Newspaper Page Text
THU MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH; SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 0, 1908
FIGHTING THE
goodly p«r
_ j« ox uio arug are peoplo
of wealth and position, who aeldom. If
ever, except In the most extraordinary
Sfttee, lieu re in the annals of police «ta-
>urt. Police official*,
ollee reporters know,
y than any other
Just how wmtr the
pnoret mil la practiced by the affluent
tlona <
appear 1
alum workers .
perhaps more
lassos of people.
>#er*t evil |* pnu^__
people of the communities In which the
Government Authority States
There Are 6000,000 Users
of the Drug
IN PITIABLE PLIGHT IS
HE WHO FORMS THE HABIT * ,b *“
Data Difficult To Gccure Because Goodly
Per Cent of Users Are Those of Wealth
And Position—Secret Evil la Practiced
By the Affluent to a Surprising Ex
tent—100,000 Fiends In Chicago—How
the “Dope" Is Administered—Effects of
Wonderful Drug Described by Famous
Surgeon—Victim Soon Loses Self-Re
spect—Sensations of Effects Described.
CHICAGO. Dec. 5.—Six million people
In this country. It is estimated by proba
bly the best statistical nutlmrlty In the
United States, are users of cocaine. The
authority is Dr. Lyman P. Kebler, chief
of the drug laboratory of the department
of agriculture at Washington. Through
the medium of this department figures
have been obtained recently from all sec
tions of the country, and It is on the re
ports of officials and investigators fami
liar with conditions in their various lo
calities that this appblling estimate Is
The’ difficulty in procuring strictly ac
curate data as to tho extent of the evil
most closely guarded secrets are common
gossip among those to whom such facLn
are known and by them safeguarded.
100,000 Fiends In Chicago.
Ths conservatism of the estimate Is as-1
sured by the fact that the figures obtain-
■ ' -i ri.i. !n U-- n;ili:n m ■ ■ '
Ration were given by a high police offi
cial whose estimate is very much smaller
I than that ■■AMrifliiflMalMriMaflta
_ . h si
....— doctors who, in offi
cial and semi-official capacity. ‘
anee or
DR. FARNHAM
SPECIALIST
Free
Consultation!
Free
Examination!
When you go to Dr. Farnham, you
And out your troubles, no guess. The
Dr. takes time to examine you.
No Drug Bills to Pay.
, - Telephone 930.
Treatment Reasonable.
Even the poorest peoplo can have
the best treatment because It is with
in their reach.
Nervous, Troubles
Are you growing weak and nervous?
Are you easily excited?
Do you have sharp pains In chest,
head and over heart?
Do you have blind, dlxsy spells?
Do you have black specks before
your eyes?
Do you have hot flashes?
Have you a bad taste In morning?
Do you get numb and tingle?
See Dr. Farnham and get those worn
out nerves built up. Tou are bound to
get worse and In time go on to com
plete collapse or nervous prostration,
Dr. Famham's new treatment of med
icines and electrical massage will
soothe the aching nerves and put now
life Into the worn out system.
Stomach Troubles.
Do you fssl a weight In stomach af
ter meals?
Have you a burning In pit ol
>etomach?
Do you have fullnesa In stomach?
Doss your heart palpitate?
Do you have belching of gas?
gives a thorough examination and If
you can be cured ha will surely euro
you.
Diseases of Women.'
Do you havs pains low down In
back?
Are you week and nervous?
Have you ovarian neuralgia?
Have you displacements?
Dr. Famham's treatment will relieve
and cure you and save you from a
serious operation.
HEMORRHOIDS OR PILE8.
Cured without th* use of the knife.
Dr. Farnham guarantees a cure and
you do not have to lay off three or four
weeks and go to hospital. Not neces
sary to lose any time from your work.
FISTULA
Cured without a serious operation. No
knife, no chloroform, no serious opera
tion. no painful operation.
Diseases of Men.
Special attention given to these dis.
eases. Dr. Farnham cures where others
fail. Spedflc blood poison eursd to
stay cured.
Dr. FARNHAn
MACON, GA„
568 Cherry St.
reason to take cognisance of the condi
tions.
l>r. L. Blake Baldwin, city physician,
estimates that there are 100.000 un«rs of
“coke” In this city alone. Police Inspec
tor Edward McCann. In charge of what
has been for years one of the most vl-
Iclous districts of Chicago, and formerly
captain of the Twenty-second street po
lice precinct, the most notorious in the
city, places his estimate considerably
lower than Dr. Baldwin's. Hut the dis
crepancy occurs in the classification, not
In the actual extent In the use of "dope"
In Chicago. Dr. Baldwin, for Instance,
places users of morphine and smokcro of
opium in practically the same category
as "sniffers" of "flake." Inspector Mc
Cann classifies the "dope fiends" who use
cocaine separately from those who take
morphine or "hit the pipe."
Under the regime of inspector McCann
the rat holes of perdition that made the
Desplalnes street district morally malo-
dorous are steadily being rl©©n*d nut. In
the seven months of Mr. McCann's su
pervision of the district he estimates tlmt
the greater proportion of the habttuea of
underground opium dens, of vormln-
lnfested shacks and crime-producing hov
els have been driven from their former
haunts. But even with this record of ac
complishment In the matter of cleaning
up the district the extent to whleh-'co-
celne Itself Is still used Is indicated by
the fuct tlmt In a very recent month the
fines assessed at the, Desplalnes street
branch of tho municipal court In the case
of cocaine fiends amounted to $23,000.
Get Drug In Indiana.
Dr. Baldwin, and his assistant. Dr.
John J. Mahoney, and the chief investi
gator of the city physician's office, De
tective Harry' I,. Cullett. have been pur
suing a quiet Investigation during recent
months friendly with, snd simultan
eous to. a general inquiry being made by
the state board of health and tho state
J board of pharmacy. The report of the
findings of this lnaulry 1s to be mado |
public very shortly, and will Indicate
conditions In vogue In states adjacent to.
[Illinois where there are no cocaine laws !
{■filch will, at least, prove surprising.
■These Investigators, as well as tho*'-.
of the police force, have discovered, for !
Instance, that when It becomes Impossl- ;
hie through the most strict vlgllsnco on |
tho part of police and other watchers for;
the habitue to procure the drug in Chi-1
cago. all that is necessary is for a group ;
of them—and there Is a free masonry i
among them which usunlly makes pno|
known to the other—-to club together,
send one of their members to Hammond.
Ind.. und there procure the 'flake" In
any quantity dealred.
The police are continually on the watch
for peddlers of the little white drug, for
druggists who aell It and for so-called
doctorK who advertise such remedies as
"Dr. Gray's Catarrh Cure." which is said
by Dr. Baldwin to be composed of
acetanllld und cocaine In equal parts.
In the "black belt" of Chlcngo, In the
district from Sixteenth to Thirty-ninth
atreot. Officer Cullett claims that his in
vestigations. continuing over a period ol
about two years, with exceptional activi
ty during the paat two or three months.
Indicates that one out of every five of
the colored people of the district Is a co
caine user.
The extremes to which users of the
drug will go In order to get it. and the
free masonry that makes one user the
slave of nnother In trouble Is best exem
plified In the expediency made use of to
smuggle the little white flakes through
prison bars for the satisfaction of an In
carcerated victim. At auch populous
stations as Harrison street or Desplalnes
street, for Instance, the drug has bpcnj
smuggled to users by their friends on
outside through such mediums as LI
strawberry pie, In the top crust of which
a “flake, or small paper tablet of the
drug has been Inserted so carefully aa to
“flake, or small paper tablet of the
„.jg has been Inserted so carefully os to
almost defy detection except at the hands
of tho prisoner, who Is hungrily looking
for smuggled relief In some secret form.
Bananas also are used In tho same way.
ths skin being lifted up and tho dust of
ifully placed In the
Hide “Flake” In Shoe*.
Another expedient resorted to Is used
by women: women users deprived of the
drug being the most rampant In demand
ing it. For their succor, a common
means of smuggling the drug Into prison
cells is for a self-sacrificing confederate
to supply herself with a portion of the
“dope,” store It In a secret compartment
of her high-heeled shoes, and have her
self arrested. Once Inside the women'r
wnrd and unobserved It Is a matter of
but a moment to unscrew the plug In the
shoe heel, which holda the cocaine, bring
It forth and surreptitiously slip It to the
suffering “fiend."
Such method* as these are only an
Illustration of the means resorted to al
most dally to supply the drug to users
under arrest Every one of the Instances
mentioned has actually occurrod and has
been detected frequently.
The most common manner of taking
the drug Is by blowing It through a glass
tube extending from the mouth to the
nostrils. A small portion of the flake Is
placed in the end of this tube. Tho other
end Is Inserted In the mouth, tho user
gives a short puff and experiences a
sensation as of sneezing when the .pow
der comes In contact with the dellcato
memhranea of the nostrils. Btlll anothor|
common
ko risk any of It being wasted by plnchfl
Ing It between he thumb and finger, and
thus sniffing It through ho nostrils. Yet
another way la by scattering* It on cotton
and placing It under the upper lip. Still
another way Is to Inject it Into tho eyej
down the throat or Into a broken artery.
Dope In Severed Arteries.
P Only recently the city physician had a
very severe case of a negro woman, a
hiibltu.il user of the drug, who died,a* a
result of Its use. who usually took It
through a knife Incision In tho small
arteries of her wrist and arms. From
these cuts ulcerated sores developed, nnd
from this eventually the woman died.
Taking the drug through arterial Incis
ions is a very common form and one I
which Invariably results In the user
contracting ulcerated xpres. There ls|
said to ho a negro who Infests,the vicini
ty of Twenty-sixth place and Dearbon
street who makes a good living by In
jecting the cocaine Into the arteries of
users by means of a syringe. Ilia pr1eo|
Is said by the police Investigators to bo
two syringe shots for a nickel.
There ls .no drug sold which yields a
better profit to the-unscrupuloue vendor
than cocaine. Moat of the peddlera of
the drug are themselves victims of Its
use, hut there are many unscrupulous
druggists and doctors whom the lure of
money Induces to engage In its sale. Be
tween the wholesaler and the eventual
seller of the "flake," which Is the name
bv which the paper tablet selling ordina
rily at 25 cents, passed from hand taj
hand In the street, la known by thJ
"fiends." the money Invested Is multi
plied three or four times. _
Illinois, hs well as New York and sev
eral other stntrs. recently has passed a
law making It a felony to tell cocaine.
S hHHt when prescribed by a reputable!
'Inn. In some states the law rro-[
the repetition of thep rescriptlon.
Tn this and other ways tho fight against
the “coke fiends" Is gathering momentum
dav by day. m
It Is not so long ago that the dlscor-L
ery of cocaine as a new anaesthetic was
frat announced. Then It was helled with
slight by members of the medical pro
fession. The dingers of chloroform and
ether were to bo done away with for
ever; the terrors of morphine could no
longer he. Today the same physicians
are banded together to ntop the cocaine
fig 11, Stllers Hard to Catch,
I In el tie.* such as New York. Chlcaero,
Boston. Philadelphia. Ran Francisco. 8t.
Louis and In practically every city of
also throughout tho country there Is a
number of men who sell cocaine all day
lorg for a living. Try na they mav. the
police very rarely succeed In catching I
anv of them. They *rc too clev*-r.
The usual way of do
Without a word the one
mine. knowing the ropes.L. — I
exact change In the hand* ef a men who
haa It to sell. He knows hett-r than to
ask for It; he wouldn't ret It If ha did.
