Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-12-23
The two Daguerreotypes.

| ~ tor him. because where there is a will
there is way" the opportunities were botl
fit and occurred very frequent
Jim owned little farm in the country
which by his own industry and economy. ht
had almost paid for. Ms. Scroggins was 3
"real worker" and no doubt did her whole
share in buying the Homestead. She was en-
dowed with great deal of energy and good
judgement, and people were SO malicious as
to say that she was the smartest man of the
twain.
BE this as it may, Mrs. Scroggins was an
industrious woman, and took great deal OF
pride IN the little place which had been bot
by their mutual industry-and the thought
OF having it wrested from them by cold-hear-
ted creditors was to her in the highest degree
diSagreeable; but to sach calamaty her hus-
bands lntinnty, as the good minister of the
village called it, seemed to point
The habit grew upon him, as it almost al
ways does upon those who once get into the
way of imbiblng too freely from the bottle.
The miseries of the drunkard's wife had too
often been presented to the good woman's I'M
Outstanding, to be regarded as simply crea-
tlons OF imagination, and she looked forward
with alarm to the prospect Of enduring them
and the loss of the little palace
But what could be done? She had ex-
hauSted all her eoquence upon the infatuated
man, without producing anything more than
a temporary effect. She had pointed out to
him kindly the inevitable effects of indulg-
ence, and Jim had promised to amend; but,
alas, for the vanity of all human expectations
he got tipsy the very next day.
Then she appealed to.hiS love of money;
to his sense Of satisfaction in being the own
er Of cottage and ten acres of land. She
assured him that he would certainly lose it all
and warming up with the importance of the
! subject, declared that she would not slave her
self any longer to pay for the place, and then
have 1t taken from them to pay rum bill.
Jim listened patiently and without saying
word, to the indignant danes eloquence,
and as usual promised to do better; but also,
as usual, he came into the house the next
! day, tight as Il fiddle string.
| Mrs. Scroegins was in despair; what to
/ do she didn't know" as she expressed it to
! Parson AilWise, who was a sincere svmpath!-
ser with her in her distress. She had entrca-
ted she had scolded, she had threatened, to
no purpose. What could a body do?"
| P"son Alwise himself, although he always
made it a point never to interfere in the do
mestic affairs Of his pariShioners, was at last
moved to Try his powers of persuasion upon
the poor fellow.
! But Jim, unfortunately for the success of
/ the appeal had but Il poor opinion of ministers
/ III general, and Of parson AlWise in partic,l-
/ lar, and as good as told the parson that he
had better mind his own business.
Mis-. Scroggins was very much shocked at
! the bolducss OF her spouse in answering mi
mister of the gospel in such pointed manner,
and was led to believe that the case was now
hopeless indeed.
But woman's wits are equal to almost
any emergency; and though she had confess
eddy gwen Jim over to the tender mercies Of
the devil, she could not help thinking tina, it
would be a good thing if he could only but
be saved from himself.
One day circumstances seemed TO favor an
experiment, which had suggested Itself to hel
fertile brain, and she immediately carried ii
into effect, with the most happy success as
the sequel will show
Jim had been cleaning out the pig pen, and
as the operation was a rather dl>agreeable
one, he had commenced by fortifyiug his Oh
factories by drinking an inordiuate quantity
Of vile New England rum.
The fl,hy stuff happily did not take effect
on his brain till the job was done. The pig
pen was cleaned out, but jim was in a coudi
ton which better fitted him to occupy it thar
the neat white-Hooyed KIT, he Of bis cottage
Bat Jim did not realize this unpleasant tlutI
and leaving his hoe and shovel III the pig-sty
staggered INTO the house.
tie was sight to behold, as Ms. Scrog
gins told the minister. The job he had JUS
, completed was eminenty a nasty one, ans
jim, as we have before remarked, being
prudentman had prepared to perform it with
out any detriment to the neat garments ht
ordinarily wore.
He was dressed in a suit Of ragged clothes
and on his head rested shocking bad hat,
with the crown stove in, and the brim hal
torn Oft. As the liquor began to fiddle hin
, he had moved it over from its perpeudicul1
position, so that it rested very jaurtily upo,
one side OF his head.
jim settled himself heavily in a chair by
the cooalrg-stoye, looked silly, and SCENE,
disposed to address himself to sleep-his Us
ual resort when inebriated.
Mrs. Scroggins WIS mad at first; for II wa
only the day before that Jim, for the hun
dreth time, had promised never to drink an
other drop, not even for sickness.
But what was the use in being mad will
such poor, silly, imbecile being, as he was a
that moment. He was not in acondition t
appreciate a regular matrimonial 'bow up
and 50 she Very wisely resolved to reserve tn,
vials OF her wrath to be poured out at a NOR
convenient season.
She looked at him, and thought of losing
the little place; of penury, degradation, mis-
cry and the poor-house. \ lucky though
rose, like the phoenix from the flames out o
the contemplation of the dark picture; ant
after few minutes elaboration, she put OF
her bonnet and cloak, AID hurried over I,
the villuge. about half mile distant.
For week previous, young daguerreo