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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JULY 7 1010
AMERICA'S DRUG FIEND.
·REFORT BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL,
AN ALARNING PROBLEM,
MGNTRODS "PANIMALS.
THOUGHT TO Have been loWG' EXTINCT.
REPORTED TO STILL EXIST.
The possibility that animals known to us only by their fossil remains may yet lurk in According to figures sociently authorita. Inaccessible parts of the world has always been tive to find place in a Goverment balletid, fascinating to some zoologists. Discoveries of there are more drag, fiends in the United this klud bava, indeed, been actually made Stater, in proportion to population, than there that of the Central African okapi being the It is now asserted by Cati are la Chins. Thus Dr. L. F. Kebler, chief most recent. of the division of drugs in the Government Hagenbeck, the great German authority on wild Boreau of Chemistry, states in a report on the animals, in bin recant book, that an animal indiscriminate sale and u.e ut habit-forming akin to the Borntosaurus, which is twin brother agents that the number of drag addicts into the `diplodocas, is still alive in the fover the United States is variously estimated by or southern we are not told, says a reviewer lo haunted swamps of Rhodesis, whether northern those conversant with the situation at from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 although ka records his The Lancel. own opinion that the latter estimato is prob. ably excessive. The number of "drag fiends" 10 China, maya sha Lousivalo Courier-Journal, bas been put at 4.001,000, 'or i per cent, of its 400,000,000 population. Supposing the popu. lation of the Uasted States to be 90,000,000, the figures quated by Dr. Kabler would place the properties of drug addicts in this country at something between 1.1 and 44 per cent While the papers generally asseri, that these figures are appalling, apparently, has challeng. ed their accuracy. The Chicago Evening Post reminds us that Prol. Irving Fisher, in his Report on National Vitality, also finds that the use of barmiai drugs in the United States is on the increase. Moreover, white the estimates place the opium addicts in China'ati per cont a report of the International Opium Commis sion shows that 35 per cent of the Chinese in This country are opium smokers. According to Dr. Kebler's bullatio-known officially mi Farmers Bulletin 3.3-there has also deve toped in the United Status & widespread use ul cotain, a drug" even more disintegrating and debauching bas opium, and practically unknown in Chiba. Rocent revelations, expecially in Philadelphia, concerning the ped. dung of cocaine among school children, have also helped to arouse the copptry to the serious. iness of its d'ug problem. To quote Dr.Kabler
more fully
Intimations,
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om simple speculation, but the great fortunes Corrected 30th June, 1910, 200 cis, per $ Mex. Snapper-Lap Ya..... are derived from legitimate and honest business where the goods furnished are worth the price they bring. Certain famous business. men have accumulated their millions wholly lo this way. Prompt and faithful in every con- tract or engagement they enjoy the confidence of the public and command a class of trade that is refused to unstable or tricky competitors. In the long run it does not pay to cheat or deceive others. Even a child or a dog soon learns to disguise. A humbug may be advertised with distinguish between real friends and foes in
a noise like the blowing of a thousand trompets, but it is soon detected and exposed. The manufacturers of
Many years ago the observer Menges, whe is a very trustworthy authority, was informed
WAMPOLES PREPARATION by negions of the existence of this hugo saurinn, and a recent writer in the Baluwayo Chronicle have always acted on very different principles. mentions the continuance of the tradition and Before offering it to the public they first made ...The sure of its merits. Then, and then' only, did adds many interesting details story has so far bean treated as a rumour. Only its name appear in print. People were assured week or so ago private advices reached this of what it would do, and found the statement canotry that, in the dense and gloomy forests truthful. To-day they believe in it as we all of an isised in the Malay Archipelago (we belleva in the word of a tried and trusted friend. believe it is Ceram), there still exist monsten It Is paintable as honey and contains all the of a species long, balieved to be extinct. The nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Dows first reached Mr. Alfred Stalker, a Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, young collector of natural-bistory specimens, combined with the Compound Syrup of who, we understand, bas done
good Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and
It aids digestion, drives im work for leading museums both here Wild Cherry. and in Australia. Mr. Stalker was told purities from the blood and cures Anemia, that the monsters would be found two days' Scrofula, Debility, Influensa, Throat and Lung march in the interior and that they lived in Troubles, and Wasting Complaints. Dr. Louis water. He is said to" have postponed: his W. Bishop says: "I fake pleasure-in-saying 1 Search for them and saw the melancholy cows have found it a most efficient preparation, em reschar as of his death by drowning. It is, of bodying all of the medicinal properties of a course, possible that the creatures are only pure cod liver oil in a most palatable form." It tapis,Readers of Mr. Andrew Lang's whim, stands in the front rank in the march of medi- sical Ulsectanglers will remember that hecine. It is a scientific remedy and a food, with chose.Cagayan Sulu, one of the most soncharly a delicious taste and flavour. No slow or of the Philippine Islands, as the habitat of the doubtful action. I cannot disappoint you." mystic and mythic Barbalangs. It is to this Sold by all chemists. feland that the explorers in his story brought their Gads-the giant sloth (myledon) of Patagonia, the bunyip of Central Australia, inn- beatbach of Loch Odka, the aggs of dinerals, the gorilla, and so forth............
