, since it is
there, but the British say the Arabs
did. At any rate, the dried juice of
the poppy came from some of the
eastern Europeans or western Asiatic
countries, where it had been known
for a hundred years prior to the Chris
tian era. And at first it was used only
for medicinal purposes. Then, as now,
many Chinese were afflicted with
fevers, and opium helped them.
Meantime the Turks had introduced
opium into India, where the natives
soon engaged in its cultivation on a
large scale. The Chinese, after form
ing the opium habit, then bought their
supplies in India. At that time there
was a considerable export trade from
China to India, and the junks that car
ried other merchandise from the Celes
tial empire brought back the raw ma
terial from which opium is made.
In 1368 the habit had become so
widespread that the emperor, noting
its ill effects, issued an imperial de
cree against the use of and the traffic
in opium. In the original ^decree he
prescribed only moderate penalties for
its violation, but as his subjects did
not obey him, he increased the sever
ity of the penalties until death or trans
portation became the lot of every
one who persisted in the use of the
baneful pipe. And, as the Chinese
had then been smoking opium less
than 50 years, they broke off the habit
just as an American youth who has
smoked tobacco only a year or two
can give up tli£ use of tobacco.
But, like the American boy who
“swears off" and then in two months
goes back to his tobacco, the Chinese
in a few years resumed the use of
opium and again a stern emperor
stopped it. Nor was opium again
smoked in China until the latter part
of the eighteenth century.
British rule having been imposed
upon India, the government in 1757
granted to the East India Company a
monopoly of the trade in opium. The
East India Company at once cast its
eyes Chinaward. There it saw an em
peror who had forbidden the importa
tion or use of opium; there it also saw
laws fixing the opium smoker’s penalty
at death. But there it also saw Chi
nese gold, and plans were at once laid
to provide the Chinese with opium
whether their emperor would have it
or not.
The scheme devised was for Brit
ish ships to lie off Chinese ports and
deliver opium to such Chinese mer
chants as might come out to buy. And
the plan worked so well that in 1790
600.000 pounds of the forbidden pro
duct were sold in China.
Of course the Chinese government
did not sit idly by. It cut off a few
heads and sent many persons out of
the country for the country's good;
but the smoking of opium went on.
What’s the threat of death to a man
who wants to do something? Around
the world in England at that very mo
ment men were stealing five-shilling
purses and being hanged for it. And
the Chinese continued to smoke their
opium. In 1830 the East India Com
pany sold to them and they smoked
2.500.000 pounds. The East India
Company was becoming rich and the
British government took toll from its
trade.
History records the fact Ahat in the
year 1837 the Chinese emperor screwed
up his courage and talked fight. The
sale of opium to his subjects must
stop. The supply ships that were lying
outside his harbors must clear out. If
they didn’t there would be trouble. So
he said in his proclamation.
The British East India Company
treated him as if he were a chattering
child. Not a ship movedr Not a
Chinaman came after opium who did
not get it. Everything went on as be
fore.
But the emperor was no chattering
child. He was a raging, roaring old
man. He felt precisely as the Boston
ers did when the tea-laden British
ships came in after their tax. And
he did precisely what the citizens of
Boston did—boarded the ships, by
proxy of course, and dumped the
opium into the ocean—3,000,000
pounds of it!
Of course this act was construed by
the British to constitute a cause for
war, and hostilities were opened as
soon as the aggrieved persons could
get their guns into action. This was in
1840. The Chinese, even in that day,
were as poor fighters as they are now.
In a little while a British fleet had
captured Chusan. The next year the
Bogue forts fell, and then Canton,
Amoy, Shanghai, Chapoo, and a lot of
other places gave up the ghost. By
1842 the Chinese emperor was very
glad to buy peace by ceding Hong
kong, paying an indemnity of $21,000,
000, and throwing open four ports to
foreign trade. He even humiliated
himself by degrading Commissioner
Lin who had carried ut the emperor's
orders. Nor did he get even the thanks
of his own subjects for his efforts in
their behalf. The whole empire was
torn with rebellion. Rebel armies
robbed, murdered and plundered al
most as they pleased. If they had had
an intelligent leader who could have
welded them together and directed
them with spirit, they might have done
away with old Taou-kwang, but in
1850 he saved them the trouble by
dying.
From that day until two years ago
no Chinese emperor dared say any
thing against smoking. The Chinese
raised poppies in nine of the eighteen
provinces of their country, and would
have raised more if the climate and
the soil had been suitable. From an
importer of the drug China has be
come aij exporter, _£lgiosjt all of the
Opium that is brought into the United
States comes from the Flowery king
dom. No longer does it pay tribute
to Britain for its supplies. Britain
can tax the trade in her own India,
but that’s a good deal like trying to
lift herself by her own bootstraps. And
as was said at the beginning, when a
national vice does not pay it is in a
bad way.
The Chinese consul in New York
was sought to throw light on the ef
forts of his government, after 70 years
of silent resignation, to free its sub
jects from the opium habit. He was
educated at George Washington and
Columbia universities and speaks Eng
lish well.
“Will the Chinese,” he was asked,
“be able to break off the opium habit
in the ten years in which they have
been given to do it?”
"I think so,” he replied. “The gov
ernment has already taken extraordi
nary measures to curtail the sale of
the drug, and the increasing difficulty
with which it may be obtained will as
sist victims of the smoking habit in
breaking off. It used to be, for in
stance, so that any coolie in a city
need not go more than half the length
of one of your city blocks to find a
place where he could buy all the
opium he wanted or could pay for.
more than that, there were in all Chi
nese cities places where anybody
could go to smoke the pipes and other
appliances being furnished by the
proprietors. These places were for
the accommodation of the poorer class
of Chinese who could not afford to
own pipes. It was the custom of Chi
nese laborers to drop into these re
sorts two or three times a day and
smoke, just as an American laborer
may take a glass of beer at noon and
another at night.
