All He Knew

frequently only with bits of board closely wedged, cracks in the wall were stuffed with dried grass and plastered with mud, and clean straw replaced t

tz, the manager of the most popular drinking-place in the town,

and a feller dat's been drinkin' all his l

spirited and intelligent citizen, and the deacon believed that if his opinions about the moral nature of his business could be changed there would be a great gain for the temperance cause in Bruceton. Besides, Weitz was a well-to-do man

liquor-store. The deacon was accustomed to say, with a grim smile, that he was one of the very few men in

't ought to talk about vat you don't unders

ou ought to know well enough that I never drank in my life. If I haven't t

I never understood before. I tell you vat I tink, deacon: if you'd been brought up in my country, mit all de brains you've got in your head, and yoost could'a'had a l

h!" sneered

u can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant, but you mustn't turn i

t that poor convict ought to be drinking and will have to do it again; because it might get to his ears, you know, and if it did it might break him down, and then he'd go to l

n, "is dat de vay you

fact, is

a man like you to tink about ven you vas talkin' about a feller da

reminded of any of his faults by a neighbor, much less by on

t much faith in his professions. A man that don't get any further than he has done, and that don't seem willing to learn from them that's his betters and

e's a good many men in dis town dat's behavin' very decent dat don't belong to any shurch at all, and you'd yoost as lief discount deir notes as you vould any oder man's, and you'd go into business mit dem yoost as qvic

d error! You don't understand. I've got that Sam Kimper on my mind

and ven he finds he can't do noding yoost you come an' tell me, an' den I'll send our priest after him. H

church, instead of the one he does, I couldn't find a single thing to say or think against him. He is certainly a very goo

Own up, now; isn't dat de trouble? Dem people dat you talk about as behavin' demselves is a good deal better dan some dat's smarter and has got more money an' more adva

cept that you sell rum. But there's some things you can't understand, and it's no use for me to waste time talking to you a

e very vorst people in de vorld. I vant you to understand over in my country, dat's a good deal older dan dis, and vere de peoples has had a good deal more experience, a man don't get no right to sell liquor unless he is a first-class citizen in e

ing about, anyhow. We began to talk about Sam Kimper; and I want you to promise me that you won't talk to

you s'pose I vant to see people get drunk? No, sir; people dat gets dru

d the amusement of his daughter Mary. The privacy of family affairs was not entirely respected by the Kimper family, for Sam soon heard remarks from street loafers, as he passed along, which indicated that the

learned in the penitentiary was declined very sharply and without any thanks whatever. Billy, the younger boy, had an affectionate streak in his nature, which his father succeeded in touching to such an extent that complaints of Billy's t

father's demonstrations of affection, but finally the meaning of this seemed made known to it, probably in the way the same meanings are translated to babies everywhere else, and fro

nd talk with her; not that he had much to say, but that he hoped by his presence to keep more congenial company away from her. When he heard any village gossip in the house, he always could trace it to his daughter Jane. Whenever Mary broke out with some new and wild expression of longing,

the girl back to an interest in her family and to bring her up so that she should not disgrace the name which he was