The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-04-30
from the New York Re, order.
Den n Of IA NIui Latd.

Uncle Harris has the delirium tremens." raid
Mis-. I. t" me oLe morning ts | was passing tv
my daily labors di yon know it,'
Il did IoI' was tie reply. How that
happeni'
WY you know that since Mr.. A. license
has been taken away, lac has thrown up, u his bar,
and allowed every one to {, ink as much As he
plcase-. Uncle Hauis has Teen J., ing there dead
drunk for 'evcra days, aud now is as crazy II. 10
can be- The doctor said ,Lis IN, rnirg 1t was the
GeIlriuu tremcns."
At noon, IA. returned found that my kind
hot,ss "a! taken Uncle Harris into her own
house, and was doing all ia her power 10 com.
l. IT and cure lin, but to no purpose. The worm
that never dies had fastened upon lis heart to
feed upon 1t forever The fires never toto
qu' n'hed were lighted up in his soul, to bum
brighter and brighter evcinore. He was per.
ftctly sane on all common subjects, re .ogn'zcJ
his friends, aud was fully conscious Of his an.
proachng end. When entreated to seek the m,r.
cy OF the Blessed One, who is not wiling that
any should perish, he would reply Too late -
They will have me- They wait for me ~
/ To his Imagination the air was filed with the
beings Of Il thousand different forms. each striving
in every possible manner to torment him. "1h,y,"
~ lac always styled these creatures Of his die.
tempered bran---or rather we should say, nfhis
awakened consCcnce-weie un every sd. Of him.
above, beneath, and around. To escape them,
he would sometimes dat to one corner Of tho
room, sometimes cover himself convul, iyey To.
meath hs bcdclothes. aud again v would ,nreat us
to stand close around his couch 50 TINT t,cy
could not get at him. "Clo.er, cl, ser T. he wuold
stIll scream, until Ne had com petely s,rrouudcd
his bed-ide, and then hc would groan They've
got IN. They are there, over me' over me r.
/ The manner Of their tormcnts was as various
. as he ,tt l.. 4
hisSei hlm, fiery eyes daripd at him, ven,m,d
siings pierced him, and red hands sna cled him.
/ Onre the iurles wre above hIm shifting hot
sand upon his head and he enteartd to be car.
RED uto the attic, a. to be cut of ,leir reach
but no sooner had We taken HIM there than lie
exclaimed, They got here iir,tr
| For several DAYS and nights he endured tli- IN.
untold ni-ery. He refused all food No opiai.
Gained him. Sleep never visited him. HIS
groan- and slrieks Of agony were enough to melt
the coldts, heart.
was in my room, mn,ing upon his awfLl
state, when Mis-. I. tapped ut nv door,
"UncIe Harris is DYING
Never shall forget that d.athsc,he. Thcrs
stood the couch Of the dying man His CLASSY
it would seem that something unutterahly terrl,
Tile Wa, fixing his gaze; his whole frame was
wr,hing in agony uneartlly grodhs came with
every breath His countcuanCe canno, be de-
scrlbed, tie glazed sycball, starting from their
sockets, still fixed upon that tnrlbls something
IN the r"rnrr the quiycriug lip, son'ortcd W
agony; the lurrowed brow, from which thin, white
h IT, stiff with the damp af death, stood up
formed picture which is a complete to my men
IA vision as a sight Of yesterday, yet VII ch M
language could portray, no pehcil paint. With
w.stug strength he still Struggled to caIc bis
lnyinchlc foes. and raised has feeble hand 10
ward of hi rursuers, tlcn, With ,uperlumah
force sank upon his bed a. II he would bury him.
elf beneath lt-and died.