The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY Is, 1888.

tin the drugp> And don't he order Feeley,
that's his vally, to keep him out of tricks!
And then he goes an spends most of his
time a tryin to circum-went u.s. An every
time he manages to hoodoo us and gifts ona
toot he swears an threatens TO discharge us
when he braces up. But We got family
and s'pose must stand it"
Billy's employer was a rich merchant
whose wife is fashionable leader. He is Of
| excellent family, and has made big for.
| tune by his energy and talent. Several
years ago his physician gave him hypoder-
mic injections of morphine to ease the pain
of acute neuralgia. The habit took an UNI
shakable hold of him and he has been con-
| hrmed opium user ever since. lie knows
the full measure of degradation and that If
he can get the drug he will take it. He CON
| sequently hires strong mon to Keep watch
| of him every waking moment, and thus in
some degree keeps himself straight by main
| force.
As regular as forty days go by a car
riage drives up at the block i'll front of a
palatal house on Madison avenue at about
| { o'clock in the afternoon. A prlm, white
haired man gets out, followed by dapper
young fellow, who struggles to suppress a
| grin. They lift out a portiy, handsome
| man grevouSy drunk and drag him out,
| up the steps and into the house. The two
come out shortly and drive off. They are
the drunken mans cashier and Junior clerk,
and they have brought their employer home
in this way for years-every forty days.
| He is a Wall street banker, and he has a
periodical spree after each interval of
this period. He says he can't help it,
and has reduced his arrangements to a
| system.
| He leaves his office at O'Clock, when the
! time of sobriety is up, and drinks himself
| almost insensibe, his two guardlansstaylng
in the carriage they have called tn he sends
| for them. When he gets home his man SER
want carries him to an upper room. There
] he remains for three days and consumes
nearly gallon Of whisky. Then his physi-
clan comes in, straightens him out, and for
| another forty DAYS ha is a sober,
| rigid, cear-headed man of business His
! family do not 20 near him in his seclusion,
| having long ago resigned themselves to his
strange attacks. He regards himself as the
helpless victim of a disease, and has eX-
hausted the resources of pathology in try
ing to cure himself. When his attack is
over he takes his place in his family as if
nothing had happened, makes his wife
costly present and goes down to his office
| and makes up for lost time. He has an IN
| come of $1,000 year.
| There is another and yet more curious
case of a leading dry goods merchant But
his periodical outbreak comes only once q
| year and lasts seven days. For the rest OF
the time he is an exemplary member of so
| ciety. When the date comes around his
| family goes away for week and leave him
in full possession of the house The ser
wants are given vacation and he hires some
| footman for week and fills the house with
! the worst roysterers of his acquaintance
| He loads up his cellar with rich wines and
/ spirits and his kitchen with costly dishes
| For that week the usually staid mansion is
the scene Of the widest revelry than can be
devised when the orgies are limited to one
sex. They drink, eat, sing, play, smash
dishes and keep up wild hurrah till IN d
they are sent off toa Turkish bath in car
riagAs, the traces Of the debauch removed,
and when the family and servants return
the house ha5 resumed its usual tranquil
aspect and everybody processes to know
nothing of what has happened.