It is not like the tid' which a great boro rushing up the bays and rivers, and pressing steadily forward in-its roaring, dashing, maddened career. In the cities the proportion is rodely estimated by the natives one-half or seven-tenths of the adult males, and some towns are wholly under the sway of the narcotic. I mention one fact for which I can witness. Twenty years ago the farmers, who are dependent on their annual harvest and have little ready money, were almost entirely exempt from the ravages of opin now the evil is slowly making headway in the agricultural districts. In many sections of the country one or two dens are found in every hamlet. Another fearful factor in the trade is
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