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From the S. C. Temperance AJwocate. , '
A Word of Advice.
Being an improvement on a late Servty ß
“And when you shave, be sore you shavelnean. ’
You dashing gent*, and sprightly beaus,
Os whisker* and mnstachio*;
Your vanity lienceforth restrain,
And let your barber shave you clean.
The haughty Turk as we have heard,
Delights to sport a flowing beard,
But surely Christians never can,
Take pattern by a Mussulman.
The mourning Jews as we have told,
Shaved not their beards in times of old ;
But gay young Christians should be slow,
To wear a Jewish mark of woe.
The goat, (l hope there’s no offence,
To those who have but common sense,)
Tlie goat indeed from times remote,
Hath worn his beard ndown his thruati
Ami hence perhaps the present race,
Delight to go with bearded face;
And think it neither shame nor sin,
To wear a tuft beneath their chin.
But to this honest Methodist,
Let those of sense and prudence list,
For Wealth or fame they’ll ne’er promote,
By aping of a silly goat.
PETER PLEASANT.
Fleasant Ilall, S. C.
TfE !P E A iNi £* E o
For the Washingtonian.
TIB 13 DRUJfKARD'S DOOM.
BY THE POOR STUDENT.
CHAPTER I.
It was night, night attended by so |
great darkness that it could nearly;
he felt. The rain poured down in
torrents from the clouded heavens;
and so fearfully did the lightnings
flash and thunders roar, in continual
succession; and so fierce was the
strife of the raging elements, that
it almost seemed as if the terrible
doom of Sodom and Gomorrah hung
over the lovely city of Philadelphia.
The deluged streets were apparent
ly forsaken; no human being dared
to luce the fury of the angry ele
ments. Even the wary watchman
of the night had deserted his post,
and hurried to shelter from the des
cending torrents. The swollen I
streams rushed loudly down the nar-!
row gutters that conveyed them a
way ; and their increasing size told
that they would soon become impas
ablc.
The first scene of our story trans
ports to a miserable hovel in the out
skirls of the city, where dwell pov-j
erty and misery. Outwardly alone,
the dwelling, if dwelling it may Ire:
called, presents an appearance ofi
extreme wretchedness ; window- !
panes, or, rather w here they should
liave been, is supplied by the place
of old hats, clothes, and such things
ns could be obtained lor the purpose;
while the habitation itself appeared
dangerous to enter, and is only ren
dered a place of abode, from the in
ability of its inmates to procure a
better. Within this tottering build
ing are seated three persons, but
bow different their situations and
prospects. The husband is drunk,
and from appearances has been
harshly treating bis wife, who is
weeping bitterly, while a child about
five years old stood by her side, cast
ing glances alternately at each of
his parents. How degraded and
fallen is that father and husband
from what he was six years before,
when 110 stood by the side of the be
ing he was now treating so wrong
fully, and vowed by all that is just
and sacred, to love, cherish, and pro
tect her. He was then a respecta
ble carpenter, with fair prospects ;
and when he led to the by menial al
tar the lovely Jane Hosmer, the
thought never entered his mind that
lie should become what he was. But
the strong demon of Intemperance
gained jrossession, and he sank, link
by link, down to the lowest grade of
wretchedness and poverty.
His present seat was occupied for
a few moments, while he sternly ga
zed upon his wife, and then, as if
some new impulse had stirred him
up, hp suddenly left his seat and mov
ed towards the door.
“ Oh! do not go, William, do not
go—stay this once—only see how it
rains—do stay f” exclaimed the wife!
in broken sentences as he turned to
■g"-
“ Woman, can’t you keep your
mouth shut? who told you to speak?
Take that for your impudence,” and
the infuriated madman struck the be
ing he should have cherished and
protected.
Blood followed the blow, and the
child sprang forward to its mother’s 1
assistance with an exclamation pf
horror, but the brutal husband heed- :
ed it not, nnd with angry steps cross- j
ed the threshold of his hovel home;
forever. The child was left helpless
ly alone witlr its mother, whom it en
deavored to revive by all the means!
its liny hands knew how; but es-j
forts were vain, the body soon be
came stiff. The child knew death ; \
lie had seen a brother and sister die i
and laid in the cold grave, and when !
he found that the last friend he had
on earth was gone from him never
to return, his cries were heart-rend
ing; but there were none to hear
him, his tiny voice was drowned
amid the rage of the angry storms.
When morning came, some friends
discovered them, but both were dead.
They were taken up and laid side by
side their last resting place.
CHAPTER IT.
Beware of the first glass; for
how many plans and bright anticipa
tions for the future have bepn dissi
pated ; how much happiness lias
been changed to misery ; and how
many trusting hearts have been bro
ken, or feelings blighted through its
means. Many have been the high
minds brought, low; the rich fallen
from their high estate; many of
the fine, generous perception, chan
ged into sordid, avaricious ones by
the first glass. It is the surest pass
port from respectability to degrada
tion and insignificance—the surest
passport from love to loathsomeness
—from time to eternity—from earth
to hell.
