Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-14
A VICTIM AND HIS CHILD.


named Johnson, by profession an ac-
tor, was found drunk in the streets by
a good hearted sailor, who In vain at
tempted to win him from his vile
ways and evil companions. Johnson
continued to drink, until he fellto the
ground like beast, when the follow
ing scene ensued:
Just as they were about remov-
ing the miserable wretch to prison, a
little girl, about eight years old, bare
footed and extremely ragged, came
into the room sobbing and crying gmost
bitterly No sooner did she see her
father than she ranto him, kneltdown
by his side, and motioning the officers
cried, "don't take away papa while
he sleeps! BY. and by he wake up
once more and kiss me-" It was a
sight to wiring the heart of more than
man to see that pure and innocent
creature, with her little head bare aud
her white shoulders peeping out from
her tattered frock, leaning with fond
affection over her drunken father, as
if her affection strengthened with the
unworthincss of its object. At length
the sailor came forward, and speaking
kindly to the little girl, took her away
in his arms, and wrapped her little but
carefully in the skirt of his coat. The
hrutish father, by this time snoring
in complete and disgusting msensibiI-
ty, was then takento the guard house,
for the purpose of SOLDERING him.
This morning, after manifesting
some symptoms of that most dreadful
of all -nanla-potu, he seem
ed to regain his senses In a measure,
and confessed having been drunk.
Il was not" said he, always the
miserable wretch to which drunken
ness has reduced me. | once was
respected by my friends, and beloved
by my family. But [ contracted bad
habits, which got so stronghold upon
my nervous temperament as to make
a beast of me. My BUSINESS was neg
lected, and my wife died, lido believe
of broken heart. Since that time,
frsrvr W ver1l1eTetf drotuId tire world w1tll-
out end or aim, except to procure
whiskey ? | have yet a daughter
at least, [ had yesterday beautiful
tender creature, who still loves me,
despite my unworthiness."
At this moment, the benevolent
sailor entered the room, leading the
little girl forward, placed in her faith
er's arm, The poor man wept and
sobbed overheras if he had been al
infant, and for our part we did not
believe there was dry eye in the
room The three left the court togeth-
er, and we sincerely hope that this
lesson will WORK athorough reforma-
ton upon the unhappy and degraded
man"
Sam Sticks description of a Tee-to-
talEer-I once travelled through al
State of Maine with one Of them 'ere
chaps, He was as thin as a whip
ping post His skin looked like &
blown bladder after some of the ail
had leaked out, kinder wrinkled and
rumpled like, and his eye as dim as a
lamp that's living on a short allow
ance of oil. He put me in mind OF
a pair of kitchen tongs, all legs, shaft,
and head and no n3lly; real gander
gutted looking critter, as hollow as a
bamboo walking cane, and twice as
yaller. He actually looked as if he
had been picked off rack at sea, and
dragged through gimlet hole. He
was lawyer Thinks L the Lord a
mara on your clients, you hungry
half starved looking critter, you, you'll
eat 'em up alive as sure as the Lord
made Moses.
Among the many superstitions of Germany
that of the white lady of Hornzellern is, per-
haps, the least generally known.