A JOKE THAT COST A LIFE

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1880

A JOKE THAT COST A LIFE.

Wm. Bailye, aged about thirty years, died recently in Bozrah, Conn. He was of strong, hearty physique, and his talents and character gave promise of a fine future. His illness was brief and of a singular nature. The young man's death was the result of a joke by one of his companions. One day he crossed his father's kitchen to sit down in a chair near which a friend was standing; and as he stooped down, without looking behind him, his friend jokingly pulled the chair from behind him, and he fell to the floor heavily. The jarring blow affected the spinal column fatally. Thoughtless persons, by silly acts of this kind, often do injuries that they regret all the rest of their lives.