The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-03-01
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"lIe'll 60 to the dogs now"
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removed, ne II 60 the resi- OF tne 40"
ward way in no time. Poor Nettie!
wonder she stood it so long"
"ru give him just year to be hu
led"
.Pshaw! Hall that time will mi;
him."
Poor Harry! He wasn't always St
Reckless as he has been this year pas
can't help plying him."
swell, I pity him, too; but pity lie
more. He brought misery on BOTH"
Such was the gossip Of half doze
villagers, who stood in front of tn
principal store. one summer evening
while the subject of their remarks wen
staggering along on the opposite sids
the street.
1t was evident he was trying to wal
straight, and not appear intoxicated
but such endeavors always seem Il
make drunken man walk more crook
ed.
Well, it proved one thing: that ne
was not lost to all sense of shame-thai
he still retained little pride, and a lin
gering aversion to being ridiculed and
despised!
But Harry Rogers had carried on at a
fearful rate for year or two past. He
had just one vice-drink-5u that was
enough. He had become an actual
drunkard, by degrees, and was every
day growing more and more aban-
doned
He had married worthy farmers
daughter Nettie Ray -only few years
previously, and such had been his con-
duct during more than a year past that
she, seeing no hope Of his reform, had
been obliged to cast him loose to pursue
his profigate course alone; and now a
legal separation had just been effected.
1t was sad, indeed but no other, course
seemed to be left her.
Harry's home was on little farm, a
mile from town. He owned it, but then
it was heavily mortgaged, and in anoth-
er year foreclosure was certain. TWAS
not likely his creditors would spare him,
when he made no effort to meet his OBJ
legations, and spent his time in riotous
and disgraceful conduct.
A week passed after that summer eve
ming on which all had agreed in predict
ing his early ruin-two weeks-three
weeks a month or two. What strange
mystery is herep
To the utter bewilderment OF the |
prophesying sages, Harry R 'gers dis
continued his visits to the tavern, and
was rarely ever seen in the village.
When he did come to the store, he speed
lily transacted his business and went
But wonders never cease whom they
get start. He was next reported as
at ,0ork On his farm.
Had but ole man seen this, and told
t in the village, he would have been
marked as a man lacking veracity; but i
. number Of neighbors saw it and told |
t, and their combined testimony was
Vorthy of all credence.
The little firm began to look health t
,r as the summer wore on. The fences {
up; the weeds disappeared; .
,e corn grew marvelously; the briers a
nd elders were rooted up from the fields D
nd fsnce-rows the animals looked fat u
IF, sleeker and happier; the little cot y
zee looked neater. -
Time wore on, and the great change o,
as the more strongly marked each sc
~. Harry's creditors called ard told n'
m they would not be hard on him see- 81 >,
G that he was now doing his best, and d.
, might have his own time about pay DE-
6 his debts and clearing his farm of Gu
g mortgage, u. ~
The fall came, and the farm yielded Ii
abur dance Of golden corn and ripe pc
crops, indeed, rs it had OF
yer produced beforehand Harry -, ="
and himself beginning to drift along w
tn tide OF prosperity. wi
And Nettte Ray had begun to live her en-
rlhood ever again, as it we're, under al al
r fathers roof; but, somehow, it was n,
It like the happy, joyous girlhood of Or
emory. 1t was soker and quiet now, it
d Nettie fell into trains of musing, IN
d every now and then passed through I'll
r mind certain sad thought-she M
IS neither maid nor wife. pc
She ID the vicinity Of her late en-
me, nor had she once seen Harry w.
ice the separation. But she had in,
ard Of him occasionally-knew that an
was changed man. Still, the Or
owledge brought her but a melan- CHI
oily satisfaction.
The reform had come too late-too REL
70! There was wide gull between DO
em now.
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