The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-07-27

boldness Of her spouse in answering 4
! minister Of the gospel in such point
ed manner, and was led TO believe thai
the case was now hopeless indeed.
But woman's wits are equal 10 almost
any emergency; and thosgh she had
confessedly given Jim to the tender
mercies Of the devil, She could not help
thinking il would be good thing If he
could only be saved from himself.
/, One day circumstances seemed 10
conspire in favor Of an experiment.
which had suggested itself to her fertile
brain. and she Immediately carried il
into effect. with the most happy success.
az the sequel will show.
CHAPTER H.
Jim had been cleaning out the pig
pen, and as the operation was rather a
disagreeable one, he had fortified his
ollactories By drinking an inordinate
quantity Of vile New England rum.
! The filthy 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 condition which better fitted
him TO occupy il, than the neat, white
floored kitchen d his cottage. But Jim
did not realize this unpleasant truth,
and leaving his shovel and hoe in the
sty, staggered TO the house.
He was a sight to behold" ,"as Mrs.
Scroggins told the minister. The job
he had just completed was essentially
dirty one, and jim, as we have re-
marked, being prudent, he had prepar-
ed himself to perform il without any
detriment to the neat garments he or
dinarily wore. He was dressed in a
ragged suit of clothes, and on his head
rested shocking bad hat with the
crown stove in, and the brim half torn
Oft. As the liquor began to fuddle him,
he moved It over from its perpendicu-
lar position. SO that il rested quite jaun-
tily on one side of his head.
Jim settled himself heavily in the
chair by the cooking stove, looked silly,
and seemed disposed to address him
self to slumber, his usual resort, when
inebriated.
Mrs. Scroggins was mad at first. for
il was only the day before that Jim, for
the hundredth time, had promised ne
yer to drink another drop. not even in
case Of sickness.
But what was the use of getting mad
with such poor, silly, imbecile thing
as he was at that moment. He was not
) in a condition to appreciate a regular
. matrimonial blow up, and she wisely
resolved to reserve the vials of her
wrath to be poured out at more con-
venient season.
) She looked at him and thought Of
losing the little place-of penury, OF
. degradation, and the poor house. "A
lucky thought arose, like the Phoenix
from the flames, out of the contempla. J.
tion of the dark picture aud after a
few moments deliberation, she put on
: her bonnet and cloak, and hurried over
to the village half a mile Distant.
For week previous, young da-
guerreotypist. with portable saloon
kind of overgrown omnibus-.ha been
delighting the villagers by giving them
the semblance Of their faces, at prices
varying from nine shillings to three
e dollars head. depending on the value
: Of the case.
! All the people in the town had beer
! dagnerreotyped, and the omnibus mar
!, was the most popular person in the vii.
!, lage. All the DANES and maidens hat
Q been taken, and every Jonathan ant
+ Jehial who could boast of a Susan, {
Ruth, or Sally, was taken with hel
by his side in the picture, his arm
!. thrown lovingly around her, and look
J ing unutterably affectionate.
But Mrs. Scroggins was not senti
mental she had gotten over all tha
!, long before Jim took to drinking. Sh,
/ proposed to put the skill Of the daguer
) reotypist to more practical use thar
that Of getting the good will of a 10
y yer.
!. She entered the saloon, and thougl
q her heart did beat little at the degra
'e dation Of exposing her domestic matter
l. to an entire stranger, she demeane,
le herself with all the firmness becomin
m the trying occasion.
Fortunately for her all the peopl
III in the town had sheen taken" and
?, was dry time with the artist. In q
y, few words as possible she stated tn
1t case to him. and the young gentlema
readily promised cooperation.
!, Taking his apparatus under his arm
- - he accompanied Mrs. Scroggins to ii
20 cottage where Jun was sleeping off IL
Il Il effects of the villainous New Englan,
e. The inebriate sat in precisely IL
same position in which his wife ha
he left him. He was asleep in higl
he backed chair, which kept bis head u
as so that every thing was favorable to Il
r. sitting.
In a trice, Jim Scrogsins' old ha
C. ragged clothes, long b9ard, dozin
pi. drunken expression, af9all, wei
of transferred to the plate.
asl Rut the nirture did not s,nit the,