Bat if he pays out the money and ons- ■■■
vlnog* the peddler by the proper sign of tho
that ho Is all right ho gets a little yellow ■■■■
lpaper slip In return or a small raper-
oovered glass vial, the •• —
or 26 -
Pure Whiskies
Personally Guaranteed
“Ipledge my word that I never have, and never will, offer a drop
of ivhiskey for sale that is not goodtenough for medicinal use. ”
President.'
Prompt Shipment is our specialty—-our system is perfect. We
are prepared for the Holiday rush—your orders will be filled and
forwarded on first train in a plain, sealed package.
“Ask the Revenue Officer”
PRICE LIST
Corn *
n _ _ Gallon Four
K-ye Bottle Quarts
Winkles $2.60 $
Rose's 3.40
Rose’s Purity 4.00 4.25
Double R 4.00
Rose’s Constitution 6.50 6.00
Gallon
Bottle
Rose’s Mountain Dew $2.60
Rose’s Blue Ridge 2.70
Rose’s Sweet Mash 3.00
Rose’s ATRO
Rose’s Reserve Stock 4.00
1 Gal. Bottle
No. 2 Port
1 Gal. Bottle 4 Qts.
$2.00 $2.50
2.50
3.10
ia)
2.00
2.50
0
2.50
3.10
Wines and Brandies
Scuppemong (North Carolina)
Rose’s Virginia Apple Brandy $3.00
Rose’sVery Choice Old Virginia Brandy 4.00
Rose’s Pure Peach Brandy 3.00
Rose’sVery Choice Old Peach Brandy 4.00
Four
Quarto
$
3.00
3.25
3.40
4.25
4 Qts.
2,60
$3.60
4.25
3.60
4.26
Write for Complete Price List of Whiskies, Wines, Brandies and other Liquors. Express Charges Prepaid only to Towns reached by Southern
Express Co. Please sire your Street and Number so that Packages will be delivered to your Home.
Chattanooga, Tenn. R. M. ROSE CO. JacksonviUe,Florida
RANDOLPH ROSE, President
ORDER FROM NEAREST POINT
■■MakvUWMaar
tailing for ft will and th** gloss vials at
from 12 50 U> H M MrU. flips ran.
• “a very str.e'1 portion of ths “flaks."
h usually has been mixed with soma
other Ingredient, such as salt The glass
vials usunly contain a less adulterated
quality of the drug. BtlU other ways of
pcrldllng It or* by means of pill boxeai
filled with tocsins.
If h« hasn't had hla dose very recently
the "fl*nd" can’t wait. Not on# In a
hundred can walk away more than a I
doten step# before he—or she—must take
a sly sniff of ths "flaks.” Arrest them
as they may, the police'have not been
able to break up this traffic, although In
spector McCann Is making great Inroads
against It |
Cocaine Wonderful Drug.L
Cocaine Is a merciful drug, properly
used. Through Its use os an anaesthetic l
the patient may submit to the knife or
any other surgical Instrument with per
fect calmness and without the slightest
pain, though he may watch the entire
story of a famous French
surgeon. Ollier, who had to undergo the
operation of laparotomy, or cutting out a
2& S Ql& 1
sS'ru&v&i. gas
under ether and not to have known It"
He died in six hours and the surgeon
whoso knife was to blame broke down
Ut,l, lKm , t worry," mid Ollier, just before
he lapsed Into corns. "We have to moke
mistake* In pur business." . .
Cocaine leeks like ftn*» salt, but It la
much lighter. One | Innli l inlumi s iM
i culler tickling sensation
ft Is hard to —.
nearest a cocaine user can describe It It
to say that It makes him reel like sneer
Bit after a few sniff* . that feeling
paseee off. BHoifastisa follow*—not th«i
Intoxication produced by liquor, hut *
feeling ef utter reeourctfulnes*. of keen
wit and well-defined understanding,
which for tho few hours ths effect of
the cocaine lasts makes the subject
actually think that he Is master ef ths
situation, and the strangest pert of It Is
that for a time lie Is.
