The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-02-17
WHOLE NO. 1887.

Boonsboro, as well as every other city
10 this fair land, where he took a drink
Of NATIVE wine" the lawful beverage
Of Iowa Soon boon companions came
in, and interchanging treats became the
order Of the day The flowing boWp'
passed rounl aud round, until, by and
by, poor Ben Null became full, drunk.
loored, obliyious. Helpless and una
ble to stand from tarrying long at the
| wine, it is alleged that glassful after
/ gIassful was poured down his throat
through speechless and unresisting lips.
Amid a scene of drunken hilarity, in-
termingled with blaspbemous oaths and
smutty songs and jokes, with an atmos-
phere peryaded with fumes of smoke
"a floor reeking with sloppy filtb--
Death Knocked at the door with bis
bony hand, entered, laid his icy fingers
on Null, and claimed him as his victim.
Null was dead Staggering pall-bsar-
ers removed his inanimate form to the
back room, where he was stretched up@
on the floor, bis feet elevated on an old
wooden pail, and a stick of stoys-Wood
laid across bis throat to keep bis jaws
together. What a death No wife,
no children, no sorrowing friends with
sympathetic tears--no prayer, no sacred
song, no consultations in dying hour.
Ben. Null, at noon, sober, alive, and in
the full flush of manhood, at Z O'clock
p. m, stretched out in q filthy dog
gerry, DEAD, surrounded by those whose
moral sensibiities were all blanted by
the accursed cup. "Hell and damns-
tion," utters one, as he presses the eye
open with his thumb and finger, ana
| fippandy slaps each cheek ofthe corpss
with the other hand, "he amt dead by
a Id sight-see, the eye is wstery5"
But he is dead, and his spirit, oommenG-
ing its ascent from den of drunken
ness and infamy, was already in tbs
presence of the Awful Judge.--Ben.
Null died as the brute dieth.
But let US go to bis cabin
home away out on the prairie. There,
stretched upon bed, sick and nigh nm
to death, is the wife of Ben. Null
Standing around the poor, patient dy-
ing mother, are seven little children,
the eldest not yet thirteen. A naessen-
ger arrives bearing the sad intelligenGg
that he who had left her in the morning
in vigorous manhood is now in the
Jaws of.death. She listens to the re-
cital of the terrible circumstances at
tending his demise. Her constitution,
already shattered by disease, cannot
Withstand the shock, and within a day
or two the brittle thread breaks and her
spirit takes its upward fight. Behind
are left seven little helpless orphans--+
fatherless and motherless-to be buf-
feted about in this cold aad heartless
world. Two deaths and seven orphanS-S
and all the work of the demon Alcohol
And yet in view of such a lesson aS
this, and the daily enactment ofeYery
species Of crime from one end Of this
broad land TO the otheT-all traceabl0
to the internal traffic in Intoxicating
liquors-men will continue to oppose
the interposition .efthe strong arm Of
ihe law. We may punish the iuna-
merable crimes that attend the user Of
alcoholic slimulants, erect penitentiar'
les and jaiTs, keep up an expensive SyaT
lem OF police for public protection,
build p0or-houses for the miserablP
wives and children of the victims, but
the unclean fount from whence foWS
all these iniquites shall not be inpeded,.
What consistency! f.:,-f -,
Now what shall be donef VIII the
men make and enforce the necessary
laws, or will they let the women Sotss
bold office and serve On juriesi Ne
doubt that would remedy the evil Or
will they suffer this thing to go Onuneb
the people arise in their might ana
crush ont crime and its cause, regard
less of lawi .Inour own district We
elect as Senators, to make laws for GS,
men who arenoted solely for the amount
of strong drink they manufastuFe
Right here at-home isa field for all the
missionary work that can be employed!
The heather are among u.s. The
Greeks are,at our very doors, and ia
our houses. $3.50 1856 ..Ii H1.