Smyrna times., 1871-01-11
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Pointed Stories.
By JOHN Is. GuCGH.

In one ot the quiet towns of Massachusetts,,
young Edy who had an accomplished educa-
tlnn, and all tue charms Of modest beautv and
I"De Intellect, went to a rIm>rller who was
daily cntIclhg her father to drink intending
soon to possess his snug little farm. She
told HIM he waS not only destroying her father,
but bringing ruin and disgrace on her and
her mother. y, he said she would soon be
marll' d-She med not Trouble herself. She
repIled, She never would she could never con.
sent to involve III Shame one that she loved:
/ She would never leave her mother She would
wnIk with her own hands and every day bring
him the amount ot money lie now received OF
her her, II he would sell him no more She
entreated him with tears With an Internal
leer, he as ked the poor girl it he should say
| to her father that She had queSted him TO
'ei hun 10 more. Her yes flashed, and rea
sou reelrd. " on are hOf q man p said She
She l. now a maniac in the Worcester a>y lum !
a poor old lady in another town. who Tor
merry lred IN "tfiuence, had husband and
TWO sons, who gave themselves up TO intem-
perance. Que day the father and sons were
drinking at The tavern. with others like them
selves, when hear>e passed The door. One
Oi the sons sw"te, with an idiot grin, he would
be the next who rode IN the carriage The
next morning he was found dead, with his face
III muddy pool OF water not large enough to
the mother wrote petition to the rum>eller.
cntI eallng hm to sell her husband and remain.
luz son no more liquor The petition, under
sdch circumstances, one would think might
have melted the heart of stone But The
u rum,ciler cur it up, aud roll ed it irtn matches
winch he put IN tumbtr aud set on the shelf
: aud every time the old man or his son cam,
int" tie bar room, he w0u.d give them cigar
aud hand down the tumblcr of matches to ligh
| . fI,oN. ,.,il ! II
J, boaSted that he had made the husband anc
sou bnrn up the piouS petittOn of the old ,cO
man!
y A poor widow, in Oxford, Massachusetts
had an only child. Fledrric. He was kind
IN generous hearted boy; bui he was ins.n>ihl
drawn within the circle uf the awful vortex
Intemperance. Frederic bec,me a drunkar
and a varab nd. To spare the feelings OF he
whom he had most Ienhclly loved, and still re,
erenced, he wandered away she knew nc
where. Alter an absence of some years
which he suffer- all the misery Of drunkarc
he was persuaded hy some phiIanthropi>t
sigu the temperance pledge. The naxt mor
- ing lie solerly conSid, red his condition, an
fearing the deriuA tr1mpns, his heart YEAR
ed for the sympathy and fn-trring care Of h
piOuS mother. He set out on foot a iournt
of forty miles, AMI when he arrived at Oxfur
WAS worn Out with fatirue, his nerves trcm
ling for mt of accustomed stmulrnts
ihi> moment hi MOTHER mourning for her so
opened her Binle, and read Of the young III;
cutting himself among the tOmb~. She sa
il was her Frederic, and she would 60 up stat
and pray Tor his d, livrrance return
sh~ was in the act of taking her Bible, he loo
I'd into the window and saw her, but, eeli
ES that he made hut a sorry appearance,
though, he would just step into the tavern a
b ush his hair and aoju>t his cravat. As
. stood tl,mhlinr before the glass, the runs
ler, rccollecting him, ccldiully ehook hanc
aud ofTe ed him something tn drink He {
climed, hut was persuaded. One glass did !
) sari>Iy-he wanted mo,e Then the ha,
hearted rum>elIer induced him to bet he cot
drink pint without taking it hom his Iii
He swallowed it, and next morning was fou
dead in the barn. In her agony, the mori
cursed that'rumseller for having murdered |
)S, son, and died Of broken heart