Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-15
A Cider Drinkers End.


A Cider Drinkers End
In the early settlement Of Pennsylvania,
three men of the same name came from
Connecticut, and settled in row along
mill-stream. They all commenced alike
in the woods by putting up their log cab
ins and telling the trees, clearing the land,
and tilling the soil as they obtained an
opening for culture; and seemed to have
an equally fair prospect Of comfort and
usefulness in the future.
One of them was member of the Con
gregational church, and lived to see all his
ten children professors of religion.
Another was a Methodist, and had the
confidence and respect of the community
for his intelligence, piety, and stability of
character. He too lived to see all his chill
drcn professors of religion, and one son a
preacher of the everlasting gospel.
The third was " not So" Like the sur
vivor of the deluge, he "began to be a
husbandman,' and planted an orchard and
drank of the cider, "and was drunken"
He had no children. The little fatherless
boy that he obtained at distance, ran
away from him as from monster of bru-
tality, when twelve or thirteen years Of
age and that boy and his twin brother are
now proclaiming the gospel in the Methe-
dist connection. More than once this man
fell into the stream near which he lived,
by the influence of his "good old cider"
as it was termed. On one occasion, two
of his boon companions took him out Of
the creek when his life was nearly wasted
by strangling. So great was their alarm
at this revolving spectacle, that they imme-
diately quit practice SO destructive and
unbecoming a man. But Mr.. - contin-
ued cider-drinking. And while his neigh
bors of his name supported their numerous
families genteelly, and supported society
also, and had put up comfortable framed
dwellings, his cider-drinking habits con-
strained him to remain in his log house,
though it was sinking beneath its own
weight by decay. After long time,
however, he began tc build but on plan
SO large and ill-adapted to the size Of his
family and the length Of his purse, that
he "was not able to finish" Luke IA: 30.
His habit gained SO rapidly upon him
that he could not finish his house, though
he finished his work of suicide. Delnium
tremens seized him at times. Finally, his
end was as public as awful. He had gone
to a camp meeting on a ncighbor's field.
There he was seized with the delirium
tremens, and ran away in paroxysm Of
insanity, shouting and crying, and alarming
his acquaintanccs. He hasted through the
standing corn, and skunk away through all
the rooms of neighbor's capacious house,
to one most retired and secluded; and
there begging the neighbors that followed
him to keep off the devils, and siapping hlm'
self violently with both his hands, crying
out with the most acute pain, "The bees
are singing me to death, he died Of NOR
tification, an awful warning against intem'
perancc, which the by-standers can never
forget no, never, never!
Resist the beginnings of intemperance
Venture not with the first drop. One man
| knew to fall on his face in the dusty road,
and strangle with the dust Another, moi
thought to be incorporate, six months at
ter he commenced tavern-keeping, died Of
mania potu, leaving wife and five or si1
children in poverty and want. . beware
of the intoxicating cup.-An'ericas Ness
i The New Yosk Morning Star Of th'
26th ult., referring to the yet partially hid
den sources in the United States, OF tn
IL.