He doe*n r t stAgger or reel; he walkL
lightly, with bead erect and eyes bright
— • ir. Kvery faculty Is alert: *
time lie Is.
i r t stAgger or i
and'c!ear.” h Rvefy faculty*!* alert; there
Is iietnlrg of the drunkard about him.
He laughs; ho weeps: he tells funny sto
ries; he hoists; he tell* you his troubles.
His wit Is nimble. . His Ideas arejojt-
cnl; hla tongue Is eloquent; he Is wide
awake—and that Is the fatal call Of co
caine.
Those who ere addicted, to It cannot
sleep. They whip themselves up to a
point where the human organ ten *
stand the pace. They go wit!
apd think tli
cannot make
cannot
tha victim Imagines
ittle
Day and night are alike to him—or her.
by and night are alike to him
MPdoea not feel ths need of sleep; ev
ery faculty la working rhythmically. He
Is ready far anything—hard wee* or
amusement or mental effort. He has put
all these things behind him—psln. hun
ger, fatigue thirst, the desire for rest—
little reminders of nature that our bsdla*
cannot stand everything
I If he Is a confirmed "fiend" four days
finds the reaction setting In. Wherever
he Is he Inelsnlly topples down iota
sleep. He sleeps like a dead man: fire
a cannen off at his ear and he would no*
wnk© up. You could roll him off a
pftriples; It would make no difference.
Nature make* th** effort and finally he
Ifsr rescued. He wskee up: hie eves art
glssed: his mind Is all twisted; he eon-
r.ot think at Mil. Abused nerve* torment I
him. lie twitches and lumps. He knows
on© relief—a .good drink. .
■ One gulp sf whlskv nr thro© glasses of
k» r will r©vlv© a "coke" fled. Once
burs his mind la his own. Ho con laugh
and sing
Um# his _
hours. Then he falls asleep «ki—— I
. Onco more liquor can revive him. Two
drinks of whisky or half a doxen beers
will do tho trick, but his time Is short.
Unless he can get more cocaine he must
go through the tortures of the damned—
and every cooalae user knows where to
;et mpre of It. In eplte of the law., |
A few more sniffs and he la good for a
;oupI# of days again. For to cants'
vorth of ths'drug he can go twlc© the
time that a man can go without feeling
the need of food or reet. Ho he keeps
up—from liquor to cocaine, and back to
liquor again. It can’t last forever. Ths
end Is sure to come.
toon Loses Self-Respect.
He loses all self-respect Notions of
decency and honesty take wing. lie neg
lects his person and his clothing. Very
often hs becomes a thief, because the co
caine has stolen Itno his brain.
Many of the brightest minds In the
world have been victims of opium and
morphine without the world realising It
But no such luck for the cocaine fiend.
Ho is bound to betray himself In the loan
of seif-respect and (he desire to shine
that the drug Instills. The polios know
this and make good use of their knowl-
Pickpockets, burglars, forgers and
othar criminals who— work rtiuir— *1
high grade of skill
cocaine. A f-w ©nil
dare were ha In hla sober
irglar lake* hi* whiff of
Jtackiss a difficult "Job;" Jhej
forger steadies his hand when he ad
duplicating checks of the millionaire]
Police officials of Chicago, as wilM
all other of ths larger cities, trace tha
beginning of s shoplifter's r •
Invariably to Uic time when
■BUM.
| KJ . 1*
world. i
’ the drug i
_ and
confident's In ...
—— ___._J|aks the chance that
he never would dare were ho In his W
■Tbs burglar Uke* his wl
he tBeneo a difficult "Joh.
his hand wh*n he atarts
- cks of ths millionaire,
trials ef Chicago, as well as
^f the larger elites, tree# ths
beginning of a shoplifter's carter almost
bly to the time when she first
It before I
gan to taka "coks." Human vultures
who prey upon Ignorance or unsophlitlca-
tlon most frequently Instill the necessary
recklessness Into their victims by Insid
ious doping with the little white powder.
