The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-11
From Arthur's Home Magazine
Little Lizzie,

eff they wouldn't let him have it!'s said
Mrs. Leslie, weeping. so, if they wouldn't
sell him liquor, there'd be no. trouble. He's
one of the best Of men when he doesn't
drink. He never brings liquor into the
house and he tries hard enough, I know,
to keep sober, but he cannot pass jerks
tavern.'' 40 sg-s-97 ~ - eEsisR5i Ttga5
Mrs. Leslie was talking with a sympathi-
zingneighbor, who responded by saying that
she wished the tavern would burn down,
and that, for her part, she didn't feel any
too good to apply fire to the place herself.
Mrs. Leslie sighed, and wiped away the
tears with her checked apron. g7...a..1aG al
ts'It is hard, indeed it is, she murmured,
':to see man like jerks growing richer and
richer every day out of the earnings of poor
working men, whose families are in want of
bread. For every coin that goes over his
counter, some one is made poofer--to some
heart is given throb of pain" .,e,..r,
cts downright shame !''- exclaimed the
neighbor Indignantly eff I had my way
with the lazy, good for-nothing fellow, I'd
see that he did something useful, If it was
to break stone on the road. d Were it my
husband, instead of yours, that he enticed
into his bar, depend upon it he'd get himself
into trouble
While this conversation was going on, a
little girl, not over ten years old, sat listen
ing attentively. After awhile, she went
quietly from the room, and throwing her
apron over her head, took her way, unob
served by her mother, down the road.
Where was Lizzie going? s There was a
purpose in her mind-she had started, on
mission. go, if they wouldn't SELF him
liquor p These earnest, fearful words of
her mother had filled her thoughts. If Mr..
jerks wouldn't sell her father anything to
drink, f'there would be no more trouble"
How simple, how direct the remedy! She
would go to Mr.. jerks, and ask him not to
let her father have any more liquor, and
then all would be well again. Artless, in
nocent child And this was her mission.
The tavern kept by jerks, the LATEST man
in Miiahville, the was too lazy to work, and
therefore went to tavern -keeping) stood
nearly quarter of a mile from the poor
tenement soccupied by tie Leslies Toward
this point, under hot; sultry sun, Lizzie
made her way, her mind. so filed with It's
purpose that she was unconscious Of heat
or fatigue. 7ii1<1 soT iltn 1saaeE
+ Not long before, a traveller alishted at the
tavern. After giving directions to have his
horses fed, he entered the har-roen, and
went up to where jerks stood behind the
counter. Il ~ .teH - 4 = .d4iesg7J |
Have something to drink ga inquired
the landlord. ezas.1 e@a@1kw
etI'll take glass. of water, if you please. -
jerks could not hide the indifference at |
once felt towards the stranger. Very delibl |
erately he set a pitcher and glass upon the |
counter, and then turned partly away. Tie |
stranger poured out full tumbler of water. |
and drank it off with an air OF. satisfaction.
Good water, that of yours, landlord
said he.a 4sz& = ~ zza&sT. Ss1s9 |
els it 2''a was returned, somewhat I'M |
.4IHeER9z tRoa&2
Il call It good water, don't you '9,s-2e
ssNever drink water by itself.p las jerks |
said this, he winked to one of his customers,
who was lounging on thesbaF. stITI fact, its
so long since drankhany water, that for /
get how it tastes. DOME you, Leslie ?',
The manto whom this was addressed was
not so far lost to shame as jerks. # He
blushed and looked confused, as he replied:
r sit might De better for some of 1us IF we
had not lest our relish for pure water. IDOL
"a true word espokeu,:my friend % said
the stranger, tnrningsste the man, whose
swollen visage and patched. threadbare gar
ments too plainly told the story of his sad
life. Water, pure water, bright water |!
that Is my motto. 1t never swells the face.
nor inflames the eyes, nor mars the counts.
nance. Its attendants are health: thrift and
happiness. 1t takes not away the children's
bread, nor the toiliHg wife's garments.--
Water it is one of God Is chiefest blessinpsI
Our friend, the landlord here, SAYS he has
how It tastes and you have lost
Ill relish for the refreshing, inyigorating