The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-02-15

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Matters went from bad to worse
1t began to be noised about among
their numerous mutual friends
that she did as she did. One
night when she was out on the
streets she became so much affect
ed by the now larger doses OF
morphine which she had taken
that day, that she was actully ar
rested by the average, astute
American municipal officer under
the mistaken supposition that she
was really intoxicated. She spent
that night within the dirty and
gloomy confines of the station
house cell. Her behavior and ap-
pearance next moning before the
police magistrate was such that
she attracted the attention of the
industrious city reporters, and the
details of the whole sad case were
spread in glowing english rhetoric
and chaste significant adjectives
In the royal papers.
THIS SAD BLOW.
almost broke the living husbands
heart. A year after this sad event,
and five years after their marriage,
a more terrible calamity occurred
which was the final drop that fill
ed the poor fellows cup of woe to
overlooking. Their only child, a
bright little girl aged two years,
was scalded SO badly that she died
in a few hours. After this sad
event and finding that it was utter
ly impossible to free his wife from
the terrible malady which was the
bane of her life, the husband lost
all hope and to quench his do
nestle anguish, sought the aid Of
King Alcohol. siUsual results fol-
lowed with speedy and destructive
steps. He soon lost his wealth,
and his business became so in
volyed that he made a heavy mer-
camille failure. This once blessed
and happy couple sank lower and
lower in the scale of degradation.
In September, 1881, the poor fell
low one day blew his. brains out,
leaving the following
PATHETIC NOTE.
Opium has directly ruined my
wife, have done everything that
mortal man could do to save her,
but all in vain. Opium has indi-
rectly ruined me. Had it not
been for the fatal appetite, [ could
have saved her. / would never
have tasted whiskey, and had I
never drank I would not be where
l am nor fill a nameless suicides
grave. I love her yet, devotedly
and passionately. May God in
His infinite love bless her, and
may we meet where there are no
tears, where there is no sorrow.
For without her there would be
no heaven for me in whatever will
come to me in that life into which
in few minutes shall usher my
soul"
The young widow made anoth-
er attempt to stay the terrible APP
petite after the tragic death of her
husband. Kind friends rallied
around her and assisted her, and
for time it really seemed as if
she had actually conquered the
habit. However, six months after
his funeral she was discovered one
day in her poorly furnished room
almost unconscious from the effect
Of opium, and several large pieces
Of the crude article was found up
on a table beside her. When this
became known among the kind
friends who were helping her, they
without exception at once desert
ed her, and in a few days she
stood upon the threshold Of ex-
IRENE penury-upon the brink OF
actual starvation. At this partic-
ular crisis in her life a wealthy
young married lady of Baltimore
heard of her pitiable condition.
This lady had been a school com
panion of the morphine eater when
both were young misses at st.
Mary's Hall, the fashionable
boarding school for young ladies
at Burlington, N. j. She had
lost sight of her for number OF
years, but when she found her il
her utter destitute and sad plight
she remembered the many happy
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