Arizona republican., 1901-09-27
CURES THE OPIUM HABIT.
Chicago Has Jaiier Who Succeeds
 With the Worst Cas-s.

OpiGm eaters. -6evotees of the iit,le 1 sticky brown baI that brings oblivion
 and hliss and ater horrors, and users ! of other deadly poisonous opiates and drugs. praise tin jailer of Co-k county
 and his w.fe. It Is Fla h-r" Whitman l and Mother Whitman now. with those eigit parsons. six men and two women who have rid themselves of q
 degrading and crime r.osucins habit &st cured their very existence. through tsz sympathy and efforts of
 the kindly jailer and his wife-but his
 is rot the stcry.
 A ssmi- serious problem ccnfronts
 Jailer Joan l.. Whitman in he future Urea atment of his forced ? otege1s. who take this cure" of their own free will. d CUT which leaves them as pure phys icaIly ns g new-hoIn babe and with al
 app tie that is pienoplenal Il is this appetite that has caused the remaining
 ''fien5s." for they so call themselves. to
 fear that "FatEsr' Whitman will have
 to abandon his crusade agsins; dope
 temporarily. The .r- .ment requires
 from fourteen to twenty days. During
 the first. CT the hypcdermic injection
 week. the patients lose all q sire to eat.
 They zee things" and are in a stat5
 borjer.ns on delirium .remsns. During
 iEis stage the patients a-e isolated h
 the debtors apartment Of the jail
 where they can s Q all the things"
 that push themselves ;c the front, and will not be made the sport of the other inmates of the jail.
 With the beginning of the second treatment, which Is known the tonic week" the patient begins to see life in different light and develops the
 appetite of an ostrich-an5 her. is where the troub'e begins. Jailer Whit man feeds the inmates well. and for sach inmate he is allowed 2i cents cay His pans for amounts oe various foods he has to purchase ars male ac- cordingly- But since he has witnessed
 the cure of his frs. class Of opium caters he sees tha if he continues the work of rescue he has begun extra sup plies will have to be procured Unless this is done he will be forced to repeat wEat he did before the last ot his class was discharged as cur d. He will have to buy and pay for the extra food out of his own pocket.
 Tt is astonishing" said Jaile- Whit man to a reporter. how fast the appe- tife grows after we put the patient on the tonic treatment. It out-distancrs any growth of appstite I ever hearl Of CT knew. The regular allowance of food is ordinarily enough 70 satisfy the heartiest eaters. but when the pacient has begun to evince a.i interest in his inn=r man there is no limit to what he VIII and can eat The regular meals did not suffice and the pa ient would beg for i,hat lef- by the less hungry If he could rot beg he would borrow. and 1T he could not borrow he would Ezlp himself Wh= I found out what was going on learned That our supplies would net hold out. so I bought addi- tionai supplies for the patients. as the county would not fu; nish them. The eNpe nse would if kept up b heavy drain. but as long as there are inmates here who want the treatment I will see that they get all they can eas They ned have no fear on that scors.'
 Five of the eight inmates Who have bsen cured of their desire for the opiate are still confined at he county jail The others have ssFv=d out heir sentences. ard when they left the gIooniy north side building they showe-ed their bless inss on the jaiIer and his wife They Were going oCt into d new world: one | that had no t=rrors for them. fo:. they ! were saves no longer. or the twoI women who took She cure one was discharged the ether day from the jail. | She was q wreck physically and mor- | ally when she began to serve her s5n-'l tence- When arrested she was found 1 living in a lsvee dive frequsnted by | colored men and wom n.
 She was the worst kind of a 'fiend'.'' said Jailer Whitman. and I hardly | thought she was worth the effcrt 1t | would rsquirc to treat her"
 An out2ast. and white. she had no friends in the new world opened up to her. Dssirvus of remaining true 10 the reform she had experienced. she dread- ed facing the outside world again and begged to be allowed to remain within the jail. Frcm a miserable broken down human :ng. whose face was a