South-Carolina Temperance Advocate, 1839-08-15

sweieu James, -ones tn.it little? spun 1 net cvi-ry ilny, cost more llia.ii our tea unit augatl 'Five times as much,' said Mary, *uud I was thinking, dear husband, if yuu could nut give it up as licit ns lint, and lint go to the shop any more f *0, yes,* said Janies, 'I (aiuld at any lime ; I don't rare any tiling alsiut it; I Hu there iieranse other folks do, ami it is plea pleasant - sant pleasant to hear the news, and it would tie mean, yon know, to take np the room and not pay for if: and it makes me a little stronger, l 1 «np|Mise, though I'm as strong as a lion now_ I'm never tired. To day, Mary, wo bad a mow ing match, there weie six of tlm stoutest j fellows in town, and 1 rut two swaiths to their one.' | The next morning James Duflil said to his wife. 'I wonder, Mary, what set you tliiuking uhout how much things cost 1 I guess - I goes* you want a now gown : I almost said I would uot try to pay for that wood this year, ; for 1 thought that you might want something, ; and it would take all ! cun earn and seeing i the sun mounting up from la-hind the hill, In* took Ids scythe, and whistling, went to his ' day's work. At night, looking a little arch, lie said, -| saved mv twelve and half cents to today. - day. today. Mary.' A fortnight aftet, lie went to a ncighlMiritig Market, and the next morning she discovered, laying in her drawer, u new ; gown; a tear shot into her eye, at tlm gene geneI - I geneI rous spirit of her husband, and yet a slight pain was felt nit the occasion 'He shall n>*t ; think me selfish,' though* she, ami long lie liefore - fore liefore night, site watched ibr*his return. As soon as he came in sight, his little children ran out to meet him, and his wile stood wait, ing at the doot ; a nice supper was prepared I for him. lie did not seem in any haste, he i had an air of easy indifference, a touch of mo moi - i moi drsty, as he slily glanced at his wife, and hanging up his scythe, lie stoo|ied, and kissing each of Ids joyous Uiys, sat down with one on i-arh km-e. 'I have paid the last dollar,' said he. 'tor iny farm to day, Mary, ami now I don't owe a cent in the world ; it is us hand some a farm as there is in the county, for its size.' "Hut when you were paying so much, how could you by me a new gown !' said Ma Maty. - ty. Maty. 'I was not so selfish as to want to have you give up any thing for me; it was not a gown 1 wanted ; lint I allow it is a very pret pretty - ty pretty one, and I shall always wear it with plea sure.' -<), 1 did uot think so,' a soft expres expression - sion expression stealing over his hardy features. 'Vou ought to have it and a great many other things if I could get them; la-sides, it did not cost any thing. I saved all those twelve and a half edits; they all tried to get me into the shop every day, but 1 went straight by ; they I told me my glass was all measured out, and they had rather give it to mo than lose my company ; but I would not look, and said, by and by, for I thought of you all the time, and now I don't care if I never go there again ; ' besides, 1 sold the cow for more than I ex expected, - pected, expected, so that we at e just as rich as if 1 had ' not bought it; and if we gel along as well as we have done, we shall have all we want; ; our farm will bring us every thing we are like likely - ly likely ever to need, besides a great deal to sell, j and we will have a new house, uml these i boy* must go to school; many a niau that has

