Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-23

In Norwich, Connecticut, many years
ago, spoke TO large cndie1ce IN rail-
way station. knew whom had II ny
audience, aud said:
Ladies and eentiemen-Nrs.F alkerer-
who lives little way out from here,
gave ne some Interesting incidents with
regard TO hey son.
.Nyboy,- she said, was q drunkard.
He signed the pledge. He said: Mo-
shsr. will 20 away fronu home. 1 VIII
no. STAY IN the midst Of temptation, b1:
will kesp this pledge.
He went eway, but she continued 70
hear good news from him. by and By,
after be had been gone little ever two
years, a tstser reached home saying:
" Mother, am eoEaing home to speDd
Thanksgiving with you
MY boy il coming home TO Thanks
giving. Well, his poor old mother VIII
get dinner for MIN worthy of New Egg
land; and II there's but one guest, i shall
be famous dinner"
And be came iixto the town by stage.
which stopped at the door Of Solomon
Parsons tavern. The stage passed OF.
II was jost after dark. Some young nen
were In the bar-ro0u.
lxDtkDs. 4Ac1f NV ~ JOS. 'S@s
will yon have 70 drink"
Nothing
mot on Thanksgiving! Come, take
a littie.s
mo, I'd rather not. I've come home
to see my mother. She hardly expects
me tonight. thought I'd wait till dark
and go in and surprise the old lady.
By and by Solomon Parsons, WHO was
leaning bis elbow on the counter, looked
at him and said:
"Fred FaikeaeS, If / we're six-foo. tail
and broad in proportion as You are, and
yet was afraid Of paitry glass of ale,
I'D 90 TO the woods and hang myself"
But Fm not afraid"
"Oh, yes you are-ha. Ia. ha. say,
boys, here's a great big fellow afraid Of
a glass Of liquor. suppose he's afraid
of bis mother
This young man, with all the strength
of mind to keep the pledge, was weak
when they jeered and joked him. They
handed him the liquor and dared him TO
drink it.
WELL" he said. I'm going to mo-
ther, and l may as well show you that
I'm not afraid 10 drink il.
He drank it. Then came another glass,
and they piled him with more. Twelve
o'.iock that night he went into a barn,
and was there found in the morning
dead.
my boy is coming home TO Thanks
givingr' They brought him TO his mo-
ther stretched on a plank, with buffalo
robe thrown over the body.
She said TO me:
Parsons came. and ] said to him, you
tempted my boy.
Well, | didn't know it was your
son.
"You did, yon called him by name.
You knew IL was Frederick Faikcner,
the only son Of his poor crippled mo-
Their. You knew it, and you have killed
him"
Mrs. Falkener, / am not used to hay
ing sucA language applied 10 me"
God forgive me If / have sinned,n
said the poor woman; but p3t my
hand on the face of my dead boy, and
lifted up my finger and / cursed him.
He went out with face as whie as
chalk
Then said:
ladies and gentlemen - Solomon
Parsons, the man who tempted Freder-
lex Faikener 10 his ruin-Soiomon Par
sons. who staggers through life under
the weight Of that poor woman's curse
Solomon Parsons 10 in this hall, and he
sits right there. and this same Solomon
Parsons keeps a grogshop on the bridge
OF your city, licensed by the State of
Connecticut Kout him outr'
And, before twenty four hours had
elapsed, bag and baggage, bottles and
dsnijons Of liquor, furniture, licenses
and al were carted out Of the city.
They violated NO Law. They laid no
hanc upon him; but they made him go
Cat himself. They helped him no. TO
pack upa single article Of his furniture,
bu. they went 10 him in q body and de-
clared that such man should not be
tolerated longer in the city. and be was
obliged 70 20.