Identifier: sunlightshadow00goug (find matches)
Title: Sunlight and shadow;
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Gough, John Bartholomew, 1817-1886. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Temperance
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington and company Chicago, A. G. Nettleton & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an now in prison whose wife lost an eye some timesince by his violence when drunk, and whose onlychild is deformed for life as the result of anotherdrunken ^t. He is now conflned for depriving his wifeof her other eye when they were both drunk. She isblind, he in prison, and the child is a cripple. A woman had two children suffering from fever.One morning she received from some ladies in theneighborhood all that had been prescribed by thedoctor, together with money for their wants. Theladies went in the evening to inquire after the chil-dren, and found them alone in the agonies of death,induced by want and neglect. On being searchedfor, the woman was found drunk in a neighboringtavern. She had spent the money and then sold thearticles of clothing, given in charity, for drink. Allthat could be done for the children was of no avail —it was too late. In the night the ladies left her whenshe had become somewhat sober, she making all sortsof promises. When they called, the next forenoon,
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A CELLAR SCENE.—THE BRUTE AND THE LAMB. CANNOT EXAGGERATE. 265 they found the little corpses lying imstraightenedwhere their spirits had left them; and the comfortstheir hands had provided a few hours before had goneto the pawn-shop. The mother was again drunk inthe nearest grog-shop. Tell me of exaggeration in our statements! Talkof enthusiasm, fanaticism, and monomania in our pro-test against this horrible evil and its cause! Look atthese facts! Do you wish any more? I can fill thisbook with the records of drinks doings. You saythey are among the lower orders. There is more dif-ficulty in arriving at definite knowledge of cases inthe so-called upper classes; for while the poorer seemto live very much out of doors, and accordingly whatthey do is known, the habits of the other classes areso covered by the circumstances of their position thatwe only see and know what crops out on the surface. But, oh, the revelations that come to me! If Ishould give you letters that I have received f

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