Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-04-29
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The Son of Temperance.
By PROF. ISGkAHAM.

By PROF. isekAHAm.
"WHEEE this evening, Chares?" asked
lovely married woman of her husband. The
tone was slightly sneering though she smiled
us she spoke.
81 am on The visiting committee, and hav,
to call on sick brother" answered MIR. -
as he put on his gloves.
The lady pouted.
He took up his hat and approached hcl
with playful smile.
"Ah, Mary, fear you will never overcome
your hosliily-it is no longer prejudice, bu
hostility TO our ordcr.''
"And do not wish to. Here you were
away on Monday night until ten o'clock, and
You are off again"
But have duties owe to others as well
as to yourself, Mary! give you FIVE eve.
nings. and often six in every week, and you
have great portion of my time during the
day. We must sacrifice some things for 9th
ers. AS members of the great community,
We have duties external to those due TO our
immediate families.
"But you had no such duties until you be-
came Son of Temperance"
IL did not, till ] became q Son Of Tenn
perance, see so plainly the duty lowed TO my
fellow creatures, as now do. Becoming 4
Son of Temperance has enlarged my views
of bencvolrncc, and opened 10 me field for
its exercise"
"And pray, what ere you to exercise it
upon to night! Who do you visit?s she
asked with a toss of her pretty head.
"a young married man by the name Of
-, who Joined the Order year ago,
learned by note received from the Worthy
Patriarch, while was at tea. is discovered to
be quite i'll Hc has been absent from the
Order for several meetings, but as no one
reported him i'll, was not aware of it till
now. AS he lives in the next street, must
go and sec him"
"What is he
"a Son Of Temperance"
81 mean his trader
"Then you mean how respectable is he
We Sons of Temperance know no distinc-
tion of trade within the Order. We are all
brothers and friends. He is mechanic
believe; have several times
spoken with him, and like him. He is quite
and very interesting in eoryeerr= YER
inn with great flnency and cloqucncc. His
,eallh has been delicate of late" -,
"You seem to feel very much for such a
sort of person it seems TO me!-Well, go:
will try and pass the evening as we'll rs
.an, as do those when you are at the Or
ler!n ard the lady poutcd aud looked dis
pleased.
"Why not LET me ask lively Amy to drop
in and pass The evening %
81 had rather not have her"
"Why not 60 into your fathers! will
see you there, and call for you when come
back"
"No."
."Thcn pass the time in reading"
al shall go TO bed"
THIS was suid so very positively and an
grily that her husband said nothing more en-
cent good evening"
She waited ill She heard him close The
street door, aud then sprang up and began
to pace The room. The cricket was IN the
way aud she kicked ii out of her way. The
workstaud was an obstacle lothc free exercise
of her limbs, and she tilted it over. For full
five minutes she continued in this amiablc
mood, during which papers strcwcd the floor,
chairs were laid on their backs, and the poker
ard the shovel touk q turn or two OF cachuca
about the room. At length she threw herself
upon the sofa. and played the devils tattoo
with her little left foot till she was tired:
She then pulled Il feather fan to pieces, and
cast the fragments around her; took up q
book and glanced into it, and flung 1t to the
farther side Of the room, greatly to the peril
of n splendid mirror, and to the utter demoi-
tion OF colcgne bottle that unluckily lay in
its progress.
After few gentle cpiihets at the Sons of
Temperance generally, and at her husband III
particular, she becanle somewhat calm either
under the influence Of cologne or exhaustion
Mrs. was not simpcton, nor a
vixen, nor fool. She had good sense, a
cultivated mind, and knew great deal better
than TO act as she did She WAS Jealous
Jealous of the Order, not of woman; tor
She had too Just an appreciation of her own
beauty if not of Charles constancy, to be
Jealous of any lady. No, the Order was her
rival. 1t robbed her of part of his society
all of which she thought it was her right ia
monopolize. She was like stingy child
with a sweet apple. She must enjoy it IN Il
corner, lest somebody should want bite.
She had from the first, openly shown her
hostility to the Order, and many had been
the scenes of tears and recriminations be.
tween them he being too firm to yield hc'
weak cntrcaties to withdraw from an institu
tion he knew TO 10 so worthy; and she sc
blind only to her own selfish love for every
hour of his time. At his refusal she woulc
retort.
"You pretend to Love, Purify and Fl
deliy.' Where is your love for me? Wher'
is your purity! Where is your fidelity
when you refuse this TO my love, after yo'
have sol, mnly pledged yourself when yo'
married INC, Charles, 10 love and honor me
Is this no, oring or loving mcs If you thin
80, do not.
While Mrs. was eating ice cream
Amy o., camo in. Being now in
better humor, Gees are an excellent prcscrlp
ton in these mattersD she managed to re
ccive her husband very admirably, when
baIfnast nine he returned.