Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-12-06
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THE SON OF TEMPERANCE.
By PRoF. INGRAHAM.

he SUN OF TEMPERANCE.
BY PROF. INGRAHAM.
Where this evening, Charles"
asked lovely married woman of her
husband. The tone was slightly sneer-
ing, though she smiled as she spoke.
Il am on the visiting committee. and
have TO call on a.sick brother" answered
Mr.-as he put on his gloves.
The lady pouted.
He took up his hat and approached
her with playful smile.
"Ah, Mary, fear you will never over
come your hostility-it is no longer pre-
judice, but hostility to our Order"
Sand | do not wish to. Here you
were away on Monday night until ten
o'clock, and now you are off again.
"But l have duties l owe to others as
well as to yourself, Mary! l give you
FIVE evenings, and often six in every
week. and you have great portion Of
my time during the day. We must
sacrifice some things for others. As
members ofthe great community, we have
duties external to those due TO our i'm
mediate families.
sc But you had no such duties until you
became Son of Temperance
II did not, till Ebecame Son of Tenn
perance, see SO plainly the duty l owed
to my fellow creatures, as now do. Be-
coming a Son of Temperance has enlatg-
ed my views of benyolence, and opened
TO me field for its exercise"
A young married man by the name
Of, who joined the Order year ago
| learn by note l received from the
Worhy Patriarch, while | was at tea, is
discovered to be quite ill. He has been
absent from the Order for several meet
ings but as no one reported him ill,
was not aware of it til, just now. As he
lives in the next street, | must 60 and
see him."
Il What is he 7"
i "a Son of Temperance"
81 mean his trade!
Then you mean hoD respectable is
he? We Sons of Temperance know nc
distiction of trade within the Order. We
are all brothers and friends. He is {
: mechanic shoemaker: l believe;
J have several lines spoken with him ant
: like him. He is quite unassuming, anC
quite interesting in conversation. have
heard him speak in the Division, will
f great fuency and eloquence. His healtl
has been delicate of latu."
| You seem to feel very much for sucl
sort of person, it seems 10 me! Wei
go, I will try and pass the evening a
l well as can, as do those when you ar
E at the Orderl" and the lady pouted an
E looked i'll pleased.
Why not let me ask lively Amy t
f drop in and pass the evening"
( Z" had rather not have her,"
: d" Why not go into your fathers?
: will see you there, and call for you whe
| come back"
+ mo"
e Then pass the time in reading
s +" shall 60 to bed.''
e This was said so very positively an
/, angriIy that her husband said nothin
S more, except "good evening"
# She waited till she heard him close th
+ street door, and then sprang up and b'
I gan 10 pace the room. Inc CTICkel VIZ
} in the way, and she kicked it out of he
# way.-The work stand was an obstacl
to the free exercise of her limbs, and sh
/ tilted it over. For full five minutes sh
e continued in this amiable mood, durin
l. which papers strewed the floor char
n were laid on their backs, and the pok'
r and the shovel took turn or two oftE
IS cachuca about the room. At length ST
4 threw herself upon the sofa, and playe
: the devils tattoo with her little left TO
1t upon the carpet till she was. tired 81
st then pulled feather fan to pieces, al
o cast the fragments around her; took up
g book, aad glanced into it and flung 1t
d the farther side ofthe room, greatly, to Il
peril of splendid mirror, and to the utt
in demolition of cologne bottle that U
n luckily lay in its progress.
n After venting few gentle epithets
y the Sons of Temperance in general, a
ne at her husband in particular, She becar
ar somewhat calm, either under ihe inf
in ence of cologne or exhaustion.