The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-03-05

are they | look all around tins great audience
1h,re SITS an old fricnd: and there. and there.
Ike nine, their heads are blooming 'or eternity.
Long ,ear- ago. we started side hy side ON ia, /
Journey of life. We had our wives snt-onr lut ,
ones around Us then Where are thyy now -
Another long paused and daep sii.. .ite follow |
cd The dropping Vt pin could have Lsen heard
iu any part of that crowded assembly
~ hen nv thoughts 30 wanittriuui back to
lhat old time resumed the speaksr 'nnd | see
IN imN gination, the bright hearth he,, now *
tiugui-hed and hear in imQins ath. glad voices
of children now hushed fnrev YER: and when
think Of what caused thi, sad e6apge, ! do no,
wonder lhal have been all on fire, " j, wcr,
dat have appeared to some A mere could wa
Ter fanatic.
Il wish that Young man were hereto night:
pcrhap. he /, here / will, at ony rate. take his
presence for granted. make my address to him"
You have called ne, my yoyny friesd. cold
water fanatic. II you had SD enthusiast, !
should have liked the term betUr Bat no mat.
tcr--a frnftic let il be. Aud what Las made me
so' ! vii draw picture
There is a small rneagerlv fnr,i.hcd room in
the thTd story Of building. The time is winter,
aud on the hearth burns few pieces Of pine
wood that afford but little warmth. Three per
IONS are IN that room "A mcifier and her two
thin sid. suffering face tells story of poverty,
and that hsar',sorro which dries M the very
fountains o' NE a few wears previously she
had gone iorth iroa her father $ house happy
urIdr, Ioo"ng do"n The opeh vista "i NE iuinie,
ana seeing nothing tut JOY ana sunshine She
eung 10 her hnsoa'd as c"h'ldingW rs we FIne
c'ngs to the oak and she loved him with All the
ier'"r 81 devotion oi pure young heart. Alas
that shadow :" soon iril upon her pain 'iAt
love c'hging iendIls were 90 soon torn away
Hhc IS sun Young LOOK upon hsr ~ she
move. WIN ir'blesteps about her room Ah m
| 70 "h'l d,P'h OF misery has me iairn "hti'
u h'i hHsoa"u ne VINO so s'ieh " sN"ie I"
/ I"'e. 'h"'lslt hhd Keep her, III sltkne,' anu ~
health me door has opened lie enters
| gaze upon him M wonder AN expression Of pam
md disgust l. on your counienaIce, for mlsera
| bic drunkard is before you. No vend,r the WIFE :
| pale cheek grows pAl,r, nor that the sadness of
! her face changes into lock Of anguish. Hsrk
he has greeted her with an angry VOID. He
/ stagg.rs across the room and ia dong -. throws
over that little toddrg thing on her way to meet
| him The mother. with nm exclamation springs
forward to save her child from harm. See the
! drunken wretch las thru,t her aside with hi-
strong arm; and .he has f,llen--fsllen with her
head across a chair
The fall, NV friends proved fatal. A week
after that unhappy day, ! stood beside the grave
Il one who had been to ne the best Of children"
/ The speakers voice fIl,tred; but lie recovered
himself aud went on:
"A few years before. gave my dchid dear to
me as the apple of an eve. into the keeping Of on.
/ believed to be kind. uohlehearted nnd airhful.
He was 40 ihcn-ye.. | will say tLi-. but the de.
mon of 'nismperance threw upon him her bane.
fol Influence and he became changed And
,uch n harps Tn, srtnc that 1 have rrtur,d d