The Dawson journal., 1883-10-18
a Sisters Kiss.
"Now, Tom, what will you have to

Nothing more than | have, Ro
land, and the speaker raising
glass OF water to his lips as he look
ed toward the companion witLwhon
he was dining at hotel.
Nonsense, Tom; surely you viii
not refuse to take friendly glas,
with me %
"Of anything stronger than this
yes"
'But, Tom, you do not mean me
to understand that you never touch
1t that you have not sufficient self
respect to touch it as only a gentle
men should 2"
Roland, | have known stronger
men than |, with just as much self
respect who have yielded to the
tempter and gone beyond the limits
of the social glass, but even the
knowledge of that might not have
kept me from indulging.'
''What was it, then?"
"A sisters kiss"
"Bah sentimental nonsense
Did she bribe you with kiss g'
No; but listen"
have sister just coming into
womanhood-one of the purest, low
hest women l think God ever made.
| have always had, whether | de-
served it or not, a large share of her
warm young heart, and every evening
when | enter the house she puts her
arms about my neck and kisses me,
with glad look of welcome in her
eyes.
Roland, there are many things
prize in this life, bat I would give
them all up rather than that evening
kiss. thought, as you did once,
that l could take friendly glass and.
let it go so far and no farther, and
even had the glass in my hands TO
carry it to my lips for the first time,
when The thought OF the kiss l would
have tlat evening, came into my
mind. Could I take ii if l drank the
wine?
Would not the oder of it still
cling to my breath and poison the
kiss? [ knew then that must give
up one or the other, the glass was
put back, for I could not give up
the other, and then L registered a
solemn vcw that, if l could help it,
no stain Of that kind should ever
soil my sisters lips. A few even
ingS after that we were out together
where the social glass was handed
round. Now, there was no one
there who did rot consider himself
gentleman, and who would not, un-
der any circumstances, have kept
within bounds before ladies', and
yet I saw my sister shrink from any
she had seen touch the wine, and
when we went home she spoke OF it
and laying her heed on my shoulder,
said sadly:
III makes me feel sorry for tl.eir
sisters, Tom"
"fom," said his companion, So
berly, you have not gone too far
no, not even in excluding me from
your home, | think viii like you all
the better for it. I am glad you
have told me what you have iii
had a sister
"Would you have done the same ?
Then do it now. Stop for the sake
of any other fellows sister. Surely,
the time will come when YOU viii
want another's sister for your own.
Il don't know, Tom" was the
heSitated reply. IF did stop fol
the sake of any other fellows sister,
what you have said makes me a lit
tie envious. Suppose I were to stop
and then grow so very envious--
"Roland,' said his companion,
looking up, | must give her up to
some one | know, and there is no
one to whom I would so willingly
give her as to you
"Then, Tom, my word for it, that
| will not touch wine again so long
as l live. Your sisters kiss has
saved me as well as you-from
| what God knows.
Young men, there are other Sis
ters in this world like the one just
mentioned, and such sisters make
wives such as a man may be proud
of having won.
For the sake of one you may NEE
who would make your home Sc
bright and cheerful you would b,
glad to go to it, sure OF welcom,
for her sake stop ere it be too lat,