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Show CASE OF RAY CLIFFORD. Really, this woman Ray Clifford, ought not to bo permitted to run around tho streets as she is running around, asking every person sho meets for money with which to procure tho drug essential to her condition in life. Hers is a pltiablo case and tho chari-tablo chari-tablo and kind hearted ought to do something for her. It does no good to confine her In jail, becauso confinement con-finement does nothing to allay tho terrible ter-rible craving for tho morphino sho must have, until sho is placed in some institution and cured, or dies. The desiro for tho stuff is a physical condition condi-tion with the poor soul and sho cannot help doing as sho does. Hero Is a caso of a woman, talented nnd educated, who has fallen a victim to tho horrible disease produced by oxccsslvo use of drugs and Is no longer a bit like her former self. Sho was formerly the honored wife of an officer of-ficer in tlio regular army, but thoy separated becauso of her use of tZ which has unfitted her foi p w f effort in her own behalf, and haVjioni 1 on from bad to worse until she I becomo a wreck. Sho accosts pa il by for money on the principal tv r 'I W'indl: oughfares of tho city, and be ii ' J' I to her credit her manner is b no I 'Cr0 means offensive, becauso she ro i ns tho memory of tho politeness lnMi u ii AW8 into her by her parents and teac'..rs long since dead. Her friends liavo' r Jr 0'e: gotten her and sho is drifting about a derelict on tho sea of life. It i (10 Run bad, for sho is a creation in tlio -ame likeness of our mothers and our sis Tlr tors. But for tho force of cirr.,m. stances, In which she may have tuvn I And largely to blame perhaps, sho nnrht I have retained a position in socle, y an I Dc honored name. But no matter win. is H to blamo, sho has reached an age and H is in that condition of body whore H ?oT she is entitled at least to pity. Smut' measures should be adopted for hor I T1' protection. She should be curcn of I her habits and placed in somo inuti- tution whero sho can end her days m I The; peaco; not loft to die like a rat in u H hole. If tlio theories of Christianity T1 aro true, sho has a soul to save and it I is just as precious as tlio soul of any I human being on earth. Will not somo 1 The ono please do something to alleviate 1 the condition of this unfortunate mor 1 " tal? I I Wh |
