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Exposing flADF theWorlds FII Al I Over TAA AV Traffic in UUrL Wickedest LVlLtheGlobe I UJJAY This Week: Morphine Maniacs, BOUDOIR VILLAINY "The trafficking doctor' patient are mainly women, whose addiction he encourage by consoling them with the idea that they mutt have the drug to lire happily. He itep in Women Victims of Trafficking Doctors, and Crooked Druggists where the respectable doctor leave off and hi existence is baneful smirch on the medical profession." to Weakness i-4if fill Who Pander UNFLINCHING A Shot in the Arm to Chase Away "th bug that crawl under the skin." Les Fastidious Addicts Use a Safety and an Eye-dropper, Which Is Apt Leave a Bad Scar. Bruce Grant, tuthor of this terie of articles exposing the modern drug traffic, is a brilliant and versatile journalist who has made a penetrating study of bis, theme. Other installments of his expose will be printed here from week to week. SINCE the coming- of prohibition narcotic drug addiction has spread like wildfire throughout the Unit-ea States.

At the present time opium and its derivatives circulate in America almost as freely sugar. The- evil has struck home to the ery itself. Dr. Herman Wouters, chief of the Federal Narcotic Division in New England, only recently smashed the Newport drujf ring in a series of raids a ring which supplied numerous resorts in Newport, R. the playground of Uncle Sam's aailors of the Atlantic fleet.

These dope resorts are now dotted along a street which used to be serried with saloons. Authorities say numerous causes contribute to this new and widespread drus addiction the ease whfch V- desired to soothe I I mr uin vinipnr nam -iiv -s --2 mk ihiimi The physician first Ye Jw makes the injec- i 9 1 tions which brinp fi such perfect relief. and then the pa- w'' 1 tient, ofttimes un Yk 4', VZ' I pain longer, con- I WfeV'. AGAINST HER WILL Mrs. Patricia Murphy Mann (Above) Fell into Addiction, According to a Report Her Mother Made to the Denver Narcotic Bureau, Through the Habit of Her Husband of Giving Her Morphine.

smart folk of society and the fast-moving intelligentsia. No longer ii this business in the hands of the Chinese, but is conducted by the larger opium rings. While morphine has a soothing ef- feet, much like' the mother opium, heroin is a powerful stimulant. Ita "effect lasts some two hours, and the addict finds himself "on high," his mind keenly alert, his muscles imbued with a false strength and his being infused with tha elixir of life. Cocaine has much the same effect, but is a powerful incitement to abnor mal emotional conditions.

Heroin has claim ed some talented victims. Wallace Reid, of movie fame, died of it Jeanne Eagels, the beautiful and gifted ac tress of the dramatic stage, succumbed to liquid heroin and crystals of the drug were found in her brain after an autopsy by the New York City toxi-cologist. The extremes to which drug addiction can drive its victims is shown in the case of pretty Antoinette Brewster Ruggles, 22-year-old daughter of the Rev. George W. Brewster, of Fresno, Cal.

The young woman was found some time ago in a comatose condition in a fashionable church in Washington, D. where she had taken a large dose of a sleeping potion. For five days she was semi-conscious in a hospital and during that time mumbled something about drug rings and a murder. However, when she regained her senses she denied knowledge of the things she had said and declared she only wanted to die. She did attempt to kill herself on twe later occasions, but each time she was frustrated.

She was in a Washington hospital for a long time under observation. Her case is only one of many that show the devastating effects of dope on the human mind and! body. drug lrresistiblf, I KJ- he soon become I HE FLOATED AWAY Av The Late Baron Willy von Droste, HE FLOATED AWAY The Late Baron Willy von Droste, a wrv). I humanity. It plays the paradoxical roles of a soother of pain and a provoker of torture.

Even to the addict opium is equivocal. The alluring promise of the "opium honeymoon'' that first brief period when the heart and mind and soul and body are simultaneously stimulated only serves to carry the unforunate into the final stages agony, coma and death. It is interesting to study the different effects of drugs. Although the all-embracing term "narcotics' is employed, the dope used by ad-dicta today is divided into two classes narcotics and nervines. Referring to the dictionary, one finds the word "narcotic" Is denned as "the quality of causing narcosis or stupor." "Nervine" i3 defined as "any medicine acting on the nerves." Opium and its derivatives have a narcotic action, while cocaine an alkaloid of the coca bush provokes an excitation of the nervous system.

Heroin, which is derived from morphine and is known as dia-detyl morphine, has much the same effect as cocaine and therefore is greatly in demand. It is the only one of the opium derivatives which might be considered a nervine, although all narcotics, if employed in weak and transient doses, have an exciting and tonic, action npon the nervous system. Beginning with opium itself the prepared gum from the poppy we find a poison with a strange affinity for the cerebral coating, upon which it has an analgestic or pain deadening action. It is the medicament par excellence for pain. It not only soothes but replaces suffering with a state of quietude, and it produces sleep through appeasing suffering.

