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SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 1. 1892. HE WAS A FIEND. PI FOB ICM-PAGES A IM1D Tm inn tm IfilRP Iran SOT ivl AJS ini Confession of a Physician Who Was a Victim of Morphine. E)yTDKI TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE IN 8T.

LOUIS 8UFFEBING EEOM THE HABIT. jy ui SALES OF FINEST BALTIMORE MERCHANT SLAUGHTER TEN MY A PARALYZER FOR COMPETITION! A FORTUNE SACRIFICED! FOR TEN BAYS ONLY. FOR TEN BAYS ONEY $20, $18 and $15 Merchant Tailor $9.85 lH i A $30 $25 and $20 Finest Bal- timore Merchant Tailor I JL i JJ Prince Alberts, Cutaways and Sacks, Clay and Samoni Worsteds, English Tibbets, French Wales, Mixtures, Pin Checks, etc. Baltimore Suits, Cas- etc. All tlje latest rn "A a I 5 simeres, orsteds, Cheviots, Corkscrews, Diagonals, Ban- nockburn Cheviots, Tweeds, patterns and shades.

This is no sky-rocket talk. If you have been misled: by the glaring advertisements of some of our competitors, do not countfus in among them, as everything we advertise we adhere to. Call on us during the next ten days and you will not regret it. for every reader to bear the following in mind If you have no desire to save money do not read any further. If you have, read on.

Beginning to-morrow morning at o'clock, we will show the citizens of St. Louis and vicinity how much cheaper they can supply themselves with the finest Baltimore Tailor-Made Clothing of us than of any other establishment in the West. A XTell-Known West End Doctor Who Has Had a Terrible Battle With the "Fiend" and Conquered, Telia the Story of His Experience That Others Slay Profit by It. This Is a story of personal experience, the experience of a man who has just come from nnder the blackest shadow that can fall across a human pathway. It was told to a Sdkdat Post-Dispatch reporter lor a noble purpose.

It Is Intended to be a beacon-light of hope and practical encouragement to the most hopeless people known on this earth, perhaps, the slaves of the morphine habit. The brave and honest man who lifts the veil from such a horrid period In his own life story Is a self-rescued "morphine fiend." It may surprise some who read this to be told In the same breath that he Is also a prominent West End physician, but the fact Is not a strange one, despite Us startling seeming. A member of the Medlco-Chlrurglcal Society of St. Louis, a Fellow of the -St. Louis Academy of Medicine, a member of.

the American Medical Association, and consulting surgeon to various institutions in and out of this city, these memberships and official positions are held by the man who tells this dory. t. Yet for twelve years at least this man has been a 'morphine fiend, the secret slave of the hypodermic syringe. Up to six weeks ago he was a "fiend," and it is only within the past week that he has dared to say he as a free man, and to welcome the glad rush of pride that came with those words. During these past six weeks the narrator of this story has been, to use his own words, "in hell, and through the valley of the shadow of death." He grappled with the awful habit of which he was a victim, alone, save for the loving care of a devoted wife and son, who watched over him during his voluntary struggle.

No "specific" for the cure of the "morphine habit" was enlisted in the fight, and no "institution" tor such cures sheltered the desperate man making the fight. He went into it with all his dependence placed on his own will-power alone, and on the dread knowledge of the hopeless servitude that awaited him in the event of failure. He came out, pale, shattered, but victorious, and his story is told now for the benefit of others who are still helpless and despairing under the morphine 6 pell. It was told to the writer in the physician's study last night, after a meeting with the physician's wife and son, who knew that the story was to be given to the Sunday Post-Dispatch for publication. On the wife's face as she glanced now and then at her husband there rested a great Joy, the pure Joy akin to that felt by angels over a saved soul.

On the son's face there was a look of filial pride, and it thrilled in his voice also whenever he found opportunity to sneak to his father. Both wife and son withdrew, however, when Over BailiK No. Such Bargains Were Ever Offered in St. Louis At Such Prices Goods Will Not Last Long. Early Caller Gets the First Choice.

pecial Bargains lor Ten Days in Boys and iluniar Suits, S2.5D Bays' SuitsHundreds of Eiy3.ES, $1,013, tn tliE Finest Baltimore Tailor-Made at $15. Bargains in Every Department. MEN'S PANTS, from a good wearing Pants at 75 cents to the finest Baltimore Tailor-Made at $7.50. BOYS' PANTS, from 25 cents to the finest Baltimore Tailor-Made at $5. SHOES Men's $3.50 Calf Shoes, $2.50 Ladies $3.00 Dongola Button Shoes, $2.