Thus it was with the personage
represented in the present narra
tive. The ordeal of the first glass
hud been past; the etiquette of so
ciety prescribed a social glass among
friends, and it was this habit which
bad brought him to his present depth \
of degradation and misery. Little
did he think when his wife would so j
earnestly plead with him to pause in :
his mud career to ruin, tlmt the worst !
of her trembling anticipations would
come to pass, and that the future
j would be as it was.
He paused not after passing the
threshold of his hovel home to think
of the terrible deed his passion had 1
accomplished, hut strode on, regard-1
less of the streuching rain that con-!
tinually poured upon him. IS'ow and J
then the lightning’s broad flash light- i
ed up the way before him, but he
heeded it not; his whole soul was I
bent on one object, obtaining alco
hoi, alcohol to feed his craving ap
petite. A few squares were soon i
past, and the goal gained. He j
paused before a miserable tavern
for a moment, and as a vivid flash
of lightning shot through the sky,
he carefully opened his right hand,
which had been securely clenched,
to discover that what it had contain
ed was still really there. Satisfied
with the inspection, he entered, nnd
advancing to the counter called for j
something to drink.
“Bill, there’s an old score to be
crossed out, first, you’ve come that!
j game over me too often, so you will
i have to try somewhere else to night,
I think,” and the speaker winked at
a party who were enjoying them
selves over some brandy-toddy at
the other end of the counter, which
occasioned a geneial laugh against
the new comer.
“There, then, take that!” sul
lenly said the drunkard, throwing
j his wife’s wedding-ring on the coun
ter, which was earnestly caught up
by the bar-keeper and carefuiiy ex
amined.
“ 1 his will scarcely pay up old
scores, but being it is you, I will
wipe them out, and give you a pint
of the real stuff to" boot, for it,”
replied the man, as his eyes sparkled
with the prospect of the brilliant
bargain he was likely to make.
; “ Yes, yes, anything,” said the
with an eagerness which
showed his readiness to acceed to
any proposition.
Five minutes sufficed to barter
what should have been preserved as
a sacred memento, for a dollar’s
worth of old scores, and a pint of
deadly poison, and dear to him was|
the price of that purchase.
Could the liquor dealer have
known the consequences of that
transaction, how would he have)
shrank from it, but it was past, and
could not be recalled. Already in i
the last stages of an inebriate’s ex
istence, the liquor took a firm hold '
upon his system, and a few hours be
held him raving under the terrible!
disease of delirium tremens. Every
object was instantly changed into
some horribly shaped morter, from
which he fled with the utmost pre- J
cipitation, but they presented them-!
selves everywhere to his excited im
agination, and after continuing thus
for some hours, the spirit was re
leased from its earthly tenement.
Render, have you taken your first
glass? if you have, fly to the tern- j
pernr.ee pledge as the only bourne
of safety, and having once subscri
bed your name, endeavor to pre
serve unsullied your firm determina
tion, you will never forget it.
March 25th, 1845.
Join a Society.
Notwithstanding many persons
that moderately indulge in the use
of strong drink, refuse to come out
and join n society and openly advo
cate the cause of temperance, yet
there are few or none of that class,
who do not admit the propriety of
temperance to the fullest extent.
Do they want a clerk? They
will not employ a sot. No, they will
not entrust their business to one un
able to produce satisfactory vouchers
of his sobriety! Do they want even
a labourer? His recommendation
must vouch his “sobriety" else he
cannot be employed! And so it is
of every other want; the applicant
must necessarily he recommended
as a sober person before be finds em
ployment ! !
Important. Temperance Farrs. —A
survivor of the Aflghan disasters has
returned to camp, covered with hair,
and almost naked, with fifteen
months’ wandering and exposure.
He turned out to he Sergeant Ed
wards, of the 44th Queen’s Regi- j
merit. He says the men were near
ly drunk, at the massacre at Gun
dunmuch and could make no resist
ance.—Organ.
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American Phrenological Journal.
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exceeds, ai d will eventually supersede ail others.
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partially, in this volume.
3rd. A department devoted to woman. To
improve her, is to benefit our race, whilst her de
generacy deteriorates it. Female education
marly every thing appertaining lo her—is now
effecting her ruin as fast as the rapid flight of
time will allow. Long enough has her vanity
been inflated with the gaudy, the artificial, and
the fashionable. Too long already, have her ex
quisite sensibilities been perverted'and the beau
ties and graces of her nature been converted ci
ther into play-things - mere toys for man to sport
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by mortals, arc the natural charms and beauties
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her consequent duties. To this eventful subject
and none can be more prolific of good to man—
will a portion of this volume be dedicated. Nor
will mothers, in their distinctive relations as
mothers, be neglected.
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thatcomo appropriately within the wide range
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