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All was quiet for a minute and then he started again, but soon he stopped short and we heard no more. The line remained open. We raised Sicklen on a commercial wire and told him to turn his red-light and hold everything.
Do you know that daily more people are saying openly and violently that we starve our poor, we stuff our own children with useless bookishness, and work the children of others in mills and let them sell papers on the streets in red-light districts at night, and thereby prove our state nothing short of insane?
Turn your red-light and when No. 26 comes along, I'll give them an order to cut loose with the engine and go through and find the flyer." Five minutes later the wire opened and closed. Then the current became weak, but adjusting down, I heard, "DS, DS, WK." Ah! that meant a wreck. "DS" answered and I heard the following message:
The cords and gags were beginning to hurt, and my anxiety was very great. The minutes dragged slowly by, and I thought that hour would never end; but it did end at last, and all of a sudden I heard the long calliope whistle of the engine on the Flyer as she came down the grade. This was followed by two short blasts, that showed she had seen my red-light and was going to stop. "My God!" I thought.
The disease is, in fact, tuberculosis of the skin, and is the most dreadful of all the forms in which the white plague scourges mankind was, until one day Finsen announced to the world his second discovery, that lupus was cured by the simple application of light. It was not a conjecture, a theory, like the red-light treatment for smallpox; it was a fact.
Flying up the track, looking for all the world like some eyrie witch, she reached the curve, swinging her red light like mad. Bob Burns, who was pulling the flyer that night, saw the signal, and immediately applied the emergency brakes. Then he looked again and the red-light was gone. But caution is a magic watchword with all railroad men, and he stopped.
But is that really true of to-day, and, above all, was it true of yesterday, before the curtain was raised on the red-light drama? How is it possible that with such obvious dangers and such evident injurious effects, this movement on the stage and in literature, in the schools and in the homes, is defended and furthered by so many well-meaning and earnest thinking men and women in the community?
If you wanted to take her slumming, why didn't you hire a guide and go into the red-light district?" Bob defended himself listlessly. "That's the only crowd I know; it's the only set that's open to a Pittsburg furnace-man's son. Those people aren't so bad; I guess they're no worse than the rest. If a person goes looking for nastiness he can find it nearly anywhere.
It is sufficient to take up any newspaper between New York and San Francisco and run through the advertisements of the spiritualists and psychical mediums, the palmists and the astrologers, the spiritual advisers and the psychotherapists: it is evident that it is a regular organized industry which brings its steady income to thousands, and which in the bigger towns has its red-light districts with its resorts for the intellectual vice.
"You've skimmed the cream, Hughie, you and Dickinson and Scherer and Grierson and the rest, I've only filled my jug. Well, these fellows are going to have a regular roof-raising campaign, take the lid off of everything, dump out the red-light district some of our friends are so fond of." "Dump it where?" I asked curiously. "Oh," answered Ralph, "they didn't say. Out into the country, anywhere."
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