{102a} A pikul of raw opium is worth about 600 dollars (120 pounds).

If, on the other hand, as is often the case, the vomiting is excessive, a large mustard poultice should be placed over the stomach, and a grain of solid opium swallowed in the form of a pill, for the purpose of stopping it.

It consists of different plant-juices, and contains, especially, a little opium.

And from a squat denwhere on a translucent placard in the dull window flickered the words "Foreign Earth," and the guttering door-lantern hinted "As You Like It"there came a sweet, insidious, potent smell that seemed more poisonous than mere opium.

Tariff Revision was suggested as one method, the taxation of native opium as another.

When this has been done, a grain of pure opium may be given.

You look on us to-day As lions look on antelopes,their heaven-appointed prey; You know you have no lawful right to lands that you possess; You gained them all through violence, or lying and finesse; Your cursed opium alone, despite our prayers and tears, Has ruined millions of our race for more than two score years,

Whist has spread an universal opium over the whole nation; it makes courtiers and patriots sit down to the same pack of cards.

He quoted statistics to them, proved that foreign opium was smoked by only one-third of one per cent of the population of China, and by the calm sanity of his views made much of their agitation seem unnecessary.