II ATS Sold elsewhere for $1.90 at $1.50 $3 Derbys at $2 choice Children's Headgear, 25 cents to $1.50. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS $1.25 Neglige Shirts, with laundered collars and cuff 75c Silk-Striped French Flannel and Madras Shirts, $1.25 to $1.75 Fancy Balbriggan Underwear, 35c to 50c $1.25 Fancy Lisle Thread Underwear, 75a We have engaged an extra force of salesmen to see customers properly waited on. See our great window exhibition. It will open your eyes. FREE-Base Ball Outfits or Patent Rattlers.

SUITS! The Suits. along the avenue were measured very minutely. Prof. Mendenhall perfected his Instrument, and continued his experiments while he was President of Kose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Ind. Prof Mendenhall Is now Superintendent of ttnta.

ni nt 111 tilirVAIT Ill i tolffft. A deep interest in the work of earthquake Electrical Notes. In Its recent annual report the Bell Telephone Co. Is put down as owning 512,407 tele-' phones, connecting with 788 exchanges and. branches, and controlling 266,456 miles of wire, over which are 600,000,000 messages per year.

Ten additional lines have been strung between New York and Philadelphia during past year. Thomas A. Kfllson is at present In New Jersey looking after the possible development mining propery by the Introduction of his magnetic ore separator. The employment of celluloid In place of lead for storage battery plates Is a new departure, which, with other advantages, will make a great saving of weight in the accumulators. A new system of duplex telegraphy has recently been devised which is both duplex and dlplex In Its nature.

The latest novelties brought out by the Edison Co. are a street-car controlling switch embodying new features, and a generator whose field-colls can be removed In spools for repair. The City Council of Bt. Etlenne, France, has decided to equip tne 18, OCX) silk and ribbon looms of the place with electric motor power. The root of the rice plant has been discovered to be a satisfactory substance for Incandescent lamp filaments.

As examples of recent telephone achievements. It Is stated that a band playing on the streets of London was heard by telephone in Paris, and that people In Nottingham, England, listened to a sermon preached at Christ Church, Birmingham, fifty-one miles away. That there still Is a field for Invention la life-saving fenders for electric carsisevt denced by the fact that C. M. Kyan.

a young boy in Boston, was recently crushed and killed nnder one of thee so-called "life-savers Two new styles of arc lamps have been put tne market during the past week which are intended specially for use tn rooms with low ceilings and in other places where the height of the old style has proved Inconvenient. In Dresden an electric fire engine, using a power of 6.0U0 volts, has been constructed, whose pump is capable of thro win it lt cubic feet of water per second. With a three-quarter-inch nozzle It gives a height of throw 100 feet. AVENUE. 70S, 707! ,70 711, 713 5 Tricots, Silk io Select Fiom Confirmation tn exhibits, and many have achieved distinction there.

Miss Sadie Waters of St. Louis, the accomplished daughter of the late Mr. Wm. H. Waters, who has heretofore exhibited exclusively in the Farls Salon, has this year sent a beautiful little nude to Munich, where It will be exhibited in June.

Nearly all the artists whose works will be shown here this fall have applied for space in the Art Department of the World's Fait in Chicago. EARTHQUAKE MEASUBEMEHT. Seismometers and Beelsters for Recording Observations. Written for the Sukdat Post-Dispatch. A scientific Instrument, the more seldom needed the better, In the opinion of the great majority of people, is the seismometer, or earthquake meter.

This strange Instrument, however, has been called Into use In California within the past week, and the attention with which, observers at all stations have been watching It, revives Interest in It. It is an automatlo machine which records the exact time when the earth jars, the duration of the shock, the directions in which travels, and the extent of the vibration. The essential principle of the seismometer Is a mass of metal In a state of 'neutral In plain words it is a chunk of Iron, suspended in air from a point or hook very near Its center of srravlty. For this purpose a square piece of metal with a hollow space in the upper half and extending from the top side to the center line, is used. The point of suspension is at the bottom of the hollow space, and therefore very near to the center of gravity.

The welch is then susceptible to the very slightest jars, and makes a record of them in this way: A needle, attached to the bottom of the mass by means of a string, reaches the table on which the instrument Is placed, and there marks on a cylinder the measurements of the A clock is connected with the cylinder and registers the time when the shock was recorded. All seismometers are of this kind, but there are differences in details, for Instance in the adjustment of the cylinder and the clock. In 1885 ITol. T. C.

