Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-11-29
A Risky Business,
wIrm SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF 1T.

WITH SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF IT.
/ tell you, sir, ii is risky business TO
touch the brain. A minister of the Gospel
told me of a member of his congregation.
as noble afellow as ever lived-generous--
there was not a member of his church that
gave as much as he, though only a member
OF the congregation, for support of the Cos
pei; riCh--sleeping partner in firm in
New York with wife and one child !;
living in good style. The only fault the
minister had to find with him was, he would
occasionally take 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 hlrii--a DO y6u lBfe your son p"
q Love him noble little fellow | love
him better than my own life." I" You would
not harm him?" /" Harm him hurt itfs
boy! Neyeri" Now you never thotght
that glass of vine" Stop, you are a
fanatic respect you as minister, but
not your fana,icism on this point. The
idea of glass OF wine hurting this boy
that am going 10 ruin my child Let
this BE a tabooed question between US. /
have no patience TO hear you talk so fool
shly about it, It was about six weeks
after that one Of the partners in the house
came to see him on some business, andthey
rode to manufacturing town about twelve
miles distant. He was one os those men
/" mighty to drink wine, aud man of
strength TO mingie strong drink 4" and
there is no blessing p onounced to such that
We can find in the Bible. But he drank
this man drunk for the FIRST time in his
life; and when they got TO the hotel the
city gentleman laughed at his maudln COM
panion, and said, 81 wonder what his wife
will say 10 that" Returning, they drove
up to the gate, and the child, With his moth
er, was on the marble steps, waiting for
papa. In stepping from the carriage, the
drunken mans foot caught in the reins, and
he stumbled. If he had been sober he
would have kept hold Of the reins and the
accident could not have happened. But 1t
made him angry, bis self control was dis
turbed, and he took the boy by the shoul-
der, twisted him around, and threw him
down. As he was unable 10 walk, they
carried him into the hall; and laid him on a
settee he fell off that on the floor, and
went to sleep.
This clergymon told me-" They sent
for me, and | never spent such night In
my life. There lay that child dead, he
wife in convulsions, and the man asleep
asleep, with dead child, whose yellow locks
were dabbled with blood, lying in another
room-asleep, with two physicians trying
to save the life of his wife--asleep under
the damning influence of wine. When he
awoke it was fearful waking. Pushing
back his hair What is the matter?-
Where am L? Where is my boy? Where
is my child | must see HIM You can
not Il must, viii Where is my boy! 7"
: You cannot see him. must see him
| must see my boy They took him into
the room and turned down the sheet; and
when he saw him he cried ont, Oh. my
God = and fell back serseless." That
clergyman told my-and | have his name
IN my note BOOK One year from that day
| buried his body, bfoasht from lunatic
asylum, to lay side by side With bis wife
and child
Young man. thank God for yeur safely,
if you have ever dared to ianper with that
which disturbs The action Of the brain, and
brings man to point where he knows
not what he is about. Ii is r:skJ business
to touch the brain, and it is the ba=laess of
alchobol to Is m---.L r Cough