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XV. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT
The Drinking House Over the Way.
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The room was so cold, so olieerless and bare,
With its rickety table and one broken chair,
With its ourtainless window with hardly a pane
TO keep out the snow, the wind and the rain.
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A cradle stood empty, pushed up to the wall,
And somehow that seemed the saddest of all.
In the rusty old stove the fire was dead. i ' *
There was snow on the floor at the foot of the bed.
And there all alone a pale woman was lying,
You need not look twice to see she was dying,
Dying of want, of hunger and cold.
Shall 1 tell you her story, the story she told?
“No, ma’am I’m no better; my cough is so bad;
It’s wearing me out, though, that makes me glad,
For it’s wearisome living when one’s all alone,
And heaven, they tel! me, is just like a home.
“Yes, ma’am I’ve a husband, he’s somewhere about,
1 hoped he’d come in fore tlie fire went out;
But 1 guess he has gone where lie's likely to stay,
1 mean, to the drinking-house over the way.
“It was not always so, and l hope you won’t think
Too hard of him, lady, it’s only the drink.
1 know lie’s kind-hearted, for, oh, how he cried
For our poor little baby the mprning it died.
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“You see he took sudden, and grew very bad,
And we had no doctor; my poor little lad,
For his father bad gone, never meaning to stay,
1 am sure, to the drinking-house over the way.
“And when he came back, twas far in the night,
And I was so tired and sick with fright
Of staying so long with my baby alone
And it cutting my lleart with its pitiful moan.
“He was cross with the drink; poor fellow, 1 know
It was that, not his baby that bothered hint so;
But he swore at the child, as panting it lay,
And went back to the drinking-house over the way,
“1 heard the gate slam, and my heart seemed to freeze
Like ice in my bosom, and there on my knees
By the side of the cradle all shivering 1 stayed.
1 wanted my mother, 1 cried and I prayed.
“ The clock, it struck two, ere n<y baby was still.
And my thoughts went back to my home on the bill
Where my happy girlhood had spent its short day,
Far, far from that drinking-house over the way.
“ Could I be that girl, 1, the heart-broken wife
There watching alone while that deal 1 little life
Was going so fast that 1 had to bend low
To hear if he breathed, twas so faint and so slow ?
“ Yes, ma’am, he was easy, his dying; he just grew more
white ,
And his eyes opened wider to look for the light.
As his father came in ’twas just break of day
Came in from the drinking-house over the way.
“Yes, ma’am, be was sober, at least mostly, 1 think,
He often stayed that way to wear off the drink.
And 1 know he was sorry for what lie had done,
For he set a grea t store by our first little one.
“ And straight did he come to the cradle-bed where
Our baby lay dead, so pretty and fair.
1 wondered that 1 could have wished him to stay
When there was a drinking-house over the way.
“ lie stood quite a while, did not understand,
You see, till he touched the cold little hand.
Oh ! their came the tears and he shook like a lear
As he said ’twas the drinking-house over the way.
“ The neighbors were kind and the minister came,
And he talked of my seeing my baby again,
And of the bright angles—l wondered if they
Could see in that drinking-house over the way.
“And I thought when my baby was put in the ground,
And the men with their spades were shaping the
mound, ,
If somebody only would help me save
My husband who stood by my side at the grave.
“ If onlv it were not so handy to drink
The men that make laws, ma’am, sure didn t think
Of the hearts they would break, of the souls 1 icy
When they licensed that drinkmg-house over the way.
“ \nd it’s tempting him here and it’s tempting him there
Four places I’ve eountet in this very square,
Where a man can get whisky by night and by day,
Not to mention the drinking-liouse over the way.
“I’ve been sick ever since and it eannot.be long .
Be pitiful, lady, to him when I’m gone.
He wants to do right, but you never can think
How weak a man grows when he s fond ot dmiv.
“ There’s a verse in the Bible the minister read,
No drunkard shall enter the kingdom, it said,
And he is my husband, and T love lnm so,
And where I am going I want him to go. -~v
m,. baby and I will both want him there
Don’t you think the dear Savior will answer your
\nd please 3 when I’m gone, ask someone to pray
For him at that drinking-house over the way.
TITE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
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The Barrow County Union Choir
will not meet the third Sunday in
August, but will meet the fifth
Sunday at Midway, in front of
Jones’ store, on the Hog Mountain
road. Come prepared to spend
the day.—H. E. Haynie, President.
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HARDWICK COMING TO
WINDER AUGUST 18th
10:00 o’Clock
The Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick,
candidate for Governor will address the
voters of Barrow and adjoining counties
at Winder on August 18th, at 11 a. m.
R. L. WOODRUFF, Chairman
Barrow County Hardwick Club.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920.