Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-07-20
W. G. 7. o..
Tn.u That SIeepes'.'

Orr count superintendent Of
narcotics dropped in the other
day, aud 1 Noticed her troubled
took as she seated herself it'll
= sigh, aud | was not unDrepas.
ed for tie ex5lam zion which
followed. II DO not understand
why | have not heard from B..
| have written se"eral times TO
the local superintendent, but
she pays no heed. | nave learn
ed very recently, though, that
one of of her sops Is au Inveter
ate cigarette smoker. and per
haps she feels that If she cannot
begin her work al her home she
can do nothing outside OF it,.
After my caller had gone i
seemed TO be possessed by
great and almost living Why +:
1 meant To know something
of B. aud what had, or had
not been done in the narcotic
work, aud above all what necc-
ed to be done Aud here is the
sad, true story
A business man residing la
B bad two sons, handsome,
manly little fellows three aud
five years old. One day, after
starting to his place OF business,
the man was seen TO return hur-
richly othe house, which he cL-
tered and Immediately ascended
To the chamber where his sOus
were Supposed To be ianOceutly
playing The father entered the
room and demanded the cigar
which lie had seen his five Year
old boy smoking AT the window
it'll a ready fals eLOod the child
sought To cover his act /: but up
on examining a box full of cigars
OH a table, left there 10y himself,
not One bu. several cigar were
discovered to be on fire, having
caught from tie lighted one
thrust reckless.y among the 9th.
ers by the detected young
smoker.
Fourteen years later friends
were called TO the bedside OF
this son Thin as a skeleton.
with yellow skin, deep purple
rings under the sunken eyes,
lips parched and black, TO food
had passed his lips for days, lao
food could ever again reach til.
stomach, which was so drawn,
and puckered and rigid, that =
common dashboard resembIed
1t most, SO stated the attending
physician But the most terri-
Die trouble was the threat, CON.
pletely closed to food.
"Oh, mother! mother, I an
willing TO die, If by my dcatI
Charlie can be saved Tell hin
to come TO he Oh, Charlie
brother! catching his brother
hands with a dtath grip, prom
Use me TO quit cigarette smoking
look at ME, | cant stop now.
Will he dead in a short time, bu,
you can save yourself Ill
you promise me, Charlie (, Char
lies fingers grew cold. while
his whole young frame shook
with convulsise weeping. Il
can't, | cant stop now was
the stiied, agoniziug cry of this
slave-only sixteen years ofage.
\ day or two more ard Char
lies only brother was dead. The
father, home from his business
the aged grandfather in his ca,
~ chair, and Charlie, sit about
III the darkened room all through,
the civilized waiting days before
the iEtermeut of the hope of the
househuld-the eldest bor,,
Where did they turn for eonso.
latlonf To the Lord who gives
aud takes awsyf Mol no-bnt
the very air was blue and heavy
with tobacco smoke. The dead
boy was laid away in the church
yard. Did keen sorrow CT re
morse till each breast with coz
trItiont IL so, it was soon
dT0sued with the fumes of pine
cigar aud cigarette.
What civilized, not TO say
christian man, having at heart
the welfare of his only remain
ing sou, with the terrible expe
Fienee OF the effects of nicotine
poison on the system of one
soa, would not have tried to
save the other 7 Only a befog.
ged intellect. n heart with the
washboaTd ridges--descriptiye
OF the fallen son's digestive or
saus tLickened aud brutalized
could have presented such an
lhLumsn picture as the above
has shown 10 Us.
The family described above
were neighbors Ofthat silent, To-
cal saaerlHtent Of narcotics. Is
she, too. becoming 81 beuunl,ed
With the fumes of her sons eli.
gaFette that, at least for the
sake OF other mothers sous. she
eaunot, while gazing on tia,
mIiiioneth victim Of self indul
geIee, arise and shake eff her
letharsy selected.