The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-12-24

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e: Ihst : 1hat We give
little brandy in his mill"
6rds rang in my ear over and
like Z sad refrain: "A little
y l6dyl A4ifsls hsendy = hi.nle''
Y Ehils the image Of the innocent baby
came up fair and sweet and helpless.
The helpless baby! with, Who knows,
whet peNibls taiat Of passion oe Of
vG6hnn 10 Ms blool rom paknoran
a1sess6vs; MT gss.s fapp66iss ahst
NAV be aroused and made strong,
even before the child shall have
knowledge to cry, .Ny father and my
Thee cars waited on the track for
Tia DOM train; and before We start
ed kEo bon Of the Village charch b.
k1nto ton, and ! funeral procession
formed on The green, bearing 10 it
midst ! CONN covered with lilies.
All! we'll I knew whose Vas the
white face under ths shue Nd, md
what was the sad secret hidden be-
hind abe loag mourning veil following
else Nfter!
The dead man had for many years
been resident of thet cvn and held
his place respected and Beloved
And his wife, tho bowed, veilsd 6g.
ure following nearest, had been in
her place loved and respected more
than he.
But several years before something
unnatural and strange had como over
Mn. Eyerest. Her health seeoel
giving way. Now, We feared she WAS
sinking under nervous' debility; now
that she VA. cousumptive; then, that
she had hest disease. She Val drop
steal; she had fainting Ats; she had
neuralgia; she was subject to sudden
attacks that kept her close in her
room for days, when she could see no
one. Her acquaintance found no end
Of causes and no end Of rcmedies.-
She went BY advice ia, the seaside, TO
the mountains, and 10 I'll sorts Of
cures. But still the mysterious msla.
dy increased, until it vas whispered
that her brain was giving way, and
she was sent by her family to an in
sane retreat.
She staid there untila fatal disease
developed in her husband, and they
brought her home. She came i'm
proved in health aud like herself, with
something Of the old elasticity in her
step, and the genial dignity in her
manner.
1t was only for few days. Before
> week had gone by, Mrs. Everett
was worse than ever. A
And now there came, one knows
not what, . faint feeling rather than
. rumor, spreading through the COM
munity like the dim suggestion Of
color that tho spring time hangs over
the land before . leaf-bud has yet |
opened, or = grass blade has fairly |
pricked its way above ground. Until,
at last, the nameless found . name,
aud spread, one knows not how, un-
til every body knew that the tonies
and restoratives which she took % .
cure, were really the cause Of al
these mysterious attacks.
The habit had begun long and long
before, it seemed, from hsying,as ns
elderly gossip expressed il, "some-
thing always handy"
Mr.. Everett prided himself On not
being narrow or radical. He believ-
ed in liberty in temperance, - in
everything; though no one had moro
contempt for . weak. minded man who
didn't know when be had taken en-
ough. s
He hsl bees long in broken hsalth,
and his sideboard Was always fur
nished with cosdials and stinulants.
It is the old, old story; We have
heard it again and again and again,
till to pity of it. oommonnes. has
hardened our hearts.
Yet the veey triteness- Of the SUBJ
jeot shows The danger; and what puts
US sslsep should arouse rs.
+ was cider for biliousness, or
brandy for Indigestion, Or whisky for
for . cold, or vine for faintness, or ale
70: weakness until some kind Of
stimulsnt become more to Mrs. Ever
EFT than meat or bread. Until she |
went-secretly if she could, but open
~ if she must--to the lowest drink
ing places, and drank in the me.nest
company. Until to-day, dulled and
benumbed,sh was following her hus-
band to his grave with eyes red and
swollen, MT alone from weeping, and
steps unsteady not from grief
All me ! the pity of these begin.
nings! My heart is sore within me
as | think Of a young man Of brilliant
genius, ruined by his love of drink, !
who said he first obtained that taste I
from the f.voIs in his mothers table
dainties. She had been warned of
the possibility Of this, and laughed I
with contempt at the idea; but at {
last followed her son to the grave {
with broken heart. Ii
1t may be very, very rare that .
taste is formed thus; but the one in I
. thousand ought to startle every I
mother and every hostess into serious
For can = passing fla |
vor that is missed so little be weigh.
ed against even possibility? And
yet it is astonishing how universally
liquors are found to be used, and the {
apathy Of ladies' whose sons and |
brothers are well-known to becom- {
ing drunkards, is more than marvel {
Gus. I
The young woman Of the country
could save the young men, if they {
would. And, to my thinking, it i {
by the way Of the parlor, instead of I
BY the way Of the polls, that We may
look Tor the dawning of the day Z
when Christ shall come and reign =
thousand years. '
Curing Meats. :
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