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. - tap, ot "tw-w-4fi -tw.'w- r-wwspjuwy r,T r The Commoner. OUNE 3, 1904. -; 13 . Morphine and Opium Fiends. Officials of the public hospitals in New. York say the drug habit is in creasing at an alarming rate there. The use of morphine particularly is growing out of bounds. Morphine, the physicians say, is destructive to the morals as well as" the physical health. ."When a patient admits the constant use of the drug he puts a badge "liar" on his breast. The doctor familiar with the vagaries of users of this drug will never take a statement from one of them at par. One of the favorite hallucinations is that relatives are striving' to swindle them out of an im aginary estate, usually running up in the millions. Opium users are given to this peculiar form of mania also. It is from professional observations that the phrase "What have you been smoking?" originated. Pittsburg Dis patch. Annoy j ng to High Toned Gamblers New York city is confronted by a dire calamity. Richard Canfield, the most aristocratic professional gam bler on earth and owner of the most sumptuous and refined gambling house ever conceived by man, announces that ho will sell his entire property and move t6 Europe, owing to perse cutions on the part of the .prosecuting officers and the legislature of New (York. When he quits there will be no gambling house suitable for the truly refined millionaire who does not wish to meet the common one-come-seven gambler. Some of the young men of the best families in New York will have to either reform or go to Europe. Bloomington (111.) Bulletin. , Living Ahead of Pixy Day. Of all the weaknesses that man is lieir to none is more universal than the deficit habit, and few are as capa ble of adding to the discomforts of life. Not only is the deficit a problem in the life of the workingman, but men in high positions government employes who have generous salaries are forever living with a deficit star ing them in the face. They do not spend more than they make, but they simply spend ft before they receive it. Man seems naturally to fall into the habit of living a week if he is paid by the week or a month if he is paid by the month ahead of his means. He is very unnecessarily al ways pinched for cash, and whether it be his grocer or baker or the various men with whom he deals, he must en deavor to get accommodations until pay day. Baltimore Herald. Wise Young Mrs. Torkins. "Doesn't your husband care enough for you to quit smoking?" asked the caller who doesn't mind starting trou ble. "I think he does," answered Mrs. Torkins; "and I care enough for him not to ask him to." Washington Star. MaJking Novel Claim. In the list of the reasons which the republicans are to give for urging the election of Mr. Roosevelt this year the Springfield Union- includes this one: "The ugly ulcer of corruption has been boldly cut put of the post office department" And whose cor ruption was it that was so boldly cut out? Did it not begin and flourish when Charles Emory Smith and Perry S. Heath were paying off the political Don't Scold. Irritability is a nervous affection. Strengthen the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine. Sleep better, cat better, work better, feel better, and be better. Sold jpn guarantee. Balcoa it errea for poetal. ' VkHzlm Hxowii Oo.! Elkhart, InO. obligations which Mark Hanna con tracted in electing a republican pres ident? This is the first time, wo be lieve, that a political party has ap pealed for support on tho ground that it has punished a few of its own thieves. Hartford (Conn.) Times. The Mystery of tho Ba.by. Wash a baby clean and dress him up real pretty and he will resist all advances with tho most superlative crossness, but let him eat molasses, gingerbread and fool around tho coal hod for half an hour, and he will nes tle his dear little curly head closo up to your clean shirt bosom and bo just the cunningest little rascal in all tho world. Durango (Colo.) Democrat. Striking Close to the Tip. Massachusetts is going to try an extension of the prohibition of graft ing. The legislature has passed a bill pro viding that any agent or employe who receives a gift or gratuity with tho understanding that he shall act in any particular manner in relation to his employer's business shall be pun ished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment. Tho bill also makes the giving of such gratuity or prom ising to give it an offense, to which a like penalty is attached. No definite conception of tho extent to which tho practice aimed at by tho bill is carried on is possible, because the transactions indicated are con ducted in the utmost privacy and witl' respect to private affairs, but that it is very great is shown by tho fact alone that sufficient complaint