The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17

the opium joints. stale becr joints
houses OF shame. incarnate 6ends o
j both sexes that hibernate and congre
gate in the cesspools Of iniQutty ant
! quagmires of filth and damnatfon.
! o police, flash your lantern! Yo'
| can't make me believe that all OF fhos'
peals of laughter and jest rival the ~
of hell for their despair. for
sound doesn't come from hearts pure
noble, happy. but from lips Whose
I hearts are black and vile. and are th'
nests OF All that IL cursed.
/ 1T is 10 O'Clock. Men, 1t Is 10 O'Clock
:. Wouldn't you like to go to the Harrl
- 4.s.>>sszzts .l-,-..- ~
! It's 10 e'elosks ,agess ia gaat hets.i
and / said to my friend, Ted Larktn
the desk sergeant Che used to give ms
passes for the ball camel: Ted. tn.
rnissus and / would like to go below.
| He called a plain clothes man ane
said: Jack. stay here n little while
! He went down and there were nj
teen or twenty men piled up on the
stone floor. nothing but newspaper
for a bed, and / said: There 1t Is
Sin. SIM"
: We walked on and stopped in front
Of a cell. On, and there stood mar
nude to his waist. his body was Gov
cred with great biotches that looked
: like carbuncles OF black and purple
and green and yellow. His hair mat
i ted and his eyes bloodshot and verrlir
was wriggling over him. and | said tt
Ted: els he nuts and bughouse ?"
| He said: NO, ne Is coke ficnd, I
| Is DOPE"
My Cod. 1t Is almost hopeless wher
dope sinks its fangs into you. A fel
! low win break away from the booy'
game and win out and II he Is THE
i he will become square. but there arr
mighty few OF them ever get ava,
| from the grip OF dope. I said: Wi
you give him dope?"
| He said: 1--WE will have to or h.
will die"
| And the doctor came with the fiypo
dernic syringe and shot 1t into MI
arms and he cooed like a baby tugginf
II Is, now. Sin" You can't argue
against sin
/ We went on. There was cell abou
as long as my platform but LITTLE
wider. In I. were fourteen girls witt
! the dew of youth on their brow. Some
Of them didn't have clothes enough
on them 10 make a pad for crutch
They were SO beastly drunk the!
could not stand and one OF then
1 feapSu I'd UFr Feet, stlLG0 " nat il6'
been the remnants of a silk waist ant
bought with the price OF her shame
and ripped 1t from her body ard stoo'
nude to her waist. and the vilest pro
family and obscenity that I ever heard
4 have heard men curse and damn bu
I think when those girls were bias
pheming and sneering, all the devil.
/ In the pit of he'll stopped theil
I ears and cried: Enough Enough
Enough"
i l said: There 1t is. Sin. Sin" Yot
can't argue against sin. It's in tbs
world. you can't get away from It.
Hello"
Good morning. Sir"
How do you do?"
What is your name? J am slat
to meet you"
/ A letter to The Y. VI. c. A. secre
tarv Of Chicago. This will introduc,
James O~roole. who is coming Il
America and Chicago. to win fans
and fortune. Wed be glad II yo,
could give him a little protection ant
advice in strange country and city,
and signed by the secretary OF tht
! NJ C. A. in Belfast, Ireland.
( said: Jim, my name is BILL
He said: ''Have you got any GOO
boarding house,"
i sAit, eS so L gave MIN tiI'
numbers and said, "Iim, let mi
know which one you select"
Invited the Homeless.
| So he notified me he had selected
one on LaSalIe street, on the Norti
Side. was sending out a letter IN
/ viting the homeless young men Il
come to our annual banquet. jim
had received my letter and had Gon'
with some men to battle in Lake
Michigan, and In diving from the pie
his head struck the bottom OF til.
lake and he broke his neck. The,
dragged his body onto the shore am
summoned the police, and the polio
| found nv letter. AMI they notified mt
! TO go TO The Cook county naorgue ans
claim his body. SO 7 hurried to th'
/ his mother in Belfast, jumped on thu
street car and hurried to the mcrgue
/ put &C lain in for his body. The,
said. I'VE will keep the body for TIVE
months, and II that isn't enough, jus
! let me knew. and we will stretch i
/ for another month"
! I was getting ready to turn away
thinking of that broken heartet
mother across the seas. when III
patrol and took out a body OF wo
man. Her hair was like a raven
wing. large. lustrous. brown eyes: hel
| lips looked like coral and her teetf
| like lodges OF pearl and snowdrifts o.
| the Arctic: her symmetry of form was
attractive, I looked at her fingers
and they were long and the finger