The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-22

A WOMAN CURES HER HUSBAND.
,fst VAL9uA
Everybody knows that Satan has no
more efficient accomplice than whisky.
IL Is O poison which not only destroys
the ppdy and IL energies, y NOT only stu-
pofes and ~ ltI6es fhe 1hind bl9 1srd-
eos Nc hedft Heaibstlalf that eisishcly,
pure and good.
A Young farmer had married decent
and respectable girl. He was poor and
80 was she, but both were honest, in
dustrious and frugal, and therefore they
prospered. Innocent poverty Is no dis
grace, and it is not said that those who
enter upon married life poor, must al
ways remain 80, As long as their mot
to is, !" Commit thy ways unto the
Lord" trust also in him, and "pray and
work." success will attend, and the
blessing of God assist them In procuring
them home and property. Such, from
all appearance, seemed to be the bright
prospect opening before the couple Of
whom now speak. But the husband,
who, though agood-natured man, was
lun for undeI Slso Of an easy Z disp0si-
Sst %s Il H. ss%'sS
Ina niIured into a tavern.
Gone who labors industriously az
Won do'n thew would saw. "must also
ailo,v b;msoIf n i;ttle enrichment
This pleased him. and he followed
their advice Int too we'll. What his
moor wife saved at home bv actually
stintiuos HERSELF. ne spept At the grog-
shop for liouor, She bcgpef1. she en-.
treated. she went. she pointed to the
iovelvbahe N tth which God had.blessed
tbcm i,nf "a no, urt,o se. = Aims earn
ings went for drink. The whisky-devii
It i1 had riveted his Chains round him SO
tightly, andeheld himsin his iron grasp
50 firmly, that nothing, no appeal 10
honor or shame or duty, proved of any
avail, He was lost. From a free and
independent man, he had become q
slave to whisky. Alas for his poor
wife, who, sorrow.stricken as she was,
by seeing her husband, once so respect.
able and well-to-do, now 30 degraded,
| found herself in addition, reduced to
the necessity of maintaining their little
family by the labor of her own hands
for he had become 40 utterly abandoned,
that he had ceased to provide anything
himself. He always looked. for some
thing good to eat, yetspent all his earn
ings for drink. 1t was lamentable in
the extreme.
The Door young wife had gradually
been reduced 10 a mere skeleton. Her
poor babe, Suffering from the want of
proper nourishment, sickcncd, and be-
gan to look like q shadow. Her eyes
had grown dim from much weeping
Yet he, seemingly unconscious of It ali,
continued in his course, whilst his neg
lected wife was -hoyerinq upon the very
brink ofdespair. iNNm
She had Ceased with her appeals and
entreaties, with her mild and tender re-
monstrances; her tears had failed to
soften his heart. She now only prayed
God to direct her in the adoption OF
some remedy that might prove effectual
in retaining her husband, OF deliver
her child and herself from a condition
|ofmisery and indebtedness which was
becoming more insupportable day by
day.
There she mayed, on benaled knees,
one Sunday night, on which she had alb
stained from food altogether, so that
she might have something for her hus-
band and child. For the coming day
nothing was left save O scanty supply Of
dryrbrcadJ ~ .~r..rFofil,tE
And on Sunday light he spent his CHI
tire weeks wages for drink.
The poor wife had at length cried her
self to sleep, and therefore did not hear
her husband, as, about midnight, he
reelod into the house. where, too much
intoxicated to undress, he went to bed
as he was.
In the morning he rose carly, ate
what bread had been left, secretly
grumbling all the while because there
was no coffee to drink with it, and then
went mis- way, saying as he did So:
"Be sure to bring me something sub
stantial for my dinner to-day, precisely
at noon, for if one is To work hard. he
must also have notlrishing food"
His wife, not wishing to create any
disturbance, remained Silent; but scald-
ing tears were coursing their way down
her pallid checks.
lie, however, leit without noticing II.
W ME nc was al ms WORK, the poor
W wiIe lay writing N agony upon the