The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-11
Percy didn't know, but he said:
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, 81 am temperance man." continued
Kingsley, with an emphatic gesture
81 don't mean to say that l believe il
total abstinence. That is simply in
temperate abstemiousness. The bibl
says, Let your moderation be seen o
all men, Now, total abstinence il
Just as immoderate as total drunken
ness. We should shun both extremes
In my opinion, the pledge has made
more drunkards, and consequently
more liars, than any other one thing OF
the face of the globe Do you play bill
liardsP"
"Not much," replied Percy, unwill-
ing to admit that he had never seen q
billiard table.
"Come in and try hand" said his
companion.
Percy would gladly have excused
himself, but with a show of alacrity fol-
lowed Kingsley up a flight of broad
steps into brilliant room where a
number of gentlemen were at play.
believe / won't play to-night-I'm
rather tired" said he, as they entered.
II suppose So" replied Kingsley,
throwing himself on a luxurious lounge.
''Make yourself comfortable for
awhile"
Following his example, Percy took
sofa, and in the course of an hour gath
cred some knowledge of the game.
True, he heard some things said that
sent the blood tingling to his brow;
true, he observed that the players in
variably supplemented their game with
a visit TO the bar below, and he thought
of his mother and of his Annie. New
ertheless, he determined that he would
learn to play billiards.
"Come in and have a drink" said
Kingsley, as they ran down the stairs.
"Only a glass of lager, it will make you
Sleep"
SO Percy, yielding, found himself
standing at the marble bar drinking
from glass held in richly-wrought
receiver of silver beverage which, to
his .untaught palate, was exceedingly
offensive.
at is better, certainly, if one has
ones own house and can afford to keep
a billiard-room, said Kingsley, wiping
his mustache, as they left the saloon.
''Then fellow can choose his COM
pany. But, since we can't have our
private billiard-rooms, are we to be de-
prived of this manly and elegant past
time? Of course, the society at these
public places isn't just the thing, but
what can man do?"
Percy. thought of poor Tray, who
was cruelty beaten for no other reason
than being found in bad company, but
said nothing.
When he reached his room it was
nearly midnight. Though very tired
ne took up the paper, and looked again
1t the singular advertisement that had
him before going out. 1t
seemed to apply to him. He was a
and he might get some
Tery useful hints from the ''Old Man of
he Moor If clergymen went, as the
advertisement implied, he might,
urely., And he believed he would go.
Next morning he rose late, and took
breakfast in company with very
'retty young lady, who declared, with
very bewitching smile, that since they /
in the matters of rising '
nd breakfasting, they must be firm t
riends. Her hands were so small and I
White, her complexion so delicate, her !
yaist so slender and her hair so beau /
fully arranged inrolls and crimps and t
urls, that Percy regarded her with in S
ense admiration, and mentally con- 7
'asted. her with Annie Collins. 1t t
ardly need be said that his conclusions i
ERE very unfavorable to the sweet S
irl whose devoted heart was ever il
lagnifying his graces and accomplish il
tents. Meantime, the young lady, l,
hose name was -Sybil Pearson, en- t
rtained him with her pretty chit o
lat, and he fingered long over his cof- s.
e. AT last, with some constraint, he o
id: p
"Do you ever go to the theaterP" l
"Oh! yes! l never lose an oppor- 81
nifty" she said, with look that IL
cant, ''try me and see.' o
''Have you seen the old Man of the b
CORP Il
mo; but l want--oh! ever so much al
see iti'' OF
Il would LIKE mean, 1 intend to ol
'. Would you" p
go with you? OF course l wouldr' I'll
when shall we go?'' said he, ami CO
atedly. .-- III
81 am engaged for tonight, and to- OF
prov evening and the next. l can tn
on Thursday" NJ
Percy thanked her most CALAMITY, tn
d as it was now half-past nine, ex- W
sed himself and went after the morn So
: papers. Sitting in his little room in
ran over the columns of "Help re
4nted," and found two or three dozen On
vertisements which he decided to an he
er. Not having the slightest doubt ar
1t among them all he should find on
uation, he concluded which place he la
uld like the best, and started. But, pr
srywhere he went, the answer was tn
'ariably to the effect that they were tn
ted. alb
And this morning, in late rising, pro- tn
ged breakfast, and tardy applica- IN
us for work, was but a sample of XII
ny that followed. He was ever '.too in!
E" to obtain position. Some "lucky on
ow" was always "ahead' of him. TIT
forgot his good old fathers maxim: up
he early bird catches the worm" tel
Iced, he seemed altogether to have WI
cotton home and friends. He neg LII
ted writing because he had no me