South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-01-16
SATURDAY. JANUARY I6, 1886.

/ WH& SiuuGr Wucu l utSt tubL the III
toxicating cup, certainly became
| demon after / swallowed its venom
Swine is a mocker I; strong drink i
raging I" How bitterly have | beer
Knocked! With what Internal rag,
has strong drink inspired me! Ny
early matrimonial woes may have beer
Imaginary, and might have been obvi.
ted by prudence and sobriety, but ths
bottle made them real. Ny first pane
Of jealousy may have had its origin in
my own Misrepresentation, and Ugh
have been removed by seeking aid o
heaven, and teaching my wife, by an
exemplary life and.by gentleness to her
to love ae, and m. alone.-Had this
been my practice, instead Of making
myself brute and compelling my wife
to hate and lothe ME, she would not
now be reposing with her babes in the
grave yard; and | should not now be
a sentenced criminal. Never, had
practised upon the precepts of virtue
and religion and avoided iutemperance,
would she have been compelled to ex-
claim; under the uplifted axe Of her
murderer, 81 am guilty % My wife
was pure and good when she pledged
her marriage vows to me, and pure
and good she would have continued to
be, had ! been pure and good.
READER-If you sometimes lamp.
er with the poison Of the stiIl-if you
sometimes futlsr rouad the dangerous
cup, as a moth flut,ers round the
namas Of the lamp, il you have began
10 taste and enjoy i,s terrible sweet
ness-think just think for one moment,
upon my murdered wife and murdered
offspring, think of the ignominious
fate Of thsir unnatural destroyer-and
avoid its contamination az you would
the fanee of the rattle snake. Avoid
it, forever, asyou would wish to es-
cape the tormeats Of perdition. Your
safety depends on total abstinence from
ito pollutine and soul destroying touch.
lie victims have all been those who
once thought they could drink and let
ii alone when they pleased. They
,emporizcd With the destroyer until
they wsse lest. They soon found that
thsy could please to drink, by, they
could act please TO let it alone.
There is RabbiaieaI tradition re-
lated by Fsbricus, that whea Noah
planted the vine, Satan attended, and
sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape and a
SOW. The animals were to symboliEe
the gradations Of sbliety. When a
man begins to drink, he is weak and
igaorant as the lamb his courage is
soon transferred into the foolishness Of
the ape |; and at las, he wallows in the
mire, like the sow.
Singular Trse.-We are credibly
informed that there is now standing
in the north part of this tow AN apple
tree, set out by Mr.. Tsneyck upwards
Of 80 years since, and which now ex-
hibits the following singular phenome-
na.-About 90 years since, and late
in the fall after the leaves of other
trees had fallen tc the ground, this tree
put forth buds, and on the very eve
Of winter appeared in full blown Bios
SONS, the odour, and beauty and fresh
ness Of May upon it. Since that time,
but one half the branches Of this tree
have borne each year +; that portion of
the branches composing the south hall,
bearing one year, and those compos-
ing the north, the next year and thus
alternately changing from year to year.
The branches that do not bear, during
the time Of their barrenness, appear
entirely dead, and the next season they
revive again, and put forth their bios
SONS, while the opposite branches, as
by preconcerled arrangement, taketheir
place and seemingly dwindle into de-
cay.-North RiUsr Times.
CopNs.-A correspondent Of the Bos.
| ton Mercantile states that a few applica-
tions of common beeswax as hot as II
can be borne will effactually cure these
| pests to the feet.
( The foundations of knowledge and vir-
tue, are laid in our youth fiat any 9TH
err time, the structure must be insecure
and imperfect.
l.
| Fancy without judgment is all sail an'
no ballast.
| Friendship may have its origin in es
TEEN, but sensibility must support it.
Ifyou believe thing impossible, you
! dependency will make it so but b