has been made to cause tho passage of a law against these sub rosa contracts. It is stated that the act probably covers the cases of butlers and other domestic servants who have under standings with tradesmen from whom employers purchase hotel and house hold supplies. It probably does not reach tho prac tice of giving or receiving tips, though a reasonably broad interpretation of the law might, it would seem, send it that far. A tip is given to an em ploye to get him to attend fully to his business, and since he is an employe his business is his employer's busi ness. But if the law does not reach the tip, it suggests that the time may be near at hand when an evil of which every traveler complains will receive legislative attention. Omaha World-Herald. Vacation R.eading There are certain things you will not forget to take with you when you go to the country for a vacation; but unless you are specially reminded of it; you may not remember that. Be sides your fishing rod, your tennis racquet, your golf sticks, and such aids to your summer studies, you should not fail to put in a few favor ite volumes. There should be few, possibly the fewer the better, if the little company be well chosen. But do not leave yourself entire depen dent upon the chance library of a country hotel. Who does not remem ber being indoors on some rainy day in the country, with a longing for a really good book? So, in addition to tho lighter fiction already spoken of, it will be wise to take also one or two of the volumes that are inexhaustible treasures; and yet are well known to you, so that they may be taken up or put aside at will without especial care to find just where you last were read ing. For this purpose a volume of a favorite poet can hardly be improved upon, whether you prefer Tennyson, Longfellow, Lowell, Aldrich, or tho Quaker poet, whose "Snow-Bound" should prove delightfully refreshing on a warm day. If you have not already a favorite among tho singers, choose a singlo volume edition of any standnrd poet, and it will not bo atrango if you re turn from your summer's outing in possession of a now friend a friend with whom you will hold many a qulot chat in winter evenings all your Hfo long. St Nicholas. A Thousand Answer. Guard Henry Ncwitt, who is sta tionad at the north door of the main entrance of tho Administration build ing at tho World's fair, belioves that ho has brokon another record. The record broken was not in any events at the Olympic games. In fact, Ncwitt believes that work in the sporting con test of tho Olympic games would bo child's .play compared with tho stren uous act ho lias performed. Newitt's watch is from 8 in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and by actual count, kept during that time, ho answered just 1,375 ques tions. He knows tho count is accur ate, because he kept a little indicator in the palm of his right hand during the entire time he was on duty. He thinks that if anything ho may have missed recording some of tho ques tions, as at times they came so thick and fast that frequently he was ob liged to answer them in bunches of five. Newitt's companion, Guard Hock, who is stationed across tho arch, about fifteen feet distant, to guard tho south door, kept no count of the ques tions directed to him, but ho Is sure that he answered as many, if not more, than did Nowitt. The detail which tho two guards at tho Administration entrance have Is the terror of the guards. Before the exposition opened it was considered a snap. Now, however, it Ss considered tho most trying detail that a guard can hnvo, and after the gaurds on duty there are relieved they are so ex hausted that oven tho PIko has no at tractions for them, and they prefer to coquet with the downy feathers for tho rest of their off time. St. Louis Republic. His Title to Office. "I don't see that I can do anything for you," said tho senator from the iar west to his caller. "I have no recollection of you as a party worker or as a man of prominence in "any way." "You haven't!" exclaimed the appli cant for a position, indignantly. "Why, darn it, senator, I've been hung in effigy more times than any man in tho state!" Philadelphia Public Ledger. Beyond Him. "See that colored man wrinkling his brow over tho book?" "Yes; he can't read it at all." "Just making a bluff that he's edu cated, eh?" "O, no; he's educated, but that's a negro dialect story." Philadelphia Ledger. Pair of Plaintiffs, "See here," exclaimed tho angry man, "I wish you would muzzle that dog of yours at night His barking keeps my baby awake." "I was just going to request you to muzzle your baby' rejoined his neigh bor. "His nightly howling annoys my dog." Exchange. On the Other Ha.nd. "Of course," remarked the very young man who knows it all. 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