TIL E w HITE GOTTA G b.

A TEMPERANCE STORY.


BY RE VERA.
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ditto, lyler. III bet make HIM Tor
felt his pledge, and sink him deeper than
ever into difficulty. A certain friend Of
mine," continued he, lowering his voice to
a whisper, and casting scrutinizing look
around the bar room-ssa certain friend of
mine, a jolly, good fellow, would like to
become the purchaser the White Cottage,
do you understands hold mortgage up
on it for five hundred dollars, with interest
accruing for two years. ! want the mo-
ney-if he cannot pay the interest-he can
not pay the principal-do you understand
He has treated me shabbily-besides, have
got the name of being his seducer from the
path Of sobriety-and / am determined to
have the game. will give him one chance,
for old acquaintance sake, and that shall be
the forfeiture Of his pledge. Won't that be
a triumph over the fanatcal hypocrites who
meddle with every body's business but their
own?"


"Will you sell the cottage, if he does
not forfeit %


GAS sure as my name is Grandson, will,
unless he pays the money, which | know
he cannot do"


g In that case, should like to become
the purchaser. can letyou have any mo-
ney you want. | can advance you hun



dred now, with the understanding that
am to have the benefit Of yonr mortgage in
the purchase. 1t will be sold at great sa-
well-it is not your fault, you
know--ifo


I" If you will let me have hundred and
fifty now-it is a bargain-you may be sure
of good title. IL was not hard up,
would purchase it myself-but want the
money, and must have it, SO offer you the
choice"


"Say hundred and twenty-five, and you
shall have it instanter--l hav mt any more,
indeed. have not"


"Pshaw confound you-let's have it,"


The money was counted out-a receipt
given, and these two worthless separated
the one TO chuckle over his prospective
purchase, and the other to pay visit to
his lawyer.


The business of the former was to make |
money--no matter how--so it pas made. |
Justice and equity were naught to him. All
was fish that came to his net. The widow
and the falherless-the destitute and the
distressed-thc suffering wife and her star
wing children, were naught to him. The |
earnings ofihe husband were dropped into
the till in exchange for ruin. What cared
he His wife and daughters, dressed in
silks and satins, promenaded the public
walks and tossed their heads disdainfully-l
their father was rich-rich- fools, who
made him so-who drank his poisonous
mixtures, logpood, nur pomica, and other
nauseous compounds-were unseen, or if
seen, unnoticed by these purse-proud bellies.


Fools madmen! idiots can ye not see
that you are paying for these rich dresses
and costly furniture, SO SYSTEMATICALLY dis.
played-that you are paying for all these
Injuries at the expense OF your own fam
lilies. Look at your heart-broken wife
your ragged and beggarly-looking chill