The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-13
TEMPERANCE.
soMxBoiY's CHILD.

when piteous plight OF man yoo obserre,
Twill better the purpose Of charity serve
Than uttering epithets calmly TO think
His artlessness o,sce charmed mother be-
guiled;
Besotted. degraded, he's somebody's child.
To bacchanal bound with a martial VOW,
Yonder woman with children in poverty's
clothes -.
With want on her face and with care on her
The shoes of the little ones out at the toes.
In the arms of father seductively smiled,
And gleefully prattling, was somebody's
Wen on youths native countenance tokens
OF tracing Of Bacchus's bewildering art,
Irefect, though himself from contrition be
'Twere happy he break not some other
And grievo for his father with woe on him
piled,
weep for the mother of somebody's child.
For a pittance Of coin a man earnestly plead
That he might relief for his burning thirst
claim;
On his person was Alcohors livery spread,
Unmistakable badge Of inebriate's shame;
With my hand on his shoulder / said:
Though defiled,
Not evil but good I'd do somebody's child"
Then spread over his features sposm of
pain,
Andbprst forth the fountains by memory
Hot tears of remorse from his eyes fell like
rain
While he gazcd at a bar as of something in
dread;
His tone was despairing, his countenaiice
AS he said: "sir. don't tell me I'm some
body's child"
Oh! terrible thought, that my boy should
Such curse to himself, to his race such a
shame; -
rum,
Dishonor and odium marring his namel
Homeless and wretched, despied and reviled,
With few to consider he's somebody's child.
C Il. Jngraham, in the Pioneer.
HOW HARD DRINKERS MAY BE REFORMED
]. Sign tho pledge.
9 Joiu an organization holding weekly
3. Faithfully attend the meetings when
4. Shun all drinking resorts as you would
| pest
(. Carefully avoid all drinking compan-
ions except to reform them.
q. Select an old drinking friend, and do
II greafff41 ff1 FeRip1a Rsks him ha6ituaiIy sober
sincerely taken implies humility and conse-
| quent docility. This condition enables us to
be insensibly influenced by unseen spiritual
| agencies.
S. Have charity for all offenders, remen,-
| bering that Christ came to save sinners and
| not the righteous; we will succeed only
through the medium of kindness.
9. Remember, always, the first glass Is the
most dangerous of all glasses. Avoid the
| first glass and you are safe.
10. The reformed man. feeling his weak
ness should cut this slip, carry in the pocket,
and read daily or weekly as may be conven.
ient.-Gooddirs Sun.
THE LEAK IN THE TROUGH
n great many persons cannot understand
| howit is, when there appears to be plenty of
money in tho country, that there IL neverthe-
| less so much suffering and so much complaint
| OF hard times. 1t puts me in mind of a
| story once read about a farmer and his
hogs. He had lot of hogs, Of a good breed
too, which he could not get fat. He gave
them milk every day, and plenty of it, and
| yet, in spite of all they got poorer contan-
uously. He concluded those hogs had some
| new and strange disease He wrote TO an
agricultural journal about them. A veterin-
nry surgeon Thought It n strange case and
determined to investigate. He went to look
| ut the hogs; they We're a sorry looking set In
decd. He climbed into the hogpen to inves-
| tigate. and, 10, the mystery was ssolved--there
was large leak in the trough. II society
liquor traffic, must be stopped. d..-Samuel
| SchtCd,nl. =
sTREET-CAR PLACARD.
A placard in a Chicago street-car reads as
! follows: