Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-20
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4 Reformed Drunkard's Strange Story
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4 Reformed Drunkard's Strange Story
At the Point Of Death-The Sisters.
Twas possessed BY the demon Of drink
and no persuasion Of friends or reflections
Of my own had any effect in reforming ma
One day I went to New York bent upon .
tremendous carouse, and l bad it In four
days 1 spent $3.50 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 laboring under madness caused
by alcohol, experienced the strangest sem
sation of remorse, and spirit was borne
in me to lead different life As If super
naturally inspired, I rose trembling and
yet determined, from my bed, seized upon
the cut-glass decanters and bottles contain
ing 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 another
drop of any intoxicating fluid, though my
life depended upon il
grew SO i'll that q doctor called upon me
and prescribed brandy. would not take
at least my death should be sober one.
After him, in providential way, a Cali
fornian entered my chamber and, divining
the situation, took instant steps to remedy
it He had me put in Turkish bath, and
then gave me to eat some dried herb of his
region that filed me with extraordinary
warmth and worked internally like electric
shocks. l rapidly regained my health and
right senses, and, after testing me severely,
this mysterious friend threw in my way
several considerable sums of money. lhave
not taken drop Of liquor from that hour,
and though at this moment l am in pecu-
mary difficulties / would not touch it il
any one were to offer me all this property
round about, which is valued at millions Of
dollars
Now, learned afterward, that my rela-
tives, having exhausted all known human
means for my conversion, had recourse to
divine aid Three of my family were Sis
tiers of Mercy. Appeal was made to their
prayers They offered up for me what is
known in the Catholic church as 'Novena,'
that is, an act Of devotion lasting nine days
1t was on the ninth day, at the very mo-
ment the last petition was presented be-
seechingly to the Almighty by those holy
women, that hundreds of miles distant, in
the very midst Of my revel, I was, by some
supernal power, led to the destruction of my
idols and permanent sobriety, which, with
heavens help, will never be violated When
l see other men drinking or when tempta-
ton is set before me, behold the pale, an
gelic faces of three religious women. clad in
the black and white hs biliments Of their or
der, with one hand on their rosaries and the
other raised in gentle admonition- Some
people call this superstition, but what saw
ing superstition it was for me!"-Augusta
GA Cor. New York Times.
Woman Walking the Free-Lunch Route.
know a woman in Washington who oc-
cupied small, dark inside room on the fifth
floor of tolerably fashionable hotel She,
to use theatrical expression, faxed out her
meals That is, she arose at IL or II, bought
q secondhand newspaper for l cent and
wended her way to a small saloon on
Pennsylvania avenue, whose proprietor has
grown rich by making speciality of deli
cious coffee and Vienna rolls and fine butter.
He charges 10 cents for this little lunch.
The Madame Itinerant woul breakfast on
her cup of coffee and rolls Then she went
up to congress, invariably riding in the
3 cent car There is q bob tail car running
up to the capitol, the fare in which is only
3 cents, and some folks are SO aristocratic
they are ashamed to be caught riding in it
Madame would visit few of the members,
loll for awhile in the gallery of the house
and sit just long enough in the senate gallery
to secure recognition by smile or bow from
such of her senatorial friends as happened
to be ON the floor and after picking up q
few choice items Of gossipy news, the con-
versational coin with which she paves and
pays her social way, my Madame Itinerant
gets back by O'Clock to her dingy inside
loom. At 3 she comes out resplendent in
nonpareil velvet dress and, card-case in
hand, starts out on the round of calls. She
goes from house to house and daintily and
deliberately eats her lunch at each piece In
the course of ten visits madame has more
than satisfied the cravings of her stomach
and has dined and supped for the day
Washington Cor. New Orleans Picayune.
Organ OF the Brussels Socialists.
The Belgian LIE Peuple is one of the most
astonishing journalistic productions of mod
ern times 1t is the organ o. the Brussels
Socialists. and is managed on purely COM
munist principles The editor, the manager
and the reporters who constitute the staff of
the little journal receive exactly the same
pay as the compOsitora All persons con-
cerned, whether workmen or journalists,
are paid ut the rate of $l.03 a day. The
paper is sold for the fabulously low sum of
confines, five copies for cents At first
the circulation did not exceed l., 900, and
this occasioned a loss; but since the riots
the sales have risen to 80, 900 copies, and this
means a daily net profit af S. The repair
tition of the profits is equally character
istic Half is put aside to form a reserve
fund, q quarter is to be spent in socialistic
propaganda, and only the remaining quar-
ter is added to capital With this the cap
ital advanced is to be reimbursed, and this
small sum is also to supply the interest;
but, according to the rules of the associa-
ton, such interest shall never exceed ) per