Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-22
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SAYING
Behold your SOM"
The next week John Hanson, Jr,
returned home. He was a bright,
fine-looking boy, and h. received
that polish Of manner which an in
,trcourse with culture and refinement
always gives; but to close obscr-
YER the marks of dissipation Were Just
d.scernabie upon his face.
Il am glad to See you. my SON.
said his father with tears in his eyes,
"bu, sorry that you should be dis
missed with disgrace from school
hope you won't b. foolish and
break al! our hears, for yoh know
we hav, always locked forward t"
your making graf work in the
world"
Never fear for me-. father. re-
piled the youth. "ifa young man
can't cn,e. rrsprc abtr saloon and
play game of billiards, or tax. 4
glass occasionally with FREUD,
without being prayed over and gwen
up for lost, it's a pity. fancy -,
II believed it would be better 1t
you didr', drink at all" said the
mother strokius his hair softly. II
believe no one is ever better tor It. y
Pshaw! rnotl er, nearly every
body drinks nowadays ; if they
didn't it wouldn't be- sold in most -v-
cry chimney corner. Why, here's
father getting rich by selling it. and
i. people don, drink there would be
no money mad. by it; elI father y
( The affair was getting altogether
too p-rs onal. I. was a very differ
emit thing to sell rum TO other men .
sons, but when it came 10 his own
he couldn't bear they should drink,
no matter how temporarily. 30 he
laughed uneasily as he rep!ied,-
+ Your mother is tight. | almost
wish had ueve, gone into the bust
ness
All YOU are al! nervous to-
night" said the gay youth, but III
-rN sou what, We have had some lo!-
~ times during my school-days; v
and he broke into a snatch ofthe tune
Aud wt'll all drink stone blind"
The father CAV. a deep sigh and
settled into Z looiny meditation,
while the mother spread the cloth for
tea with a sa,id"r heart than she had
known for long while.
As the day passed. on John Han
son began to real zr the fruits of his
evil Goiu.-, for IN, son vas a con-
slant iuIlate of his restaurant. where
he loungrd and smoked. read the pa,
pcra and played billiards, and. being
, !. TEN pirate drlnkcr, orig took his
: glass OF bltiers three times a day. All
this was a gri.vous vexatiUu TO the
. sensitive father, who one .v-niu :
tri q 70 r-mnustratr With his son.
Il wish, my boy, you wouldn't
spend 80 much of your tim" IL tn,
saloon YOU had better be p: HON,
studying your books. am afraid
, YOU are getting u little wild. W.
had hoped better things Of you.
don, allow Jamie to 20 in at all
yet ! was informed the other dA,
,!,st he had learned to srnrk" and
chew; ana r>t- ia the. hatit of ri-i,
o. ing other saloons and drinking hcrl
wltn tn. bovs. don't know VIVA,
, shall DO il rnv ho;- az. growing up
! unsteady wl.-n ho.rG to be 20 proud
. OF th.tu."
And Why ar. We any wo.s. tina.
. other boys - responded the ,oa. "
. arn SUI. :lra:,lv all al he first youna
. men in .uwn drink. only they ar. t..
: rro,;I, mos; Of them. to buv THU
, bi,,rr- at q restaurant. And how
, uauv Of your business men and Sc
! called rr-prctab.. mon are there now
I'm. MAXI. a -.,lvrr..,. L.. Of fiounr
l. Go,- a man no harm. IN nv opin
ION. bu, raises hi, spirits ard max IS
; him iaiiyor sayag.. ouror the Other
p. In. father turned away sorrowtul