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- DOPE FIENDS. Will Do Almost Anything to Get a "Shot." When St. Louis was being flooded "With counterfeit dollar bills several months ago a young man about 24 years old walked into the office of the United States district attorney in the federal building and told officials that he wanted to make a confession, relates a St. Louis dispatch. He said that he and a former engraver in the United States treasury department at Washington, were living in a houseboat near Carondolet; that his companion had been engaged in manufacturing the bogus banknotes and that he (the informant) had been circulating them throughout the city. He had become conscience striken, he declared, and had decided to tell the whole story and take the punishment. His tale was thoroughly plausible and was told with a wealth of detail that convinced his hearers that he was telling the truth. After the narrative was completed the young man's face took on a look .of agony. He clasped his hands to his stomach and writhed as if in great pain. He explained that he was subject to cramps and the officials had him-removed to a city dispensary, v still apparently undergoing intense suffering. Physicians there administered several injections of morphine and the patient rapidly recovered. When the drug had thoroughly uermeated his svstem the man's ? whole demeanor changed. He seemed to be ecstatically happy. Then he made another confession more I startling than the first. He said Br ; that for six years he had been a morphine addict; that since the stringent I* " Harrison law had gone into effect he had been nnable to obtain a supply, and that the entire story fie had told the federal officials was a pure fabV < * * - .ri , rication, invented in a last desperate eiffort to obtain a "shot" of that & which his body craved with such an iv intensity that all scruples were swept aside. Register as Physician. Thi6 is but one illustration of the lengths to which drug addicts have gone, of the lies they have told, tricks they have planned to get their v(, "dope" since the new drug law became effective March 1. They found to their consternation that the law was rigidly enforced from the day ft was in force, that it provided such aevere punishments that few druggists or physicians had' the temerity Jr to experiment as to whether or not ?|1. it could be made elastic. The supply was cut off as suddenly as if the vicm tims had been placed on a desert island. The Harrison law prohibits all persons from selling or giving away -fcabit forming drugs without a physician's prescription, or under the direct instructions of a physician. The penalty for violation is a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years or both. That doctors, dentists, druggists, vet% erinarians or others who may obtain r Jf". them, the statute provides that they p-.p - shall register at the United States internal revenue office, pay a small license fee and obtain a supply of 100 blanks, which when properly filled out establish their right to purchase , h morphine, cocaine, heroin or any of fe their derivatives for use in their busI Iness. Upon this clause in the statute per. sons addicted to the use of narcotics . seized hungrily at a possible means of circumventing it. Vance J. Higgs, , assistant United States district attorney, to whom was assigned the investigation and prosecution of cases FT\ -r falling under the Harrison act, caught no fewer than 12 addicts in the act of registering as physicians - or pharmacists, continued use of narcotics having warped their judgment, banished fear and left only an overmastering desire for the poison. One of these was a woman who l had been using drugs for 29 years and who in all that time had kept her secret from her family. The > woman is well educated, well read and her family is prominent. She came to the federal building, regis. tered as a, physician and received the necessary blanks, but was detected before she had an opportunity to use any of them. She pleaded guilty in federal court to perjury in the making of a false affidavit and was fined $500. Nearly a dozen other cases of this character are pending. While many drug users have felt that the Harrison law has been a curse, to otners it Has been an untold blessing. Records at the city hospital where more than 300 persons were treated for drug habits in the weeks following the first enforcex ment of the law, show that many patients were discharged as cured, having declared that their craving had entirely disappeared. More remarkable, however, says the Post-Dispatch, are cases which have come under the notice of the federal officials, where will power alone was the instrument of redemption when the helpless victim realized that his drug n/vJ J ?