The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-07-09

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the evening meal passed as pleasantly as
usual.
After the homework was done and the
little Deerings were all snugly tucked
away in bed, MS wife drew cut her sew
ing table and placed the light upon it
preparatory to improving the short time
which interviewed before their usual hour
for retiring. Mr.. Deering entered and
after exchanging his heavy boots for slip
pers, sat down to enjoy his paper with
that feeling Of satisfaction and comfort
which even tired man experiences amid
pleasant and peaceful surroundings, when
suddenly, before his astonished gaze, ap-
peared the missing denijohn!
'Look at this, Horace" said Mrs Deer
ing. See what found in the hay when
I was looking for eggs to-day"
Mr.. Deering started and made some in
coherent reply.
"Wbat do you suppose it contalns?"
queried Mrs. Deerlng.
machine oil, probably" he answered
with assumed carelessness.
mo, it isn't machine OIL" said Mrs.
Deerlng decidedly. But there was no
censure or reproach in her tones. Gan
it be possible. Thought Mr.. Deering, "that
she does not suspect nae9" And then he
warmed into that degree Of zeal and in
terest which men usually display when
endeavoring 70 act part, but which only
serves more surely to betray their secret.
Smell i'll" said his wife, passing the
demiiohn to him.
Mr.. Deer1ng had smelled it before.
| However, he d d not mention that as an
excuse for not doing so again. "Wby, it
is WHISKY, as sure as am aliye!' he ex-
claimed.
"But how do you suppose it came in
the mow?"
"Oh, can tell you now" (the thought
suddenly occurring to him. "You know
Alf Brown was here awhile last Summer,
helping the carpenters that were at work
on the house. [ remember of seeing him
make several visits to that mow-now
that accounts for i'll" he exclaimed tri-
umphantly.
Mr.. Oeering was not used to prevarica-
ting aud he made rather confused work
oft; his wife SCENE perfectly satisfied
with this plausible statement, however,
and set away the demij ohm with the re-
mark that it was mice one" and would
"come handy" She took up her sewing
again and resumed her seat at the table
"What a pityr' she said. "He looked
like all honorable sort of a man. One
would think he would have more respect
For bis family, even if he did not for him.
self, than to knowingly bring disgrace
and ruin upon them"
Mr.. Deering WINGED nnder this innocent
thrust, and Involuntary took the defen,
sive.
81 do not see why you should conclude
so" he said, "just because man takes an
occasional drink. A man can be tenn Der
ate without practising abstinence"
1T is disgrace for an honest man to
even enter saloon fer the purpose of
purchasing liquor. The desire that leads
him to crafty his taste tor stimulating
drink, shows that he has already acquired
the appetite, and when once this is estab-
lished, how quickly the habit follows.
can think of no instance, where man
does not practice abstinence, but what he
has gone to ruin, or Is on the downward
road. Can your"
Mrs. Deering waited for reply. Mr..
DeeriDg tried hard to think of single
exception; but at length was obliged to
reluctantly admit that, although he pre-
suned there were many exceptions, he
could not just at that moment call any to
mind.
81 know of none, said his wife. '"There
are men who are capable of exercising a
powerful restraint over their appetite.
and their'doHnward course is 80 slow. that
it is only when We think back to what
they have been, that we are able to see
that they are slowly bat surely losing
their influence and position in society
John Sheldon was such an one; bus now
debt after debt, and mortgage after mort
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