RIFIUM CONSUMPTION. Notwithstanding the fact that legislation "Now wo know that the mylodon existed to Federal, State, and Ferritorial, advance to the times comparatively recent, for it has been indiscrimusto sale and use of opium has been found, and The Dady Expreis sest out an ovacted during the past decade, and most expedition to investigate the, matter not many physicians 'ara, uning greater circumspection years ago. The bunyip tests apparently on than formerly when prescribing opium, its pro the authority of Buckley, the convict who parations Bid derivatives, the amount of opium escaped from Port Phillips a century ago, lived (exclusive of smoking opium, which is now long as a savage among primitive Australian dealed salty into this country) consumed in blacks, and doubtless was the antitype of the the United States per capita, bas baca doabled ingenious M; de Rougemont, as'belkirk was of within the last forty years. Not only has there Crusoe. Still, huge marsupials of the bunyip been this increased consumption of opium, its type may vary well have existed ia lagoons in preparation and derivativos but large quantities Central Australia to times" quité within the of other hiba formug agents, introduced chiefly memory of persons still living. Sutherlandshire for medicinal purposes, have to used. For
Cells have told Mr. Andrew Lang that in winter example, cochia(cocaro bydrochlorid) has been bights the beathach, a creature of immatur used for about twiasy five years, a.d the able length, has been heard breaking up the amount.consumed at prescat is estimated .at-ice in the lichs.. Portapa ibis creature is a dim approximately 150,now ounces per annum. I reminiscence of the Pittsburg diplodocus, the addition, it is well-known that large quantities skeleton of which is well-known’to us in the Bi- "of acetanilid, "acerphenatidio, astrpynto, phentish Museum of Natural History. The dregous, aceio; c.lfo, and cutoral hydrate, and smaller the many huge setponts of the Lesser Edda abounts of codelo, dionis, and herois sie a work campiled in the snakeless Iceland of consumed.
the thirteenth century, are doubtless alio mere memories lingering for ages la the primitive mind. Of their family is the sea-serpent, so solematy reported upon, in 1821 by William Cil, conservator of the the Royal College of Surgeons of England, This creature was perhaps a monte. The mammoth, again, was long half mythic, its tusks were sought for in Siberie, but the whole
He goes on to tell how thousands of people become victims of these drugs by taking them unknowingly in various palest medicines and certain medicated soli-drinks. to some cases these rus posmums claim to cure the taste for the very droge which they contain. Among the patent medences most frequently dopod are sobibing shups, catarra: and asthma cares, cough remedios and headache mixtures. I'basa are specified-as, maoy, us shirteen differeof soothing maps being mentioned by name-in Farmers Bulletin 37 which concludes with the following summary:-There are various re- medies on the market used from miancy to old age containing habit-forming synats which can
be purchased almon ad libitum by any one
· Many of the mixtures are concocted directly or indirectly, through the aid of unscrupulous pay.
ALPHABETICAL cans sucalled, dumcillicit sales ofcocain mor
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TENDERS are invited for the SUPPLY OF
LABOUR-and JUNKS in connection with the Coaltog oldim, Ships, &egat Hongkong for a period of is moaths from the tot August, 1910,
Forms of tender can be obtained on applica. tion to the NAVAL STORE OFFICER, M.M. Naval Yard, nongkong, and "anould be re- turned not lathe thea Noun, on the 16th July, 1910.
A deposit of One Hundred Dollars will be required from persoas tendering. This will be returned in the event of non-acceptance of tender.
The right is reserved of rejecting all or any tender, and of accepting any potion of a
lander.
