The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-12-07
Trading a Baby for Rnm.


Trading "A Baby for Rnm.
Says the Muscatmo Tribune A
sad story of the terrible influence of
the liquor traffic comes to us from
Fairyiew, in this State, Some three
or four years ago a promising young
man of that place married the love
ly and accomplished daughter of q
minister of the gospel. The young
couple were highly esteemed and for
u while their welded lives ran
smoothly and happily, and theywore
all to each other. But the tompter
camo-not to the wife, but to the
husband. lie fell-not ut once to
the lowest depths, but slowly and
surely he went down in the grade
that leads from moderate drinking
to confirmed drupkcpness until he
spent,eyerything he had for whisky,
even selling the family Bible to pro-
cure money with which to crafty
hiscrayings for drink. Afcw months
ago a baby was born TO him-a sweet
little, innocent that laughed and
cooed unconscious of the degradation
of its father. 1t would have been Il
"well-spring ofpleasure' in the home
of sobriety and virtue, but here its
innocence and helplcssnoss touched
no tender. chord in the patornal
heart. The love it Should haye
aroused was dead, and in its place
was an all.absorbing thirst for in
toxicating liquor. The poor mother
alone found some consolation in its
presence for the grief caused by her
husband's fall. But it was to be the
means of addinga sharper pang to
her despair. The drunken father
unable to bear the torture Of his ra.
ging thirst, was. at his wits end for
means to secure its qualification. He
had nothing.left mhic6'he could cell
and the bar-kaeper refused to trust
him for another drink His morbid
craving for stimnlants was driving
him frantic, and he was ready for al
most any desperate decd. isAt This
iuncturo lie bethgught .him''of his ba-
by, and, horriblcto. relate tho ,un..
natural father took the, little ipnO-
cent from the house, carried it, two.
miles to a low doggefy and there ac,.
tualy traded it to the bar-keeper for
a drink of whisky Is there n deeper
depth of shame than this? If there
is, nobody but the rumseller ean
show the way to it. The distress Of
the unhappy mother can be imagin-
ed better than described. She re-
covered her child on paying for the
whisky but her blighted hopes, her
bleeding heart, her wrecked life still
remained to bear damning testimony
against the Internal traffic through
which such ruin and infamy were
wrought
A witness for the prosecution in
murder case was thus questioned by
his honor
"You say you saw the man shot at
and killed."
"Yes, sir" :
you said, / think, that the charge
struck the deceased on his body, be-
tween the diaphraghm and the duo,
denum?"
"No, sir, I didn't say no such
thing. said ho was shot between
the hogpen and the wood'hopse."
Burlington HarkeyG Yesterday
was the first real stormyysl6et.t
id herald Of winter we have bad, aud
patriotic men stayed in, the house
and felt thankful that ChGs were not
born in the polmy days of;the ,1oqng
Republic, when mer4ud to face tEe
wintry storm clrio. in, hFceches 'tbE
didn't make connection with their
shoes by twelve or fourtccs inches,
False hair i6noN made to initiate
real hair so closely thatit is hardly