Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-14

with each other, and the most intellectual and
cultured apparently content to admit that
their common enemy had leveled them all 10
the came rank. -
Talk to these men, ard ninety-nine out Of
Q hundred will declare TO you, with an en-
pbasis 30 earnest that you are led to place
implicit confidence in them, that never again
will they touch intoxicants.
They mean it, too.
And no wonder they are In earnest. Not
only have they just emerged from the terrors
Of the tremens and the dark room, but the
rewards of Temperance and the horrors Of
drink have been set before them day by day
with all the ingenuity and force of the ven-
cradle superintendent and his assistants
Every one of these drink victims knows
how be feels after dehauch. but Superin-
tendent Wilkins goes him one better and
shows him why be feels that way and how
his liver and his stomach appear when the
poison is In him Perhaps there never was q
more ghastly objec. lesson than that which is
spread before these men each afternoon OF
their stay in the home. The new patient
shudders with horror, and renews the prom
ise that he will never drink again
which the older boarders have made
over and over again. The walls
of the chapel are covered with series of
paintings showing the internal organs of de-
ceased drunkaris, many of them made from
photographs taken at the autopsies. This Is
cheerful for the drink victim. But that is
not all Besides the paintings there are
dozen glass jars containing in pickle the or
gans themselves. They are simply awful in
their deformity. The boarders gather around
them In undisguised excitement There are
livers all covered with the hob nails of cir
fhosis; kidneys all black and discolored FROM
drink, and stomachs which resemble nothing
else 20 much as half bushel of soap grease.
This" /" says the professor, with Just lit
tie pride In the completeness of his object
lesson, "was taken from prominent board
Of trade man who had bean persistent beer
drinkcr"
And this, he continues, taking his class
in horrible examples to another ghastly OBJ
5ect, ''is the liver of Q government officer
who died with the tremensn
The professors audience look at him and
at the glass jars as il they had Just such livers
themselves and did not know what to do with
them, and renew their vows of total abstin-
ence
Yet the result of all this CHASTITY object
teaching, and Of the moral and religious
training which accompanies it, is anything
but satisfactory to the friends of the home.
The home can build up the demoralized body,
but 1t is not so successful in its treatment Of
the real disease Of intemperance. which
has its seat in the mind The floors
of the home are paved with good resolutions,
but, alas for the vows of the drink slavel OF
300 men admitted to tine home last year 15O
were there for the second time. 175 for the
third time, 50 for the fourth time, Is for the
fifth time. 9 for the sixth time, 2 for the sew
enth time, for the eighth time, and each
for the ninth, tenth and eleventh times,
while one grizzled veteran came In for his
dozenth visit the day was there He had
the delirium tremens, too, as he had had
them many times before. There are rich
men In Chicago who make periodical visits
to the home, paying their way, keeping close
to their rooms and eating their meals there,
while their families and business associates
think they are out of town on journey.
WALTER WKLIAAn.J /