THE DRUG BABIL
A VICTIS TERRIBLY STORY.
THE HONGKONG telegraph THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1010
ecstasyWith all the horror, how I love the
vitere day
CHINESE
ENANKING
ORT
[gure of
lite common, for
did cot all the moser: The vail is but seldom raised on the oplum | thirty shillings a day, maniac's life., Toa olten "the slack, hideous | was isking. Bo' greint a day towards the esd tragedy is obliterated by death and its borrors The cray by comes to me yıl, and I tava to pass unrecorded. On rate occasion-andthey | wireggio very hard to realat It Morphin I have, ent - are very rare➡ ba victim burets the bondsthat conquered, I think, but how I love cocaine (—it lug
bird bim, and lives to spark of the mad jɔy and in bean:ilot, exquisite, bezvably. Morphia for Ther Cautiorable agony, IN
'its victim in tau lostu hil ità charm, nod only | evary There is in London to-day ■ young man the horror remalar, but cocaine is always tha| Quito who for ten years was a slave to morphin and s.m. Heaven, Kow I love it (M wych cocaico. His frame is shrunken, bis cheeks ghastly palo, bir eyes big and strangely lastrons, There were "other expericaces too terribla, Some months ago hs fread himself from bis to speak or wille, retold in quict, even tontas miduoss, and the story he tells is a terribla | but at times the big bright eyas flatbed and "Jaitification of the” storm -fight that" is" belog the finger-uzils reemid to pierce the dish of
waged against the denga
the palms of the Isng thin hands..." But I am cured, cured! There was a note of exultation is this voice.
I am, DF WAT, no actor," he said, whed a representative of the "Pall Mall Gastte" who has been investigating the evils of the opium h_bit asked him to tall of,k's experiences, ·
**That was 10 no los years ago. In onder that I might gat tự af from some slight pila # resorted to cocaine. That was the beginning, Drugs are wonderful for anything....... I say that eron now after all I bave gone through. Bo ford I'well karw what I was doing the craving possessed mo... The sweetness of the repole the drugs brought me, and the exquiko, subilo. intoxication, fasciosted me, I want on mail- until my kie was a bull. Let qu one think the joys of opium endura. They pais, but the craving and the awful agony remain,”
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AN OFFER OF HELP,
"I will not any what cured ma. To do so would seem live advartising some remedy, and I have no fotcrest in d ing tha". All: 1 mont to do is to do far o hers what has been done | for me. i stake my life on it there is a coro, ind it costs little or nothing. Let any one write to the accretary of the Anti-Opium Lea gue-ike league is inspired by only one objsci and Mr. Wilson, the secretary, will reply, I am sure,
When I think of what others may be going through it drives me plmskt.frantic to think that I cannot aid them. Many of my old friends, I um afcald,' are among the number, for actors and actresses fall a prey to drugs very essity. They may regard the hypodermic needia and morphia'as doar friends as yet. At ose time I did, and I have constant reminders of it, for the points of many broken teedles are in my nemi and legs, and one or'the other comes to they cutlace to be released at intervals.".
There is no word of exaggeration in the. story told by the man himse f For nine months he bas teksted the craving for drugs, and by what means the secretary of the league will inform azy icquirec,
A "LONG-DAWN OUT NIGHTMARE. The man's whole being as he spako was eloquest of a liusling memory. i would be silent, but that there may be others to whom the warning" may not come until too late, Afer a time my days and nighis wäre ona long drawn-cot nightmare. When 1 lay down my Toom 'WAS corded with sitanie, shapalesz› moving things with blang ayes-tyos, they] biar.d_is the day as well as, in the night. Sometimes I seemed to see a friead come to my braido. I know he was not there, but I spoke to him-converted with him. Once I thought he had left the door open, and 1 gos up to close it, but to vadished. For bopri I searched for him L. looked in boxes in drawers, under the body'd even in my own ̧‚'boots, and all the time I know the madness of
it. It semed as if some piher self dominateding:East and West and rapidly drawing me and compelled, all my movements. Wild delusion followed wild delusion. My life was one long horror,
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"Something black used to follow me every where I never know, what it was, but it had big, luminous upas. Many times friends have anxiously loquired what was the matter when they bard seed me glancing cervossly bicaward. I could not escape the thing but by morphis and cicaine. I took the drug always. The memory of those days makes me .., tremble even zow; bat 1 was never tired then,
my intellectual facoltios were clear, and worked hard the whole time.'
Did you inject the drugs? For reply the mao bared his arms and legs. From the wrists to the shoulders and from the ankles almost to the thighs the limbs 'bora the m rks of the bypodermic needle.
NO.SUDDEN CURE.