EDGAR WATTS,
Naval Store Officer. H.M. Naval Yard,
Hongkong, 4th July, 1910,
FRENCH STORE.
NOTICE.
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8. Peanuts, Fa Sangeries and rescue Persimmons, Large,--Hung Chie....avatar Plus-apples,, 1st quality--Shaung Poon Ti Paw-law ..............Bich
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18 Platini-Tal Chiu ........................ Pļoms, Swałow-Hong Lu!
Pamelo, Sixm-Chius Lo Yeu „im.uach
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POULTRY,
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We beg to inform our numerous
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the well-preserved body of a mammoth was melted out of a large block of ice on the shore of Lake Odcouf, and, though afterward partially devoured by praksoi wolver, was discovered in its catirety by a Tungoone ivory huster, and in 1806 iully examined by Mr. Adams. Toe wild all Simon's Produces for Toilet hunter it gets before the mammoth was the
subject of due of Marnest Grissi's pictures long in the possession if the late Sir Joseph Prestwich
in his Shorthan_Lome,
Intimations.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.
'phia, etc.bro also made by druggists,bath woole- sale and retail. A low physicians take advan. tage of the authority entrusted to them for the proper using of those habil forming agents and THE THIRD MEETING of the Season prescribs lur all aga sting toom, regardlessl be held at Happy Valley, pa of the health and wetrare of the public. Physi- | SATURDAY, the 9th July, 1915, commencing cans often are not circumspect enough in the || at 3.30 P.M. wiiting and sateguarding of presciptions com- taining these drugs. With these conditions obtaining, drug addiction has become a great evil, and the question ourally arises, How can it be minimized or eradicated? Thore. a great diversity of up wico on this point, but the following are the finer along which rasulis cio ba expected:..
BUGGESTED HEMEDIES..
First. Educate the public through the press
and by pamphlets, lectores, alc,
The Charge of Admission will be $1.00 for others than Members of the Hongkong Jockey Club or Gymkhana Club.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half-price. The Committes invite the Ladies of Hong. kong to be present.
REGINALD F. C. MASTER; Hoo, Sec. nad Treasurer, Honokanal 5th July, 1910
STATE OF NORTH BORNEO.
Requisites,
Boap, etc.
Perfumery, Powder,
INSPECTION SOLICITED,
Hongko97, 21st January, 1910.
NEW SHOPI
547.
JUST OPENED!!
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TIONS OF
TENDERS FOR REVENUE FARMS.
Second. Exact laws forbidding the sale of TENDERS are invited for the lease of the RARE JEWELS,
all pernicious habit forming drage, such as cocain, morphin, oplam, heroin, etc, and their derivatives "und preparations, at ratail, except on prescriptions of physicians, dealists
́or veterinaijaos;**
Third. Reguito a permanent record to be kept, subject to State and I ederal inspection at all pimes, of all transactions in such droge, whether wholesale, retail, orihrough the ass-of
PARTICULARS ON APPLICATION, prescriptions.
WM. POWELL,
LTD.
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, syih Juôn, TOTO,
Fourb, Enact laws forbidding the handling of any of this producis except by manufac. Turers, wholesale and retail droggists, and "others legally qualified.
Forms in 'the State of North. Borneo from 1st January, 1911, ze met out hereunder.
the Government Secretary, Sandikan, up to Tenders will be received' at the Office of
za d'clock Boon on the 1st day of October, 1910, for the purchase of the exclusive privileges of the Farms enumerated below for a period of 1, 2 or 3 years commenting on the 1st January, 1911,
The Farms -above referred to are the Opium, Spirit, Gambling, and Fawnbroking Farms for the whole or part of the Stats, Copies of the Forms of Contracts for the Farms and full particulars of the conditiose to be observed by tenderem may be seen on application at the Office of the Government Secretary, Sandakan, or of Messm, Gathrie & Co., Singapore and Penug, or of Mein, Gibb Livingston & Co, at Hongkong, M
The retail rates for Chandn fixed by Government for the Opium Farm for 1917 1911 med 1919, ara thorn specified below
For every 3 hun packat
Fifth, The state boards of kelib, or other governing bodies, should be empowered to withdraw the licences of physicians,wha pro.. scribe or druggists who apli thoes articles for other than legitimate medicinal purposes. TIK
Sixth A Federal law should be enacted for bidding the shipment is intai-state commerch of habit forming drugs or preparations contain- Ing them, except through the customary chan nals of trade, and then only when complete records of all tranánctione aru koply
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