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Show 1 -----------HaBBeieBne A. STORY OP THE UNDERWORLD ;;.; ''A Matter of.. Principle," by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Is one of those, stories everybody likes to read. It gives the vlr-tuous vlr-tuous and income-blessed a cosy feeling of peeping beneath the veil at the sin and shame of the nether world, and to those , -. who know what that life is. It cornea as a -- true picture and a big story which by :. casting the light of publicity on the prob- f Jem may go a little ways toward solving It. ' Heiny. "Child of the Bowery and wait '. of the world," Is the tattered principle. : and If you follow his fortunes, he will - take you Into, tricks of the trade of a v street vagrant, and. finally will open for .--.'you the door of. the "Lone Pine pool- ; room, which is somewheres near Chatham f- sqaare.- and wherein you will make the - s acquaintance ot the lowest of the low, r . - the Bowery thug, and his lady; friends. - AVlth Heiny you will learn how to play , ; the game of "peter.", which requires a glass of beer, knockout - drops. - -vl ' a ready hand with a man's pocketboc. |