Mendenhall. at that time Electrical Professor In the Signal Service Bureau at Washington, made experiments with a seismometer which he bad used in Japan during bis professorship In the Imperial University at Toklo. The instrument was adjusted In the laboratory and the effects of the vibration of a truck thuuderlng 509 the of on of It n7 I The LargestrSitoe and Clothing Establishment in St. Louis. Open evenings until vp; Saturdays until p.

m. Telephone 2840. Send for New Illustrated Catalogue. Mail orders for this sale, to receive prompt attention, must be accompanied by cash, money order or draft. suits Gruetzner, whose FalstafT pictures and canvases of monasterlal life and custom are famous throughout the world.

Karl Hellqulst of Berlin, Jacobldes of Munich, and Kray, who died a few years ago, are entirely new to St. Iouis, while old and famous in Europe. The two Kaulbachs, F. A. and Hermann, will be seen here for the first time.

F. A. is the nephew and Hermann the son of the celebrated Wllhelm Kaulbach, who has made the name Illustrious in the artist world. Knaus and Vautler are known to the people of St. Louis, although but few of their works have ever bsen exhibited here.

Mr. Jonn T. Davis has a fine Knaus In his which he loaned to the Exposition on a former occasion. In Knaus is seen the master or the Duessel-dorf school of to day, and its most illustrious personator. Liezen? Mayer, Llndenschmidt and Molitor are prominent Munich artists; Gabriel Max' sweet-faced feminine types have been so often reproduced In cheap prints that It will be a perfect treat to see this master In his original works.

Toby Kosenthal, the San Francisco boy, who makes his home abroad now, will be represented with a late canvas also F. Von Uhdt, whose "Last Supper" created a sensation for several weeks at the Museum of Fine Arts. Among the Italian artists there will be Andreottl. a splendid and prolific painter, whose works have never been seen in 8t. Louis.

The only Andreottl here, "Old Wine and Young Love," hangs In the spacious drawing-room of Mr. Adolphus Busch, and was purchashed by him last year while on his annual tour abroad. It Is a- magnificent picture, thorouzhly Italian, with Us rich and glowMng tints and typical southern faces. K. V.

Blas ideal heads are also favorite types for the pnotographer and cheap print pub-. Usher and are more or less known. Laurentl portrays Italian life with a warmth and depth that engages the whole sympathy of his audience. "Frons Antmi Interpres" is his best work and tells irmsslonate tale of love and sorrow without words or Interpretation. Silvio Botta of Venice might be called the Italian "Chase," so exquisite and powerful are his marines.

What Herr Neumann will bring to this city is practically a small, but superior portion of the Munich international exposition of last year, and St. Louis people will have a chance thus to view a collection of paintings which European and American tourists travel far and wide to see. The Munich annual International exhibit Is fast becoming the rival of the Salon and the Champs de Mars in Paris, and the artists admitted there vie in rank with the most celebrated French painters of the day. Berlin is always largely represented at the Munich exhibits. Alma-Tadema and Leigh-ton send their works, and French artists go to Munich, where they refuse to patronize the Berlin expositions.

American painters are eagerly seeking recognition at the Munich BrfV'' rffisXtf "iHrfctJ Tailor FRANKLTO the story came to be told, and then with an almost pathetic confidence of sympathy and appreciative understanding the physician bettan his narration of his life and death struggle with the morphine bablt. THE PHYSICIAN'S 8TOKT. "The only condition I make," he said, "is that the Post-Dispatch does not use mv name. I nave consented to give my personal experience as a victim of the morphine habit solely Decause Detleve it wm prove of Incal culable benefit In encouraging other mor phine victims to try and break the awful chains which bind them in a wretched slavery. are 20.000 morphine fiends In the city of St.

Louis. This statement Is not guesswork on my part, because I have had peculiar opportunities as a physician for gaining inrormatlon on this subject, and I have improved those opportunities. My figures are susceptible of proof. Of these 20,000 morphine slaves the majority are women, and almost without exception the victims of the habit are taken from the higher classes of 6ocloty, the ranks of that class whose members have been reared In luxury, and who have the greatest temptation of opportunity and means for courting the luxurious side of life, the avoidance of pain, of mental trouble, of excessive fatigue, or of inconvenience from slight illnesses. "What, or rather who, is responsible for these 20,000 morphine victims in St.

Louis? The physician and the druggist, most largely. In saying this. I do not charge my professional brethren with anything that I do not blame myself for equally. The free use of the hypodermic syringe in administering morphine as a quick cure for headaches, as a relief from great tatlgue, as a false stimulant in cases of slight nervous prostration, caused perhaps by the stralnof a society life, is more common with physicians than is generally known. It Is done In all good faith, and often conscientiously accompanied by warnings of the dangers of morphine, but it is in numberless cases the beginning of the awful morphine habit.