The condition of th© "dope fiend" de
prived of his dally portion of his favorite
drug Is abjectly pitiable. In the case of
mala users sf cocaine arrested In Chicago
and confined behind the bars it is rarely
that their craving Is pandtred to. Borne-
tfmMmikmtfissof vnmmmsm|||
ctlur
them to fact the Judge In the court room,
they become so weak they cannot stand.
Then) as a mercy, the police surgeon may
proscribe for each a little of his accus
tomed "dope." The men yell with delight;
the woman weep with Joy. It means Ilfs
again to them. Their eyes taka on a nor
mal aspeot; they cease to stagger; they
look Uke everyday men and women.
The most harrowing of tne evil effects
lies In the fact that a large percentage of
the yletlma are mere children when (
acquire the habit. Bovs at school *r© in
duced to taka ths drug by companions
who have obtained It through eoras of ths
?£ r rS. 1 •ourees *nd have found Its effect*
thrilling. After a few sniffs the boy or
ilrl very quickly becomes a fiend. Tha
next slop Is usually ths reformatory or
I the house of correction. From these.
«t*p :
■houH ({■MRiflmipmip
through tha Invidious effects of the parols
syatsm, they ar© turned book upon the i
■iiMM, but
community, not
of vie© and degeneracy.
Before Its extent was realized the evil
had obtained a startling foothold through
out this country, particularly In the larg
er cities. Now, on tv©ry hand there are
being made strenuous rfforta fo combat
the evil end check He »pread. Physicians
nnd nurses, police sffMtls and charily
workers nre united In a solid front that
In i* M tailing the aele of the drug and
effecting permanent cures among Its vo
taries. In Chicago, outside of tn* police
exertions and ths t~—‘- •—* * -
MB d.
active roots
. when the reaction sets |n, Is most
abjectly pitiable, they arc given ik small
quantity of "dope." Morphine frequently
In uned to palliate the affects of coeelne,
giving the patient the opportunity of "ta
pering off.' r But very frequently no aid Is
given tho patient, who Is compelled, willy-
nilly, to hreak from the use of the drug.
In frequent raids made during the seven
months or so that th© cocaine law has
br**n In effect In Illinois, the police have
seized thousands of dollars' worth of tho
drug and of nostrums advertised under
different names, but which In reality de
trend for their effect upon tho major por
tion of the drug which they contain.
Describee His Btnsatlons.
One victim, a recent prisoner In one of htfng made'strenuous 'Efforts “to’combat
the larger p«He# stations, said of the ef- **^ “ —••
feet upon lilnisolf: "I was floating on «
■oft cloud that moved through a glowing
B redis*. The floors were of gold and
• windows of rubles. Ivery busheg
Sprouted leave* of dsllcat* silver; a mill
ion birds filled th* air with their music;
servants ran around with trayi of fond
snd drink; marble fountains tinkled with
sweet sounds. Th© air was filled with
th© perfume of violets; diamond dust
hung over nia—and then a policeman ar
rested me."
Th©. men and women prisoners often
scream for their portion of the drug. Al
most Invariably they are refused In the
rases of some of them. In th* more ad
vanced fl|pgas, before It comes time for
sxsrtlons and the' efforts Instigated "by
government officials, those who come
onntact with cocaine
g those.
most frequently In
eases are eharky workers. Among t
Miss Douglas of tks Juvenile court. p.__
ably has had th* miwt extensive expe
rience. Her work Is with the boys and
iris of the congested districts ef ths
■■■MMlMnapd thieves,
11 .
criminals end di
strip! ton ■■■
of Ui«
flu.i- everywhere Ute trail
wbite serpsnL
