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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 38.

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I'll Drink Till I Die

"I'll Drink Till I Die."—A sad scene was witnessed at the Harlem Police Court recently. A man, his wife, and their boy appeared before the judge. The husband charged his wife with being guilty of habitual intoxication, and said she had pawned all his household and wearing apparel to procure money with which to purchase liquor. While repeating his sad story in court, he kissed his wife repeatedly, and appeared broken down with grief. In answer to Judge Otterbourg's question, "Mrs. Sommerset, what have you to say?" she made the reply, "I'll drink till I die; I cannot help it." It is needless to inform our readers that this unfortunate woman will be sent to Blackwell's Island, where the law will protect her from her terrible appetite for a time, unless she has money to induce some one to supply her secretly. Should an appetite like this be risked by indulging in even the most moderate drinking?—N. Y. Witness.