The nerve-craving for morphine is established, and from that day begins the dreadful wreck of a life which can only be made In all Its hopeless horror by morphine Indulgence. This wreck, begun by the physician in his family practice, is continued by the druggist In his family sales. It Is foolish to argue that druggists are forbidden by law to sell morphine except on a doctor's prescription. That they do sell it otherwise, and to customers whom they know to be morphine fiends, is a fact beyond all dispute, sometimes it Is a plain issue with a druggist whether he shall refuse to sell a customer morphine, and therefore lose that customer forever, or sell the morphine sub-rosa and keep tha customer. The druggist naturally reasons that he Is not responsible for his customer being a morphine fiend, and that if he refuses to sell the ins competitor win not oe so conscientious, and he will thereby lose a valuable customer, while the morphine victim gets his morphine all the same.

The result of such reasoning 13 very apt to be that the morphine applicant's regular druggist will sell him the drug, under a faint protest. And so the morphine fiend's chains are riveted upon hlin. In exceedingly rare cases, disappointments, discouragements, or disasters in life, will cause a man or woman to voluntarily become a morphine fiend. But there are ninety-nine involuntary victims to one of these self -elected, and It is for their benefit that I con sent to tell my own experience as a slave to me morpnine naoit. HOW HE STARTER.

"About fifteen years ago, while engaged In xiie practice oi my proiession wmcn necessitated irregular habits of life, loss of sleep, I became subject to frequent and violent attacks of sick headache. In those davs. especially, there was nothing by which such attacks could be promptly relieved, except norpuiue una cnioroioim. io innale ciiloro-form generally left me In a nauseated, nros- trated condition, which was almost as bad as tne neaaacnes. so, on one occasion, while in the office of a medical friend, one of those frightful headaches came upon me and I ap pealed 10 iiiui ior eometning to relieve me.

he replied, 'I will relieve you in nve minutes with a mis ne aid, giving me perfect ease in a few minutes in this way. I had never before taken a dose of morphine. "After this, however, for several months. whenever I got these headaches I would net my menu to give me a nypoaermic injection ot morphine. Hut.

finally, not wishing to trouble him. I began to Klve them to mvself. I knew well the dangers of trifling with the orug. out i counted on my wiu-power, on my caution and on my professional Knowledge of ine suojeci, to prevent my going too far. 1 or a year or two I would take the hypoder- a rales only when these severe headaches came upon me, never during this time increas- ng tne ordinary dose or one-eigmn ot a grain.

But after the first two years, I found myself not only Increasing the dose to one-fourth of a grain, hut aside from taking It lor the headaches I began to take the hypodermics at night to make me sleep. I would of ten come home at bed time after a hard day's work, too tired to sleep at once, and fearing that I might he called up again In a few hours I would take enough morphine hypodermically to put me to sleep quickly. "All this time I knew full well that this was how others iiad fallen slaves to the habit of taklntr morphine, stlil I would not see my own danger. Hut In one more year I found to my utter dismay that 1 had become enslaved. The knowledge came upon me almost before I attempted to break the habit, tout when, after that, 1 made effort after effort to quit the use of the drug and found I could not, I had to face the awful fact that I was a confirmed morphine fiend.

"Once In Its clutches, It seemed Impossible to get away. I realized that sooner or later It must ruin my life and that it was already casting a gloom over the lives of my loved ones, and I tried desperately time and again to break the awful spell. But each time the demon would seem to grin a ghastly grin at me, and throw its iron arms around me and say: You may struggle as you will, but I've got you. HIS SUFFERINGS. After these efforts 1 would sink down exhausted and hopeless, and in order to get myself In fit condition to attend to my patients, i would resort again to the use of morphine.

My friends began to grow cold toward me, my family was In despair and almost heartbroken even then, anu, under the Influence of the horrible secret use of the hypodermic syringe, I avoided everyone as mnch as possible, even when at home keeping to my own room Instead of talking with my wife and son, as I had once loved to do. Toward the last, when suddenly called to attend a patient. It would take me an hour to 'fire up' with morphine so that I would be in fit condition. My face had the awful, waxy pallor characteristic of the morphine flena, my eyes the tell-tale, glaze, with the pupils contracted almost to the size of a pin point, and I began to suffer from the wild, Insane morphine dreams. Wjr blood was so vitiated that when I held my hands downward tor any length of time they would turn purple.

