Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-05
THE FRAZER CURE.

R em a ark able Statement of a Reformed Inebr1ate.
 Washington Letter to the Augusta (Ga.) Chroni- clel
 While this region round about is being se- riously agitated on the temperance question, and as Sam Jones and Sam Small are about
 to appear on the scene, it may not be inap- propriate to briefly relate how one man be- l came total abstainer. He told me his sto- ry thus: 'I was possessed by the demon of drink and no persuasion of friends or rehec- tions of my own had any effect in reforming me. One day 1 went to New York bent upon tremendous carouse, and I had it. In four days spent three hundred and fifty dollars for liquors of various kinds, and at the expiration of that period my besotment may be better imagined than described. Suddenly, on the fifth day, while still labor ing under madness caused by alcohol, I ex- perienced the strangest sensations of morse, and spirit was born in me to lead different life. As if supernaturallv inspired, I rose trembling and yet determined from my bed, seized upon the cut-glass decanters and bottles containing the fiery fluid and smashed them. Amid that uncanny wreck I raised my hand and eyes to heaven, swearing that by Gods grace would never touch other drop of any intoxicating fluid though my life depended upon it. grew so i'll that doctor called upon me and prescribed bran dy. I would not take it. He said I would die I answered that at least my death should be a sober one. After him, in providential way, Californian entered my chamber and, divining the situation, took instant steps to remedy it. He had me put | ill Turkish bath, and then gave to eat some dried herb of his region that filled me with extraordinary warmth and worked in- | formally like electric shocks. I rapidly re- | gained my health and right senses, and, af- l ter testing me severely, this mysterious
 | friend threw in my way several considerable
 sums of money. have not taken drop of 1 liquor from that hour, and though at this ! moment I am in pecuniary difficulties, l
 ! would not touch it If anyone were to offer
 1 me all this property round about, which is valued at millions of dollars Now I learned
 afterward that my relatives, having exhaust l ed all known human means for my conver- sion had had recourse to divine aid. Three of my family were Sisters of Mercy. Ap- peal was made to their prayers. They of- fered up for me what is known in the Catho- | lie church as 'Novena' that is, an act of devotion lasting nine days. It was on the ninth day, at the very moment the last peti- | tion was presented beseechingly to the AL mighty by these holy women, that, hundreds
 of miles distant, in the very midst of nay I revel, I was by some supernal power led to
 l the destruction of my idols and permanent
 1 sobriety, which with heavens help will nev-
 l CT be violated. When I see other men drink
 \ ing or when temptation is set before me, I
 behold the pale, angelic faces of three reli- l gious women, clad in the black and white
 I habiliments of their order, with one hand
 | on their rosaries and the other raised in gen | tie admonition. Some people call this SUI 1 perstition, but what a saving superstition it was for mei''