The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-21

and she had accompanied him to this country.
where hc had been successful from the first
s1n ha0I X0rk At th1 REaasps time hsx wa
gentleman. His wife was young, refined and
J beautiful. 1t was but little more than year
later that the ambulance surgeon canc to.
my room about @ O'Clock In the morning to
report a case he had just brought TO the.
hospital. woman had been shot i'm Bow
cry concert hall. Her wound was in the.
neck. 1t was nothing serious and the pa
tient would require no further attention
until morning, he said. | therefore re-
ncwed my sleep, and did not see the patient
the following day. As drew back
the curtains of her couch | noticed her
gaudy clothing in the chair by the bedside,
where it bad been left by the nurse. l hard
dressings from her throat and examined the
wound. 1t was slight affair, the bullet
having caused mere flesh wound OF no
great Importance. / told the nurse what
have the patient moved TO another ward. AS
The nurse left me to carry out my instruc-
lions, and as turned to leave, tho young
woman spoke to me. You do not recognize
mo, doctor?' said had no recollection Of
ever having seen her before.
And yet you have" shc answered. "Only
Ayear ago came here to find my husband in
! bed in this same room" -,<y
her at once, though she had changed greatly.
She still had tho same wealth of hair, while
her eyes were as beautiful as ever; but her
faco was pinched, and I'm place OF tho proud
! expression 1t had worn whom had seen hey.
last was one of anxiety and trouble.
"iou are greatly surprised to SEQ me un-
der sich circumstances, are you notT' she
added, as l stood looking ut her. wondering
what strange freak of fortune had placed her
there
clam indeed" answered
| She hid her face in the blanket and sobbed
| like child. l tried TO quiet her, and, tax
ing a seat by the bedside said all that I
could to remove tho feeling Of shame from
which thought she was suffering.
"No, doctor, you are mistaken" she said,
interrupting me and looking up at me. II
have nothing to be ashamed OF but my love
for my husband l am sorry to have you
know what ! must tell you" She then in.
formed me how misfortune had followed
them from the day her husband had met
with his injuries He had lost the position
he held at the time His friends had failed
ment had attended his efforts to obtain
work. And then he had begun to drink
heavily. They were obliged to leave their
pleasant home and part with nearly every
thing of value which they possessed. She had
tried To earn money in various ways. She
had obtained few young girls rs pupils and
taught them French, German and music
But she could not earn enough in this wny to
|
she felt she must have. So, in desperation,
sho had accepted the offer of the proprietor
of the concert hall where she had been in
jured and sang there every evening. The
| salary she received, with the money she
earned as teacher, had enabled them to live
| comfortably, but she regarded her work in
the concert hall as humliating, although
she was required TO sing but few things
! each night She arrived at midnight and at
l o'clock her duties were finished and she
went home with her husband. The night be-
fore, as she was leaving the hall man had
insultel her, and when she repulsed him he
had shot her and mado his escape
She had hardly finished her story when her
| husband came into the ward. Certainly he
had changed much more than his wife. Dur-
ing my attendance upon her | tried to in
huence the husband to stronger and better
| efforts than he had made. | found he had
become entirely dependent upon his wife and
seemed to regard all attempts on his part to
work as needless. One morning when called
she met ME with a frightened face her eyes
swollen and red with weeping He had re-
turned the night before more intoxicated
than she had ever seen him, ragged and
dirty | found him sleeping on lounge.
As | stood looking down upon him, half in
pity and half in disgust, for he seemed more
beast than man, he suddenly awokc, and,
springing 10 his feet stood glnring at me
with tho wild expression Of n maniac / saw
that had case of delirium tremens on my
hands. Ispoke to him. but he would not an
swer. saw his hands working in nervous
manner, and certain wicked gleau in his
eyes assured me that was i'm for fight with
madman. | had passed through many
such experiences, and, therefore, did not
shrink from this.
watched his every movement, telling his
wife to leave the room and call an officer IL
one was to be found. Hardly had she de-
parted when, with yell shall never forget,
he sprang at me, and before / could defend
myself in any way, / was thrown to the floor,
and his hands were tightening their grasp OH
my throat In a manner far from pleasant.
Grasping both Of his wrists tight y, and ex.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Belgium has $500 schools, but 1885, 900 drink
shops For public instruction it spends
l5,OO0,000 francs; for intoxicating liquor
1885, 100000.
The Rev Father Murphy, of Olyphant,
Penn. says he is going to put down Sunday
liquor-selling in the town. il he has to import
n city detective and pay him out Of his own
pocket.
Nicolai Uspenski. Russian novelist and
poet. considered of as great genius as Tur-
geneff has just died. For over thirty years
n slave to drink, he had lived the life Of q
common tramp.
Miss Susan b. Anthony, when questioned
Ms to the truth of the report that she would
have wine at the banquet celebrating her
seventicth birthday, replie'.: II would as
soon have arsenic"
Senator Dawes has presented TO the United
states Senate 2iO petitions from Massa-
ChuSettS asking the Government to prevent
the alleged expectation from this country to
Africa of 500, 600 gallons of liquor each year.
Total abstinence, says Canon Wiberforce,
has the power Of prolonging more lives than
all the doctors OF England, of saving more
money than all the savings banks in the
erms than s fRe poce saa s er'
I'm New York recently Isaac Jacob shot
dead Herman Rogozinski, and dangerously
wounded tho vito Of this man, and tried to
kill the son and then blew out his own brains.
The newspaper accounts say that he had with
linn a flask of whisky from which he had
been drinking freely.
1--WE believe" says the Canada Health
Journal, "thaL there is no better direct
| renle1Y for inIemneranca than strict YeRa-