The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-02-25

been given him by Frank, at James
solicitation. When he left the store,
after the work of the day was over,
he despatched note to Jane, in these
words
!" Mss PRDARE, "A conversation
with your brother this afternoon, III
which my fathers misfortunes were
the subject of ridicule, viii make it
necessary for me to forego the pleas
ure Of seeing you at his birth-night
party! Your friend,
81 PELEG BRowN."
Jane did not receive this note until
she had been expecting Peleg for some
time. She few to Frank for an ex-
PLANTATION. ii Jal0t
"Bravo p he answered, when he
had read the note. Bravol / like
the fellows spunka He sforgoes the
inestimable pleasure of seeing you,
Jane, because when he refused to join
the boys in a jubilee after the party,I
h told him he was afraid Of being a
H drunkard, like his father"
II "You were naughty" said Jane,
| in tone which, had not the brother
been flushed with wine, he would long
have remembered. cit was unwor-
thy of my brother ] would not have
come here tonight, if / had been in
! Mr.. Browns place."
"To be sure yoH would not; you
and he would make good match.
But yonder's a party drinking bump
ers to me-; 1 cannot waste time swith
you, Jane" o5
Frank was gone to join his wine
drinking companions. AS she saw
him drink glass after glass, Jane
thought Of what she had once said to
Peleg about doing something for her
folks some day, and she pressed closer
the little note she had that evening re-
ceived, and wished.
When Peleg had taken supper with
his mother, and many times refused
to confide to her the cause Of mani
fest depression of spirits, he walked
, down into the village, found his way
TO his little room, back Of the store,
and, taking dp afl engaging book, read
and thought, and calculated, till a late
hour. 1t was after midnight when
he began to retrace his steps to the
: cottage. AS he sauntered slowly
, through a portion Of the village
sparsely inhabited, he observed man
lying across the dilapidated steps of an
/ untenented building. He stopped
to look at the unfortunate beino, and
ascertain whether he was intoxicated,
or had beer physically injured by ruff
! fans, when something familiar about
/ the dress arrested his attention. He
drag 'gedthe apparently lileless body
iowa ards hotel few rods distant, and
by the light reflected from the bar
t room, was able. to discover that he
i had found-as 1t were, dead in the
street.-the only son of his employer.
:, His -birth-night spree had been too
a much for Frank Pridare: he had en-
tered naGnta'ly upon the year of his
!, majority. @ .5aoa
$ Peleg was grieved and bewildered
: -grieved to find young Pridare in such
k situation, and bewildered in respect
It to his duty towards him and the fam
lily. He forgot all the harsh words
/ Frank had said to him, and determin-
+ ed that he would endeavof to get him
S to his fathers house without calling
e such assistance as might make public
the young mans degradation. He
r. applied at the hotel, and succeeded in
o arousing the ostler, who, for half a
If weeks wages, consented to assist Pc
1t leg. Frank was borne home. When
e they approached the Pridare mansion,
e Peleg dismissed his (" help,in1i and
l. knowing, the appointments Of, the
house, he awakened a servant with.
N II oIIt arOIisino the family and told him