Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-11
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
VIC. T. U. TUESDAYS Meeting.

At regular intervals during the year.
the supsrlntendents of the different de-
partments of work present their reports
dyance Is the watchword; and on Tues
day afternoon, the reports rendered,
proved interest and aggressiyeness in the
special lines of work. Some new workers
were appointed. Among them, Mrs
Kate pishon, as superintendent of the
department Of scientific temperance in
struction in the schools. Mrs. Pishon is
active in any work, and, true to herself,
devoted time on Friday to visiting and
inquiries concerning the amount of time
given to temperance Instruction in some
of our village schools. 1t seems evident
that our teachers are up to the times, and
are anxious to be faithful in this branch
Of instruction, so far as time and material
will allow.
Jail work seems of great Importance.
1t consists chiefly in providing the
prisoners with wholesome reading
matter during their confinement, and
often wise word of advice accompanies
the paper or magazine. This Is generally
recognized as iustifiable effort. The
following extract is suggestive.
Mr.. Moody, when in Texas last spring,
became greatly impressed with the need
Of reading matter in county jails, and he
is now making an effort to put religious
literature in each Jail of the 1000 counties
in the country. He says that it will be
done too, and nobody doubts 1t when he
says so. When be called for ten cent
collection at the mems meeting at syria
cuse a shower of silver went into the
baskets
Our relief work, consisting of looking
up those who are needy, but too proud to
seek help, is a great work. Few are con-
scous of the genuine need existing in our
own city in these directions. We append
four cases occurring in city not far away
In many cases the suffering is caused by
strong drink, and the disease an inherit
ance from drinking ancestors. We quote
from another these cases of suffering.
One, an orphan child, friendless and
bereft, an entire stranger in the city,
wandered fainting into a wretched cellar
tenement and was there found and treated
for uterine hemorrhage, while In the next
room, separated only by half PARTITION
men rude and coarse revelled in their
drunken dcbauch. With the floor for her
bed, with no one who knew her or be-
longed to her to minister to her needs, the
little life ebbed away.
Another young woman Of twenty
three years, languishing with fever in a
hot attic close to the roof during six
weeks OF summer, with no hand to minis
ter but the inhuman boarding mistress
whose attentions We're limited to bringing
up jar of milk in the morning and leav
ing it to sour in the heat while the help
less patient lay dying hourly in the
sitting and sickening air, heavy with the
fetid odors of accommodating filth
Another, mother OF seven children,
whose husband but three weeks since
| released from the island, fell from Il
ladder while painting and met his death
while she, already overborne with sick
| ness and care lay down to weep over her
| dead husband and poured out her life id
| tears and blood, coughing and choking
| with grief and blood, while her soon to be
orphaned children cried piteously for a
mother care.
Another homeless, fricndless old
man, who had been doing little business
on the edge of Broollline, cruelty sick
with Inflammation of the bladder could
not get we'll in his little howell full of drafts,
was taken to the Massachusetts, general
hospital on Il diagnosis of acute cystltis,
| but was refused admission, because a
chronic disease was discovered.