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Show The Hop Joints. The hop tieud whose sensitive olfactories olfac-tories are always quick to detect the effluvium ef-fluvium from the opium den, gives it out that Commercial street, between First and Second South, is fostering one that cau bo sinelled for a mile. The authorities have made repeated descents on the dive, but the Mongolian who conducts it has been cunning enough to remove the tell-tale articles and escape arrest for the time being. The dreamy-eyed dreamy-eyed victims who pose on the thoroughfare thorough-fare without apparent occupation or visible means of support furnish ample evidence of the presence of the poor the suppression of which prompt and heroic he-roic measures should be taken. A plain drunk on the drug is as responsible as a plain drunk on the ardent, aud by picking up tho devotees of the former, a valuablo lesson in reform might be taught. |