The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-05

men, one of whom was a Catholic priest (who
had delirium tremens) and one Je wish Rabbi.
lie has had one old man past seventy, and one
boy OF sixteen. He has had q Philadelphia
killer" and judge of Supreme Court. He
has had steady two-quarts-s-day men, and men
who were subject only 10 seml-annual debauches.
He has had men whose "tears" lasted bat
forty-eieht hours, and one man who cane in of
his own accord after that he styled "a general
spree" Of three months contiuuapce. He mas
had drunkards of two years. standing, and those
who have been slaves of strong drink for thirty
years.
Some OF his successes have been striking and
memorable. There wa, DR.. K, OF Tennessee,
at thifty-6ve physicsn of large practice, pro-
fessor in a medical college, happy in an excel
lent wife and seven children. Failing into drink,
he lost at length his practice, his pro!essorship,
his property, his home; his family abandoned
him TO his fate, and went to his wites father In
another State; and he became at last helpless
gutterhot His brother, who heard by chance
of the Home In Boston, picked him up one day
from the street, where he lay insensible, and
got him upon the train for the East. Before
he reused from his drunken stupor he
7" he asked. q" In Virginia, on your way 10
Boston," "All right" said he, in a drunk ards
o1unkenest manner; "all right give me some
whisky" DE was carried into the Home in the
arms Of men, and lay for some weeks miserably
sick. His heal h improved, aad the man
revived. He clutched at this unexpected chance
of escape, AID co-opersted with all his heart
with the system: DR.. Day wrote hopeful
husband" she rephed II have no husbaud: |
buried my husband long ago. After four months
stay in the institution, the patient returned
home, and resumed his practice. A year after,
his family reioined him. He recovered all his
former standing, which to this day, after nine
years OF sobrely, he retains. His ninth annual
letter to his deliyerer | have read. "By the
way" he says, in postscript, ''did you receive
my letters each year of the war 2" Yes, they
reached DR.. Day months after theywere written;
but they always reached him. The secret of this
he he hne oft toA fnta
abstinence. He had attempted to reduce his
daily quantity hundred times; but never until
he entered the Home, was he aware OF the
physical impoSSlbtEty OF a drunkard's becoming
moderate drinker. From the moment when
he had a clear, intellectual comprehension of
that truth, the spell was broken abstinence was
easy; he was himself again. -
Then there was y, Philadelphia street
savage one OF those dremen who used to sleep
in the engine house, and lie in wait for rival
companies, and make night and day hideous
with slaughter. Fearful beings were those
Philadelphia fremen OF twenty years ago!
Some OF them made q nearer approach to total
depravity than auy creatures that l have ever
seen that wore the form of man-reVelli1g in
blood, exulting in murder, and gloryng in
hellish blows with iron implements, given
and received. 1t vas difficult TO say
whether it gave them keener delight to
wound or to be wounded. In ali com
muni!ies where external o6servauces and deco
runs become tvranptcGl, and where the limo
cent pleasures of yv, III are placed under
ban, there is sure 10 be class which reyots
against the invisible despot, anu goes 70 a
horrid extreme of violence and vice. InlS
Y was one OF the revolters. Once in many
weeks he would return to his decent home,
ragged and penniless, to be reclothed. 1t Is
only alcohol that supports men in life Of
wanton violence ike this; and he, accordingly,
was a deep and reckless drnkeT. His sister pre-
vailed upon him, a. ter many months of persua-
sion, to go to the Home in Boston. and he
presented himself there one morning. black all
over with coal. dust. He explained his appear
ance by SAYING that be came from Philadelphia
In coal vessel. DR.. Day, who had been notified
of his coming, received him with that emphatic
politeness which produces such magical effects
upon men who have long been accustomed to
see an enemy in every one who behaves decently
and uses the English language in its simplicity.
He was exceedingly aStOnished to be treated
with consideration, and 10 discover that he was
not to be subjected to any disagreeable process.
He proved to be q good, simple SOUL very igno-
rant not Naturally Intelligent, and more capa-
The Doctor won his confidence; then his good.
Will; then his affection. Something that was
read III the Bible attracted his attention
one day, and he asked to be shown the passage;
and this was the beginning of his reading the
Bible regularly. 1T was all new TO him; he
found it highly interesting; aud this daily read.
ing being associated in his mind with his reform,
the book became kind OF talisman to him, and
he felt safe as long as he continued the practice.
After six months residence he went to work in
Boston, but always returned to spend the evening
at the Home. AT the beginning of the war he
enlisted. He was in Colonel Bakers regiment
on the bloody day OF Balrs Bluff, aud was
one of the gallant handful of men who res
cued from the enemy the body of their slain
commander. He was one OF the multitude. who
swan the Potomac amid a pattering rain of
bullets, aud walked barefoot seven miles to
camp. The first man that met him there offered
him whisky. Mistaken kindness Senseless
offer! A man who is sinking with fatigue wants
rest, not stimulation; sleep, not excitement.
Don't offer me thai" " he gasped, shudderlng.
al dread that more than bullets.n Instead OF
the whisky, he took twelve hours sleep, and
consequently a,woke refreshed, and ready for
another days hard service. AT Antietam he
had the glory and high, privilege of giving
brain sent him to heaven, and stretched his
body on the field in painless and eternal sleep.
1t lies now in cemetery near his native city;
a monument covers it; and all who were
connected with him are proud TO point to his
grave and claim him for their own. What
contrast between dying so and being killed in
a motiyeless street-6ght by savage blow on
the head with speaking-tIumpet!
=, One, Sunday morning loud ringing OF
the frGbt,door H. PelI bell OF the Home in IN
summons. He found man at the door who
was in the most complete state of dapIatlon
that can be imagined-ragged, dirty, his hat
awry, torn and bent, spectacles with one eye
gone and the other cooked out of place, the
perfect picture Of u drunken sot who had slept
among the barrels aud cotton-bales for six
months. lie was such person as we thought
less fools roar at in the theatre sometimes,
about 10 80 P. NJ. and who makes the lives of
sundry children and one woman long and
hopeless tragedy up in some dismal garret, or
down IN some pesilential cellar.
what can do for you ~ inquired the Super
intendent.
MY name is A. b; will you take me in ?"
"Have you letter OF introduction from any
one ~
mo"
eve must have souethiug of the kind; do you