The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-02

for. Some time. perhaps Humphrey
would be right again. And II that never
came TO pass here. why there was all
| heaven and the hereafter et-she fire.
/ quently felt as n. before thatStime, her
| own mind might be gone. with the care,
/ the worry, the slcepless nights, the sor-
row. Now. the moon hung In the window.
| looking upon her like a gracious friendly
| spirit promising peace; and sally repeat
| cd 10 herself the texts that In some oc-
cult way gave her comfort and took heart
| OF grace for the morrow; aud her slender
arm s0ll clasped round Humphrey. as a
| mother folds her baby even la her dreams,
| she slept at last herself.
hut there were other wakeful people
on the shore that night. Try Hodge was
not sleeping. This II reaily-as YOU
might say-realiy-" he kept saying 10
himself without getting any further;
while even Ann tossed and turned In her
dream. For that afternoon their only son.
Mather, the rosy little had who had ionged
| to catch the birds. she delight OF both
their hearts had been led home by sfiss
Rhody. a great deal more than rosy, both
| stupid and silly. and with feet ueading
the air And they had put him 90 bed
and had sat down. all three crying To-
gether.
'aTherer said Miss Rhody at length.
II take shame 20 myself Tor crying this
| away. There's 40 need of u. It's an ac-
cldent happens 60 the hens whenever
sallv throws out her cherry stones after
she's dreened 'em. Humphreys stole her
cherry bounce and treated; an there amt
a boy on the shore butts come home the
same way. Mis- DR. Miles husbands
uepheyy's one OF 'em. I've thought chat
boyd bust wen he's e. eight bananas az
4 a Fcttiu',' Sea she. I'd jest as lleves eat
raw squash myself. ses she, but never
/ thought 20 see him so 4 he eounldn't tell
his namo from Belzebub's ses she. I'm
| goin to give him sech dose OF thorough
| wort tea ses she. that he won't want TO
20 much as smell cherry bounce again
| tn the longest day he lives seS che.
But Tor, it's nothln' at ala. Iryi Don't
you fret Ann. A boys got 20 be a boy
an know life an see the world some
time or other. and I guess the headache
/ he'll have tomorrow, poor little ssSsT
creetur. will be all the life OF that sort
hen ever care to have. An IL was only
IN the way OF an accident wen sus
said.
"'An'-an' II Il vas said Try, I don't
| know-really-hm-I don't know what
we're going 60 do about Humphrey"
IT'S an accident that'f happen again
| II we don't watch ogtF' said Ann sharp
/ ly "Humphrey'd orter be restrained. and
there's no doubt about f."
| III would Nlii Sally IL ne -, 8alu MISS
Rhody.
'Itn XIII me ~ he ISN'T"
There were q number OF the mothers on
the shore who agreed with Ann that this
was an accident that might happsn
| again. And although their husbands
| laughed at them they were In a state OF
alarm like that Of brood when a hawk
hovers In the air Il don't care what 10
says" cried Mrs. Byrnes, letting her fat
iron cool when Libby and susy Wayne ran
| In next morning. I'D rother see my Rem
ny brought home without a breath in his
body than with that breath. You keep
| still Benny ] know your throats dry.
/ and tia orter bel An his tonEue-you'd
orter see his poor little tongue. the dear
innercentl My lord, shouldn't think
man'd want that tongue twice. To think
OF that child's being made tippler with
I out KNOWN itl''
"'Twould breake me all up" said
susy. looking sorrowfully down the or
chsrd. her face ssisl as pink aud white
as the appie-blossoms there. III my lit
| tie Davy got into the habit OF this. And
Of course Humphrey'n coax them Ia again.
I've trcmhled some even when I've seen
him sucking cider through a straw-new
cider. too. But cherry brandy-O II really
| Is wicked
Wicked amt no name for H." cried
Il
And with this sort OF feeling abroad
among the mothers, Il vas not remarka-
bic that going down for their shopping
10 the Port. the Port people heard OF
Humphrey. and the still, and the cordial.
and the boys.
In this way the matter came TO my
aunt Pamo,a's ears. and my aunt Pamela
was the head and front OF 40 association
which just then was sweeping all before
Il Ia the cause OF temperance. an en-
tirely new cause IN our para OF the work.
az that period. when the decantcr stood
upon the sideboard, and every well fur
nished store closet had It's keg of Marsnla
or Madeira. Even aunt Pamela. IN all the
| exuberance OF her enthusiasm. had not
hanished the old rum bottles that had her
/ grandfathers name and date blown Ia
them. from the corner buffet, where stood
l her gfandmother's lowered china the
I lovely isowenstall that she always washed
herself. And she never thought twice
about mixing the comfortable forums that
the minister and the doctor took together
before going out. without thought OF
/ harm. TO address tine temperance society.
/ For II was temperance. not abstinence.
] they were preaching and they were
| preaching that for poor fellows who real
| ~ could not aff0td 10 drink, not for gen
/ tlemen Ike themaelves who sent their
sherry on long. rolling voyages OF caim
/ and storm 10 season II. IL - plain. YOU
/ see. that the temperance society had come
/ TO us none too soon.
But even enthusiasts In n great cause
out Of TIER very enthus ASH may make
mistakes. and, ao0th TO say. my aunt
/ Pamela was enc OF those people who
take up cause simply for the sake OF
/ It's excitcm mt. ana for something to
be busy about Nothing she Aceksd, be-
cause nothing she knew, OF homes beg
I CARED. Of widows made. and orphans,
OF hearts broken, Of great powers
brought to nsusht, II the profound
misery OF those who watch for late un-
! certain footsteps. who see poverty and