Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-17
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. T. U.

Meeting, including reports from all
superintendents of departments. Sec
ond Thursday is a Bible Reading and
Helpful. Third Thursday is Respon-
sive Readings sent out by the National
Union usually on interesting topics.
Fourth Thursday is Mothers Meeting
which ought TO be attended by all the
mothers in town, and might be helpful
to the fathers also.
1t is the earnest desire of the mem
bers of this union to make our coming
together helpful, both intellectually
and spiritually, to those who attend as
we'll as to the great cause to which we
are committed.
The public are cordially invited to
these meetings.
MRS. M. w. DossER, MRS. L. BACON,
President. Secretary.
AN AWFUL BLUNDER.
A writer ina Philadelphia paper tells
the following pathetic story of the
blighting of two lives by the liquor
demon. He says:
l learned the secret of the life of q
man who had passed more than a
quarter Of a century with scarcely q
smile. He had been a physician and
surgeon, and on one occasion had to
remove an injured eye to ave the
other eye and prevent total blindness.
The night before the operation he had
been drinking heavily with some
friends, and, although the following
morning he was sober, his hand was I'M
steady and his nerves unstrung. After
administering chloroform he made a
fatal and horrible blunder, removing
the we'll eye by mistake, and thus con-
signing his patient to perpetual blind
ness. The moment he discovered his
error he turned the man overto a compe-
tent surgeon indeed everything he pos
sessed to him, and hurried to get out
of the neighborhood like q convicted
thief. The remainder of his life was
one constant round of remorse, and he
rapidly developed a into confirmed mis-.
anthrope. The secret Of his life was
known to a number of people but when
it was finally revealed to me 1t ex.
planned a mystery and made me re-
spect the man, for however grave was
his original blunder, which in some
respects was, of course, worse than a
crime, his repentance was of most
genuine character.
ft A WARNING TO YOUNG MEN.
A young man of about thirty years,
rather good looking, we'll educated and
with genial manners that made him a
general favorite, was found dead in
his room at a hotel in Rochester q
a short time ago.
On the table was a letter, evidently
written by the man just before he took
the fatal draft. The letter told a terri
BILE story of suffering from effects of
liquor and opium and was as follows:
Rather than have opium and rum
kill me I prefer to do it myself. 1 feel
am past redemption, and why should
such a useless thing cucumber the
earthp l have abused and disguised
my best friends, have lost my position
with my house, have Ierdrawn my
account several hundred dollars, and,
in fact, can not see a ray of light
ahead. If I thought my friends would
put me in an asylum somewhere, I
would not do the cowardly thing l am
about to, but they have always used
me so kindly, and / have 80 invariably
abused their trust, that / never ask nor
expect any more mercy at their hands.
You can notify my house, and they
will inform my friends where I am
and think they will give me a Christ
ian burial.
ITO my father and darling sister a
long goodbye. May Good forgive me
for all the trouble l have caused you.
May those friends who first induced me
to smoke the pipe, and thereby wrecked
my young life, suffer for it, if there ID
an avenging God. Young men, for Coils
sake never touch drop of liquor. 1t has
killed me and just as surely will kill
you. had as bright a prospect ahead
OF me as any young man ever had. ]
had a nice position and good salary
but rum and opium have got the mas
terry of me. And now may the merci
full God forgive me. Let this be 9
warning to all, for I would like il
posted over the door of every rumshoI
and opium den in the world. Good
bye. Exchange.
HOW A RUM DRINKER SACRIFICED HI.
AGED MOTHER.
Between half past two and thre,
o'clock on the morning of August 2S
seventy two year old Honora foley
of 2,O15 South Ninth Street, Philadel
phia, was kicked to death by Der oldes
son, James, in the kitchen Of thei
home.
The father was up stairs in bed a
the time, and professed entire ignor
ance of the crime. His wife was dead
he declares, when he came down stairs
and the son was lying in drunken
stupor under a tree in the back yard
One of his shoes covered with bloc,
and the gray hairs Of the woman VIII
gave him birth, together with his stu