THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1891.
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TEMPTATION.
What tempting swet-t persuasion lies
la woman's eyes!
Were men saints dwelling in the skies
They'd breathe some seeret yearning sighs
For woman's eyes!
What maddening honeyed nectar drips
From woman's lips!
Were men secure in Zion's ships
They'd covetously dream of sips
From woman's lips!
What soft luxurious pleasure's nest
In woman's breast!
Were men with heaven's divineness blest
They'd droop and pine with wish to rest
On woman's breast!
What wild entrancing raptures rush
At woman's blush!
Were men touched by the deathsman's hush
Their hearts with tierce delight would gush
At woman's blush!
What warm inspiring visions throng
At womau's song !
Were men as old as time is long
Their Hogging fires would wax them strong
At woman's song !
The Pledge Purse,
BY EMMA GARRISON JONES.
"George, dear," said Mrs. Prescott,
looking up from her basket of mending,
as the and her husband sat by their fire
Bide one winter night, ''has it ever oc-
curred to you that it is time our boys
were signing the pledge?
Mr. Prescott tossed aside his paper
with a laugh.
"There you go, my dear, and really
I expected it, The wonder is you have
not caught the fever sooner."
"What fever, George?"
"Why, this temperance fever that seems
to be crazing everybody just now. The
town's full of it; every second man
I
meet wears a gray rosette in his button
hole, and every church is converted into
a temperance hall; but the thing won't
last such spasmodic movements never
do."
His wife's bright eyes grew wistful and
a cloud crossed her pretty, fresh face,
She was a happy little woman, the moth
er, of three promising boys, and always
busy and full of plans for the comfort of
her family.
"It is a good movement, George," she
continued. "I trust it will be more last
ing than you think, and it would," she
added, with spirit, "If the known men of
the town, the strong, reliable men like
yourself, George, would take hold of
it."
"Much obliged fur the compliment, my
love," laughed her husband, ' but I don't
think I'm in any danger of becoming a
drunkard."
"Nor do I, George, but you are not a
temperance man, and there's always dan
ger in having aught to do with sin."
"Why, Lizzie, how much in earnest
you seem. You've caught the fever
without doubt. You always had a weak
ness for running fashions. But, really,
child, I'm in no daorer. I'm nut a total
abstinence man, I'll admit; ever since I
can remember I've had my drink or two
a day, but I never was intoxicated in my
life, and I never expect to be."
"I trust not, George, but you have
sons, and there's no tolling into what
errors your example may lead them."
"Why, Lizzie, do you mean to say I
set my boys a bad example?"
"No, George, there never was a better
husband and father than you are, but you
teach your boys to drink intoxicating
liquors. We have win on the the table
occasionally, and aWst every morning
the boys have their toddy."
"And you have always mixed the
' boverage, my dear, and shared it round to
US."
"That's not much, Lizzie."
"No; but it counts up. And how
much does your private drinking amount
to, do you suppose?"
"Bless my soul, Lizzie, what has come
over you? Ten wit unmetiines, never
more than a quarter."
Each day?"
"Yes. You don't grudge me that trif
ling amount, do you?"
"I grudge you nothing, George, that
will make you and your boys happy,"
cried his wife, her eyes filling with tears;
"but I wish you could see this matter as
I do. The Ashford boys were here an
evening or so ago, and they wore their
blue temperance badges on their jackets."
" 'Larry, why don't you fellows sign
the pledge? It is so awfully jolly," said
one of them.
"Our Lawrence laughed, just as you
laughed at me a minute ago, George,
lie is his father's own son, my handsome
Larry, and it would break my heart to see
him do wrong.
" 'It's jollier to drink your social
glass, and have your hot toddy when
you feel dull,' he replied, "My father
thinks the pledge a humbug, and so do
v "
"Did Larry say that?" asked Mr.
Prescott.
"Those were the words, George, and
they cut me to the heart. Now husband
you have never denied me anything siuce
the day you made me your happy wife
don't deny me this. Let us banish ail
sorts of intoxicating drinks from our
house, and to take your boys by the hand
and make them sign the pledge. As
their father does they will do willingly."
And the little woman put by her sewing
and crossing to her husband s chair took
his head iu both her hands and laid her
cheek against his lace. "Now, George,
dear, surely you'll uot say no to sue for the
first time, will you ?"
There was silence for a minute, and
then the husband drew tho pretty face
down and kissed it.
"I couldn't say no, Lizzie, if I want
ed," he said. "No man could withstand
such a witch as you are."
On the following day Mr. Prescott
and his three sons signed the pledge, and
the boys took great pride in their gray
badges.
Intoxicating drinks were banished from
their home, and no one seemed to be one
whit the worse for it. If the boys had a
cold their mother would administer hot
mullein tea, and she found the remedy
even more efficient than the toddies used
to be. The boys seemed more speedily
relieved and had fewer attacks.
Three years went by. Times were
hard and money scarce, and Mr. Pres
cott's business was dull. To make mat
ters worse he had a long spell of sickness,
and a heavy doctor's bill.
"I can't see my way out of it," be re
marked, sitting in his arm chairone even
ing, his pale face seamed with lines of
care, "the building association stock will
have to go, and I do bate that tremen
dously." "What is it, George, dear? Maybe I
can help you."
The sick man smiled at the little wife
ever so ready with her help.
"No, dear, you can't help me in this;
I wish you could," he said. 'It is a note
which must be paid before the tenth."
"And to-day is the eighth. What is
the amount, George?"
"Three hundred and fifty dollars, and
I have not fifty to spare. If it hadn't
been for this confounded fever "
"Hush, my love. Wait till I bring
my pledge-purse," and his wife darted
from the room.
In two minutes she was back, a heavy
purse in her hand.
This is my pledge purse, George."
"Your pledge purse? What do you
mean?"
"Why, you sec," and the little woman's
face fairly glowed as her boys left their
lessons and crowded arouud her, eager to
hear; "the day you and the boys signed
the pledge, George, I made this pur.e
and I called it my pledge-purse. Kvcry
day I have put in ten cents, and every
week a dollar, because that much used to
go for intoxicating drink, that did my
boys and their father more harm than
good. Sometimes, when I had a little
spare chauge, I threw that in too. Lar
ry, my boy, sit down by your father and
count over the contents. I hope there
may beeuough to pay that troublesome
note.
Larry obeyed with alacrity, his father
looking on with eager eyes as he assorted
the dollar notes and piled up the quarters
and dimes. When all was told th
amount was four hundred and sixty five
dollars.
Mr. Prerott looked at his wife, an
bis eyes fi, led with tears.
"Why, Lizzie why, little wife, what
can I 8 iv?" he began.
She caught his head to her bosom.
"Say, nothing, George. I kept my
pledgii purse for an hour of need, and
that hour has come. Pay the note that
troubles yuu.dear, and get well and strong
at your leisure "
tier husband was silent, but the three
boys leaped to their feet, and shouted
"Hurrah for the pledge!" uutil the room
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