The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-09-14

pering in your eBrs, Save, 0 save my soni'
The appeal successful. The vote was re
considered, and that night Harry Summers, par
TALLY intoxicated as he was. took upon himself the
total abstinence pledge of Son of Temperance.
CHAPTERH.
Harry Summers had been sober man for more
than two years. From the night of his initiation
into the Order of the Sons of Temperance. up to
the time of which we write, not drop Of
alcohol had passed his lips. The confidence re-
posed in him had not been violated. His friends
looked upon him n redeemed man. They
that he avoided bis old haunts, and sought by
cry means in his power, to make amends for the
past. Steadily, faithfully, and industriousIy he
pursued his occupation.
The greatest change was apparent Mt his home.
His children no longer Stunned him when he re-
turned from his daily toll. His wife was now
happy woman. She had clung to him in his deg
radaton,and now that that was passed,an he once
more moved in good society, she felt that she
repaid for all the misery she had endured on his
account; and, could you have looked in upon them
some evening they sat around their hearthstone,
in the full enjoyment of domestis bliss, you would
not have dreamed that that family had ever suffer-
ed from the blighting curse of drunkenness. All the
little comforts of life that had been destroyed by the
former ntemperance of the husband had been
stored. The children were comfortably and neat-
ly clad. The house was furnished with all the
appurtenances that would make it a pleasant re-
treat for the husbcnd-and the society of his f.m-
lily such that it gave him desire to seek 9TH
er associates with whom he might spend his eve
nings. One night each week, however he met
with that band of brothers who had SO timely
reached out to him the helping hand and spoken
| to him words of encouragement that had sustained
him in the first dark and trying hours of his refor
mation-those hours when appetite like an armed
giant, is demar ding its accustomed tribute-when
the will seems hardly recovered from the ahjrct
slavery in which it has been bound when habit that
almost unconquerabe tyrant, struggles to hold the
scepter it has so long and so cruelty swayed To
those brothers he felt he owed debt of gratitude
and love that the devotion of his life to the of
humanity alone could repay.
Years of happiness pass more swiftly than weeks
of sorrow; and none may tell how PLEASANTLY and
rapidly to that family had passed the last two
years: and all who knew them rejoiced in the sue
eessfuI reformation of the husband. All! No, mt
all. There was one, who. like Satan in Eden, had
resolved to destroy their joy and bring back upon
them the mseries they had escaped; and that one
was man lost TO all sense of honor and shame
lost to all that ennobIes manhood and elevates it
above the common brute-lost to conscience, for
saken of God and sold to the Evil One: ard he was
Dixon, the Rumseller! Did he succeed?
Ellerton Dixon no longer occupied the little
room he did at the opening of our story. The prof
| its of his vainous business had enabled him re-
move TO more eligible position in the city and fit
ted upa fashionable coffee house attached to which
yet having a separate entrance was large sbow-
ling saoon,' arranged and furnished after the most
approved manner. To this ante chamber of drunk
enness many young men, and some old ones too,
who not in the habit of drinkin went for the
purpo-e of engaging in what they termed harm
less sport. 1t also the daily resort of quite
large number of those fashionable ones, who have
no visible of support, hut who have by some
method succeeded in procuring a sufficient amount
of money to dress la mode, and thus, in the est-
nation of some, retain respectable standing in
society.
Late night Dixon, ard of this class
whom we shall call McAister, were sitting in the
coffee-house engaged in deep conversation
i tell you, Nc, it can be done, and it shall be
done! snd Dixon. e--tsz "a
'Why1 What spite have you against hint
Has he ever done you any hHrm!'
Has he? Didn't this same gody Summers
use every means in his power to injure my char
acter when that poor devil Johnston found
dead, one morning at my door! Didn't he pub
lcly say, that had been the of his death?-
He, the poor puppy! who, q few years ago, woult
, sit all day in my room for the snke of glass o.
whskey, now wants to be thought somebody be-
, cause he belongs to the society called the Sons o
Temperance. He only joined them because hs
thought they would support him. for he had got 81
poor that he could not raise money enough to buy
lquor unless he stole 1t from his wife. And has n
his wife said that he would have been well off if
: had not robbed him of his money? tell you II
be revenged upon him, and intend to do it by ma
8 king him break his pledge; see if l DON'T
. That's too bad. Let the poor fellow alone,' re
d piled McAlister.
: No it's not, III make him break his pledge, ,an'
e I'll show him how to talk about his beters. II
h let him know that my business is lawful one, ant
e that if men are fools enough to drink he ono
is did and make beasts of themselves, that it is non
If ofmy business .. ..'.-
,, But how can you do it?' .....- .
is Nothing easier. He used to be passionato
N fond of 'ninepns and billiards, and intend to ge
9 you 10 coax him here to play, and then III see t
= the rest
u You don't think would be guilty of that d
i you?' asked McAllister.
l. Well Me- replied Dixon, 'that will do. Suc
y doctrine sounds we'll from your lips Hadn't yo
Il better turn preacher?' and he laughed ut his ow
" supposed wit.
is Hardly, l think said McAllister, with smile
v don't think it would suit me just at atpresent-thin
ia could make more money here
ia Yes, understand you now Well, it shall b
B. all right, then. You know me too well not to b