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Hỏngkong, goth January, 1909.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY FEBRUARY

A SHADOWLAND OPIUM

CONFERENCE.

“✪ magan vẫu verkinu 1". Cicero.

We pink the Truth in Shadowland," Avoni

Minutes of a meeting held on January 1, 1919, at the Celebrities! Club, Spockton, Sha dowland.

'PRESENT!

Mr Reed-They did. Some of them didn't know any better and the rest didn't want to.

Chang Ting-yu-The facts are as I have taid,

Dr. Guizla@Probably you were going to mention another cause of the popularity of opium, it's use as an aphrodisiac.

Chang Ting-yu-I was. We are a much married race, the Chinese !

Dr. Gutzlaff—Just 'so, just so. I discovered

Intimations.

YOU WILL NOT

be deceived. That there are cheats and fraude in plenty everybody known; but it is seldom er never that any large business house is guilty of them, no matter what line of trade it follows." There can be no permanent success of any kind based on dishonesty or deception. There The men who over was, and never will be.

H, I. M. Kine Lung, Ruler of Chipa from 1730' how widespread was this use of the drug when.try.that are simply fools and soon come to

to 1795.

Chang Ting-yu, Historian, who lived daring the first half of the 16th century. *18

Lord Palmerston, British stateman, Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs when th's opium trouble-first became acute..

I

to Tientsio. That was early in the thirties, took my first voyage in a junk from Bangkok

The sights I witnessed than were quite indes cribable. I gather that the same conditions still prevail.

Mr. W, B. Reed, U. S. Minister to Ching at the

same time. Dr. Gutzlaff, Medical Missionary, Sicologue,

Writer, and interpreter. And many others.volution can eradicate it. The preliminaries having been satisfactorily disposed of the Chair was taken by the Em peror, who aunauoced the subject for the day's revelation (It should be noted that the terms "debate" and "discussion" are not in vogue in Shadowland, where the raison d'etre of langu age is no longer to conceal but to reveal thought-ED),

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.

His Imperial Majesty on rising, said it is with mixed feelings that I have to inform the meeting that our terrestial relative, friend sand descendants yet remaining "under heaven" are agala engaged in discussions regarding the use and abuse of the sleep-bearing plant and its products. In times gone by the question was one which interested but few countrica, Now, I gather from the agne too luminous reparts coming from Terra Obscura, that many countries are engaged in attempts to restrict the use and thus lessen the abuse of that which had begun to cause trouble even in my time there. Thanks to the recently developed meaDE of commuóication between us and them, it is possible that a revelation from the Enlightened may at least help the Commissioners-meeting at Shanghai to know the truth, at any rate, of what has happened hitbeito.

I have, therefore, consulted with my friends Palmerston, Reed, Chang and others, and we thought it desirable to call you together is ́order that we may give our Opaque friends in the Tetra Obscura the benefit of our lamina tion. (I should be explained here that those on the other side of The Veil" "speak of our selves as "the Opaque of the Terra Obscura owing to the difficulty, amounting at times to the impossibility, we have in nizing through cach, ether.-Ed.)

Continuing the Emperör said:-My friend Chang Ting-yu, whose historical knowledge is"- the despair of evary Celestial student, will out- lide for us the causes why opium came to gaio such n hold on our own nationals, and that.. probably will be enough for the present meet ing, as the old world saying goes, we have other fish to fry.

Chang Ting-yu's-Brothers of the 1lluminati, as I understand the matter, all that we have to do at this gathering is to point out to the Opaque how it came about that China took so disastrously to opium, and why she clings to it *. Surely that, is simple. Have we not, many of us, felt in our own proper persons the reason-add the result 1

Lord Palmerston :--We liavo, wo have; some of us through brandy, others through bany, and all through something. Mutatis mutandļi, they're all alike.

Chang Ting yu-Quite so. My friend Sha kespear says that "All the world's a stage", but he might with equal force have declared that "All the world's a dram shop." Stimulant

advertised articles lest they ba humbugged grief-as they deserve. Now many persons are; nevertheless, afraid to buy certain and deluded; especially are they slow to place confidence in published statements of the merits of medicines. The remedy known as

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Chang Ting-yn-They do. It is his as much a anything which brings the drug so much is as safe and genuine an article to purchase iete ure in high society. The evil in deap root as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of ed, so deep that nothing short of a moral remanufacturers with a world-wide reputation. We could not afford to exaggerate its qualities or misrepresent it in the past; and it is not necessary, It is palatable as honey and con- tains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with than Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Mall and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such a blending of these important medicinal agents must he is plain to everybody. It is beyond price in Anemia, Insomnia, Weakness and lack BOOKING at The Robinson Piano Company opens at 10 o'alook a.m., of Nervous Tone, Poor Digestion, Wasting Diseases, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Impurities. Science can furnish nothing better

H.1.M. Kien Long-I think now that we might adjourn. We have a fairly good idea, or father the Opaque of the Terra Obscura should have a good idea, of the problem which confronts them. The physicians of old were wont to say. If you desire a core, remove the cause. That is the problem before, mankind of the present day. We have seen why men fly to drugs; it is to escape other evils Re move these evils and the use of the drug will be discontinued. We will now close and at our next meeting will consider further the allurements which the sleep-braring demon usas to enslave his votaries.-N; C. D, Newa.

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perhaps nothing so'good. Dr. W. H. Dalfe, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice and take pleasure in recommending it as a valuable tonic and reconstructive." It is a

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and sarcotic are universal. Tea and tobacco, coffee and cocaine, beer ned brandy, it matters not what all are evidence of the universal craving of humanity for something more than bread and water. Let it not ha imagined that the land of my binh is different in this respect from others. Her present stage of development is that from which Europe and America have but recently emerged. If the desire for the artificial vivacity and momentary delight resulting from GREEN ISLAND ORMENT COMPANY been received from the Military, Authori

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one great cause why opium so coslaves our In Bage of ago Ds, not $8.45 pei Bat above dates, practice will take place on the people, is that in it they have.discovered a sura andt'speedy means of throwing off for a time the terrible monotony and emui of their existe ence. Hitherto they, have been denizens of the dullest homes, the most depressing aur- roundings, and the most user tedium which the nations of the world had ever seen. No en. tertaining books, no newspapers, no theatres, Do intellectuality, no intercourse with educated Woman she didn't exist-nothing but the weariness and boredom of a thrice told safe. Was it any wonder that they succumbed?

Lord Palmersto 1- Did you never drink? Chang Ting yu➡91 yes, in times gone by, Our poetry, it almori as full of bibulous re ferences as your own. 'I could quote "you scores of such passages. Bat cur drinks were ́never-raductive enough to capture the people' As a whole, and eveg the poets in time gave them up. There is at present evidence, how- ever, that, agala with outside help and ex- ample, a return thitherwards had begun. Of

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Lord Palmerston. When did you first taks to opium ?

Chang Ting-yo.—We had known it more or

·less for about 1,300 years before you came. Some of our old writers went into rapture over the "drink fit for Buddha” which they got from it. They didn't smoke it then, Smoking came in much later.

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Mr. Reed-There was never, any -doubt whatever in my mind as to the autiquity of opium in China.

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Lord Palmerston-Indeed!” I thought soma of your countrymen accused us of introducing

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