1 he shopkeeper told her lie W!W norry her husband li.nl taken such n course; that when lie first came into the shop he thought he was as likely n man as ever he knew, ami orery one taiJ tliere was not so promising a young man in town, am! lie stood out n great while; but it was strange how the habit of drinking gained upon him lately; he is now the most troublesome man that comes into the shop. 'And why do you let him have it,' asked Mary, 'you see that it has ruined him and all the rest of us !' 'Why my fami family - ly family must live,' replied the simp keeper, 'those who pay for mv goods I must let have what they want.' 'Must my family l<e destroyed, that your family may live,' said Mary DufTil, in a tone of bitter Buttering, 'will that excuse stand at the great day of reckoning ?' 'I shan't sell him much more!,' said the shopkee|>er, has hastily. - tily. hastily. 'the mortgage will lie out to morrow, and if he dout pay he must ijuit; 'mortgage,'said Mary thunder struck at die sound. 'Ye#.' said the shopkeefier, 'it has lieen mortgaged these two years, and i can't wait.' As if the current of life had l»ecii frozen, she turned and swiftly went to her home. 'Any other woman in town,' said the shopkeeper, 'would have known it long ago; hut nolsnly could ever sfieak to this woman ultoui her husband; I always feel bad when I see her, that it was done at my shop ; but folks must live,' be said, as lie shut the d>mr. It was a hard snow storm, hut this broken hearted woman heeded it not; 'to morrow,' thought she, 'we must all lie cast out into the open world. (), that the grave would hide me ; and tny jasir chil children, - dren, children, what will become of them I will they Callow their wretched father's footsteps? l>et l>etter - ter l>etter never to have seen the blessed light of this world than to ipiench its l>eauis with our own * * «4e elit. ***- - «--*«# fn.i #««*- Anil children were shivering over a few dying era era, - , era, her*; the eldest, J nines, n boy nlmut ten years old, was holding his little sister, a child* of a year; she shed not a tear, hut they saw some something - thing something was the matter, and each one pressed closely to her. *\Ve nms? all go away to tomorrow; - morrow; tomorrow; you will never sleep here again,' she said to her children; 'the shopkee|>er says your fathei owes it to him.' They all i cried and soldied till the two youngest Ihivs fell nsleep ; their mother laid them in their lied ; she did not attempt to bide them. 'I cannot save them any longer,' thought she, now grown despeiate in her grief; she snt down wiili the little gitlitidier arms, and -lames sat close hy her. 'Where are we go going. - ing. going. mother,' said be. 'when we go away from here.' 'To the ponrhnuse, my ehild,' answer answered - ed answered his mother. 'Where that fool is f said James. 'Yes,' answered his niotlier. 'And where that crazy man isthat scream* all night f* 'Yes.' answered his mother, 'we must all live together; tliere is hut one room.' 'And won't the Isiys despise me f' asked James._ j 'Yes, I'm afraid they will ; they will tell you that your father is a drunkard, and you are a town poor I mv.' "Can't we go live some where else?' 'No, my child.' 'Mother, would not father have lieen a good nan if it had not lieen for that shop l' said James. 'Yes, my child, ho was always good ticiiire he went

hies thickened all around ; and alia pcrcei pcrceivml - vml pcrceivml they neither dropped fmm the skies, nor did they spring from the earth ; the heavens bent over them n» benignly as In-fore ; the aun poured his light and warmlh, the rain* di*s.cndod, the dew fell, and fertilized nil their ground ; the mips sprang up and ri ripened - pened ripened in rich abundance; health bloomed in the family, and yet there \va.i something with within - in within which was continually thwarting ail those blessed influences. 'It is that spirit shop that docs it all,' thought Mary Dutlil, as situ looked upon her altered husband, whose tem temper - per temper was once as sweet as summer, evei so prompt to act that he made the rough places all smooth, I tut now so slack iu alt his busi business - ness business that mole hills grew into mountains ; his footsteps now weru like one ploughing through a ling; life bad become full of little vexations; the fences were broken down; and the sheep strayed away, and one after another was found dead; the cows were h»sl through the same broken fence, and dsys were lost in looking for them ; the swine broke from the pirns and rooted up the corn; he was churlish to the children, and they weru glad when ho was gone away. With rolling tears did shu entreat her hits* hand to abandon that shop, never, never to go there again ; it would ruin him and bring disgrace and misery upon his family, v James I>ent like a culprit l» -fore the sorrows of his wife; he acknowledged that it was all true, and h<- fcsnsl ii.«» »i- - s-ni twi - a i.*,«,, he bad often, he said, tried to break away, and never could get resolution; his tears fell fast to see her so grieved, for he still loved her lietter than all in the world liesides, and amidst all his failing to otliers it was ever a pleasure to do any thing for her; he made many promises, hut they were like the burnt flax. Too plainly to duulit was it rcvenlnd to her agonized heart, that her husband's locks had tieeii shorn, and that a hand of iron hail liecti foa'cncd around him which she could never break ; she hail lost her only np|Hiiiunity; once, had she perseveiod, she might have saved him. All their iiflairs now grow worse and worse; the pmpeity wasted away like the snow In-fore the blazing sun; the crops were seized for debt on the ground, the stock was all taken, this fmor woman could scarcely get the necessaries for her lit little - tle little dependent family ; the farming utensils went one after another, the plough, and then the harrow, the spade, and then the hoes. - The besom of destruction had swept over all the ptomisos, the fences were fallen down, the ncightwiriug cattle strayed ill and destroy destroyed - ed destroyed what hail lieen left, the barn was falling to pieces, tbe bouse leaked iu every part of it, the windows were broken, anJ aflurdod not a shelter from the winds. James Du Hi I now became, a terror to bis family ; he seemed to l»e as regardless of their lives as of any of the house-hold furniture, which he had nearly all destroyed by his violence, and their only secu security - rity security at night was for the children to climb into the loft, where his unsteady step could nut go, and his wife with the youngest child, to flee to the barn.

