The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-28

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His father. seeing the way he tend
ed. had, upon setting up his Gistillery,
made his son a partner-the business
man OF the concern, with all ldea OF
stead wing him by responsibility. But
the curl was applied too late, as the
Judge found to his sorrow. Good ma
tured, impulsive Willy had become a
sport He let business go-and let
"the old man" pay the bills.
The Judge and the andlord had
fallen QUIT was thought over an
expressed desire on young Hanmonds
part to marry SHADES daug liter Flora.
In five years Flora had developed into
a sweet-faced ona CT all that be-
longed to Simon Shade there was in
her no marks of deterioration But a
close view of her face showed that
she had passed through care and suf-
fering. TOO good for Willy Ham
mond." people said. with all his be-
ing generous and clever he knows a
little too much Of the a side OF the
world" a came in and took q
seat. The odor of his breath was that
of a confirmed inebriate and there
was a thickness in his speech. He
asked after his son Frank. One Of
the loungers told him that Frank had
gone cunning with Tom Wilkins. a
ne'er-do-Well. The 1ounger might have
told him also, what he whispered to
one of his fellows, that Frank had
ldh'l1 HIS IdL1lSI - HOS ' d. Itot@oN
out OF the pasture, hitched her to a
buggy, which he had laden with
champagne and gone off on a ben
der" Entering into conversation with
q ioun2er the stranger learned that
Frank had got drunk as a fooI' be-
fore he was fifteen and had acquired
many other bad hibits. He was ire
trievably ruined. Simon had made
money-yes-he must be worth $40
0oe now Judge HammonG's dis
tiIlery. the rumor said, was to be shut
UP. Under WHY'S management the
Judge had lost heavily by it.
Green was still hanging about and
it was believed that he had found
other victims besides Willy Hammond
in the village. ~Slade had got the repu-
tation of being stool pigeon for Green.
But the people had begun to whisper
that he himself had got into the
clutches of the professional gambler
at least he seemed now to be short
of ready money. That night the bar
room vas we'll filled. and Judge Ly-
man. member of Congress. was there
discOuTsing on politics and the
ness Of the temperance people. The
Judge and Green went out together
and were seen no NOR that night.
Willy Hammond came in. He was
sadly changed for the worse, dissi-
pated-looking, hardened and physical
~ broken. He drank half a tumbler
v Ia" b1dLldf dilo AlSpeiC " III
barkeeper. who glanced upward with
a nod. Hammond disappeared.
Soon after the stranger saw a wo-
man walking up and down in front
of the tavern. It was Willy Ham
mond's mother, driven insane by her
sons evil course. She had escaped
from her nurse and come to look af-
ter her boy. Il could save him. you
know" she whispered. and then went
home slowly. Thus ended the Fifth
NieSf in a barroom.
Next morning the landlord did not
appear until nearly 10 o'clock. and
then he looked like a man who had
been on a debauch. He and Green met
with evident embarrassment and cold
ness The cards had evidently been
against Slade- That morning the dis
tllery was shut down. In the fore
noon Green went by the tavern driv-
ing the horse which had the day be-
fore been Willy Hamrnond's. 1t had
changed ownership over night In
quiries after Joe Morgan developed
the fact that he had never drank a
drop after the death of his child and
was industrious and prosperous. AS
the strange was that night in the bar
two young men came in and Slade
whispered to one Of them that his
father had been looking for him. rs
No. "a asked the youth.
Their send US up a box Of cigars and
a bottle Of wine. If Harry Lee and
Bill Harding come in tell them where
they will find US"
In Harvey Green's room, also, that
night there was "a little game and
the players were Hammond, Green,
Judge Lyman and Slade. Mrs. Ham
mond came to the tavern begging that
some one would find her son that she
out to her, soothed her and in
went out to her. soothed her and in
duced her to go home. Then he went
back TO finish hiG f'c~o n o'' opa tho
stranger closed his experiences Of a
Sixth Night in q barroom. The next
morning a man named Jacobs, a
friend of Judge Hammond's, came. by
request Of the Judge. to the Sickle
ana Sneaf to find Willy and induce
him to come home. He hadn't been
there for two nights, The
who had business dealings with ia
cobs. told him that Green's room was
No. II and that they would probably