The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-19

o1oIl Lille. one peculiar feature ABOUT
the drug, after sleeping the effects off,
you don't have the bad after effects as In
all other drugs. You awaken in a per-
fect1y natural state of feeling. Again you
probably will be in the opposite way, ard
have the most horrible dreams, and really
go insane for an hour or so, but after the
effect dies out you will feel perfectly nor
NAL and won't know that you had gone
through such a horrible experience the
night before.
l shall now proceed to give you his
tory OF my introduction to the use Of
drugs. AS remarked In the first part of
my story. I don't believe anyone ever de-
Iberately began using drugs for pleas
ure's sake alone. I simply speak from my
own personal experience and general OBJ
serVation, as have been acquainted with
all kinds and classes Of drug f1ends, and
have never met one that didn't start from
some special cause. In my own case, the
beginning was through physician giving
me hypoderuic injections Of morphine, to
cause sleep, as had become very weak
from loss of sleep and incessant cough
Ing caused by very severe case Of ty-
phoid phneunonia on both lungs I had
two physicians attending me and they
mad given up all hope Of saving me- I
was so low that night my friend wrote
my obituary, intending to have it put in
the New York World next morning, as it
seemed certainty would not be alive
a few hours later. But the next morn
Ing when he called had passed such
quiet night and gained considerable
strength to battle the disease. When the
doctors called next morning they were
dumbfounded to see such marked i'm
provement in such short time.
OF course. it was decided that the NOR
phine given the night before had checked
the disease and given me night of per-
feet ease and good sound sleep, by which
means I had gained strength during the
night.
That was the beginning, as every night
insisted on having my tonic, as I called
1t. DR.. Frederichs called to see me every
night on his way home, and as I would
insist on him giving me an injection so
hard he thought more harm would come
by me fretting and working myself un
into such a nervous state than by giving
1t to me and allowing perfect rest He
gave very small doses, but it was enough
to give me the pleasant sensations pro-
dueed by the entieing drug After I be-
came convalescent enough to travel 1 was
ordered South by the doctor to spead a.
few weeks. I went to Jacksonville, Fla.
and spent two months but I kept my
promise made the doctor that / would
stop using the drug just as soon as I
was able to leave my bed. After my re-
turn to New York from the South / had
lost my situation and began running with
fast company. got to gambling and, in
other words, began living fast and fur
ious life, or as they say, the pace that
kills. / gradually cut myself loose from
all my decent and self-respecting friends.
until at last my only associates were
gamblers and fast women. I left home
to live with fast woman We rented
fine apartments on the upper West Side
Of the city and lived high from the pro-
ceeds of my winnings, as ran pool
room for women and, of course, robbed
them right and left. This kept up for
about one year and a half, when the po-
lice, who had all along been collecting
their protection money bounced down on
me one afternoon, arresting myself and
all my patrons We were all taken to the
station and put under bond The next
AAioAA1AiiS OH WSIe dlloWeu TO go with a
severe repr1mand except me, whom they
bound over to the criminal court on the
charge of unlawfully running pool-room.
was out on bail.
About two weeks later my lawyer sent
for me and my lady to call at his house
One night we called and he made prop
osition to square everything for 5000, so I
would not even have to step inside Of the
courtroom. We told him to allow the
night to study the matter over After
going home and talking 1t over, and the
probability OF my going to prison for a
year or SO. we concluded as we had 500