The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-05-23
"Am l My Brothers. Keeper"

over the glowing kitchen stove.
"Whacs too bad, fatherW called hi
wife from the pantry close at hand.
"Well, just as was coming by Jill
stones rum-hole at the corner, Ere
Fisher came out; and he was SO drum
he could hardly stand. ! tried to hav
him get In and let me carry him homs
but he wouldn't. It's dreadful col
night for man to be out, if his head
muddled with whiskey. You kno,
Fred signed the pledge when Murph
was hear, and he's been keeping it, Toe
like man; but | suppose the devil &c
the upper hand, this time"
"Well, L think it's too bad" sal
Aunt Mary, appearing from the pantry
III you temperance men did half you
duty, there'd be some chance for me
like Fred, What's the use in gettin
them to sign The pledge, and leavin
'hem to be tempted at every street col
nerr You might as well tie man han,
and foot, and make him promise t
run. Fred was born with an appetit
tor liquor. lfyou'd shut up these hor
rlble dram-shops, he might be saved
lie never will, unless you do"
"Well, wife, ! don't see as any gool
has ever come from any of those harsl
means. We don't want to be hard OF
any one. temperance folks nowadays
tnink the spirit of love is about tn,
right Kind to have"
Love and law make good span,
mink, SAID his wife, kneading hei
biscuits with great energy. 81 dom
see any sense in making fish Of one anc
nesh OF another. When your new buffalo
was stolen, last winter. you was fast
enough for getting the constable aftei
the thief, and put him through smarI
never heard word but what you wa
Wiling to Jet him have all that the law
wouldgl him. And what's buffalo
ROBE, Johnf What If it was our Harry
ana II may be, VI things go on in this
way;
well was the reply, "these men
are goou Ieuows, II they wouldn't sell
hquor. Ihere's Tom Smith, one of the
pest fellows In the world. 1t seems
klnd OF hard to put the law on a good
heignpor iiT ilke Tom"
~ nat KIND OF neighbor was he to
molly frltz, last Summer When her
chiiureh lay dead i'll the house Tom
Smltn Kept her husband too drunk to
be OF any use, and know Molly wrote
anu begged him not to sell any liquor
10 jim while they were in such trouble.
u u that Is belng one OF the best fellows
~ ~ .he woriu, Ihe world Is worse than |
,,nought II. don't want such neighbor-
y hlnuhess as that,' said Aunt Mary
Indignantly. .
wen, well, mother, don't let us
dnarreI ABOUT ~! That won't do no
sihu Oh gooa; why, the children look
iairiy scarf.
ANA only last week. Aunt Mary
went on, not heading the interruption;
Jimmy Saxton was sentenced for
tnree months because in drunken
frenzy ne nurt OLD MI. Miles. l sup
pose tnat Is al right. AT any rate, it
WLl give the Doy chance to get the
liq9cr OUT OF MIN, ana be sober once
anu II man puts himself in a condition
10 commit CRIME, don't see but he's
g0t 10 De punished for the crime.
4 ne troupe Is they shouldn't stop
Ihere. Why not find out where the
ooy Dougat ms lquor, and make the
seller g snIer ior breaking the law!
na1 iI wUuiu pe my way"
well Weil, Mary 'twon't help
,othlng lor US 10 TAX: folks will
40 ABOUT as they're amind to, after
all.
les, lather," SAID his wife earnest
" "puI some one IS responsible for
some OF tne DONG. Anyway, If talking
u al tnat ielt ior me, snail certainly
!alk. ii IL was my husband, or my
ooys, l am AFRAID should take some OF
the dolng INTO my own hands, and not
walt lor anybody. l. heard Mr.. Cough
once tell story OF woman. Her
hnspano was real nice man, but he
couio not let liquor alone, II he saw it
or even smeiied II: lie was going
dowS very last, and her little children
were suffering. Time after time she
,iao peggeu ,he saioonKeeper not TO sell
ner husband any more liquor; but he
ohIy swore az her, ana told her he
snoulo iet nm nave II whenever he had
money 10 pay lor H. One time after
such an answer, she turned upon him,
anu told nm ned better not. "lf my
uovu aaIco sa'u '3u,,I .to e.e' coLies from
yoa' saiooI IT, uiuiA ; agalh, l VIII cieah
Iomd Io" Ius o. =" 5.n Jus. Jew uays her nus
au Sha n,t % ho~ ,h;ngs ,hS;;ngsoidhs nonie aeaih'
ed odo stra;aht "t % tsy fnr r,gns on ana marcn- %
were some loafers there bnt the owner
was down cellar when his new caller
arrived. The noise of braat;no hottIos
made hurry up-stairs. There was the
woman. smashing riobt and left and a
costly stream fiowinS across he d;rtv
floor' He fIew al her Iike a ,igor hn,
the half. f.drnnken men there saised i'm I'M
and he had TO look On and % ses Su h;S whole ba
stock destroved Nov, sa;5 ",o tho
womcn' startinS for bomo sol, ,nv "v
husband Iionor again and ri c,aa4v v
you out again. / am afraid,u said
Aunt Mary, with dangerous look i'm
her eve, 81 should do something like
that If was driven to it.n
"Well, boys, we'd better do the
chores. I g,iess old Rim thinks am
drunk, or crazy, or something. letting
him stand in the cold in this Way - and
Uncle John beat retreat before the
blazing battery of his wife's temperance
zeal.
1t was bitter night. The cows