The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-14
A Risky Business,
WITH SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF 1T.

I tell you, sir, it is a risky business to
touch the brain. A minister of the Gospel
told me of a member Of his congregation, as
noble a fellow as ever ived-generous-ther
was not a member of his church that gave as
much as he, though only a member OF the con-
gregation, for support OF the Gospel /; rich
sleeping partner in a firm IN New York, with
a wife and one child, living in good style
The only fault the minister had to lind with
him was, he would occasionally take a glass
Of wine, and would give it to the young men,
and he said he had often talked with HIM
about it. One day he saw him playing with
his boy, and asked him" DO you love your
son ?' Love him noble little fellow! L
love him better than my own life" You
would not harm him 2" Harm him hurt
my boy never " "Now you never thought
that q glass of vine "Stop, you are a
fanatic; | respect you asa minister, but not
your fapaticism on this point. The idea OF
a glass Of wine hurting this boy-that l am
going to ruin my child! Let this be a Ia
booed question between us. | have no pa
thence to hear you talk SO i%oolishly about it,
1t was about six weeks after that one OF the
partners in the house came to see him on
some business, and they rode 10 a manufac-
turing town about twelve miles distant. lie
was one Of those men mighty to drlak "lne,
and q man of strength to mlngie strong drink
and there is no blessing pronounced to such
that We can find in tie Bible But he drank
this man drunk for tee first time III his lie
and when they GOT 10 the motel the city gen
tlcnan laughed at his maNdiin compai1Ion,
and said, " I wonder what his wife viii say
to that" Returning, they drove up to the
gate, and the child, with lis mother, was CT
the marble steps waiting for papa, La sep
ping from the carriage. the drunken MAS
foot caught in TIC reins, and he stuublcd.--
IF he had been sober he would have kept hold
Of tic rcips ard the accident could not have
happened. But it made iin angry, his self
control Was disturbed and be took tue boy by
the shoulder, twisted him around ard threw
him down. As he was unable to walk, they
carried carried him into tho hall and laid him
on a settle; he fell off that on the floor and
went to sleep.
This Clergyman told me- They sent for
me and / never spent such a night in my
life. There lay that child dead, the. wife III
commissions, and The man asleep asleep. with
a dead child, whose yellow locks ncle dabbicd
with blood, lying in anothe: room-asIecp,
with two physicians trying to save life Of his
wife-asleep under the d%amniug influence Of
wine. When he awoke it as II lea,iul wax
ing. Pushing back his hair What is the
matter2 Where am |? Where Is my boy
Where is my child? | must see him You
cannot ! must, | will! Where is my boy 2
You cannot see him Il must sec him--l
must sec my boy" They took him iaio the
room and turned down tho sheet and when
he saw him he cried out, 'Ot. my Godr ard
fell back senseless." That Clergyman toid
ma-anl | have his nam in my note book
Ct One year from that day | buried his bo-
d., brought from a 'upatic asylum, to lay side
by side with bis wife and child"
Young man, thank God Ter your sa ETY., if
you have ever dared TO tlmper with that
which diatuibs the action OF the brain, aud
brings 4 man to u point where be knows not
what be is about. 1t is risky business to
touch the brain, and it is tie business of al,
cchol to d. it, B. Cough.