The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-11-06
A RISKY RUSINESS.

A RISkY BUSINESS.
| Tell you, sir, it is risky business to
touch the brain. 4 minister of the Cos
pei told me of member of his congrega,
ton, as noble fellow as ever lived
generous-there was not a member of
his church that gave as much as he,
though only member of The congrega-
ton, for the support of the Gospel; rich
sleeping partner IN firm in New York
with wife aud one child living in good
style. The only fault the minister had
to find with him was, he would occasion
ally take glass of wine. aud would give
1t to the young men; and he said he had
often talked with him about it, One
day he saw hlm playing with his bov.
ard asked hiw-"Do you love your SOM
Love him noble little fellow | love
him better than my own life" "You
would not harm him Z" Harm him
hurt my boy. N"ver!' Now you
never thought that glass Of wine
Stop you are fanatic; respect you as
a minister, but not your tanatacism on
this point, The idea of glass of wine
hurting tlis boy-,-that am going to ru.
in my child Let this be tabooed
question between US. | have no patience
to hear you talk 5" foolis..ly about it -
1t was about six weeks after that one of
the partners i'll the house came to see
him on some business, end they rode to
"a manufac' uring town about twelve miles
distant. He was one of those men "migh.
ty to drink wiBe, and man of strength to
mingle strong drink > and there is uo
blessing pronounced Oh such men that We
can find in the Bible but he drank this
nlan drunk for the first time in his life
and when they got to the hutel the city
gentleman lat ghed at his maudIing com-
will say to that Returning. they drove
up to the gate, and the child, with uoth.
er, was Oh the marble steps, waiting fJl
papa La stepping from the carriage.
tie drunken man foot caught in me
reins. and he stumbled If be had been
suber he would have kept hold Of the
reiuS anI the accident could not have
happened. But il made him angry, his
self control was disturbed. and he tool
the boy by the shoulder. twisted him
around, aud threw him down. As he
was unable to walk, they carried him in,
to the hall, and laid him on settee he
felt off that Oh the floor, and went to
sleep
This clergyman told me-"They sent
for me, and never spent such night
in my life. There lazy that child dead,
the wife in cunvulsions. aud the man
asIeep-asleep, with a dead child, whose
yellow LOCKS were dabbled in bIood, lying
in another room--asleep. with TWO ply
sicians trying to save the life of his wife
asleep unde- the danning influence OF
wine. When he awoke it was Il fearful
waking Pushing back his hair-"What
is the NATTER Where am |? Where
is MY boy? Where is my child? |
must see him" You cannot ~
must, | will Where is NY boy p You
cannot see him" ~ must see him-I
must see my boy y They took him into
the room, aud turned down the sheet
aud when he saw him he cried out, "Ofl,
my God ~ aud fell back senseless -
That clergyman told me-and have his
name in nv note book-"One year from
that day buried his body, brought from
a Iunaiic asylum, to lay side BY side With
his wife and child"
Young man, thank God for your safe
ty, if you have ever dared to tamper with
that whieh disturbs the action Of the
brain, aud brings man to a point where
he knows not what he is about. 1t is
risky business to touch the brain, aud it
is the business of alcohol to do it.-J. b.
Cough.