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A Cripple for Life.
“Have you noticed that poor little fel
low on crutches at the white house on
Marion-street?” said one of three ladies
who were spending an afternoon together.
“Yes, and it was just in my thought to
speak of him,’ ’ was answered. “I noticed
the child yesterday. What a sweet, pa
tient face he has: He can’t be more
than ten years old.”
“And a cripple for life!” said the third
lady.
Her two friends turned their eyes on
her with looks of inquiry.
“You know him?” remarked one of
them.
“0, yes. His name is Albert Owings;
son of Mr. Edward Owings, one of the
best rpen in the town.”
“Has he been long a cripple?”
“About a year.”
“How did it happen ? Had he a fall ?”
“I will tell you about it if you care to
listen. The story is a sad one, and, but
for its lesson and warning, I would not
r«vi v* it now.”
The two ladies drew closer to tne
speaker, and she went on.
“Little Albert was a favorite with
every body who knew him. He had a
sweet temper, and artless, winning ways
from the first. When but three years
old, he was the pet of the neighborhood.
But nothing seemed to spoil him. As he
grew older, he did not become rude and
boisterous like many children; and yet
he was full of life, and loved to romp and
play as well as any.
“Year after year was added to his life.
The birth days came and went, until he
was nine years old. The children’s birth
days are always kept in Mr. Owings’
house. I am intimate with the family,
and was one of a few outside friends who
were invited to drop in after tea. I prom
ised myself a pleasant evening, for I knew
the charmed circle into which I was going.
“It was early in Autumn, and the days
were growing shorter. Darkness had
fallen when I stood at Mr. Owings’ door.
I found the family in much distress and
alarm. Albert had gone with a neigh
bor’s son to visit a friend of his mother
who lived half a mile from the city, and
word had been received that he had
fallen from a tree, and was too much
hurt to walk home. Mr. Owings and his
mother had just left in a carriage, taking
the doctor with them.
“For over an hour we waited in pain
ful anxiety. Then the father and mother
returned, bringing the boy with them.
A bed, on which he was lying, had been
placed in the carriage. He was helpless,
and in great suffering. It took us a long
time to get him out of the carriage and
up stairs to his bed, for the slightest
movement of his body made him cry out
with pain. No bones were broken, but
the doctor said there were serious inter
nal injuries. From the hips down he
was paralyzed. He could move his arms,
but not his legs.
“0, that was a sad, sad sight! Albert’s
suffering was so great that anodynes had
to be given before he could get ease or
sleep.”
“How did it happen?” asked one of
the ladies. “He fell from a tree, you
said?”
“I will answer your question as nearly
as I can in Albert’s own words. One day,
about a week after the accident, I was
sitting with the poor boy, who lay help
less in bed, free from pain, I am glad to
say, when I asked him to tell me just
how it all happened. A slight color
came into his pale face, and a look I
could not understand into his eyes. His
mother, who was sitting by, noticed this
change in his countenance.
“Tell us all about it, my son,” she said,
as she leaned over him. “I don’t know
yet just how it was.”
He put his arms around her neck and
held her face close to his for over a minute.
On releasing her, I saw that his eyes
were wet, and had a look of doubt and
trouble.
“You were not doing any thing wrong,
I hope, Albert,” said his mother.
“No, ma’am,” he answered quickly.
“Nothing that I knew to be wrong. But
maybe somebody else was.”
“Who?”
He did not reply, but looked from his
mother’s face to mine in an uncertain way.
“Who was doing wrong, dear?” asked
his mother.
“Mrs. Kline, maybe.”
“How?”
“When she gave me that glass of cur
rant wine.”
“A glass of currant wine! —You didn’t
tell me of that before?”
“No, ma’am.”
“Why Albert?”
“I don’t know, mamma. It seemed as if
I couldn’t.”
I shall never forget the sadness of his
large bright eyes as they rested on his
mother’s face.
“Tell me all about it now, darling.
Don’t keep back any thing.”
“I won’t keep back a word, mamma,”
he said. “It was just this way that it hap
ened. We went out to Mrs. Kline’s,
Willy Lawson and I, as you said we might.