i lie next morning an otiicer came and took possession of tho house and grounds. James Duflil sat mill, crying bitterly; but his pair wilo -lied not ate.tr; she g utlicre.l up the levy re- maiding articles that were left, with a sick child in her arms, little James billowed dose by her side with one eye swelled, and tho other two boy* crying liecnttse there w is no one to romhirt them. This sorrowful group went to the pool house. Mary was past tho feeling of degradation, at she went down to the aliode of the refuse society. The iron had entered her soul. In a few days the youngest child died front the exposure, the mother dosed its dying eves without a tear. 'Sweet hlossom,' slur said' 'I cannot w ish you to stay in this world of sor sorrow.' - row.' sorrow.' In a lew days n fever set in, and she, too, rested from all h< r trials. It was a mo moment - ment moment of anguish when she laid her cold hand ii'miii the heads of her little Isiya. For them she would longer live and lieur the drunk drunkard's - ard's drunkard's curse. Hut the cup wus not full with without - out without such a sacrifice. Tho doings of a spirit shop could only lie completed in such uti is issue. - sue. issue. And who are responsible for such terrible evils, witues-ed in every town and village, all over the laud I \ e legislators, who ! It. S. EXTlt UTS From ox A'hlrraa, tit/nr ml Inf fir llrr. /In It mil II. Cotrr, brj'nrr I hr Tmo/irmmr Socie Society - ty Society of Prmtllrlwt, nl l/u ir .Istinmiry Mirf Mirfiajf, - iajf, Mirfiajf, in Arif ml, IKI4. That Dntillrnra in Una country, arc /irb/ic nriunvra. First. They help to undermine the morals of bind ami Free. Let us empire what is a nuisance I If a man erect a mill .lam in the nrighbir nrighbirhss-l, - hss-l, nrighbirhss-l, *U). eiernes sickness; no matter how profitable it may I*. to tbe owner, if it bo presented by the grand jury as a nuisance, it iii rotidefiimNi uti<| rrgrtriJIe** i.f its value. A Distillery in a neighbirhood, in a moral aense, is as great a nuisance as a mill-pond (Mixsibly enn Ik*, in a physical sen*..-. It furnishes the materials by which the vriy foundation of morals is to In- sapt, and the injury is general. There is not an indit ideal within the iciclt ..f its influence, hut is niuru or less liable to Is* injured, either in person or in property. Is it neeeasary tb it I stop to prove this asset lion f |f M1> £ at band. The spirits made at a Distilleiy are soM. if not by pittls and i|uuis, at any- rale, by irallons in the immediate nciglilMirhood ; ami then s<d<l again. And w ho, I ask. are the second purchasers ? I).. they blong to the class of the temperate f Not at all. They are either self-denominated nm.lerate drinkers or continued sots. Hence the ranks of the drunkard are filled continually. One and another falls nu.l fills the drunkard's grave, but his place is immediately supplied by others, who, under the influence of Distille Distilleries, - ries, Distilleries, arc sinking from the station of mode moderate - rate moderate drinkers, to the still more awful cotidi -

