The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-11
TOLD BY A DOCTOR.

TOLD BY a DOCTOR.
.Crazcd with Drink, distinguished GEN
tIemam" Fatally Pounds His Young and
Devoted Wife"
"Hou know nothing about intemper-
ance, said a noted physician. 81
could write volumes that would amaze
you
"Wrte onc," said.
sit would be breach of honor. A
physician, like a Romish priest, may
not betray the confessional" After
moment he added: "Our profession
takes us into homes; and lives and
hearts that seem all bright and happy
are often dark and miserable from sick
ness of the soul.
There must be some scenes that it
would b. proper for me to tell you" /
urged; please think of some
Il was called to the wife of a distin-
guishcd gentleman. Her husband sat
by her bed tanning her and a lovely
bouquet of flowers was on the stand by
her side. Two little girls were playing
quietly in the room. 1t was q charming
picture OF love and devotion
MY wife fell down stars said her
husband, and fear has hurt herself
Seriously
4 examined her shoulder. 1t was
swollen and almost black, and one rib
was broken.
"'How DO you find hero asked her
husband, anxiously.
81 will ask the questions, if you
please How did you so irjure your
self q
81 fell on the stairway
81 hcsitated. | was not in a poor
shanty, but in the housa of n we'll
known and unstained man. l re-exam-
ined her side.
"'When did she fall?' asked.
"Iast night, he said, after sec
ond's pause and glance at her.
"My resolve was taken.
"'Please show me the place on the
stairs where she struck?' l said to the
husband, rising. and going out. He fol-
lowed me.
& 4 was not with her when she fell,
he said
1.-The injury was not from fall and
it was not done last night. Never try
to deceive a doctor
SHE begged me not to tell you the
truth
Then get another physician,
said.
81 will tell you the whole truth.
Night before last | had been out to
dinner
- saw your brilliant speech in the
4
Partly. Most after-dnner speeches
are to degree. | came home excited
by the fine dinner, wit, wisdom and
wine Of the evening, and went, not to
bed, but to the closet and drank
heavily. My wife heard me and
came down, hoping to coax me
upstairs, as she had done many times
But she was too late. My reason and
manhood We're gone, and | pounded
her, and left her She tried TO follow
me, but fell on the stairs. After a time
she craWled, She says, upstairs, and
went into the nursery and slept with
the little girls. | slept late, and woke
with fierce headache, and went out at
once, thinking no breakfast and the out
door air would clear my brain for my
IuOl uiiB CiiSd0GlutubS' L I)lcu9e you
my hoLor / had forgotten | struck my
wife When | came back last night |
found her suffering, but she would not
permit physician should be sent for
lest it should disgrace me. think she
really tries to believe that she hurt her
self, more or less, when she fell And
with an honest culver of the chin he
added She is an angel, and wine is a
dewitt
what are wine-bibbers?'
Gown children of their father. Is my
wife seriously hurt?'
80 can not tell yet. l fear she is
more absolute, untiring devotion no
man ever gave a wife than he gave her
while she lived and suffered When her
noble, true, loving heart ceased to throb
he was incOnsOable. His love and
devotion were the theme of every lip,
and the providence that so afflicted him
was called strange in tone of semi
censure! On the tomb is cut the 'be-
loved wife" He has gone to her now,
in that land OF no license.
mo one but myself ever knew the
truth. - National Temperance AdUo-
cate