The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-16

too many and ;hen-yen shee will have
claimed her own.
Turning TO the negro that lay at the
Harvard graduates side and who was
grooming 10 himself as he scraped the
thick sticky opium from n playing card
at his side and rolled IL into pin for the
pipe. my friend spoke 10 him. for he knew
him also I'm fact he knows them all. for
II Is his business tn know every smoker in
Chinatown and te watch them, arrest
them when they steal ar stay their hands
f,y locking them up when yen shee sug-
gests suicide or murder
How much you smoking a. day now.
Tom he asked
oh" said the negro, with happy
laugh. "oniy ~ cents WORTH. Done kaint
pay 20 no mo Used to smoke 70 bits.
yes dollar dollar hairs worth day.
ka!nt do Il no mo- no how even II could
pay use sryin' To quit" and he lit the
piii and lay hack ON his bed Of boards
while the yen shee Kissed IN the pipe bowl
ana the smoke cells frightened around him
and he irifted away In the hug % the
black smoke snake 20 oblivion.
IN the next bunk lay Dec, the Chinese
" and keeper ~ the place. withered ard
yellow ~ piece ~ parchment and smok~
Ing his tenth pipe OF the night. More
mummy than man wondered ho~ many
rnen and women he had watched, in his
Ina career AZ an opium den keeper fail
frurs, their high estate. made in the image
az their God. down down through the
black smoke 81 the pipe. frst 80 = living
he'll and then II a horrible dean
Tse fourth ami last man rad the torso
az Hercules. He was 8 new beginner
aud waa shametacea and salien over cur
intrusion lust little shame left. bat
tire aapp drunk Will soon reh him pf that.
''Ele used In work" my friend said, ''ous
now on}y tust enough 10 set money for
opiom. lie has Joined The ranks To
morrow all these will h~ arrested only
IN pav their fsue ard 50 right hack 10
tha pipe past us all vc can do
\ queer los these ;eer deuirsus of the
opium den. yet bound together by the
smoke coils as with ropes ~ steel. help
tmg each she esher. black. white ard yell
iow AMI al hugE@ng iaelT pipes.
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