Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-10-03
The Drunkard and Those Who Help
Make the Drunkard.


is not slave. who is His liquor rules
him. Sometimes he thinks he viii ty
10 do better. He will not be Tool aid
a slave any more. He breaks of while
For several weeks or months lie keeps
sober. Wonderful. indeed Pretty soon.
however, his sensual. degraded thirst, re-
turns. He must have the liquor, The
whiskey, the rum, the wine. lie drinks
on. The habits get stronger and strong
er, until, at last, he is entirely overpower-
ed. Is he not poor miserable, piIlaole
slave. Fetters of iron hold no one more
firmly than his liquor holds him. lie Will
sacrifice health, reputation, domestic COM
fort, the clothes upon his back, for liquor:
is he not poor, degraded wre'cHea
slave AT length he dies Of mania poiu
or some other loaIhsome, disgusting dis
ease, when he drops into hell, where
Satan fsstens his fiery chains about han,
and he becomes the Devils slave forever.
Are they innocent who help on this aw-
ful wretchedness Some time ago man
well known to be given to drunkenness,
whose family were known 10 be suffering
from poverty. applied TO seller oi liquor
for dram. That dram brought on ano'h-
er, and that ano her dram, until severe
sickness followed, and great distress was
produced in that family. Was the seller
of the liquor innocent T! Would any one
in lheir sober senses acquit him OF guilt
Will the Almighty God acqui, him III The
final judgement! Deep and dreadful Is
the guilt of those who help make The
drunkard; who. for little paItry gain.
bring the drunkard downto a deaih.bed
of horror and despair, and trample upon
the tears and sutlerings Of the widow and
orphan. Deep and dreadful also, is NE
guilt Of those who, holding respectable
positions in society, sanction by their ex-
ample, the miserable, ensIaving vice OF
drunkenness, with its allied vices OF gam
bling and profanity. The drunkard and
those who help make the drunkaId, are
nuisance and plague to the communl-
ty. They cannot escape the bltterest
curse of enlightened society, and much
more, will not escape the terrible condem-
nation of their Maker in The world TO come.
A Singular Being---A Stone Eater;
We saw this morning near the depot
singular specimen of humanity, who was
gathering contributions Of money from
the spectators, and repaid Them by swaI-
lowing pebbles. We saw six stones,
weighing from one To two ounces each,
swallowed successively by this man, and
were assured by others, that lie had with
in an hour, swallowed nearly fifty OF the
same sort. There was no deception in
the matter. The man crossed his hands
upon his back, and allowed any one Of the
spectators 10 drop the stones in his mouth;
and each was plainly swallowed. Tie
was content TO swallow sionee at the rate
of two cents piece, as long as the spec
ators would furnish the money.
This singular being is German OF
diminutive size, lean but apparently heal
thy. A gentleman present, who could
converse with him in the German lam
gUage, gathered from him that be was If
! ly.four years Of age and bad been in the
habit of swallowing stones since he was
eighteen wears old; and earned lis living
that way-of,cn swallowing fifty day
lie said he experienced no uueasiness or
painful sensation while the stones were
in his stomach or intestires, and they pas
sed readily with fecal matter. Hhis man
should unite with The one wbo'w as about
here last fall, sticking knives and pins in
his flesh AMI make up an exbibIuon Of
mcnstrosilies. Rochester Union.