The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-04-05
MISCELLANY
COMING AROUND.
by MRS. J. P. BALLARD.

There was always plenty of beer and cake
to be had at old Father Dougherty's little
saloon, and always plenty of people who
knew it, and who were quite ready to take a
glass of ginger-beer or sprace-beer on a hot
day, which they knew his wife JEANNE had
concocted but there came time when
things changed at the little saloon. The
over the green painted lattice window, and
the bright.light at night looked just as inyit-
ing /; but the saloon was in new hands,
Simon Drains wife had nothing to do with
the strong lager-beer her husband sold, and,
not liking his business, and finding him deaf
to all her arguments about doing something
that would bless and not curse others, she
made him no hot cakes for him to sell, but
kept as much to herself and her needle and
her sad thoughts as possible. SO he filled up
his shelves with cheap candies aud nuts and
nondescript toys, and depended on his lager
beer to blind his customers and bring in his
pennies. He put out card of his own rude
devising, in blue letters ON a red ground
/" A Club oil jolly Fellows
Every Saturday Night"
And club Of jolly fellows his wife thought
he had. What with the drinking and singing
and loud laughing and table-tpping, it was a
very miserable place in her little chamber,
above all the noise, to collect her thoughts
and have any ideas suitable for Sunday come
into her tired and puzzled head. "Fll
never laugh at anybody for being Puritanical
again for keeping Saturday night" she
thought, AS the quiet cd New England home
stead came up before her, with the honest
uncle that "brought her up" getting the
family around him once week to keep
Saturday night" 1t seemed burden then
sometimes, but 1T would be a paradise now.
Worst of all, their own boy, Peter, was
getting to be very fast member of the jolly
were level after a long carouse, Peter was
wild and raving in his hilarity, and even his
father, who had taught him to drink beer,
and joined him it, began to be afraid. 1t
makes Peter crazy" he said to himself
/" there may be a trifie too much of the Bit
ter in it. They do say that strychnine gets
the credit of this sprucy taste. I'll have to
look out, and have weaker sort for some of
the customers" But Peter had learned the
taste of sstrue lager" and nothing else salts
fed him-nothing else, until he made it a
stepping stone to whiskey, and first, of all the
" Jolly Club" became confirmed and hope
less drunkard. Still the Saturday might carous-
ais went on, and the money taken for strong
beer still looked as tempting to the misera-
BILE Simon, who was always hoping Peter
would come round yet, and he should have
enough laid up to give up the beer-selling and
have quiet time. One night-a Saturday
Peter had made others merry at
his expense long enough, he took formal
farewell of his simple lager-beer. AS for
that weak stuff could satisfy mel" he almost
screamed, holding the pitcher at arms length,
aud then throwing the contents to the ground
in derision, while the men looked through the
open window and laughed at the half-crazy
lad.
Peter was g brought round not long after,
but it was on shutter carried by solemn
looking men, who had found him dead on the
railroad track, not mile from his fathers
house. This was too much for his mother.
Her heart was broken; and Simon then had
the tquiet" he hoped for, but in far diff
erent way. The Jolly Club )" met no more
in the bar-room back Of the green latticed
window. The saloon again went into new
hands, and Simon became a homeless wall
derer, with the burden of murdered wife
and child haunting him upon his gloomy way.
There is a fearful end for every reckless
dealer in that which ruins others. If it comes
here, men see it; but it is most to be dreaded
in view of what it brings, where only the
man himself shall feel it-HEREAFTER.
The Hindo Bible forbids woman to see
dancing, hear music, wear jewels, blacken
her eyebrows, eat dainty food, sit at VIM
dow, or view herself in a mirror during the
absence of her husband and it allows him to
divorce her if she has no sons, Injuries his
property, scolds him quarrels with another