noil 01 cuiimiiinj K(H«. Hut the e\i! ends not here. Distilleries rnrru|>t not only tlio white, l>nt tli« Idatk population; and that in more way* than one. Ardent spirits are rendered mo 'common liy them, that our servants find no ditlieultv iii procuring them. And indeed it often hap happens, - pens, happens, that the servant* of the owners of Distilleries are the most injured and corrup corrupted - ted corrupted l>y them. So that in a pecuniary point of view, what a man itains on the one hand, he is must certain to lost! on the other._ If 1m Sura liM strain into whiskey and his whiskey into ready money, hv tlio time he safely de|x*dles Ins money, iii u!l protuhililv, much of the profit is lost, mid must he de deducted - ducted deducted for the injury, which the w hi.-,key has inflicted upon the morals of Ins servants. Hut what shall w e say of the f,teut induce* melit which Distilleries gem tally ofler to servants to steal and truth- k ; and suielv this is an evil of so great a magnitude, as not to Ik* overlooked ; for who has not lost poul poultry, - try, poultry, and corn, and Ihicoii ; indeed every thing that can Iks sold fur anient spirits ! Now I do not pretend to s. y, that in every or any instance, that these articles have liecii hnr hnrlt*red - lt*red hnrlt*red hy slaves at Distilleries ; ltd* is not necessary to prove my position : hut I do say, and the thing is entirely too notorious to Ik- denied, that these Distilleries, have fur furnished - nished furnished (i log Shops with ardent spit its, for which these things have gone in barter; mid I twlievo, 1 would as soon a man shoot me himself as to furnish another with aim* and amunition, who ho knows, intends to do it. Hut who does not know, that when ser servants - vants servants can have ready access to ardent spi.it*. they are almost certain to use it; and w hut is the coiisciuence 1 Why they depreciate in value. They lose the confidence of their owners. They are more apt to neglect their ujastots* husiuess. I hey ufW'U Lrcar.ic tur

mero : would navedone every tiling tor u*»: it in that cruel shop Ini* dime it oil. 'And if father hud never none tliere, we idinuld't have h:id to no away (tom our house, sboui.l we I and they couldn't have had our mowing und I «»nr corn field*, and that |>retly wood-lot tool Our home and wagon, that the simp folks used every day, 1 should think would lie enough. And there'* our iwnmr tUt M.Mj in their yard ; it makes me cry w hcu I see hi indie, there: all the w hiskey in the world ain't so good at she is.' and seeing Ida mother'* eye* filled with tcum, 'Mother,' said lie, *| shall be a man pretty aeon, and then 1 will take care of you. and we will go away and live a hundred mile* from a mm shop, and father wilt come, nod ho will Lie just a* he used to lie, won't lie I* Just then he heard the muttering voice of hi* Luther upon the threshold ; and, a* he pushed ojien the door, the |Mior imy in fright 1 started and hid himself liuhind his mother._ James Duttil had lieen to the shop, ami, alter getting his dram they told him his mortgage was out, and, if he could not pay, he must souk siiiue other place to live in, for they could not wait. Enraged by their threats, he grew violent; and being glad to get rid of one who could pay no longer, they thrust him headlong into the street, and shut the door u|mn him. Infulialed to madness at sueli treatment, he went home, to wieak his vengeance u|HHihis innocent family. The storting of James was the signal for his wrath, and seising bint by the collar, w ith curses, 'there, hide again when I come,' he dashed him against the wall; his wife sprang to save her darling boy ; his screams stattled the two little ones from their sleep; and, screaming at once, the father

gone to emigres*, was born to a house no i bigger than this ; I turning makes the man,' j i»atti«»t» hit hainl up mi the liead of each of his ! chulitiy rosy cheesed boys, 'with right con con1 - 1 con1 duet,' milled their happy mother. 'Vos boys,' said their father, 'you must always behave well, if you want your mother should love you.' 1 he last warm red rays of summer's : sun never shot u|mmi a happier family. James and Mary Dnllil hud been married ulxiut two years, and there was no more pro pro| - | pro| iiiiaing or happy couple in alt the laud, lie , hod laien trained a good farmer and she a nice house wifo. True, they hail hut little to liegiii with ; they ruuted a small farm ; he hail just enough to buy stock for it, und farm farming - ing farming utensils, while she furnished three looms with every necessary artii le, to which were coii.-.titulioris with hahits of industry and fru frugality, - gality, frugality, the liest of all capital i; >>ur (mo ami luxuriant country, where wealth flows in eve every - ry every channel. They wctc united in their affec affection*. - tion*. affection*. and strong in mutual confidence. - James consulted his wife in the transactions of his farm, while she was ingnnius and dili- ' gent in applying every tliiug for (tie comfort < and happiness ot her much cherished family, j The first streak of dawu rouse,] them front i their light aliitii!>crs. mid the earliest star of j evening lit them to deep repose, the sweet I rest of a w ell spent day. No couple were [