New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-02

TIE sr, Serresth Be ,oek VS. 90 crcss he line OF
S.v-Ycsk where be Iai@ in Q stock 81 the one thing
n<edful II VS. rot needful ns. he should isy In >
much that be laid down by the rVadde TO sleep tae
sleep OF pesce. run and Independence, aud dream
sway The feet tina, his wife AID Children h'd ne' nsl
q nouthfal - esifor week but MIX sndpo.i,oes $40
the lsster small and few in the hIl.
Sam was vsked out of his nap by the constable
who gave him such kick SIS Sam had otsen given his
poor broken hearted wife, a. be said;
Come Sam, get up, YOU are wsnted
sam rubbed Lis eyes and sat-up slfcl 81 the
nan in authority, and stamuered forth, We'll, horse,
vha, dye want hsn't done nothing Yes,
you have; you have got drunk, and you can tell
where you got your liquor" Why, | did Ut get
il in this State old fellow I've been to York. Your
dan'd Maine Law does ut extend over there,
guess mo, but when folks 80 there and get drunk.
they must there stay and got sober Ysu have crossed
the lire. sam and now going to give You a
sort nj NEPTUNE shave. Why hallos what's this $
iucl Yes. ard some Of the contrsbrsnd. So come
along. Squire Smith viii TX YOUR dint
So did the Squire; and as Sam could Tot pay the
sne Of twenty dollars and sll bis rum friends were
bs,jun and there was no help for il, but Sam must
On n iaI. He was a ma1tyr-.ae frs; victim in tbs:
town of law OF which be had said they VII never
dare N e,seute" OF course bis wife mourned his
sad fate Itwa. cruel TO take man awayirOm MS
fnny for nothing For nearly three months, the ehi!-
diem said, "Dsd s in jail The family, however,
were no bearer starved than when be was out aud the
town found that the world wagged on quite a. well
without rum and Sam Farmer rs with them, and 50
they let the one stay in jail aud the other 10
Sam wrote piteous letters At first that he was dy-
ing. The doctor said be only trying The min-
i.ter though be gave spirit, ns,ercd 10 his spir-
iiual necessities. Sam didn't die, notwithstanding
they fed him upon mush brown bread and Cruel with
plenty Of cold water upon which he purged and gre
poor By-sDd.by change came over him. body and
soul. Soul had been dead long time, and body was
picked, s;ewed, stepped soaA ed in Run, until be
was no, man, but only rum-cask, and very foul,
at that But with pbysic and diet, the body, and
then the soul came back, and Sam Farmer came out
Of Jail new man; no: only convinced that they
would execute the Connecticut Liqusr-Law, but thai
i. is the best Law that ever was enacted by civilized
people.
We met Sam, the other day, and Ne did not know
him bit better than folks knew his names Axe
in Massachusetts, when he made them Il sort Of State
whit, about election time.
When We knew sam Farmer, he was rum-boat-
dirty, rsgged, fetid, silly. When We met him, We
met very respectable, clean.looking, well-drossed,
sensible work 'ng man.
How d ye do !" said such looking individual
TO Us. ~ om glad to see YOU. want TO thank you
from the bottom of my heart for all you have said,
and wrote, and printed in favor OF the Maine Law.
Sam saw that We did not recognize him. lie under
stood bis new character we did not. In reply, we
said
WHO is IT, We said it kindly, as though We
thought Il ere was something Of humanity in the form
before Us. !, was not the despised form of rum.
sosktd beast, only half human.
Tho words went down into his heart, and the tears
rolled down his cheeks Us he answered:
81 do Mt wonoer you do MT know me. hardly
know myself / am not tie same creature az | was
before they shut me up to get sober Why, God
bess you, Sir, am--that is, am what was
drunken Sam Farmer"