* cuuuea wus were no match for those HOW IT STARTED. ( Chronological Summary of Events ; Leading to Mexican Crisis. March 9?Francisco Villa raided Columbus, X. M. * ] March 15?American punitive ex- < pedition entered Mexico below Columbus. i March 16?Col. Dodd's famous j "flying column" entered Mexico be- j low Machita. ( March 27?Villistas murdered i three Americans and two other for- ] eigners at Minaca and Guerrero. ( March 29?Col. Erwin's detach- j ment rounded up Villistas at San Geronimo, killing 60; ;four Ameri- < can soldiers were wounded. < April 1?Col. Brown's detachment j defeated Villistas at Aguas Calientes, i killing 30. ? April 10?Citizens of three Mexi- ] can towns ambush Howze's detachment, killing 1 American trooper and wounding 2. April 12?Parral citizens and Car- j ranza soldiers attacked Maj. Tomp- i kins's detachment, killing 2 Ameri- < cans and wounding 6; Americans : killed 40 Mexicans. 1 April 12?Carranza requested the < withdrawal of American expedition, t April 13?Maj. Howze and his de- ' tachment reach farthest point south i of any American troops, in sight of < Durango line. 1 April 22?Dodd scattered Villistas i at Temochic, killing at least 2 and \ wounding 4. ] April 29?Carranza General Obre- j gon and American General Scott be- ] gan conference at El Paso. May 5?Bandits raided Glenn ] Springs, Texas, killing 4 Americans. < Mav 10 \Tai T,fln?hnrnp'Q naval- t ry squadron entered Mexico south of ] Marathon, Texas. { May 11?El Paso Obregon-Scott j conference concluded without formal i agreement. June IS?President Wilson order- i ed mobilization of national guard. < June 20?American note replying 1 to Carranza's demand, for withdrawal and threatening Carranza with ! "grave consequences." i June 21?Troopers of the Tenth < United States cavalry ambushed near 1 Carrizal. Mexicans allege 12 or 14 i Americns killed and 17 captured. of the kind minded men charged with i the law's enforcement. i A few weeks after the lid was . clamped down on the sale of narcot- < ics there came to the office of the j revenue officials a woman who is a < graduate pharmacist, married, mem ber of an aristocratic family and strikingly beautiful. ; For four years, unknown to ier husband, she had been taking an average of 20 grains of morphine a day. She registered as a pharmacist, : but it was discovered that she was : playing a ^rick and she was given < the option of taking the cure or be- i ing prosecuted. She refused to be ! treated, fearing that her secret would become known and bring disgrace upon her husband and family. That night the woman went home, and told her husband that she was going to visit a sister who lives in a country town in Missouri. She departed and went to her sister's home, < but instead of remaining there pro- ; ceeded into one of the wildest sec- ; tions of the State, far from human ; habitation. She arranged to send < letters for her husband to her sister, who in turn would post them in her town. Letters from her husband the sister enclosed in another envelope and mailed to the wife. Then, out where the obtaining of any form of drug was an impossibility, the woman who had lied to obtain 1 * J 1. - ! f X 1. . 1. ^ 111 - it wnen in tne city iougnt ner Dattie ? to a finish. She stayed there until ] her craving was gone and then came ] hpme. In April a pale, wan creature, weighing nearly 117 pounds, she returned in perfect health, with ruddy cheeks and weighing 135 ] pounds. Her husband marvelled at ] the change her stay in the country ] had wrought, but never guessed the 1 truth. 1 A man who formerly was an assist- ] ant instructor of chemistry at Cor- < neli University, whose brothers have ( attained eminence, one of them be- ] ing one of the foremost lawyers in ] Philadelphia and another a former r member of congress* from Pennsyl- , vania, was cured of the drug habit ] by an incarceration of three months , in the St. Louis jail, after he had ] been found engaging in the drug ( troffln {r> Cf T.nillC! ' r ii aiiiv^ xxx ut? JUV uiot He was picked up by the police on Morgan street and confessed that while he was an addict himself he also made a handsome profit by buy- ] ing $1 worth of morphine and selling ] half of it for $1 to some other unfor- 1 tunate. He was sentenced to four ( months in jail, but released after he 1 had completed three months of the i term. He emerged a cured man and 1 had gained thirty-two pounds. He 1 had been arrested under an assumed 1 name, but after leaving the jail hunt- ( ed the federal officials, told them his ( right name and family connections and departed for the east to resume his place in society. 