They secrete opium in all sorts of wonderful places, and so worry the custom-house officers dreadfully.

" Urn Burial, which is Browne's masterpiece, shows his power as a prose poet of the "inevitable hour": "There is no antidote against the opium of time...

Observed at the same time that I should be very glad to make some arrangement with the Portuguese for excluding opium from their Indian ports; but I feared the present state of our relations with Portugal was not favourable for our doing so.

That was what Logotheti said, and it comforted Mr. Feist, who recognised the opium at once; all that afternoon and through all the next morning he told himself that he was to have another of those cigarettes, and perhaps two, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when Logotheti had said that he would come again.

"It's the last day you'll sell opium to white men," insisted Dave, "for, as soon as I'm through here I'm going to the police station to inform against you.

"Now, see here, Chow," warned Dave, "this is the last day you sell opium for white men to smoke!"

At the advice of a certain person he is sending me to San Diego under the pretext of looking after his property, but in reality so that he may be left to smoke his opium with complete liberty.

of the same Treaty, by which the transit-dues are regulated; the transit-dues on it will be arranged as the Chinese Government see fit; nor, in future revisions of the Tariff, is the rule of revision to be applied to opium as to other goods.'

The government regulates the extent of cultivation according to the state of the market and the stock of opium on hand.

In his capacity as special constable he keeps an eagle eye upon the departing river steamers and the passengers purposing to travel in them, his idea being to detect them in the act of attempting to export opium without a permit, one of the deadly sins.

The passion for cock-fighting can well be termed a national vice; but the practice may have been introduced by the Spaniards, or the Mexicans who accompanied them, as, in a like manner, the habit of smoking opium among the Chinese, which has become a national curse, was first introduced by the English.

" "Your word of honor that you had never smoked opium before to-day would help to ease my mind a whole lot," replied Darrin.

The Imaum of Muscat carries on a large trade in opium between the Red Sea and China.

It will occur to you to ask, why did I not release myself from the horrors of opium by leaving it off or diminishing it?

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

Patridge, as a young boy, was on board a vessel carrying opium along the coasts of China, when in 1842 she and another engaged in the same trade were wrecked on the island of Formosa, and both crews175 Bengalis and 13 white men in allwere captured by the natives and taken to the capital, Tai-Wan-Foo.