The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-05-28

A really terrible danger 70 hard arinxsrs
seems 70 be becoming rapidly more an moro
prevalent. Il Is congestion OF the hlngz
says the Washington Post Unless an an.
topsy Is made the victim Of tnis diseases il
frequently Thought 10 have diet from heart
disease tbs outward symptolns bong not
unlike. But a post morteal * amination re-
veals tia truth.
One day recently two mon, ono white. the
other colorod, died this silent, insiiioas death.
but a few hours apart fNia white man came
home tate very drunk, aud either Tell dead
on thetloor m lay On tho hour IN 4 drunken
sinmber with hiEclnthS Cd, ana died ~ no
slept. Tho circumstances 81 tho colored
mans death were almost Identical In eacl
casa post martrm examination was made
By Deputy Coroner Schaelter. nnl l,uta
deaths were found ID have Deea From c0a-
gestion OF the lungs.
The hoart Stimulated beyond fts capacity
by hard drinking, weakens as the effeass ot
tho stimulant wear on, and at last beeonies
unable 70 pump the blood, Tho stu snant
blood coagnlates, and the victim is smota-
cred.
All this may come from other causes. no.
tahly when tue hsaft's action i checkel by
excessive cold. But extreme continual al.
coholic intoxication Il surer.
THE ". &. r.. o.
IT isa great pity that the case Of ever,
drunken woman that comes before the
associations Of New Orleans, 70 say nothing
Of the police courts, could not be referred 20
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
for kind treatment, good influence, SYM
patty and settlement. Every good, moral
woman, OF whatever station In lie. exerts
over certain circle an Immense influence
Tor goods and when such woman. In q
wise, kind and sisterly way, reaches out 10
save or protect one Of her own SCI, the
work never goes wholly unrewarded. IL has
been said BY experts who ought 10 know the
truth that the most irrevocahie and hope
less human object Is woman who drinks.
Then the more need TO protect such q woman
from her own vice and 10 rescue her chill
dren from its consequences Incorporate
women frequent the shy neighborhoods Of a
great city. They are paf.iahs even there,
booted at by boys and men, and Stunned by
other women. No one helps them or gives
them chance, and the only recognition Of
them Is when they are arrested and sent to
jail for ten days. Not long since there was
reported at a meeting Or the society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty 10 Children the case
Nof drunken mother found In q gin shop,
while her five little children were huddled
on a door step during a dreadful rain !
Finally the oldest girl succeeded In coaxing
the wretched, reeling woman into the streat
and to the poor place they called home.
Here indeed, was q case for the temperance
union or the splendid Catholic Total
Abstinence Society. Al for the Woman'a
Temperance Union. its strength and In.
fnence lie largely in the list Of It's members
In matters of morality what good women
think speedily becomes public opinion, and
the ladies who compose this union could not
possibly do better than to pledge them.
selves individually to bring IN each d list Of
twelve new dgners Of the pledge The
twelve should be women, and each one Of
the twelve should also pledge herself to
secure in turn twelve other signers. New
Orleans Plcayune.