The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-11
What win YOu Maves

So fS. vfN1I w He AVA Eh0sSs
The group stood beside the marble slab
that formed the bar of saloon. The lights
flashed from costly chandelier, and showed
we'll the eilded room, built by the earnings
of working men. .sWhat will you have?
what. viii yolr have !''g cried the bartender.
young man looked around and said, "blt-
ter ale.n s
$. lThsre. was nothing to do but to press
lever aad the tankard, Hith lfs ioalny
crown. was at his lips, and the glasses We're
filled and re-filled. When he went home 10
his mothers there was no marble table, no
flashing light, and he was short Of temper,
ave. even to his mother! And he found his
way back, evening after evening, and HAD
bitter ale, whisky and water and gin for you
must increase the dose as You proceed. ana
now. he has young wife, in whose eyes
there is no more Of the. old light; and ne has
fpur little children, who go toino school, Tor
ther have nothing to wea's and hardiy
enouoh to eat. And he has blotches on taaC
once frank and honest face. There is an un-
healthy redness about his eyes; his llps are
Aabby, swollen, and of sickly, Nhlttsh
| color: his hands are very unsteady, ne has
| been twice dismissed, and taken back at the
request of a minister who knew the broken
hearted wife in better days, and who attended
| his mothers funeral, for her son was drunk
/ at it. And if cholera or fever came to his
cherries room, his wife would likely De o
!. widow and his children without father and,
worst of all, it woull be no great loss to
/ them. ID tSs sss +s 1850 3it
/ He did not mean to have these when he
said. ssbittcr ale.,' But all these have come ;
fer lire win burn. and folly will injure, and
/ vice win curse as. whether we mean TO or
/ not. All! it has been bitter to him indeed.
/ NV friend, what will you have? Look be-
8yord the heur and glass !; think .of the fu-
/ ture heweyer pheasant it looks to the eye,
Tor tastes TO the lip, tor asat last is bitet iii
j a serpent and stingeta like an addict IT,
Hall.
~ PLEAsu gE.-Men seldom give pleasure
when they are not pleased themselves; i is
necessary, therefore, to cultivate an habltuisl
1 alacrity and cheertuiness, that in whatever
Estate We may be placed by Providence
I whether we are apointed to confer or receive
benefits, to implore or afford protection
may secure fhe love OF those with whom we
transact. Fur thought IT is. generally imag'
ined that he who grants fayors may spare
I any attention to his behavior, and that us use
fulness win always procurefriends. yet It has
! been found that there is an art Of granting
reauests-an art very difficult Of attainment;
4 that officiousness and liberality may be so
i aiulterated as to lose the greater part of their
effect; that compliance may provoke, aelie1
! may aarrass, and liherality distress.
Il let parents talk much and talk well at
home. IA father whois habitualiy silent In
/ bis own house may be IN many respects q
wise man, but he is not wise IN his silence.
I'VE sometimes see parents WHO are fae life OF
every company they are in. but silent and
uainseresting home among their children. III
they have not Easntai activity and menf a
]. stores sufficient for both, let them first pro
vide for their own household. Itis better TO
i Instruct children and make them. happy at
sEhome thar, Ii Is To charm strangers or TO
1 aniuse friends A silent home Il . duh place
for yot,ng people--a place from which they
win escape II they can. They viii talk or
think Of bring ssshilt up there, and the
youth Who does not love Ills home is itl ual- ";
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