an with the
healthful food, and simple remedies, that nature only requires.
With such commercial nostrums the thoughtless mother too often
paves the way for her offspring to a life of toxic-slavery by
creating a systemic condition, which, in maturer years, develops
an abnormal craving, or appetite, for narcotics and stimulants.
Follow this little victim of nursery malpractice through the
imitative age, and you will discover in him the cigarette
smoker, the tippler, the self-abased youth, and later, the man
whose life is shadowed with the curse of baneful appetite.

"Ask the druggist, and the saloon keeper, why they dispense
deadly poisons so freely to old and young, and they will tell
you the law permits it; a sad commentary!

"Converted men relapse into evil ways through coquetting with
sin; and cured inebriates relapse to drink, and drugs, through
the use of proprietary medicines, with which the domestic market
is flooded. Tonics, compounds, nerve remedies, bitters,
vitalizers, appetizers, balsams, pectorals and kindred nostrums
contain, with few exceptions, from 7 to 50 per cent. of alcohol,
or opium in varying quantities, each preponderating in kind, as
the effect is designed to be stimulating, or sedative. The
active principle of some of the best known catarrh remedies is
cocaine, and a few manufacturers are honest enough to so
announce on the labels covering their goods; more do not, and
leave the victims to discover the truth after they have paid the
penalty of ignorance, and developed the cocaine habit. Wholesale
legislation, as well as vigorous education, is needed along
these lines, and while considering means of betterment, the
reputable citizen, the clergyman, and others of good moral
repute, whose names are so generally used to herald the efficacy
of so-called remedial inventions, should not be overlooked for
ethical attention.

"For the information of those of our readers, who are not
familiar with the nature and use of toxic drugs, we here refer
briefly to the prominent characteristics of a few most
dangerously potent for evil, and seductive in kind.

OPIUM AND MORPHINE:--"Gum opium, the dried milky exudate from
the green capsules of the white poppy, and its
product--morphine--are the most reliable drugs known for the
relief of pain. The dose of