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THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN Governor
Briggs of Massachusetts in speech at Al
bany, related the following thrilling Incl
dent


At certain town meeting in Pennsylva-
MIA, the question came up whether any
persons should be licensed to sell rum =
The clergyman, the deacon, and physician
strange as it may now appear, all favored
it. One man only spoke against it, because
of the mischief 1t did The question was
about to be put. when all at once there arose
from one corner of the room, miserable
female She was thinly clad, and her ap-
pearance indicated the utmost wretchedness,
and ihat her mortal career was almost
closed. Afier moment of silence. and all
eyes being fixed upon her, she stretched her
attenuated body to It's utmost height,
and then her long arms to their creates:
length, and raising her voice to a sheiIl
pitch, she called TO all to look upon her.


"Yesi" SIZE said, "look upon me, aud
then hear me. All that the last speaker has
said relative to temperate drinking, as be-
inc the father OF drunkenness, is true. All
practice, all experience, declare It's truth
All drinking ofalcoholic poison, as be-
verage in health, is ercess. Look upoa me-
You all know me. or once did You ali
know | was once the mistress of the best
farm in the town You all know, too,
had one of the best-ihe most devoted of
husbands You all know, too, | bad FIVE
noble hearted industrious boys Where are
thsv aotc? Doctor qchefe are they notc ?
You all know. You all know they lie IN
a row side by side. in yonder church-yard
all-every one of them ftiixg The drum
kard graret They weretaught to believe
that temperate drinkers was safe-excess
alone ought to be avoided; and they never
excess. They quoted gou
and gou,n pointing with her shred of a fin
ger TO the Priest. Deacon. and Doctor as
authority. "They thought themselves safe
under such teachers. But saw the gra
dual change coming over my family and
prospects. with dismay and horror - felt
we were all TO be overwhelmed in one com
mon ruin-I tried to ward ofi'thc blow,