1 >,000,000 IX SOUTH FOR SKRYICK. 21,071,076 Able-bodied Men is Total for Whole Country. How many able-bodied citizens of military age have we in the United States? | The bureau of census, while it is jnable to make any estimate of the; proportion who are able-bodied, es-! :imates that the total number of male j citizens ana prospective citizens?, that is, foreign-born persons who have declared their intention to become citizens?18 to 45 years of age, inclusive, is not far from 21,000,000. This -estimate is based on the assumption that there has been an increase of approximately 10 per cent, in the population of the country since the census of 1910. When that census was taken the total number of male citizens and prospective citizens 18 years of age and over but under 16 was 19,183,000. Of this number, 14,224,000 were native whites, 2,557,000 were foreign-born whites who had become naturalized or had ieclared their intention of doing so, 2,053,000 were negroes, and 50,000 were Indians. The number of foreign-born citizens is partially an estimate since the census enumerators were able to obtain information as to citizenship from only about seveneights of the total number of foreignborn males. Native whites thus represent about 74 per cent, of the total, foreign-born whites nearly 15 per cent., negroes nearly 11 per cent., ind Indians about three-tenths of 1 per cent. During the Civil war, when the population of the country, exclusive 3f the seceding States, was less than sne-fourth as great as the present population of the entire United States, the total number of men serving in the federal armies at one time and another was approximately 2,500,000 (due allowance being made for duplicate enlistments, that is, cases in which men enlisted more than once.) The following table gives, by States, the total number of males 18 to 45 years of age enumerated at the census of 1910. The figures in this table include approximately 1,796,000 alien whites and 92,000 Chinese, Japanese and others, together representing about 9 per cent, of the to tal, who would be ineligible for military service. The census bureau has not compiled the numbers of these classes of the population, within the given age limits, who were living in each State in 1910. Taking the country as a whole, however, the probable increase in population between 1910 and 1916 will approximately counter balance the number of alien whites, Chinese, Japanese, etc., included in the figures for 1910, so that these figures may be accepted as roughly representative of the number of male citizens .and prospective citizens 18 to 45 years of age, inclusive, in each State and in the United States in '16. The total number by States follows: Bulk in North. Maine ; 156,449 New Hampshire 93,321 Vermont 76,017 Massachusetts 785,581 Rhode Island : 129,131 Connecticut 266,697 New York 2,223,633 New Jersey 617;013 Pennsylvania 1,842,266 Ohio 1,107,888 fndiana 596,682 Illinois 1,369,910 Michigan .... 634,518, Wisconsin 512,261 Minnesota 505,187 Iowa : 489,826 Missouri 741,180 North Dakota 148,920 South Dakota 143,895 Nebraska 274,507 Kansas 379,730 Total for North 13,094,615 6,006,139 in South. Delaware 46,139 Maryland 279,818 District of Columbia 80,858 Virginia 410,422 West Virginia 281,179 Morth Carolina 401,917 South Carolina 283,490 Georgia 507,688 Florida 177,152 Kentucky 1 469,711 rennessee 434,641 Alabama 414,454 Mississippi 354,133 Arkansas 321,924 Louisiana 347,518 Dklahoma 366,339 rexas 828,756 Total for South 6,006,139 West Has 1,970,322. Montana 126,862 [daho 88,839 Wyoming ' 55,886 Colorado 210.637 ^e^y Mexico 75,371 Arizona 60,915 Jtah 86,oyu Nevada 30,489 Washington 350,746 Dregon 196,165 California 687,822 Total for West 1,970,322 rotal for United States ....21,071,076 I The Clems I SOUTH CAROLINA'S M / B One of the largest and best equi of land. Value of plant over $1, H Every county in South Carolina ] instruction. New and Modern bui B Courses of Study n . Agriculture (8 Courses), Chem|H istry, Mechanical Engineering, H Civil Engineering, Textile EnB gineering, Architectural EnginH eering. * B Four-Weeks Summer Course B in Agriculture. B Four-Weeks Summer Course B in Cotton Grading. B Two-year Course in Textiles. B One-Year Course in AgriculB > (Oct. 10th to June 8th.) I Requirements of I Admission B No student will be admitted to B the