And Mrs. Kline seemed so glad to see us.
I told her it was my birth day, and then
she seemed more pleased, and kissed me,
and stroked my hair, and patted my
cheeks, and said I must have some thing
in honor of the day. I didn’t know what
she meant, until she brought in a waiter
with cake and three glasses of wine. ‘lt
won’t hurt you,’ she said. ‘lt’s only cur
rant wine. I made it myself.’ So I
took one glass and Willy another. ‘Here’s
to your good health, and many happy re
turns of the day,’ said Mrs. Kline, taking
the other glass and drinking. We drank,
too, and ate as much cake as we wanted.
Then we went out to play.”
“Was it a full glass of wine?” asked
Mrs. Owings, a choking in her voice.
“Brimful,” answered the boy.
“And you drank it all?”
“Yes, ma’am, every drop.”
“And what then?”
“0, it burnt all down inside of me like
fire, and made my face red, and set my
knees trembling. It got up into my head,
too, and made it feel so large and strange!
I was hot all over. So I went down to
the spring-house and washed my face in
the cool water; and that made me feel
better. We sat there, Willy and I, play
ing in the brook. We built a little dam,
and sailed bits of wood and bark on the
water. After a while Mrs. Kline came
out and said she was afraid we’d get our
clothes wet and muddy, and told us there
was a chestnut tree in the woods back of
the house, and she thought the burrs were
beginning to open and drop the nuts.
So, off we ran to the woods, and found
the tr«e. But. though we saw the great
bunches of chestnut burrs hanging on the
limbs, not a single nut could we find on
the ground. We threw stones and sticks,
but didn’t knock any down, they were so
high. ‘lf it wasn’t such a big tree I’d
climb it,’ said Willy. ‘l’m not afraid,’
said I, feeling just as brave and strong as
if I’d been a man. So at the tree I went,
Willy helping me, until I could get hold
of the lowest limb and pull myself up.
I don’t know what made me do it, for I
never tried to climb a big tree like that
before in all my life. I’ve thought about
it, since lying here ever so much, and I
think it must have been the wine that
made me do it. I heard papa say once
that when wine was in wit was out. And
I’m sure the wit was out of my head, or I
would never have gone up that chestnut
tree. When I got on the limb, which
was almost as big as a tree itself, I felt
as hot all over as when I drank the glass
of currant wine. My arms and legs were
trembling, and my head buzzing and turn
ing round. I had to shut my eyes and
hold on to the limb to keep from falling.
“After a while I felt better, and then
stood up on the limb and reached to the
one above, pulling and scrambling until 1
got to a higher place. Then the trem
bling and turning of my head came again,
and I had to hug my arms about a limb
to keep from dropping right down. 1
was away up now, ever so high from the
ground, as high as a second-story window.
Then it came over me, all at once, how 1
was to get down; and I felt so scared
and weak, and my head went round so,
that I couldn’t hold on. One of my feet
slipped, and I felt myself going. 0, it
was dreadful! I didn’t know any thing
after that, until I found myself in bed at
Mrs. Kline’s, and she crying and going
on; and then it all came back to me.”
We sat, Mrs. Owings and I, for a good
while after the child had finished his
story, not speaking a word, until he said:
“I’m sure it was the wine, mamma. I’d
never thought of climbing the tree, if it
hadn’t been for the wine. Somehow, 1
wasn’t just myself after I drank it. But,
don’t be angry with Mrs. Kline; she
wanted to honor my birth-day, and didn’t
think it would hurt me.”
We looked at each other for a few mo
ments. Mrs. Owings tried to speak, but
her voice choked in the effort. Her boy,
crippled for life, lay before her, and the
hand that had struck him down was the
hand of one who loved him. It had been
lifted in kindness—alas! what a mistaken
kindness.
The lady ceased. Over the faces of
her two friends there came shadows ol
pain. Both of them sat, with eyes cast
down, for a long while.
“That a cause so light should work so
sad a disaster!’’ said one of them at length,
sighing deeply as she spoke.
