Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-17
Standard McMINNVILLE TENNESSEE-SATURDAYJA JAN r. 1885

wouldn't be any liquor sold."- Tim
not sorry | opened the saloon, Heck.
les" said Lambert, impatiently. 1t
has paid me well, | am now out of
debt, and in fair way to become in
very comfortable circumstances. l
have been singularly prospered. -
"Those who frequent your saloon have
not prospered" said Heckles, with
short laugh. "And believe you will
be sorry yet that you opened the place,
Lambert"
Lambert smiled, and changed the
subject, little dreaming that he was TO
begin the reaping of his harvest that
very night. He retired early to rest,
but about midnight was aroused by
the sound of a great commotion be-
meath his window, and the loud ripg>
ing of the doOr>bell. He FASTENED
down stairs, and as he threw open the
hall door he met crowd of men, bear
ing on shutter the body of his son,
which was covered with blood.
There's been a row down at the sa>
loOn," said some one. "Arthur's pref
ty badly cut up."-"Arthur! My
son!" cried Lambert, in a tone of hor.
ror for he had known nothing of Ar
thurs prediction for liquor, his visits
to Buffers parlor. -"It cannot be"
Arthur died the following day, and
the wretched father went almost mad
with grief and despair. But he did
not blame himself, or the saloon for
the accident. He spent all his rage
rupon the man who had assaulted his
son, and used every endeavor to have
him properly punished. Only when
he had been committed to prison for a
term of years was the fathers desire
for revenge appeased. But the saloon
went on, and greater blow was to
fall upon its proprietor. One morning
Cora did not appear at breakfast, and
on Investigation of her absence the
parents discovered that she had eloped
with young man whose dissipated
course had caused Mr.. Lambert to
forbid him the house. This blow al
most broke the fathers heart. In a
few weeks he became like an old man,
and his friends feared for his reason,
so deeply did he brood over his sor>
rows.
1t soon became apparent that Joe,
the only remaining son, was drinking
to excess. He was employed as book
keeper in the paper-mill, but neglected
his duties to such an extent that he
was finally discharged in the most per
emptory manner, by the superinten-
dent. Angered at the abrupt dismissal
and the singing rebuke which accom-
panied it, Joe lost all control over him.
self, and drawing a pistol, shot the
superintendent through the heart, He
was arrested, tried, and sentenced to
be hung. His wretched father spent
almost every dollar he possessed in try
ing tosave him but it availed nothing.
Yet the shame of seeing his son on the
gallows was spared him, for Joe died
in prison only few days before the
time appointed for his execution.
The day after his death, Mr. Lam>
bert went in person to the saloon, and
closed it. Butler Immediately got cut
a license in his own name and opened
another near the paper-mill, but the
liquors with which he filled his bar
did not come from Lambert's. With
his own hands Lambert emptied every
bottle into sink hole back of the sa-
loon, and sold the saloon itself for a
-four and feed store. He was con-
WINGED at last that Heckles had been
right in assuring that Whatsoever a
) man soweth, that shah he also reap"
r Consumption Cured.