Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-10-23

Ny wife wanted to work herself
to death to keep me- he said !" but |
said No You do what YOU can 10
keep tie children until my debts are
paid and then I'll keep you AMI the
chill .ren, too 50 went to WORK.
paying right and LETT and when all
was paid off, | began To do what |
ought to have done Year, ago-feei my
wife and children. had enough and
to spare and | WOULD have spent some
with you. And many'S the time I've
been tempted 10 come and I'm
tempted still. but when the feeling
comes over me have a drink Of water
o. A-n"f tea, puts t"ppcnce into the
0ox I ve got on purpose, and scores u
chalk on the door. All Of them chalk~
are SO many temptations and 50 many
twopences saved.
Mr.. Rewitt was unable to make
a. particular remarks; but he muir
INJURED in a confused manner,
You've got a lot OF EN- >
Yes, there's a large family re-
piled jerry, complacently, and the
more | lookes at 'em the better | likes
'em. There's not much standing dis
grace about that lot credit if any
thing
'Oh yts-yes,' returned the land
lord, but-dear me-this cold in my
head is quite distressing. You must
have large box for,all your two
pences.'
When gets together | takes them
to the post Office replied Jerry
"There's a bank there better than any
till. They give nothing out, but banks
like that returns you more than YOU
put in. Until began to keep my own
chalks | had no idea how much Your
till swallowed up. You would not
trust me for Il pint; but | can have my
money out Of the bank whenever !
want it,
''That's something,' said Mr.. Re
witt, tartly.
cit is everything to malEA no has
wife and children to keep, = reptile,
Jerry. THE best of us have sickness
and trouble and rainy days, and thel
it's a great thing to have something t
fail back upon. 1t is better to be abl
to keep yourself than to go to the par
ish. Theirs another thing too, ahou
these thalks of mine-yourS went down
before my wife and children were fed
mine 90 down after that's done and
think that my cllalks are the better q
the two. So say to all, Chalk You
own door. Y
Mr.. Rewitt had nothing to say: II
could not deny and he would not ad
NIT it, but took refuge like other beate
men-in flight. With the boots unde
his arm he fastened home, and pr,
sented himself before his wife in
rather excited condition.
"What is the matter, Richard ," sh
asked
; Nothing particularly he replied
except that Jerry Muddler has joine
the temperance lot, and he seems :
firm in it that | don't believe he wi
ever touch a drop again
Mr. Richard Rewitt, Of "The Orar
Arms" was right. And Jerry, VIII
bears the name/of Muddler no longe
but is called by that to which he is q
titled by right of birth, viz, that
Marden, has not touch he'd a drop
strong drink from the day of his reto
nation to this. His door has bee
filled again and again with the Scol
which he records in his own favor an
the beer he has not drunk is ever
where around him in the form of
comfortable home, a respectable
in the savings bank and coodlv inve~
ment in a building society Itrtr
sat s0pient, which. being freely inte
preted, means, A word to YOU II
reader, is sufficient Chalk Your oW
door. y IHf British Workman