The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-09

Supt. Bunting and his aids shook their
heads and sighed. They feared that the old
temptation had come back upon the slave
of the drug and that he had fed from their
fostering care To return to his wretched
habits
For three days they heard nothing from
him. Then DR. Bradley returned. single
glance at his bright eyes, his firm, erect
carriage and his manlinesS of .demeanor
We're enough to show that their fears were
grcundless He looked ike a new man.
better and stronger than he ever had since
he entered the home.
BATTLING WITH TEMPTATION.
He told an interesting story:
Il know how meanly you must have
thought of me- stealing away as | did, he
said, substantially. 1T looked like despica-
was wrong of me. But, indeed, am not
ungrateful. | acted under a sudden inn
pulse. felt that | was cured, and wanted
to put it to the test. | wanted to measure
my strength.
~ had $40 which some kind person who
read my story in the Herald had sent to
me. The first thing | did when | found
myself on the street was to go to drug
store and purchase hypodermic syringe
and bottle of morphine. Being phySl-
clan had no trouble in getting them.
A TERRIBLE RISK.
81 hold the seductive and soothing stuff
in my hands and thought how pleasant and
easy it would be TO take a dose, was
tempted to yield, but fought against it.
can scarcely describe my sensations. 1t was
PLAYING with fire 1t was dangerous ex-
pertinent, fearful test, but thank God |
withstood the ordeal | knew l held a
seductive devil i'll my hand.
Il walked the streets all night long with
my hand in my pocket clutching my hypo-
dermic and was tempted many times to use
the drug. All through the night / walked
and walked alone through the deserted
streets, and fought single handed against
the temptation to 60 back to slavery. L
prayed to God to help me. No man ever
prayed more fervently than ].
''And when daylight came and the bottle
had been unopened | felt that | had made
the fight and won. And | threw away the
stuff and the syringe, and knew that | was
a free man again.
HARD WON FIGHT.
81 went to the house Of an old college
chum of mine in Jersey City. He had
heard of me through the Herald and had
written to me. He is a professor at st.
Johns College, Fordham. have remained
with him since then and have written to
my friends in Chicago [ want to go there
to see my wife and children and to make
another start in the world.
81 feel that it is safe for me to do so; that
the demon drug no longer holds me in its
power | have fought with 1t face to face,
and, with Gods help, have conquered"
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
DR. Bradley visited the home again few
DAYS ago to tell his good friends there that
he was going to Chicago. They have not
heard from him since and the presumption
is that he is in that city.
Supt. Bunting was afraid that DR.. Brad
lev had left the home before he was suffi-
GENTLY strong in mind and body to resist
the temptations Of the drng. Dr. Bradley
was in the home just month and it was
Mr. Bunting's intention to keep him away
from temptation for at least another
month. He thinks that DIR. Bradley took
a foolish and frightful risk in leaving when
he did and purchasing morphine to test his
strength of will. But he is. of course, de-
lighted at the result of the ordeal, but if
DR.. Bradley had failed it would have killed
him.
One of the first effects of the publication
in the Herald of DR.. Bradley'S thrilling his
tory was the receipt at the home of letters
of inquiry and personal visits to the insti-
tuition from people whose sympathetic or
scientific interest had been aroused in Dr.
Bradley's case and who were anxious to
know if it were really possible to save him.
Another result of the narrative was more
pathetic 1t revealed how widespread and
general must be the use of morphine and
cocaine as stimulants and how numerous
must be the secret slaves of these drugs.
A NEWARK PHYSICIANS SLAVERY.
Not many days after the Herald article
on DIR. Bradley middle-aged man came to
the institution, accompanied by lady. He
was tremulous hollow-eyed, gaunt, and
looked like a prematurely old man. He
told Supt Bunting that he was physician
in Newark, n. j.. that for eight years he
had been a slave to the morphine habit, and
that he had read the story of DIR. Bradley
with breathless interest, for he felt that his
own fate depended upon it.
His own experiences had much resembled
those of DR. Bradley. He, too, had begun
to use morphine because of sleeplesSness
from overwork and he also, as a physician,
thought he knew the lnsidious dangers of
the drug, only to find his mistake when he
had formed terrible habit He had been
a slave to the drug for eight years and he
had sunk into a condition of despair. He
had ceased to hope for cure until he read
of Dr. Bradley's case, and he had come to
the home encouraged by the hopes held out
for the salvation of DR.. Bradley.
HOPING FOR CURE.
The Newark physician is still at the home,
attended by his wife and by fellow practi-
TONER. He is progressing favorably but
is still physically very weak. He has not
had a drop of the drug or of any stimulant
since he entered the institution. He was
practically delirious for a time, and the
sudden stoppage of his daily doses of NOR
phine caused intense suffering. But after
a few days he began to improve. His system
is now greately improved in tone and his
manhood is asserting itself.
He has now mental and moral strength
enough to declare with solemn earneStness
that he will never again touch the drug
Mr.. Bunting and his assistants are very
sanguine as to his cure.
A BROOKLYN DOCTOR IN THE TOLLS.
Another physician who is now under
treatment at the home is a young man of
about 80, whose home is in Brooklyn. He
has wife and children and had good prac-
tice until he began to use morphine to ex-
cess
Curiously enough, he also was led to re-
sort TO the drug as pleasant sedative after
a hard days work and worry. He imper-
ceptibly fell into the way of taking it every
night, and soon found himself taking thirty
grains day. Then he became languid and
listless and his business fell away.
The graphic story of DR.. Bradley's fate in
the Herald contained the first words of
warning which brought him to n realizing
sense of his danger His good mother read
DR.. Bradley's story TO him, and induced her
son to 90 to the home to seek a cure He was
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