“A cripple for life! * And all from a
single glass of currant wine, offered in
honor of his birth-day!” said the other,
echoing the sigh of her friend. “Why !’•’
she added, the color coming suddenly to
her face, and then as suddenly fading out:
“I did that very thing to a dear little
nephew only a week ago! And now I
remember, that he came near being run
over by a horse on his way home; and
that when I asked him about it, he said
he couldn’t just tell how it was, but he
kind of forgot himself and didn’t think
about taking care, as he always did,
when crossing a street. It never came
to me until this moment, that the wine
nad confused his little brain.”
“If it has power to confuse the brain
of strong men,” answered the lady who
had told the story of Albert’s fall from
the chestnut tree, “how much more the
weak and delicate brains of children!”
“What a warning!” exclaimed the
other. “I will never give even the light
est wine to a child again.”
“Men as well as children have been
made cripples for life through a glass ol
wine offered by a friendly hand,” said the
lady. “There is no safety when the
brain is stimulated above its healthy ac
tion. No one can tell the moment when
life and limb may depend on the cool head
and steady hand—when the slightest con
fusion of mind may bring terrible disas
ter. Let us, then, who have so much in
fluence over the customs of society, set
our faces against this thing of offering
wine to our friends. We can work a
greater reform if we will. Taking the
poor crippled child as a text, we may
preach temperance sermons to men, wo
men, and children, with such force that
none can withstand us. What say you,
friends ?”
THE METHODIST ADVOCATE. NOVEMBER 2, 1870.
And they all joined hands, promising
to set their faces against a custom so full
of danger. And they kept their word.
Many bottles of currant wine, and black
berry wine, and cherry bounce, were
emptied on the ground by these ladies,
and also by others to whom they
preached their temperance sermons. The
text, whenever announced, was sure to
gain attentive listeners, and rarely failed
to work conviction.
Lucerne.
This valuable forage plant flourishes on
fertile soils in the Southern States, and is
worthy of greater attention on the part
of those who are in want of a rich nutri
tious food for soiling purposes. The fol
lowing is an extract from the proceedings
of the Farmer’s Club, New X^orklnstitute:
Mr. Curtis read a paper upon the value
of this plant for soiling. He says of it:
“It will grow in the same climate and
soil with red clover, but needs stronger
land, and, being a native of Southern
Europe, requires, to perfect itself, more
sunshine and warmth. This peculiarity
can be remedied to a considerable extent
by a rich soil, a warm exposure and stim
ulating manures. When furnished with
these advantages, its rapid growth, and
the amount of lucerne which can be taken
off from a small piece of ground is most
astonishing. From four to six crops can
be cut in one season from the same land.
For flesh-forming and nutritive elements,
it is superior to red clover, containing
50.7 parts to 41.2 in clover.
Like clover, it covers the ground with
a dense shade, thus enriching the soil
while the roots strike down into the sub
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Lucerne resembles clover in appearance,
with a smaller leaf, and if left to ripen,
has a more woody stem. Would not rec
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general purposes, but I do most emphat
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stock-breeder. For horses it has special
merits; not being soft and washy, they
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clean soil it will thrive for years, yielding
its excessive burdens of richness. The
seed is larger than clover seed, and when
ripe and fresh, glossy and yellow. They
can be obtained of any first-class dealer
at fifty cents per pound. The crop may
be sowed with grain, rye being the best;
but it is preferable to sow alone—from
eight to ten pounds of seed to the acre.”
—Maryland Farmer.
The Vegetable Garden.
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Winter garden may be made nearly as
productive as the Spring and Summer
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highly-favored country where the frosts
are never very severe. Turnips, beets,
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hardy and half-hardy vegetables may be
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Now that the asparagus plants are be
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a peck to the rod.
Collect carefully all weeds, trash, and
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compost heap, for next year. This is a
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A certain amount of opposition is a
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because of opposition; opposition is what
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manhood and self-reliance.
• ———
Truly is life akin to grief—and how
necessary is it to our nature! As the
light consumes the inanimate substances
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to restore what is lost during the day,
thus does prosperity fatten upon what is
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