RAILWAYS IN CHIBALL
CATC N^KOWLSOY RAILWAY,
Engineering of the zad Sept, has the follow-
Bearer, and already it is possible (if there is no. loss of time on the way or in making con... nection with the steamers), to travel from London to Hongkong in 18 days, and develop. mente are being mids which when completed, will allow the journey to be made lo se days, or even less, Progress is bein; mada with sha Cantos-Kowloon Railway, and a soạwi k-the Cantou-Hank w Railway, which pre stages to the line connecting Hongkong-Kowloos is on the maialand, opposi e Hongkong-with Pokin. A direct branch from the Trans-Siberian Rail way to Pekin would complate the cospection, and make the jurney bitween London and Hongkong pois.ble in the time nextioned In the latest report of the acing British Consul at Canton we are falmed that consirdeliop on the Canton Kowloon Rulw.y, which "f baing built according to ite standard of first. claan. Kuiopian lines, has been proceeding **I used the bypodermic synoge-loved it. steadily for some time, with the result that the Once they took it away from me. Ok, first 30 miles will be ready for traffic tibis would not go through that night again for any month. The liar, when completed to is thing on rasta. "Never, for pity's sake, attempt jarction with the Fritish section at Same to deprive a morphis mariic of bis morphia chuo, will, in its '87),, miles, contain, in
· suddenly, . I was locked in a room, with my cluding terminals, filicon statica and - gwacborant, and it was understood'l shopidsen alevan balls. There biya bron considerable If I could master the craving: Liula did I englotering difficulties to be overcome in the realike diş tremendous `power, Soop it WAS Construction of this, and a very large amount of upon me. Isbricked for oplum or cocaine, bidge-work, to the second district from mile but the degį remisel locked, la my de-
st to mile go, there is a total girder opening of litium smashed the furniture to stoms, tore 3,100 ft. The main bridge over the East River my hair tehardlols ou: by the roots, and at Shaklong is priceeding satisfactorily, "be wrenched back my dails in trying to pull up | foundations being nearly completed, and the the boards of the floor, it was awful beyond delivery and erection of steel-work for the large worda. I waithed in agony and crawled like-spans having commenced. The British section snake My eyes add sous ras, "I' auftored intenso abdominal pals, and 1-bala horriblu thate in my mouth "\
What quantity of myphia and cocalbo Ware you tuning at that time? ?
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Thirty grains of morphin and forty of cocalao every day, but later I took as much as eighty, grafos of cocaine each day, That meant four syringer fall ten or twelve times dayo"
Where on earth did you get it in inch
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of the railway, which is within the British Coo ceision at Kowloon is rapidly approaching.com pletion, and it is expected to form the through corn:ction to Hongkong la June or July, 1901. On the Cinton-lackow Railway progress is being made, and traine and-traffic are now 103- aing to Wosgshak, a market town on the North Rivar, 55 miles by tal from Cantor. Cossime too, however, is practically Enishad to Ying Tak, 90 miles from Cauten, and about one-third of the whole cistance to the boned y.ef the province. Ying Tɩk is a dirriet city of some *Please temimber, the drug maniac is importance, and is op ning of the station the liar, cunning, shifal liar. How did I get will have the effect of bringing placet up the PI visited many West Ead pby.icians, and siver (bran days Learer Canton. Constraction le physicians in other parts of London. They also proceeding, though less energetically, on prescribed for me. I tok the prescription the next 30 or 40 miles, so that ultimately forms away, hed them printed j.and when 1. Hankow will be reached. As that tawa is bad forged the physicians, names the rest was situated on the great River. Yag-the-rail
7 was a forger, but what of th?”1′′
way, will be the masas of'oposing up a large had to get jhe droga. Nothing must stand beamcast of territory to, for iga trade. At pres tween the diag
the dice mailic and t is druge. I love est no fast traios arcus, but a speed of 40 13 my mother, but with honor 1 say my 45 miles in abiained in place by the local trains, mother bad stood between and morphia The company "during the puit Chiario year, when I wanted it, I wou'd have killed her Liego, carried 1,156,466 passtogers, and ro detels-gely-fraud - murder-theangre | crived in parsinger fares and freight 791,391 nothing in the eyes of the victim of morphía.
dollars, an average of 34,500 dollar per
large gathering of: Chin watched the interesting events with est, ¿The team will misit prɔbably on Monday according to the ruso
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ASGER, Hon. Foci and Treas. Hongkong, 18th September, 101, 1614
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB..
SIX-A-SIDE COMEETIT.ONA
MEMBERS desirous of tone in their Competition should send in their aames to the undersigned by a Noon, on MONDAY nex, the 3rd October.
A. G. RAVENHIL
Hon. Secretary, Hoogkong, 29th September, 19ta..! [636
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
(ow, - Yesterday's' preliminary lasts were upon to Canton, Hongkong, Wachuw, chow, Amoy and Swalow. It is matter for regist" that only Cinton and Hongkong 100k part, the other ports cid not send any ripe sentatives to Hongkong. Canton boys were from the Gaston Christian" Dellage, · Nam Mo School, Sai Kwang School and Sut Ban School: --Hongkong-representatives-mura drawn frers various schools. Tas most.sec. cenfel compaiitor was Kwok Shin Yan of C Ellis Kudauria School. This will, be the firm representative: athletic meeting ever bald la. the whole of the Chinese Empire. The mact - ASSAYK" ing takes place in Nacking on the 19th ofE October and the team will leave Hongkong on the 10th of next month. The meeting ishin chur af of Dr. Læder, Gymnastic Director of the Y.M.C.A. Shanghai.
