The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-17
TEMPERANCE READING.
THE PICTURE DID IT.

No Heap of Barrels for Him.
When was in NJ had Temper
ance band Of boys, and gave them
Miss Colman's Catechism on Beer to
study. To encourage them to study
this catechism / offered each one who
committed it to memory a good knife.
Bob Rush alone could not learn it. He
had no faculty for memorizing, and he
vowed it twas too hard for him to
ketch on to" 'Wot," inquired Bob,
twas the use of learnin' all bout his
insidesp He didn't care nothin' bout
his insides s'long his outside was all
right
After a years absence / returned to
M and, seeing Bob vigorously hoe
ing potatoe patch, / leaned over the
fence to renew acquaintance.
.'Have you learned that catechism
YETI"
"Wot, that hard little booke Oh!
can't ketch on to that!n
well, I'm sorry that book is of no
use to you. wanted it to make a
Temperance man of YOU"
well, SO it has. Do you mind the
picterpn
''No, think not"
"Well, it amt much of a sight, :"
admitted Bob, "and / hear you're
great on picters. But there's lots of
sense in that one. On one side there's
pile ov bar'ks, and under it is All /
have left, and they belong to the
brewer T'other side is a house. and
it says: This house is mine. No
rent to pay Now, you see, amt
goin' to spend all my time and have
nothing at the end but heap of
bar Is what ant mine, not even slaves
enough of 'em to make me coffin.
I'm going TO haze the house. Oh! I'm
Temperance. | sha'n't lay out my
money on no fooling or on drink and
tobacco. I've saved twenty dollars
already. The deacon's keeping 'em
for me. Ny eyes on the house.
ant goin' to have raft of boys and
girls round me and no home to put
'em in. Our folks never had no home.
Think it's likely cause father got sick
an died. Mother, she and Maria
hires little house, and there's rent
and moving and all that. But, then,
when / get my house, mother can live
long of me, of course. :"
And what will Maria dop" I asked,
deeply interested.
80! I reck'n she'll find man for
herself; only, if she takes advice from
me, she'll marry man with a house
to put her in This house in the picter
has got two stories, and a bow win
dow, and garden, and fence. You
see, after q little, I'll earn more. I'll
do better work and get high wages.
I'm going to learn a trade-and no
bar'ls for mel"
"And you will furnish the house,
Bob?''
g. In course; mean to furnish it, all
right.
And you'll want wife to live in
it?"
course" said the matter-of-fact
Bob, "and she's got to know how to
cook, and sweep, and clean, and keep
that house nice, you'd better believe"
"Yonr plan Is excellent, Bob. When
you have nice house, nicely furnished,
and nice wife, you will wish to be
nice yourself. You will wish to be
neat and respectable in dress, polite in
your manners, and able to talk well
and do business we'll. Now, it will
cast you nothing, and be worth much
to you daily to copy, as far as you
can, the very best people you see.
Notice the speech, the ways, the neat
ness, the opinions of the really good,
useful, and respectable people, and
model yourself after them. You will
daily be worth more to yourself"
That's So" said Bob, 81 vow I'll
do that!'
"And then you will need to know
how to read, write, spell and cipher
well, if you are to do business well. Go
to night-school.
"Tm going to. The deacon told me
that.
"Read the papers. Read all the
nice useful books you can. If you are
neat and orderly people will be willing
to lend you their books and papers.
If you read you will know what is go
ing on-how people make, keep and
lose money. You will learn what is
for the good of the public, and what is
really likely to hurt people. You will
learn how to protect your house when
you get it, and to protect other peo-
pies houses. "
That's so,'' said Bob.
land | am glad the 'Catechism on
Beer did you so much good. hope
you have not lost it,
"Lost itr' cried Bob, with righteous
Indignation. Every morning I pick
up that little book, and turn over to
the picter, and l says: Mind you,
Bob Rush, no heap of bar'ls for you
Keep that there house in your eye.'
An while I'm hoeing this potato
patch,'' added Bob, attacking a hill
with renewed vigor, 81 think how I'll
lay out my garden when 1 get my
house! Them boys out in the street
there, they spend their money on pop
and little paper cigars, and marbles,
and such. bet they'll see me living
in my house before they earn one"
So / babe Bob goodbye and went
my way, saying: BLESSED be even a
poorly drawn object-lesson, if it has
good clear idea in it!'-Mrs. Julia Nc
Mar Wright.
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