Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-03
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overmnstering thing is that soulw hich
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sunrise was that little face to me.
His eyes looked blucr and moro
than the sky
"Do you love your father:' asked,
holding to him Ikea woman.
"Yes, sir; I'll lick anybody that
calls you names,' the bright tender
in his face gushing with
shower.
A horizontal hail of mud and pcb-
bles hit us while lie was Speaking.
Billy reared up like q charger snuff
fling the battle afar Off fut | made
him retreat from the enemy's lines.
When the boy and were laid al
night in low tavern, which was our
only homo, l asked, ,.it.i my face
turned from him. "Billy, will You
help your father to try once morc!'
Upon which he bounded up and
pumped my arm with all the vigor
and familiarity that the street had
put in him.
"Ycs, stree! l will that, you bct:"
vowed Billy.
a very few minutes after he sub
sided heard his soft breath going in
and out the doors of his lips in regu-
lar cadcncc>e. While he slept and
started up to fight his skirmishes
over, l foggcd my weak brain to
work and plan.
When look back at that wretch
i'll soilcd tavern sheets, glarin. into
the darkness with waterv ewes, my
legs trcmble under me, though they
have gone stoutly these many years
1t was such very straight path up
from that place, and came so near
falling; time after time.
The next day got work on the
railroad. From the gutter could
not 90 directly back to the bar,since
drunkenness is one of the vices which
is not tolerated in lawyers. 1t was
hard 10 shovel dirt in the hot sun. !
sat down half iainting. y good
naturcd Patrick came slylv with
bottle. and bade me .'wh,st at It,"
which IpUt forth the will to do-like
weak bea>t-whcn Billy swooped
down from a passing freight AID
squared himself before that Irishman.
while the very tattcrs at his elbow
bristlcd with wrath.
Lock here now" threatened he.
sending the bottle far over the track.
If You get my father to drikin' again
I'll kick YOU
After had delved awhile Billy had
new suit set of books, and school
privileges. Then a situation as copy
ist was opened to INC. The boy and
| fell into he habit of striking hand.
aud going to church on 4 SUNDAY.
Some OF my old friends began to
notice me. oh, | tell YOU it makes a
Il mans heart swell like 4 green bulb
to have an honest hand come shakin
his.
Finally got into practice. Some
times the thirst came on me, and |
stormed up and down in my Office.
and twisted little locks of hair. rs if
the curse hung to the roots of that.
Once | locked the door and threw out
the key and was Il prisoner until my
associate came.
Passing saloon one evil time, the
| rlinking of glasses and the breath %!
! mine enemy penetrated my senses.
! That saloon door sucked me Just half
way in When | was shocked through
my coat-skirts and quite knocked into
! the street.
"ilcrc, father" pleaded Billy.
charging me with a second jerk
come out of this. come out Of this:
we're goingt to make men ofourSrlvcS.
| father
"lcs, men, Billy subscribed.
SO did not run into the side track
| because had sucha faithful tender.
| Coming up socially often does mucl,
for man morally. Cases multiplied.
and seemed to grow with my trust.
The boy and had smart lodgings up
! town He rose in school. was 50
proud OF him.
| I've heard how women love their
children with close peculiar dcvot ipl.
think rnEst have loved him with a
mothers love. There is no other
way of expressing how dear the boy
was To me.
When he came from school and met
me on the streets he was often carry
! ing the sat"hcl of a smootll-liaircd.
dark-cycd girl. to whom he would cx-
claim, is he Loyalty touched his cap.
That's my father with such Il
proud acrcn: that the blood lcaped
in my veins.
On, my good fellow. it isa glorious
day for YOU when YOUR child is proud
| of YOU!
| we ilN Z :itts tsIttltl hO" iiiiH ~
dark-haircd Nora, the rowdies and ]
In house with no end TO verandas
! and vines. The respectable handle of
Judge is set to my name, but Billy 5
children. who give the echo to his
former strcct-trainin@; stand in no
more awe OF it than they do of the
venerable Roman handle To my cOun-
Etenancr. We tumble like wild colts
in the grass. But they have no idea
that their ancestor ever lay i'll n lower
bed.
Blessed be enduring love.
think often I may bc in my dotagc
for quiet matron Nora often looks,
up from her baby in surprise at my
walking the veranda and maundering
i'll sort of ecstacy: "The hoy! the
boy"- Woods Household Magazine.
Rev. q. c. Harding OH the hydro
phobia panic: "a wild telegram from
Louisville announces that twenty
persons were bitten by mad dogs in
the east end Of the city Friday night,
not including the Small Talker ofthe
Couricr-Journal. Fido seems to have
boen getting in his work. We arc