Below are the results of the differant avants competed fɔr yesterdayım
160 YARDS A; AND B ́CLASS.; Kwok Shin Yau immerianza Chau Yim...... Yan Ki Cheung Times: 11) secs.
110 YARES HURDLES A CLASS, Kwok bin Yau
Chan Yist.....
Woog Hong Ch⤠................. Time: 20 sec.
210 YARDS A, AND B. CLISS.; Kwok Shin Yau
3
Hoi Man Falemi 1 Wong Yim
Times: go soci,
440 YARDS A AND B CLVES
Kwok Shiu Yau,
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Chan U Pai.....abicara maqsa Yu Man Chan........................ Time: 65 secs,
-850 YARDS A AND B CLASS.
Ip Ngok Kwotası mammam Claung □ Pul.....
Chan Kai Loong to MI Time: 7m38 150,
HIGH JUMP A ( LABS, Yo Jung Kie 4ft 7ior,
HAMMER TIR.W A CL1BS. Mark Bew Wa 7ft 6ins Coan Mas Kong 66lt vius.
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1p Ab Kok 49ft gina......... THROWI TO THe Shor (11.1bs) A. Class Chow Man Kong agli ih ios............. I Mark Sew Wo 17it.of ins.. So To Yuw, 27ft 4
POLE VAU T.
Yau Ki Cheung
LONG JUMP." Chan Yim 15ft 7 ici Kwok Saiu Chung sqft 5 las......... 1 Lam Yok Hing 14ft 4 ins..................
50 YARDS DASH B.CLASS. Wong Sau Miog indversantophozoa aiz ́ Kwok Châu Chao
Kwik Shin Yan ......... ......... Time 16 sec
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150 YARDS B CLAST" Hui Man Fismamman main' me Wour Sau Nin
Tzui Kin Fair'e mornin Time ¡ 371⁄2 accs, .
HIGH JUMP B CLASS Fung Kai Ming, - 4 ft to ins winni Kwok Skin You I
Mar Nal Sheung 4ft 9 in.
LONG JUMP B'CLASI. Chin' Yũa, 15ft 7. (D!.................. Kwok Shiu Chups, 14ft 5 ina mimi TL.REW.NO THE SHOP (8 LBS) B. CLAIB,
Maik Sew-Wa, 44 ft 3 info@
Ma Nai Sheung, 41 ft o ins............tion 2. 50 To Yew, 35 ft 10 las...
1FPHOON WARDING T
The telegrams, quoted balow, haya- ·kena received from the stands Observatory at the American Consulate Generali Admin Manila, September 1%, 66; p.m.. Channel teclising westward.
Cyclone or Typhoon mear or ovar Baibi
Manila, Toptember 29, 8.45 8.m. Channel, moring W
Cyclann ar Typhoon W. of the Balinlang
Events Coming.
Friday, 37th September.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Clab adop ́l meet? ing, 5.15 p.ny, TYPES AL PUMA DAAR
Uso.. P. Lammert, auction sale of lainitura at No. ay Koston Locke, 2.30pm
Saturday, zit October,
& WILD DAS! FJR OTEUM, month, thus proving that the Chi cas are voi Then was another occasion, I had been slow to take advantage of any arrangements Italian Convent Sale of Wask, to a taken into the country to see what could be which fra mide for improved facilities in tra-Hongkong Jockey Club, ball-yeady mealog, done for me, i was placed under control, barit. villing or carrying goods. It is interest at Hongkong Club Anncze, 12 o'clock noon, was not very stilet, because the house was ing to note that the canstrcction of a track Opening of Kowloon Canton Rallway,
Bat (0 Was some leven giles from a villige tine connecting Hankow, or rather, Was Billah Section, 1.45 pm. Uplum was denied me, I pleaded for it, but in chang, immediately oppaile Hankow, on
| Civ.l Savica Sports, Happy Valley, vilo. With devilish canning I watched and the south bank of the Yangias, was first "Roy Keany -9 p.m.
Boxing at City - Hall. "Bill Lavinkou, waltad. At last an opportunity offered. I dash- advocated by Sir McDonald Stephenson, ed from the house and plunged wildly, madly, and that la every subscgieng schema for a erest the country in the direction of the village. comprehensive system of railways is Chios ir
was madhorribly, hideously med." has occupied a prominent position. The necesis
and fand the chemist's pity for its cateusion to: Faklo is (qonly soldi was thein: It was closed. That ent, and the construction of a dect connection who saw or with Ibs Trany-Siberian Railway, which will
shorten the distance to Europe, caprot be very i at No. 6 Hari Avengi (Kowloon) 7.30 long delayed.
did not காய்
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Monday, and October/yal Italian Convant Sale of Work, no m.D.
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- Sauef Crowa land at Shinkiwan
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