Freshman Class who is not B at least 16 years old at the time El of entrance. B An honorable discharge from Rfl the last school or college attendB ed is required. H The college no longer mainB tains a preparatory class. B Details as to scholastic requireB mentfl furnished on application. I Write B Oemson College, 8. C., for Ca I THE CITADEL The Military College of S. C. Announced 'as "Distinguished, Military College" by U. S. War Department. Full courses in Civil Engineering, Sciences, English and Modern Languages. Confers B. S. and C. E. degrees. ; A scholarship worth $300 a year, is vacant from Bamberg county, and will be filled by competitive exami- j nation at the county seat on 11th day of August, 1916. For Necessary information and blanks apply to j COL. O. J. BOND, i The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. j 1785 1910 / COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON South Carolina's Oldest College. 132nd Year Begins September 29. Entrance examinations at all the county seats Friday, July 14, at 9 a. m. Four-year courses lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year pre-medical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is assigned to each county of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities. Expenses moderate. For terms and catalogue address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. University of South Carolina Entrance Examinations. Entrance examinations to the University of South Carolina will be held ~ ? ? * . - n m J by the County superintendent 01 ucation at the county court house Friday, July 14th, 1916. The University offers varied courses of study in science, literature, history, law and business. The expenses are moderate and mafty opportunies for self-support are af-aaioqo9 jo jaqranu aSaui v 'pap-ioj ships are available. Graduates of colleges in this State receive free tuition in all courses except in the School of Law. For full particulars j write to the PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, S. C. 7-5. , NOTICE. State of South Carolina?County of ; Bamberg. To all whom it may concern, please j take notice: That the undersigned has lost a ! certificate of the capital stock of the j Bamberg Banking Company, of Bam- j berg, S. C., said certificate being No. 195, and also a certificate of the capi- ! tal stock of the Cotton Oil Company, | of Bamberg, S. C., said certificate be- j ing No. 72, and application will be ! made to said Bank and to said Cotton , Oil Company on August 15th, 1915, j for a duplicate certificate of each. 6-27. MRS. SALLIE R. OWENS. NOTICE. j The reunion of company G, 1st S. | C. V. (on account of the State cam-j paign meeting, which takes place in j Bamberg on the 27th of July) will meeet Thursday, August 3rd, 1916, at Bethesda church. All persons are | cordially invited to attend with well I filled baskets. All Confederate soldiers are expected. We will have good speaking. Committees?On music: G. W. Folk, J. H. Fender and J. H. Pearson; on grounds: Robert Morris, J. H. Mitchell and Ola J. Zeigler. Respectfully, J. C. COPELAND, C. R. CLAYTON, J. B. HUNTER, Committee. MISS G. E. JORDAN, Sec. and Treas. 7-27. RUB-MY-TISM: Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, * Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally and externally. Price 25c. on Agriculture SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANI pped Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges 800,000. Over 120 teachers, officers and ai Represented. 13 Degree Courses. 4 Short ( ildings, equipment and sanitation. Religious Influences , The College contributes to the salaries of four resident ministers v who conduct divine services and v Eastoral work among the cadets in J.'?ar, arracks. There is a flourishing J ! Sunday School and Y. M. C. A. J? "J with two salaried Secretaries. A irf $75,000 Y. M. C. A. Building was completed January 1916. Cost M.ejC The cost for any of the twelve mzti regular four year courses or the sillP.s Two Year Texti le course is $149.10 8?ss.1( ' per session. This amount covers ' uniforms, board, room, heat, light water, laundry and all fees ex- arshi cept tuition. Tuition is $40.00 ad- Th ditional, to those who are able to . pay. ^ _ . . to st The cost of the One-Year Agn- 14 cultural Course is $122.05. This * amount covers the same items as com< are listed above. Cred The cofct of the Four-Weeks nat*( Summer Courses is $19.00. seat. T SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 20,191& at once to W. M. 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