Liquor’s Deadly Consequences
A YOUNG man named Charles Van Iderstein received word and money from his mother, in New Jersey, to come home, and accordingly made arrangements to start Monday morning. Last night he and four others hired a buggy for a ride. They were intoxicated, and the horses became unmanageable and started to run away. Van Iderstein's foot caught in the step and the horses dragged him about four blocks, and then ran into the stable, the young man's head striking the doorpost with such force as to fracture his skull. He died in a few hours, and his body will be sent to his mother Monday morning. What comment can add force to the above? If liquor hurts only those who drink it, what is it hurts that disconsolate mother when she receives a corpse instead of a son?—Golden Censer.