My thighs, where Ialwnys used the hypodermic syringe, became so thick-skinned that I frequently broke a needle-point In trying to take an injection, and so sore that the slightest touch on them would make me cry out with pain. All this time my mental anguish over my enslaved condition rendered my life almost a hell on earth. "At last, after repeated failures, I mad up my mind to crush the bablt or ale in the at lay, in hell, and In the dark valley of the shadow of death. "Then my strength began to return. 'God alone can understand and appreciate the Joy that comes Into a morphine victim's heart at such a moment.

It Is the moment of sure victory, of blessed deliverance, for with returning strength there comes no craving for the drug, whose poison has been driven from the body and the mind with such supreme agony. You have safely crossed the dreadful chasm of the 'morphine collapse, the time-measured chain of your slavery Is thereby broken, you stin live, and you are gaining strength, every hour takes you farther away from your captivity, the world begins to look as it did before you became a morphine fiend. 1 "Three weeks have passed since I felt that first glow of returning health. Strlchnlne in limited doses as a spinal stimulant, milk-punch twice a day, and latelv some solid food, have been the only features of my treatment. I am now strong enough to go down town for a few hours each day without fatigue.

"1 am cured of the morphine habit. "I tell my story to lead others to the same cure. The slavery of morphine can be broken. I have proved It, despite the decision of my own profession, which says that after six years Indulgence in morphine, cure of the habit is hopeless." A TREAT IN AST. Two Chambers of the Exposition Given Tip to German and Italian Painters.

With the coming season the management of the Exposition will depart from the rule of procuring all Its works of art through one source, by surrendering two rooms to Herr H. Neumann ot Munich, who was in the city, recently to make necessary arrangement for the exhibition of paintings by German and Italian artists. The larger of these two rooms will be filled with about seventy-five canvases of the most prominent artists of Germany, while the smaller one will be given over to the Italian school of the present aay. The exhibits In these two rooms will be essentially modern, for nearly all the painters are alive and in their prime to-day. The German exhibits will contain works from such artists as the two Ach-enbachs of Daesseldorf and Artz of the Hague, C.

Becker, who is the President of the Art Academy of Berlin and the greatest historical painter of the age; Boecklln of Jurlch and Balsch of Carlsrune. Bernlnger and JDlei of Munich, and Delregver and tempt. This resolution was taken Just six weeks ago. Without at all preparing my system as J. should have done that of a patient's I first prayed fervently to Almighty God to give me strength for my fight, and then I deliberately went Into It.

I knew that to break the habit as suddenly as I Intended to do might probably kill me, but I knew from my previous rallures with the 'tapering off' method that I had to break off once and forever, and 1 preferred death to such a slavery. I had never taken anything but morphine, and that hypodermically, so I knew that If I could ever break away from the syringe the hardest of all things to ao, however and live forty-eight hours without it, I would be safe so far as the habit was concerned. I began on a Monday night, and for the first time In ten years went to bed without a hypodermic. All night I rolled and tossed, not sleeping a wink, By morning I was nearly In a state of collapse and had to take several hypodermics. 1 had been taking on an average about twenty grains of morphine a day, hypodermically.

or about five grains at a dose, for several years, one-eighth of a grain being the usual dose for one unaccustomed to It. Twenty grains is enough to kill forty men not used to the drug. I cut my allowance flown to three grains a day, and continued this for one week, suffering the agonies of the damned. "At the end of that time I realized that practically I was no freer from the morphine habit than when I had started In the effort to break off. My son, who had stayed home from his business to be with me, also became disheartened and would cry as he witnessed nay apparently useless sufferings.

On Tuesday of the second week. I handed him my hypodermic syringe. 'God helping me, my I said, 'I will never use it "The toiiowinsr dav came the Inevitable 1-coUapse, the dread of all the victims of the morphine naoit. ine Epasmuuiu ncwuu ui the legs, which is a spinal symptom of the withdrawal of morphine, was so pronounced In my case that my knees would fly up to my breast, striking it with considerable violence. The base of my brain seemed on tire, and I became delirious under the dreadful suffering.

My devoted wife, the best that God ever blessed a man with, thought I was dying and had two physicians brought to my bedside in haste. Under their care I pulled through the first forty-eight hours without morphine. VICTORT AT I.AST. "The most graphic pen on earth could not describe my mental and physical sufferings of the two weeks thereatter. Only the slaves of morphine are condemned to such torture.

Unable, voluntarily, to move a finger, with a mind abnormally acute in capacity for such anguish of soul and body, with the black horror over me that after all I might have to go back into tne guastly laverjr of morphine,.