Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-06-19

made no will. A lawyer was called in
by the persons about him with view, if
possible, 10 prepare the needed document.
| The lawyer went 10 the bedside, called
the sick man by the name and receiving
no answer, endeavored by pinching, and
pricking him. and slappng him in the
| face, TO arouse his attention, and induce
him TO make some sign of consent. or put
some mark to the will. Alas the
wretched man died whilst the effort was
being made, and since then his family had
been all but beggared. Instances TO the
like effect might be multiplied to almost
any extent, time would permit; but, al
though he must leave this part of the sub
ject, he hoped he had said sufficient on ii
TO indicate the effects of drink on indlvid
uals and society al large.
AlIusion had been made by previous
speaker TO the army in India. Perhaps
he might be allowed to refer 10 the ranks
in their temperance army at home. They
had Temperance Life Assurance Com
pany whose head quarters were in Lon
don. The Society had kept record Of
its experience for fifteen years, and that
record went 10 show most clearly that Is
intoxicating liquors could be banished by
law, or otherwise. the result would be all
addition often years, on the average to
human life in this country of England.
That he need hardly say, would be equal
10 fortune for many of them. On one
occasion, when he made this statement on
platform, gentleman. quite unknown
TO him, rose and said TO him, THAT is
very peculiar; you must know that have
received from that very office such bo-
nus that, though am forty years of age,
when applied IN reduction of my pre-
MUM, il placed me on the same scale Of
payments as would be ordinarily required
from a man of thirty years Of age" In
this matter they saw the interest Of the
community a, stake, as well as that Of
the family and the individual. Referring
again 10 the resolution. he said il would
be found 10 reflect little on the moral
bearing of the question. As a single il
Illustration in point, he related how, not
far from the place where he resided,a kind
lady visited poor woman whose infant
had Just died, and finding the baby naked
in bed, provided it with suitable grave
clothes, and how, few days after the lu-
neral, she was shocked to hear that the
mother had stripped off the clothing from
the body, sold it for three halfpence, TO
buy glass of gin, and that, after all, the
baby was buried in state OF nakedness:
and how, when taxed with her unnatural
conduct, the woman said, dear me, what
could have better TO comfort me than
glass of gin :" If they would look round
they would see alcohol, not only infect
ing all who psrtosk of ii, but injecting
others colatterally, and carrying not only
crime but disease abroad among the COM
muni,y, bringing it home through their
own families 10 the doors of most of them.
Adverting TO what had been said about
alcohol being taken up TO the point when
il produced visible effects, he maintained
that ii could not be introduced into the
body in the smallest quantity without pro-
ducing consequences, and that when lis
effects become distinctly visible the mis-
chief which it occasioned was irreparabie.
In the next place, Mr.. Nudge proceed
ed TO speak Of his own individual expert
ence. For twenty years and upwards he
had been member flheir teetolal Socie-
ly, and had conducted laborious country
practice. There was one class Of dieases
OF which he could not speak with the
same authority as gentleman who came
from large centres ofpopulalion. He had
had litle experience with the emaciaied
constitutions of the city, and large town;
but he believed iha! the necessity for the
administration of alcohol as a medicine
was very rarely called for. And when, in
his own practice, conceived the necessity
for it did arise, he always considered the
alcohol as too dangerous drug 10 be
trusted to .he hands of the patient or the
patients friends he chose 10 keep il en-.
tirely under his own control. II man
needed alcohol, he was as cautious in its
administration as he should be in the use
of mercury or arsenic. and watched the
efYec, of it for himself Save what came
through his own hand. from his own dis
pensalory, and with his consent not one
drop of alcohol should any patent Of his
take, if he could help it. de had acted
on this principle for twenty year, ana al
he had los, by il had been the cases oi
some poor publicans, and of some few
who nigh, have fallen from drink into
some accident, and who might have been
~L,a :, oepd for teetoial surgeon. !
The community at large, however, sne"
how 10 appreciate the danger OF the 9n-
restricted use of intoxicating liquor by IN
yali6s, and when the matter was explain
lILa ann,ani 10 take the l