Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1904

A RECENT press dispatch from Richmond, Va., tells of havoc being caused among the youth in that place by intemperance in one of its most deadly forms. It says:—

Despite the passage of a stringent law by the recent legislature forbidding the sale of cocaine to any except physicians, dentists, and druggists, the police this morning reported that hundreds of boys are being ruined by the use of the drug, and that it is a common sight to see the hillsides dotted with young victims insensible from indulgence in the poison. Two boys were before the court this morning. They were perfect wrecks from the habit, the craving for cocaine having driven them to steal to get it.