The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-10-30
MALCOLM WARREN.
THE OLD MANS LESSON.

Malcolm, / wouldn't 20 out tonight.
Come stay with me this evening"
Not this evening, Alice. have pro-
missed 10 meet some friends this evening,
aud must keep my word. will be ., hume
IN good season" t
II had hoped that should have your
company. Come why can't you try and
see II l cannot make you as happy Is thuse
cumpanions you are to meeti Just this
once. Mslcolin. y, this once 70
No. no. Alice; am going oat. What.
crying No~ what's the use m that
Can't fellow 20 out once and while
without leaving crying wife !"
/. .icsn't help il. Malcolm. hot hereIkiss
me beiure you go."
Thun spoke Malcolm Warren and his
young vile. Malcolm was young man.
tseniy-sevsn years oi sge. and carpenter
Dy trade. His vile vas one Of the sseet-
est dispositioned girls 10 town. and she
made one sf the best wives. She loved her
husband with the whole energy OF her pure
roul. and she knew that she WAS loved On
heart Her two children. boy and girl,
ailen sew her shed tears when they we're
alone ~i,h her in the snug little sitting
rsssa, aud the boy vas old .avugh TO ASK
vhst made has mother CRY. but she dared
sot tell him.
Malcolm Warren owned the little cot.
tag. IN which he lived. and he had piid for
u all ou, Of his earnings. while Alice had
borne her own share ot the burten. by pur-
Chasing all the furniture. Malcolm was
stout, and 40 excellent workman, and had
never vet seen the hour when he needed 10
lay idle Tor the want Of work. A better
hearted youth lived not in the town. and
when he took The gentle Alice Tor his vile.
there was many fair maiden whose hos.
om gave place To kindly. wistfal envy.
They would not have robbed Alice u her
prize. but they only hoped that lhe,r o~a
lot might be as fortunate. Why. then.
should cloud come upon that house g.
Why should Alice weep! All. for the same
reason that thousands'of our iairest daugh-
ters wept. Fur the same reason that hot
tears are ever crying an their silent appeals
Tor mercy tears that run until they make
Hood that. fairly shrieks As j, rolls over
our land.
Malcolm Warren had high social ma.
ture-hls society ~as priced by al who
could secure it-and he had been indulg
ing 10 the alsrsmiles OF The Woe cup. For
the last year he had been allowing his sp.
petite 10 gain strength. AZ FIRST Il was on-
" an occasional glass;" ,Len "a class or
so.once IN ~hile." and then " one or t~o
glasses day" But lately he had gone 50
lar as TO rend his warnings away from
mme. and i"r nearly two months past he
had spent all his money with his jovisl con-
paniuns. Alice saw all this. and she knew
fuli well where IL would end IL II WAS no,
stopped. She knew her husbands nature.
anu she knew how sure he was fallen. She
had whispered to him her fears, and he tri-
ed 10 laugh them OF rs idle wh,ms. She
had prayed to him 10 stop the fatal career
While he yet had strength. but he had been
offended because she would think he would
ever become q drunkard. So Alice was
afraid 10 speak all her fears. Yet she saw
With clear eye all that was coming. sac
saw the brad road upon ~hich her below.
ed was travelling. and her heart was achmg.
She knew that even nos want was staring
them 10 the lace! IL was Autumn, and she
had asked M,Icolm for nancy TO buy warn.
e. slethes fnr herself and children, aud ne
had none to give her. Only . day be.
lore he had brought home bucket iull of
Hour. instead Of sending home barrel as
he used 70 do. He earned money. and
where sas iti Alas, poor Alice knew too
we'll Malcclm's lace, and she saw that lie
mshly beauty was slowly bat surely eating
away. The large blue eyes we're growing
din. blesred aud hlooJshot the once fair
cheeks were becoming swoolen and bIoai.