The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-04-10
the Facts a. ovl San, Sayder.

We were all sitting out on The
p'ssss IN front Of BIyier's store, aud
Abner Bypg was there. With his
legs cocked up again.ta post. an
his char tilted b ok. d.. Mnrrv
va. running his eye dowua c'luuu
Of The country uesspaper, whru ouds
denly said
"HulIoai This Is qneerl Why l.
says here that ~ Envlsb Chemist
has succeeded 10 disull,us w"i.key
frun sswdu-t t.
"rbat's no,biog,' said Abner Bydg
dipping his tbum,.
How do you mean nothing J! ask
I'd The doctor.
'Oo. it's old, awful old. / know
that years ago. Did you ever mes'
Sam Snyder p
mo, never met him.
"W.ll, Sam was q hard drinker--
must have rum by suy m'aos or IN.
other. He had uo mo"ey aud no-
body to trust him or treat him. So
Sam spinehow asccrtalned thu whis-
key could be male "ut III sawl 'st
aud do you koiw what he'd iU
What y
HID get so drunk oil fenc".
rail aud cro.s-cit saw that b.
coul.iu't tell = GOV from u sugar
card ham. P,, him nears wJ,i-
pile aud saw bu'k, ani let hIm u
lone aud before eleven O'CLOCK he'd
turu out tnu nust jchciods min, ji
lips you ever tas,, d. "E,sily
Why one time his family trlcd IT,
keep him sober by putting hun pu,
10 the r"ofrui keeping hip ibcr,
,ni do you know what Sam di ,
Got bog To tie wa,h boiler aud
tour feet Of lead pipe to strinI, ard
Ssn G'hcd 'em nj aud IN three jsys
b, had turned every shinllc int
cuck ais. apd lac tell through into
the g,rr,t i, such a 'rlshtful conJi.
ton u 'ntoxicsliJn that they had /,
give him electric shocks from fort,
two cell battery 10 bring hun back ,o
consciousn'ss.'
You know that to be fact, d.
you 7"
Certainly L was there. Why,
that man acquired preference i1'
liqlor made from wood, and three
nu,ss, To my certain kno~lcig-. he
got msnisp du iron c,nsnmpti'o OF
distilled PIE boards snj potato mash :
ers. H. drank up f,ur Pets "i o',ai".
less aud ,.ne Fourth Of July when
his ~Iie stopped h. Destruction OF
the iurni'ure. he celehrsteI the day
by rallin, IN three ~ folr friends 10
iribk u new kiud OF enerIetic brandy
that he had ju-, made out ola WIN
dow sill and cloihes prop Dtiuk !
Why SIR, l pledge y'h ny worI sny.
Ter !na sicile sinler dr,nk up a
smoke hous", three wa.h-Iuhs an /
front door. Nothing cold sop
him ~hen he got going.
Way did he prefer domestic
utensils p
lie didu't. There was woods
out back of his house bat belonged
to hl. suut. Sam i 20 our Ill re
with mca, saw, ar anv kind "fsaw
he coull get. aui ia tSh wear, h
had stimulated his system with eight
chestunt trees, four persimmons,
one oak and fifteen sapliugs Of Va
rions kinds Thinned that grove
ont 50 thu. his amt couldn't rent
1t to p cuic parties Nearly broke
her old heart too.
"pid he kill himself drinking -
well. not exactly. 1t seems
that he WAS hau,ed for u long time
by the idea thai il lie could iistli
the Presby yterisn rburch s,eeple he
could tnrn oat an article thstd
bear resemblance, somehoS, 10
old app'e brandy Queer, WASH. /, :
Bu, the man WAS not exactly r!sh, /;
his mind was diseased. So Que
night he got on the roof OF tue
church with ladder 10 steal the
steeple whea be GIT there
dunno how il was but tho iies
s.em I'd u strike him e. taste TIE
thing. maybe. TO See II he WIS right
about the aavor. and-he must have
been 1,ld when he d,i il -he actually
swallowed the westher cock aud
there he stuck, whirliug suuni all
nisat as the wind struck hiin D,,sl !
He WAS ieairn Msrtiu Van Rulin.
when they eIne to take hIm 3osn
lie swallowed tue sea,nsr-eScs,
in he :"
Yes. sir swallowed it
"Well. tha, WASH I half So hari IN
swallIs rs Your waJlS yArs su |
Blylcr
"lou iout Doubt mv versci,v.
hnre :" sal Ahner 'luu 10 Well
Il you have = quarter about ,o0 II
ALL sotho ny spunlei fesl.uss
vnly wau; v -
At this nae,nrs Rlyler kicked Mt
Hyng Ill the porch, sui AhNeI
walked assy ~ the nvxi tavern ~,,h
tsiat dope tia, the t,.Tseaicr
nlsh, g,vs his credit css m,sv
saAnre - ksx .i,is,s~
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