It has a like action upon the sympathetic nervous system. In many cases narcotic addiction statf following a medical treatment I I German Nobleman, in His Sensational Absinthe Dance, Portreying the Visions Evoked by the Wormwood Drag. Prolonged Dope-Taking in Private Life Eventually Led to the Baron' Death. He Posed for This Double Exposure Photo with Rosalinda Fuller, American Actress, Before He Became Confirmed Addict. Morphine has been called "a poison for degenerate superiors." It is the intoxicant chosen by the emotional, the imaginative, the contemplative individual, attracting the cultivated classes of society more than the rank and file of the people.

At first the intoxication is entirely within. The addict isolates himself, seeks silence, and takes delight in it. His creative imagination is stimulated, as in the beginning of alcoholic intoxication, but it remains, however, entirely The New Mode ef the Long Skirt Will Facilitate This Form of Smuggling Dope into Prisons. Ortst BrtUla BUM, ftuemd. SSME-' In 1 Yx 1 unproductive.

This is the "opium honeymoon," and the world is roseate. But his state lasts only two or three weeks, and then the victim does not inject the dope for enjoyment, but in order not to suffer. This is the begin, ning of the end. Drug addiction, which may follow in the trail of illicit booze, also comes from a new and "smart" custom in the Western World opium smoking. The smoking of opium is not considered as harmful as the addiction to manufactured drugs, but soon the pleasurable effects of this vice wear off and a stiffer kick is desired.

Then morphine. Then heroin or cocaine. Then the madhouse or the grave. In New York City alone there are numerous opium divans to use a polite term for dens and they are fitted out in extravagant fashion, and patronized by the "do-anything-once" Peddler. This and Other Method Devised by Drug Trafficker Were Described by the Author 'n Previous Article.

One DRUGGED SLEEP Emerging from a Comatose Condition after Lying for 5 Days in a Washington, D. Hospital, This Young Woman Identified Herself a Antoinetto Brewster Ruggles, Daughter of the Rev. George J. Ruggles, of California. She Had Taken a Large Dose of a Hypnotic Preparation.

HEROIN Reproduction of DID IT the Duchess of Rutland's Drawing of the late Jeanne Eagel, Actress, Whose Death Was Attributed to Drink. When an Autopsy Was Performed, the White Crystals of the Drug Were Found in Her Brain. an addict. It is then that he seeks out the trafficking doctor, as his reputable physician will no longer prescribe for him. This trafficking doctor, who preys upon the weaknesses of drug addicts, manages to get the drug through connivance with the unscrupulous druggist, and makes a fairly good living injecting his "shots" at five dollars the needleful.

He is to be found. mostly in the theatrical districts, and his "patients" are mainly women, whose addiction he encourages by consoling them with the idea that they must now have the drug to live happily. He steps in where the reputable doctor leaves off and his existence is a baneful smirch on the medical profession. However, those who fall victims to morphine are born "morphine-maniacs," medical men say. They are preordained, because of physical or mental defectiveness, to the use of the drug.

Once it is given them, they feel that this is the panacea for which they have long sought and addiction is inevitable. The accidental morphine addict, victim of a therapeutic intoxication, will learn at an opportune time to free himself from his grievous habit, doc tor ay. Cowrllfct, 1131. UtsruUoasl fMtur tarries. a if I.

If IS id Is a re fy to Id at iff iff re te iff I re al to. rw he i KM in 4 he fr 1 I JiT11 DRUGS AREA xhy-B -J- Showing How a "bang" of Dope Can Be Coneealed in a Cigarette 11 a Popular Device with Street Showing How a "bang" of Dope Can Be Coneealed in a Cigarette -a Popular Device with Street narcotics can be obtained; the fact that some liquors sold as containing alcohol in reality derive their kick from drugs notably heroin; that many, craving a stimulant, would rather take a chance with narcotics than bad liquor: that the after-effects, or hangover, from poison booze are so terrible that drinkers need a stiff "pick-me-up" generally herion or cocaine; that public indignation is far more aroused by liquor selling than by drue selling violations. Whatever the contributing factors, there is no denying that the aftereffects of drugs are more baneful than those of liquor. A man becomes a drug addict in ten days a drunkard in ten years. He may drink and live to a ripe old age, but once "on the dope" his end is reckoned by a few years.

Opium, like fire, is an excellent servant, out a cruel master. It is at once a boon to science and curse to Method ef Smuggling Narcotic into the United State Concealing Them in the Bottom of a Wooden Chair..