“All this is now changed. The Chi
nese government has imposed the
same sort of regulations upon the sale
of smoking opium that many American
municipalities have imposed upon the
sale of liquor. If the public officials
of America were suddenly ordered to
stop smoking cigars I imagine the
command would be obeyed only with
the greatest difficulty by some of the
J
A COMMON SCENE IN CHINA YEARS AGO.
I men who have been using tobacco 20
30 or 40 years. They have the habit.
That's the difference—public officials
in China have not the opium habit.
"It is unfortunately true that the
lower classes in the cities are slaves
of the pipe. When a poor man lives
on a farm, he seems to get along
easily without using opium, but when
he comes to the city he picks up the
habit within a year. If he smokes in
moderation, no great harm seems to
come to him for a while, though ulti
mately it undermines his health. Hut
the trouble is that few Chinese in the
cities use opium moderately. They
soon smoke as many times as they can
during the day, and go at it again at
night, continuing until sleep over
powers them. In this way they econo
mize on food, for one who smokes
immoderately cannot eat much and
they are also able to do a great
amount of work for a while without
feeling the usual fatigue.
"Yet the health of such sts thess in*
variably soon gives way. First they
become ghastly thin—sometime* al
most approaching the skeleton stage
then they lose strength, ambition and
lastly life itself.
‘‘In the country it is different. Many
farmers who raise poppies do not
smoke opium. As a result they have
good health and live long. It is not
unusual for a Chinese farmer to rejch
the age of 70 or 80 and occasionally
one hangs on until "hfe is 100.”
Those who have believed that opium
smoking is a natural vice in China will
perhaps be surprised at the consul’s
statement to the contrary. Yet this
statement is verified by the fact that
China’s birth rate remains moderately
high, notwithstanding the low rate in
the cities, where opium is used.
But, if the consul’s statement be sur
prising, what must be said of that of
Dr. Hamilton Wright. Dr. Wright says
the Chinese who are resident in
America are rapidly giving up the use
of the drug. The better class of Ori
ental exiles not only do not smoke,
but regard with scorn any of their
countrymen who do.
Why, then, are the importations of
smoking opium into the United States
increasing? And who smoked the
million and a quarter dollars’ worth
that was imported in the first 11
months of last year?
In the answer to these questions lies
the interest of the United States in ex
cluding opium from this country and
stopping its use everywhere. The
fact is that American women, or at
least white women, used a large part
of the smoking opium that was
brought into the country last year,
and therefore supplied much of the
great sum that went to pay for it.
Even the lowest white men are not
likely to develop a hankering for
opium, but degraded white women
yield to it as readily as any Chinese
ever did. Possibly they want to forget
—perhaps opium helps them to blot
out for a time that which they would
not remember. In any event, every
great city contains places where
women may go to smoke opium, and in
New York in particular, one need not
go far down the hall of many a cheap
lodging house to catch the fumes of
the drug with which China has wres
tled for 700 years.
If white women used even half of
the smoking opium that was brought
to the United States last year, and
each woman during the year bought
$20 worth there are 30,000 such women
in this country. It doesn’t seem pos
sible! But the opium was brought
I here, sold, paid for, and smoked, and
I those who are most familiar with the
; facts say that white women used
much of it.
Such despondency as they never
knew will be ahead of these women
after the bill to exclude smoking
opium becomes a law. To be caught
smoking or merely to be found with
the drug in one's possession will then
make the offender liable to two years'
imprisonment. Yet precisely as there
were Chinese 600 years ago who lost
their heads because they could not
forego their pipes, doubtless there are
American woman who will go to
prison if they can get the forbidden
drug with which to violate the law.
For it is as difficult to break a bad
habit as it is to form a good one.
A whole let of women would like
their husbands better if they didn't
always have to pick up after ttoew.—
Detroit Free Press.
HERE'S A NEAT LITTLE PUZZLE,
Seems Simple, But Will Occupy Yosi
for a Few Minutes.
The Paris Temps publishes this
story: “While in the Orient a French
man bought a diamond studded cross,
which he sent to his wife in Paris. To
guard against possible theft he noti
fied her that counting fryn^the bottom
to the top there were seven diamonds,
and counting from the bottom to the
end of each branch there were also
seven diamonds, thus:
* *
s3
Yyr* ’i
"When he returned home he found
that two diamonds had been stolen
from the cross, but that, from top to
bottom the number was still seven,
and that counting from the bottom up
to either branch there were still seven
diamonds, as designated by him in
his letter of warning. Figure it out,
it’s a nice little puzzle.”
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THE BUGVILLE BASEBALL GAME.
Jim Aat—Run, fellows run!
Bill Beetle—What’s up?
Jim Ant—Why, here comes the fly
cop!
Got the Letters Mixed.
A young American, who is particular
about his washing, the other day wrote
a note to his laundress and one to his
sweetheart, and, by a strange fatality,
put the wrong address on each envel
ope and sent them off. The wash
woman -was delighted at an invitation
to take a ride the next day, but when
the young lady read, "If yon tumble up
my shirt bosom any more as you did
the last time, I will go somewhere
else," she «ied all the evening and
declared she would never speak to him
again.
“Nails”
"Nails are a mighty good thing—
particularly Anger nails—bt>t I don’t
believe they were intended solely for
scratching, though I used mine large
ly for that purpose for several years.
I was sorely afflicted and had it to do.
One application of Hunt's Cure, how
ever, relieved my itch and less than
one box cured me entirely.”
J. M. WARD,
Index, Texas.
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Blinks (seasoned traveler)—Yes; I
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