South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-27
SATURDAY. JUNE "a. 1885.
ng there, whose constant cry is give.

CIarissa, believe I must take little
brandy and wine extra, if it is only to
hear you scold SO prettily.'
Oh, iogols, do not in mercy to your.
self, treat this subject lightly-wby
society toIerates its abuse know not
see already look directed to that
bottle when you enter the room, which
speaks an awkward consciousness -
You are already trying to hide from
yourself and from me the quantity you
take. Ifyou love my scolding, hear it
pensiyely. Your manly and graceful
form will soon loose its frmness, your
fine eyes will glow with the druukard's
CLASSY inexpressiveness and your mind,
Where God has set his seal
To give the world assurance Of a
man." be reduced to childishness and
worse than childishness, since its weak
ness, will have no redeeming limo.
cence.'
sBut Mrs. Packard said IngoIs,
how many have drank moderately with.
out injury.
sAnd how many / answered, have
been destroyed, soul aud body,
while those moderate drinkers, "a
vored by constitutional advantage,
have been unscathed. But they viii
not escape, cousin William-they can
not escape His eye, who watches mo-
tives as well as deeds. He who is
strong enoughto carry the unrighteous
banner Of the drunkard until death
without failing, shall not permanently
escape retribution, though his weaker
followers may be Frustrated on the
right and on the left. He leads, and
tina. is the condemnation
'My dear cousin said Ingols, 'you
take this matter too seriously. You
make bugbear of a trifle.'
"A triAe! l exclaimed, scall not this
a triae which rids the soul and body
of its best gifts. If | could, would
60 (not in the wilderness of quixosism,
but in the spiri, of Him, who drove the
profaners from Gods temple and DIES.
troy every implement, which stands
like that, tempting mao from duty
They disgrace our homes, they deform
our domestic beauty. once had Q
friend young and lovely, such a one as
your warm heart would have cherished
and your fine mind appreciated. She
! received a shock from the early dis
appointments of her affections, pinned
sickened, and dropped like whitening
6ower.-Would to heaven she bad di'
ed in the unstained paleness of hel
beauty Tonics were recommended ;
perhaps they were right, and if given
as medicine, and not laid open among
the wants and luxuries Of life, all might
have been well. Her health Uncovered.
but gradually her sensual wants in
creased. sicken as remember the
miserable sabterfuges that marred her
fair character, first chilling the conf
dence of friends and then by open e4-
posures disgracing .asm. Her destruc'
tion was rapid, checked but not sub.
dued by reproaches, by sarcasms, by
entrealies, the subduiax eye Of entreat'
ing friendship, by the agonzing appeals
by struggling conscience. She died q
drunkard Her mother wept bitterel
tears than should fall over daughters
grave; her sisters cheeks kindled with
such bushes as sisters cheek should
neverknow and her father, tremble
while l say ii, cursed his first borr
child y
Ingols had not tasted his draft while
| was speaking, but held it in bis hand
and when l ceased, quietly placed i
on the sideboard.
'You have conquered to day, cousin,
said he affsc,iona.ely, 'and give up my
expected draught to please you.'
'You are not angry then : said ca
gerIy.
ANGRY i; no--how can I be angry
with a true friend
THANK you, thank you,' said l.
'and now that ! have gone thus far,
may | proceeds'
Yes you have carte blanche p
Il shall do it by actions not soords.
and warn you to be prepared, for |
have solemnly vowed, with prayer to
God, that will never again, aid in the
cause of the destroying angel. But
promise me, not that | claim any RICH,
over you but that of interest for your
welfare, promise me that you will alb
stain from ardent spirits, now in the
sunshine of youth, "before the evil days
| Gomez
ioggIs hesitated, reflected, and prom
ised, half earnestly, half jes,ingly.