Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06

those polite. refined young men and We
men.
On festive occasions, the wife began
to watch her husband anxio,lsly.
Sometimes he poured out and drank
with sort of reckless air, and then the
unsteadiness of his hand or the CLEAN of
his eye would startle her; and once, but
only once, she shrank from his ardent
kiss, feeling that he was inflated with
wine rather than pure affection. She
tried to forget that time, or to fancy it a
dream, but she could not.
The name of the oldest son, Frederick,
was seldom mentioned by any of the
family, and the day previous to the COM
mencement of this sketch, she under
stood the reason why. Then he came
Keeling along into her home, more beast
than man.
She shuddered as she looked upon that
bloated, besotted face. She could not
pollute her hand by placing it within his,
much less in addressing the degraded be-
ing could her lips frame the holy word
brother"
No wonder the spectacle haunted her
dreams that night, as she would fancy
herself at the death-bed of that once
lovely woman, whose heart he had broken,
and hear her whisper, "Your husband is
following in the footsteps of mine oh .
stop him ~
Not long after the wife's resolution was
formed, the young couple wished to give
dlnner-party to all their relatives, and
as it was the first in their own house,
they wished to convey very pleasant ideas
of their hospitality.
! Then came the contention which the
lady had forseen and the bitter opposition
OF her husband to carry out the reso-
luton she had formed to Danish liquor
from their board. In vain she told him
of the delicious coffee which should sup
ply its place (; he persisted that she should
not thus bring upon him the name of a
niggard. And though she told him that
upon her, rather than upon him, should
all imputations rest, though she pleaded
in the gentlest manner, she had need OF
all the strength she had so earnestly i'm
plored from on high.
For a time, there was serious estrange-
ment between them, and his family, tax
ing sides with him, told him that she
wished to usurp too much authority ovel
him as the head of the house, while they
sneered openly at her fanaticism," hel
meanness," her want of " hospitality. y
But she prayed without ceasing, and God
at length opened his eyes to the danger
of tritiing with that which had caused
his brothers ruin. With his consent,
liquor was regarded only as medicine, >
and while the wife exerted herself to have
a supply of good things in the house,
both united in giving SO cordial vel
coHic W tl1cI SueStS, tniit luOSe VINO en-
ioyed their hospitality soon ceased tc
notice the absence of wine.
By degrees, others followed the exam
pie o. the young wife, and gradually
such reformation took place in the tow
that in a few years all the " first families
had banished the beverage from theil
sideboards and dinner-tables.
Her husband is now the only survivor
of al his fathers family. While he feels
that each one fills drunkard's grave, ht
turns to his wife, now no longer young
but beautiful in his eyes, and says
"Such would have been my fate but fol
you. stood on the brink of the preci
pice, but knew not my danger unit
You revealed it to me-" While she say.
with burst of gratitude, "Not unto me
but unto thy name, o Lord, be all the
praise"