The Van Buren press., 1873-04-15
Crowd,ng Matters Too Close.


did J ever tell YOU how | come t.
stop selling rum, and bocome temper.
ancc man.
"NpH "Wcll, if you wont tell the
story after me, giving name and local.
ties, will give YOU the facts -
In company with Mr. b. was
engaged in trade in D.. a few milrs
from the city Boston. some twenty five
years ago. We had general assert
ment Of goods such as are usually kept
in 4 country store Liquors constituted
= part of our stock in trade, and were
kept in standing casks in separate room
opening ont of the principal store room
Among our iiqunrs we had one cask of
cheap and miserable stuf, which we usu
ally drew for loaf'rs who had hut little
character and less money. Across the
street in handsome and well finished
mansionei. lived a gentleman of cduca
tion ana fair standing in society, although
a very hard drinkcr He was q good
customer Of ours
when he called for his drink we al
ways drew the best we had -
- One day he came in, and as we were
quite busy AT the moment, he slippe'i in'o
the liquor department aud helped him
self and most unfortunately, as it turned
ont, he drew from the cask Of aduleratcd
cheap liquor, 1t led hrm better than
any he had drank before The nerves of
the stomach, almost paralyzea by the
constant contact Of alcohol, needed some
AL itional poison to wake them up and
hring them TO n state of comfortable eX
citcment The vile mixture he had for
the first time, and by accident, got hold
ul, suited him exactly, and shortly after
reaching home, he sent over a serva It,
with denUohn, for supply of the par
, cular article he had drank
4" For n time, was renrlexed, said
the narrator, and hardly knew what t.
TO dlstIkad To- send such vile liquor
to man Of his character; but after de
batting the matter in my own mind for
while, | concluded that man ought to
be the best judge of what he needed OF
wanted, and So flied the order. Some
four or five DAYS after, he came into the
store and asked if had any good cord,
age, SUI able for n clothes line, rs his
WIFE, he said, wished ore furnished
aim an article which he SAID wodld do.
and he left for home. | thought 40
more OF the matter, as there vas nothing
unusual in his appearance. In an hour
pr two afterwards, his daughter rushed
into the Store with the cry, " Oh do run
aver 20 our house, for father has hanged
AIm>elf | was across the street in an
instant, and rushing into the front door
found the unfortunate man hanging by
the stat lail, to the top Of which he had
attached the rope He was quite dead
or The grci of the b rraved family need
lot speak. Or nv own feelings YOU may
Judge bad furnished the liquor that
paddrncd him, the rope that hanged him,
and was called upon To- cut down the dead
,iclim Of my own internal traffic, and
II happened withja the space OF one
week never sold liquor since. " said
Inc gentleman, "eNccp' to part with my
share of stock on hand to my partner iu
rJde, on any terms he might name l.
vas crowding things together rather too
close for me.
/ e above is SIMPLE statement of
facts rs related by The person thus led to
abandon the sale of liquors have given
the facts as nearly in the gentleman :
own words 81 pretty good memory
will enable me to do.