Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story

on; and a foolish thing it was. He was doing a

usiness. I don't know, but I think it quite likely. S

let her know that as the living comes by me, the way of getting

ess of my home more than anything else; and I would not like to engage

know pretty soon who holds the reins, if I had such an unreasonable creature to deal with.

you call

ected. Now I always furnish my wife with sufficient help and supply every want but how I get the living, and where I go, and what company I keep, is my own business, and I would not allow the b

der. I think her husband's honor and welfare should be as dear to her as her own; and no true woman and wife can be indifferent

work first rate, if men were angels and earth a paradise. Now don't be so serious, old fellow; but you know on this religion business, you

essions, be less firm because you lo

is business,' and that while I pitied the poor man, I would not have risked my money that way, but you said that conscience would not let you; that while other creditors were gathering like hungry vultures around the poor man, you would not j

nfess that I felt the loss and it has somewhat cramped my business. Yet if it was to do over again, I don't think that I would act differently, and when I b

are right to put the

ush a struggling man to the wall when he was maki

ust commencing life, and my motto is

in lending a

er out to my advantage. I believe in

colors all his life more than anything else, it is a firm and unfaltering belief in the "main chance." He has made up his mind to be rich, and his highest ideal of existence may be expressed in four words-getting on in life. To this object, he is ready to sacrifice time, talent, energy and every faculty, which he possesses. Nay, he will go farther; he will spend honor, conscience and manhood, in an eager search for gold. He will change his heart into a ledger on which he will write tare and tret, loss and gain, exchange and barter, and he will succeed, as worldly men count success. He will add house to house; he will encompass the means of luxury; his purse will

watched over and superintended the education of her only son. He was a promising boy, full [of?] life and vivacity, having inherited much of the careless joyousness of his father's temperament; and although he was the light and joy of his home, yet his mother sometimes felt as if her heart was contracting with a spasm of agony, when she remembered that it was through that same geniality of disposition and wonderful fascination of manner, the tempter had woven his meshes for her husband, and that the qualities that made him so desirable at home, made him equally so to his jovial, careless, inexperienced companions. Fearf